Gadgetory

I didn't expect a Seuss to change much from the g7 50 that we reviewed way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I mean okay it was only six months ago but in the tech world that's like an eternity because frankly the powerful brick-like desktop replacement gaming machine paradigm is fairly mature at this point but the g7 51 is kind of like the Cat in the Hat came back same animal some new tricks watch on to learn more oh and make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any of our other daily tech videos Corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature precision Cherry MX RGB key switches for sixteen point eight million color perky backlighting for virtually unlimited customization click now to learn more first up the core specs get a shot in the arm with the top tier models available with the core i7 4860 HQ which on paper doesn't look that much faster but seems to turbo better than the older 47:10 HQ and gtx 970m and 980 m graphics cards to replace the older 870 m and 880 M with the same 5% overclock available through Seuss's GPU tweak utility thanks to some non-standard power delivery componentry for the GPU which leads us into the physical tour the overall size shape and weight didn't really get altered so yeah I still really wouldn't want to carry it's four point eight kilogram bulk around with me all day at school or anything but the finishing touches got some nice little upgrades an hour much better imo compared to its predecessor instead of a plain black back we get a nice metal shield around the asou slow go and sweet red accents on the rear vent covers that hide an otherwise very similar dual fan cooling system which is a good thing by the way because it's quiet under load near silent at idle and the entire outside of the notebook stays super cool to boot on the bottom we find vents a subwoofer and a doorway to another dimension no just kidding it's two and a half inch hard drive Bay on a PCIe MDOT 2 slot that can be removed if you wanted to add another tune a half inch drive for raid or something not bad storage options but I feel like a soos could have done better with a little bit more effort here moving back up to the aisle on the right side we get a standard jack for the 230 watt bricked of a power supply that feeds the 6,000 milliamp hour battery ethernet with a Seuss's gain first packet prioritization in bandwidth control HDMI 1.4 thunderbolt this is a great feature for a creative pro who wants to use this as a mobile workstation by the way USB 3 and audio then on the Left we get USB 3 a blu-ray drive and an SD card reader but hold on a second there Linus why would we want a blu-ray drive on a gaming laptop do you expect me to watch my movies on a grody TN panel no I don't and neither does its use apparently the 17.3 inch matte finish screen is where the g7 50 series got upgraded in its biggest most significant way other than the GPU moving to the g7 51 the g7 51 now features a 1080p IPS panel that looks just great very even backlight great viewing angles just fantastic know overly blurry motion nothing like that yeh which leads us to the keyboard which still has correctly laid out arrow keys and nice long travel distances on the keys for a laptop but has actually changed a lot in other ways some good stuff and some not so good stuff first the good the white LED backlight is now ROG red the spacebar is wider on the left now for a more relaxed WASD posture speaking of WASD the W key now has a little tactile bump on it so you can find it without looking and now for the bad stuff the number lock key has been replaced by an Asus gaming center launcher key that opens up a mostly useless ROG metro view I thing I don't mind the inclusion of the app because it does at least let you see some system info and configure a couple different gaming profiles with different settings for LCD appearance EQ and GPU overclocking and other than McAfee and wild tangent games and some CyberLink slideshow maker banging the system doesn't come with much Blunt wear but it didn't need a dedicated key and it definitely didn't need to go where the number lock key should go and on top of that a su seems to already know that we don't need some random game launcher because they went and included a dedicated steam button that launches big picture mode for some reason because everyone likes big picture mode on their laptop and doesn't have Steam set to open automatically when their system boots up huh we also get a couple macro keys up here though I prefer them on the left but your mileage may vary having them on the top might be perfect for you and we get a shadow play button whose position I actually hate worst of all I fired up GeForce experience quite a few times reaching for escape and I'm sure that the last thing any streamer wants to do is reach for escape to close a menu and terminate his streams so this button should really be somewhere really far away from the gaming zone on the keyboard but huh yeah I mean other than that the keyboard is fine and all this stuff feels really well-intentioned it's just it's kind of a little bit half-baked maybe next time they'll get the layout of that stuff just right speaking of baking though now we get to move on to the best thing about the keyboard there's no baking at all it's so cool the palm rest is only a couple degrees above the temperature of the table next to the laptop the gaming zone doesn't get much hotter and even the hottest part of the top of the laptop stayed in the 40 degree Celsius and change range during my stare at the flare in Crysis 3 test holy crap and the bottom of the laptop was very similar to I mean I guess there's something to be said for thick gaming notebooks because cool and quiet is good for your ears and good for your hardware performance is a strong point of the notebook - we did a dedicated video on this already which you can watch here but I'll throw the graphs into this video anyway for your convenience the 980m handily beats out the last gen 8 ATM while costing the same delivering new features having lower heat output and lower power consumption and therefore battery battery life battery battery life ha better battery life which leads us to battery Boost 2.0 compared to last gen simple slider to select a target framerate and control GPU power consumption version 2 tries to better optimize the whole system's use of the limited current that the battery can provide usually about half of what the wall plug can do it also allows separate in game settings profiles to be configured for battery and wall power within GeForce experience so that your framerate target will be easier to hit and you can use less of you GPUs horsepower and it all works automatically now through GeForce experience as long as you launch the game while on battery power it doesn't support just starting a game on the wall and then pulling the plug unfortunately I tried it out in Tomb Raider with a 45 FPS target using the same settings just for an apples-to-apples comparison at a framerate that I personally find very usable and it works I've actually seen reports of much better battery life improvements deep into double digits and less demanding games around the internet though so your mileage may vary with this one as well but it's a very very cool feature I guess that pretty much winds it up then doesn't it guys thank you for watching this video like it if you liked it dislike it if you just liked it leave a comment if your feelings are more complicated than this guys check out the link in the video description if you want to support us you can give us a monthly contribution buy a cool t-shirt like this one or even just change your amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code so we get a small kickback whenever you buy laptops or screen cleaner wipes or I don't know whatever else is related to whatever is in front of me and I can think of at the time thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe hmm