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the Asus G 701 VI maybe 300% as heavy and thick as the MacBook Pro but the G 701 also houses 13 hundred percent the graphics horsepower so the way we see it if you're going to spend three grand on a laptop it might as well be capable of physically crushing the other guys Brow's privately and securely with tunnel there the simple VPN app try tunnel bear for free at the link in the video description it's not exactly hard to tell that the G 701 VI is a gaming laptop the outside is brushed aluminum with red lighting on the back that makes it look mean and ready for business no not that kind of business gaming business with a 17.3 inch screen and a 330 watt power brick that could probably double as a bludgeoning device you don't even have to see the specs to know it's an absolute monster the IO is a solid mix of more than your old probably need plus a Thunderbolt 3 port allowing up to three external 4k displays and internal highlights include a core i7 78 20 HK processor don't know what that is no problem it's a high TDP mobile chip with support for overclocking and asus has cranked it up to a whopping four point three gigahertz and in addition to that we've got an overclocked desktop-class GTX 1080 thats it said wha seriously 1923 megahertz from our measurements that is faster than a Founders Edition desktop card what the stuff and gaming performance is what you'd expect from this combo it destroyed everything in our test suite yielding a hundred and twenty FPS in several modern triple-a titles on Ultra settings at 1080p and never scoring below 60fps in anything the best part is you'll get to see all of those frames too if you get a model like ours with the 120 Hertz 1080p g-sync panel it really gets a chance to flex its muscles in fast paced FPS games like doom now you probably won't care about how accurate the full sRGB color space coverages while you're spinning around smashing demons heads in but I'm pleased to report that the IPS panel does a good enough job in this regard with solid viewing angles and adequate brightness as a bonus and at no point during our testing did we feel like motion blur or input lag were a problem but this is the big question about laptops and portable devices in general can it maintain that level of performance under an extended load without resorting to bulky or risky water cooling strategies in short yeah running firm arc GPU stress test in extreme overclocking mode the GPU stabilized at 79 degrees while maintaining a very impressive 1923 megahertz CPU cooling didn't blow us away to quite the same degree after it fell to a measly 3.8 gigahertz and i-264 after shooting up to 94 degrees and it's overclocked 4.3 gigahertz but in fairness we did never run into that issue in our non-synthetic tests and it topped out under 80 degrees Celsius in our gaming benchmarks the G 701 VI noise level while gaming is what I would describe as acceptable to its credit it avoids the high-pitched whine of smaller gaming laptops and is basically silent relative to the Sager NP 98-73 when that thing is pushed to its limit but it still definitely lets you know it's there it's kind of like a hot air balloon parked above your neighbor's house one sore spot for me given the price tag is that upgrading this thing is a bit of a pain in the arse getting inside takes 14 screws and once you're in there half the RAM slots are on the underside of the motherboard and the same goes for the SSDs only one of them can be easily accessed though that kind of thing won't come up that often so let's move on to day to day usability I'm not totally sure how I feel about the keyboard for typing the short travel distance and key spacing is fine and I easily got up to speed but there's more flex than I'd like especially near the space bar and I just didn't find it that comfortable with that said the gaming tuned feel of the key switches and the shape of the space bar the five programmable macro keys and the keyboard backlighting bring my grade up to a B or at least they would if it included RGB backlighting is a gaming product for shame a soos the trackpad is what I would consider very usable straight out of the box it's actually great but if your fingers get sweaty at all it turns into a bit of a grind magnet and it's easy for your fingers to kind of skip across it which does hurt accuracy when you're trying to be very precise with it the odds that a would be G 701 VI shopper will have a gaming mouse hooked up to it all the time though are pretty high I just think Asus could have done better in this regard speakers are decent for a laptop with fair bass and no distortion even at full volume although again if you're gaming you're probably going to have headphones plugged in but fortunately Asus has you covered there too and the 701 VI sports an ESS saber DAC and amp getting up near external DAC quality and it's nice to see this included now of course everyone in the comments is probably saying this is stupid just buy 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