Product Description
ASUS ROG GL551JM-EH74 Laptop 15.6 "Gaming (black aluminum) Intel Core i7-4710HQ 2.5GHz (3.5GHz Turbo up) did well, 16GB DDR3L (1600 MHz), 256 GB SSD, 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GTX860M, DL DVD ± RW / CD-RW, 802.11agn, Bluetooth, Windows 8.1
features
Intel Core i7-4710HQ 2.5GHz (3.5GHz Turbo).
256 GB solid state drive. 16 GB of RAM.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2GB GDDR5 with Optimus technology.
3x USB 3.0, 1x HDMI, 1x MiniDisplay. SDXC card reader. 802.11 A / B / G / N Gigabit Ethernet
. 720P HD Webcam.
15.6 "chassis HD in full screen. Aluminium body Firm ROG.
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NVIDIA 860m packs a punch, but the PC gets a little toasty.,
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This review is from: ASUS
ROG GL551JM-DH71 15.6" Gaming Laptop w/ GeForce GTX860M 2GB GDDR5 and
Optimus Technology, 1 TB 7200RPM HDD (Personal Computers)
(IMPORTANT EDIT) Make sure before you start
gaming to go to your Nvidia Control Panel, from here change the
preferred graphics processor to your Nvidia card. The PC selects the
integrated Intel HD Graphics chip by default, which is less impressive
performance-wise and loads your CPU, resulting in high heats! Since
this change, my heats have gone down from 90-93 on the CPU to 80-85 and
around the same for the Motherboard. Before, the NVIDIA card would hang
around 40 C, even during intense gaming, now it's around 70-75 C
because it's actually being used! (this edit overrides the edits at the
bottom of the review.)
This PC is absolutely amazing for the time I've had with it.
What's in the box?
-The Laptop (no-brainer)
-Power Supply (another no-brainer)
-Cable Tie
-Warranty Card
No it doesn't have the subwoofer featured with the other G series laptops, and the sound isn't too impressive. I use headphones most of the time anyway so it doesn't matter to me though.
I've had the laptop for about 3 hours now and I've done about a half-hour of BF3 ("high" preset at 1080P) on it and it got hot pretty quick (around 86 on the CPU and GPU) but it didn't go any higher. The left side of the keyboard gets very hot, but the keys and area your palm goes still stays bearably cool, which is a plus.
Also, while downloading Titanfall on Origin, I noticed that I have an average speed of around 10-15 MB/S, which might just be my connection, but on my $1000 gaming desktop rig, it gets around 3 MB/S (on ethernet too, as opposed to WiFi on the laptop) on the same connection.
Of course, if I start having any issues, I will update this review, but so far it seems like it can run almost any game you throw at it on mid-high settings.
Keep in mind though that these are only first impressions, but I plan on updating this review as time goes on.
(EDIT) After playing BF3 for about an hour, stuff started to get REALLY toasty inside. I can't say I was using 1 graphical setting the whole time because I was tweaking graphics constantly. According to Speccy, my CPU (4710HQ i7) and motherboard were both hitting 90-93C, but the GPU was still hanging around 75. That being said though, it never shut down, so I'm sure the components can take the heat.
(EDIT) after speaking to ASUS customer support, they assured me that while it is hot, this laptop CAN take the heat and you don't need to worry about it as long as it doesn't start shutting down as a failsafe, I will update if I ever get a shutdown from overheating, so far so good though.
This PC is absolutely amazing for the time I've had with it.
What's in the box?
-The Laptop (no-brainer)
-Power Supply (another no-brainer)
-Cable Tie
-Warranty Card
No it doesn't have the subwoofer featured with the other G series laptops, and the sound isn't too impressive. I use headphones most of the time anyway so it doesn't matter to me though.
I've had the laptop for about 3 hours now and I've done about a half-hour of BF3 ("high" preset at 1080P) on it and it got hot pretty quick (around 86 on the CPU and GPU) but it didn't go any higher. The left side of the keyboard gets very hot, but the keys and area your palm goes still stays bearably cool, which is a plus.
Also, while downloading Titanfall on Origin, I noticed that I have an average speed of around 10-15 MB/S, which might just be my connection, but on my $1000 gaming desktop rig, it gets around 3 MB/S (on ethernet too, as opposed to WiFi on the laptop) on the same connection.
Of course, if I start having any issues, I will update this review, but so far it seems like it can run almost any game you throw at it on mid-high settings.
Keep in mind though that these are only first impressions, but I plan on updating this review as time goes on.
(EDIT) After playing BF3 for about an hour, stuff started to get REALLY toasty inside. I can't say I was using 1 graphical setting the whole time because I was tweaking graphics constantly. According to Speccy, my CPU (4710HQ i7) and motherboard were both hitting 90-93C, but the GPU was still hanging around 75. That being said though, it never shut down, so I'm sure the components can take the heat.
(EDIT) after speaking to ASUS customer support, they assured me that while it is hot, this laptop CAN take the heat and you don't need to worry about it as long as it doesn't start shutting down as a failsafe, I will update if I ever get a shutdown from overheating, so far so good though.
