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chicken jerk jerk jerk chicken check I think we ready to do this video hey what's going on guys Jase $0.02 here and I've talked about my new laptop a couple of times over the last month or so and there's been a pretty loud and resounding why the hell how did you review the damn thing yet just like with most things that I review I like to spend a little bit of time with it before I actually do the review so I feel like I'm armed and with enough user experience now this particular notebook slash laptop slash heavy ass portable computer to be able to actually give you guys a little bit of information that might actually help gigabytes flex display technology automatically detects and connects up to four displays for the best gaming experience in multi display Ultra HD click the link in the description to find out more so today's focus is actually going to be more on the gaming aspect of this laptop because while it is rog republic of gamers now my model is the asus rog g7 51 gaming laptop it's actually the jy there's a few different different acronyms there and I don't know what they actually mean but anyway I guess it doesn't really matter now the specs on mine right here and forgive me I'm going to use some notes here because I would inevitably totally screw up all of these specs here it is a 17.3 inch full HD monitor so this bad boy is huge in fact it's so big I had to go out and I had to get myself the biggest backpack I could possibly find one that's actually meant for an 18 inch laptop just a fit padang thing my my Swiss skier that I had that was meant for a 17 inch laptop wouldn't fit it and part of that is because it has kind of a rear exhaust system that hangs out over the back of the laptop that really makes it much bigger than a standard 17-inch but as I mentioned it is a 17.3 inch full HD with g-sync this is a g-sync panel and it's a 75 Hertz panel so you're going to get more than the standard 60 and I do think the extra 15 frames per second you know rendering is actually very noticeable and will talk a little bit more about that the future it's got 24 gigabytes of 1600 megahertz ddr3 L actually not sure what the L is low profile maybe I don't know it's got a 1 terabyte hard drive with a 256 gigabyte SSD in there and the hard drive is partitioned into two 500 gigabyte partitions in there so you can kind of keep things separated but obviously it's a single drive that's partitioned it does have a blu-ray DVD and a rewrite a blu-ray rewrite as well and it's got the nvidia geforce gtx 980m in this model I think they might and I could be wrong but I think they do have a model that's an SLI 980m but that's not mine it does have 4 gigabytes of video memory obviously and the communication is a wireless LAN with Gigabit Ethernet built in as well and you get up to 4 hours on the battery life now the dimensions of this guy you're sixteen point four inches by twelve and a half inches by anywhere between point nine inches to one point seven inches high this is actually the taller version of it because we do have like all of those hardware specs crammed in there but it weighs 8.4 pounds yeah that's why earlier I said really heavy thing because of the fact that it is it is not really designed to be the most portable solution but it is a fully specked out portable computer especially since it has an i7 47:10 47 ya 47:10 HQ 2.5 gigahertz with 3.5 gigahertz turbo clock cpu in there giving you quad core with hyper threading in a notebook so yeah there is eight usable threads of computational power in the CPU for connectivity it's got USB 3.0 it's got Thunderbolt HDMI pass-through headphone output an amplified headphone output so you could use high-end gaming headphones or your favorite studio headphones it's got a line out it's got a line in the blu-ray drive Kensington lock you mention it it's got lots of features on there now where I want to start out here with the performance part of this review it's going to be the boot time so let's go ahead and let's just go ahead and push the power button and we'll see how long it takes to boot this is not a sleep mode this was a shutdown although it does have a really fast wake mode on there option so hitting the power button now as you can see it's got a nice red backlit keyboard you know I'm going to shut it down again because I'm telling you right now this thing boots up so freaking fast you would think it's coming out of sleep but it's not because I just hit shut down again not sleep and I'm gonna hit the power button and this was freaking me out because it turns on so damn fast I mean you guys saw the ROG logo pop up there this boots incredibly fast I mean I thought I was putting it to sleep it was working so fast but that's just how fast it boots from off this is a 1920 by 1080 75 Hertz not a 60 Hertz but it's also got G sync technology in there so we'll talk about that a little bit later in this review when we get to the gaming side but for now the colors on this look very vibrant off viewing angles are okay but it is still a TN panel so off viewing angles are going to start to invert some of the colors you know as you get more to the sides of the panel as you expect expect from any TN panel but the colors look great especially considering it's a matte panel matte panels tend to have more muddied colors than say gloss panels have but of course gloss panels have terrible reflection and so I would take a matte screen with a little bit less vibrance and the colors than any glass panel any day or any gloss panel whatsoever the trackpad on this thing is it's fairly responsive but of course you know trackpads on pcs have never been you know really as good as say and I hate to even say this but in my opinion they've never been as good as say Mac's trackpads on like Mac books but I find this to be very acceptable sometimes when I'm doing two finger scrolling on webforms or something with long pages sometimes I find it tends to freak out and just jump to the bottom of the page or go up and down real fast so I don't know exactly what's causing that in fact it's not even easily recreate able but it is something that's happened so I want to point that out as well but you've got nice large buttons on here that are easy for your thumb to find when you're pushing buttons and I've got really no complaints about the keyboard or the the trackpad itself but one thing to note about the keyboard is it's red backlit which is fine that's that's built you know that's a ROG theme so red is fine but it is most you know keyboards found in a notebook or a laptop they are flat keys and they're very shallow so if you're used to typing on a standard membrane keyboard or mechanical keyboard it's going to feel a bit weird going back and forth at least until you get used to it but that's probably more the fact that it is a flat key instead of a concave key like a typical keyboard but once you get used to typing on and it's really not bad all the keys are responsive I find that they doesn't tend to skip any key presses it doesn't double press it seems very very solid but of course like most notebooks it's going to depend on how hard you type on how long it's going to last you start pounding on the keyboard real hard of course you're going to wear down the keyboard and those membranes in there and it's especially the springs and they're going to start becoming sluggish the keyboard does have some hotkeys on here that come in very handy you've got an rog hotkey up here by the d the number pad because it is a not a ten keyless it's a full 10 key keyboard so you push the ROG button and it's going to bring up different gamer profiles ROG game first optimization macro controls it does have three macro keys up here em one two and three it can bring up GeForce experience so you can take full control over the way the computer responds to you know different profiles but you've also got over here a steam key you push that and it's going to bring up steam big steams big picture I think they believe they call it big picture and so there's that but I don't really feel like showing you guys my ID and then you also have a game stream key which is useful if your well a game streamer and has xsplit pre-installed so you push this button and it's going to bring up the xsplit launcher by default and you can get right into immediately streaming your games and it says that it's pre optimized for this laptop so your settings would be pretty much pre optimized on there and also it gives you an unlimited license because you have this laptop there's kind of an agreement between xsplit and asus rog so you get a built-in license with this laptop that's a plus so with some of the basics out of the way why don't we go ahead and take a look at the gaming performance on this I'm going to preload fraps on this so that you can see the FPS and then we'll play some Grand Theft Auto 5 and then we'll do some Far Cry 4 all right so I just loaded up an online session here and here's the settings we've got at 1920 by 1080 aspect ratio and auto refresh rate is set to 75 FX AAA is on which is free performance 2x msaa and we've got vsync on so Advanced Options here you can see pretty much everything in Advanced Options is pretty much off long shadows high resolution shadows so this is just detailed settings I guess well maybe we'll do an off and then an on anyway there's that and let's go ahead and see how she does so you can see already we're sitting at 75 FPS at least here in the apartment my sensitivity is way too low in this mouse I need to turn that up will go even though I have a lot of cars in this garage I'm gonna hop in one of my favorite cars right here which is the hot knife things bad so what we're gonna pay attention to here is the FPS and how it you know responds alright so I just loaded up an online session here and people are already recognizing the name so anyway if you said hi to me in the game hello so let's pay attention to the FPS here though you can see right now with 2x msaa on we're still sitting in the upper 60s it's not capped out at the 75 you'd expect but graphics do look fantastic let's say that the reason why I'm driving during this little demo is the fact that we've got a lot of things moving and happening running around on foot would probably yield better FPS what is going to hurt nailed it a game like grand theft auto 5 isn't exactly the easiest game to run it's not the hardest either but this kind of FPS on a notebook this is pretty impressive if you ask me how dare that guy let me crash into him huh yeah I thought now we got the cops of course the cops always ruin all the fun it's not exactly the right car to be running from the cops in though my Big O hoot scoop makes it kind of hard to see like my horn bitch move get out the way get out the way so you can say I'm having no problems whatsoever driving well okay the computer isn't making driving harder I'm making driving hard and to do that it's a hot knife you got to drive it like you stole it even though I bought it legally oh crap should have a stand in there the very violent game isn't it like reload yep violence ed it's best if people didn't do anything to me like that guy didn't do anything maybe I was dead terrible I do not condone this behavior just saying you should never ever ever shoot at the cops or steal their cars I think we've got a pretty solid idea of how the FPS is performing go there Oh what the heck nailed it probably never throw grenades at the cops either they tend not to like that much hey whoa that grenade went way far in front of me you gonna nail that car from here oh they got me just like I said though running around on foot the FPS is like it's about the same as it was in the car whoa hello there ladies oh you're back here hurt huh I thought where's your friend who's your friend get over here get a bag over here I'm gonna get you I'm gonna get you uh-huh so I thought and what are you looking at dinner didn't dent in it in it oh that was kind of interesting put a box on your mind there for approximately mine there put one there what is happening oh man uh that's kind of funny we shooting to me oh dear I'm so dead oh alright and how are the temperatures uh 130 degrees Fahrenheit fifty three point four degrees Celsius coming out the back it gets a little toasty now I know that I said that I was going to do some Far Cry 4 I'm gonna go ahead and skip that because I decided I wanted to talk about upgradability on this laptop you pull back this little rubber plug and you've got one screw right here which allows you to open up this plate on the back eventually which will allow you to get to the hard drives the RAM and then you can upgrade that stuff on your own independently alright I took a little coaxing because it's new but anyway there's that so here's our MDOT two SSD so the main SSD is an MDOT two here is our hard drive as well as our memory right here so you could easily upgrade the memory on this thing and as well as upgrade the hard drive but in doing these four screws and changing out the hard drive but it looks like we also you know we could undo this MDOT to and put another standard SSD in here if we wanted but it doesn't look like you can retain the m2 functionality as well as putting in a standard SSD and/or hard drive but other than that you can see you get easy access it doesn't void any warranties there's no warranty stickers anywhere on here and you can get to the things that matter gaming on this laptop for just the 10 or 15 minutes that I did to get you guys that footage has raised the temperature in this room considerably if you remember when we started that segment it was 78 degrees in this room it is currently 101 degrees in this room right now 101 it's hot so I'm gonna try and get through the end of this video very quickly now because I want to open this room up and get it cool it off ma'am start to sweat so I guess that leads us to point number one as a gaming laptop it performs it gives you a great FPS the g-sync keeps stuttered to an absolute minimum if they're at all the 1080p gives you nice especially at this screen size 1080p at 17-inch is kind of like looking at a 1440p in a 28-inch it's super sharp but the downside is that level of performance means you were putting out a ton of heat into the room the room is just if you're in a closed room like this or a small dorm room or a bedroom unless you have a great AC or tons of airflow it's gonna get freakin hot I mean the AC kicked on thank goodness but that's just this room you know doesn't get that much cooling it's still 99 degrees in this room right now so that's downside number one as a gaming laptop we know they get freakishly hot and this one is no exception I think the styling of the laptop though on the other hand is absolutely fantastic I there are very few laptops in my opinion that look this good the weight however makes it a little bit on the unfriendly side for carrying around in fact this is going with me to Seattle in a couple of weeks I'm going up to vlogger fair where I'm going to be one of the featured guests it's kind of weird I've never been one of those before and in fact I'll do another video announcing that so you guys know how to how to go and meet up with me if you want to meet up with me but anyway 8.4 pounds plus the weight of the backpack and other things I'll be carrying around at least a 10 pound backpack or more because the power brick itself is freaking massive this thing itself is probably about three pounds so we're looking at over ten pounds here before anything else goes in my backpack so that's going to be really heavy in fact I'm worried about the backpack even fitting under the seat in front of me because it's such a big unit that's what she said I know you guys were waiting for me to say something like that damn it have better expectations of me Who am I kidding so I'm sure someone's already typed the comment before getting to this part of the video saying why would anyone want a gaming laptop they get hot they break easy and you can buy for the $2,400 if this thing cost you could have bought an amazing desktop well you know there are folks out there who are not capable or able to have a desktop currently based on their situation maybe there school or they're traveling businessperson or maybe they just don't flat want a desktop this is going to give you desktop performance in a small form factor that's going to be easier to transport than a desktop and I'm going to say easy to transport like I just told you the downsides of that but it's going to give you functionality of a desktop in a small package that you could carry around quite easily and I think that if you are that person you're probably watching this video because something like that would interest you computing power on this thing is insane rendering is going to be I know I didn't do a rendering video in this one because I'm going to probably do a separate video for that especially since I will be doing rendering on this when I go to Seattle later this month and then I'll get a real good sense of how well it really performs in a real-world scenario better than just moving some files over here now and doing a dummy edit I want to do real edits and edit a real video using this thing and we'll do that up in Seattle when I'm visiting Jerry and going to vlogger fair now at the $2,400 price tag for this units a bit much for you they do come in other flavors with lesser end GPUs like 960 s and 970 s non g-sync versions ones that are not going to cost as much I think they start even right around $1,200 depending on you know the components that you put in this thing this is going to get a lot of use for me in fact it's been getting a lot of use out and living room for what I just want to get the hell out of this space because I spend a lot of time in here and it's nice to get out so anyway there you go guys the Asus G Series ROG laptop I definitely wouldn't call it a notebook tiny it's anything but a notebook honestly tell me what you guys think hope you guys have enjoyed this video oh yeah and don't forget I am going to vlogger fair August 22nd and 23rd I will be in Seattle for that so make sure you guys look out probably going up right after this one here the announcement video of me going to vlogger fair and I definitely hope to see you guys there see you guys in the next one