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What..,
August 7, 2017 This review is from: ASUS ROG Zephyrus GX501 15.6" Full-HD 120Hz Ultra-portable Gaming Laptop, GTX 1080, Intel Core i7, 512GB PCIe SSD, 16GB DDR4 (Personal Computers)
Flawless performance. Unfortunately, i had to send it back for repair after 2 months since it did not want to turn on. This happened out of nowhere. When they sent it back to me it was still completely dead. Now I've been waiting for about two weeks and its still in repair. A little ridiculous that they sent me back a dead computer and it passed quality assurance team. So, I will update later..
Updatez:
It came back. Total time for repair approx. 1 month. Happy everything is back to normal. TF2 time!! COD WWII seems pretty good too.
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Was this review helpful to you? I used to have a 17 inch thin gaming laptop for VR development and gaming but it was too big for a lot of bags and not good for airplane travel,
October 27, 2017 This review is from: ASUS ROG Zephyrus GX501 15.6" Full-HD 120Hz Ultra-portable Gaming Laptop, GTX 1080, Intel Core i7, 512GB PCIe SSD, 16GB DDR4 (Personal Computers)
Fastest laptop I have owned in a small form factor. I used to have a 17 inch thin gaming laptop for VR development and gaming but it was too big for a lot of bags and not good for airplane travel. This newer small form factor is great.
The keyboard being all the way up the edge is not the best design but I understand why they had to do it. Hopefully next generation laptops will have the keyboard at a more ergonomic spot. Also the trackpad buttons are great because they are actual easy to click buttons. However I do sometimes press the arrow key instead of the left mouse button since it is right next to it.
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In love so far,
July 19, 2017 This review is from: ASUS ROG Zephyrus GX501 15.6" Full-HD 120Hz Ultra-portable Gaming Laptop, GTX 1080, Intel Core i7, 512GB PCIe SSD, 16GB DDR4 (Personal Computers)
I undervolted my i7 CPU to get my temperatures lower. There was no drop in performance, fps, or throttling. Heat was also reduced a little bit compared to default voltage. Supposedly undervolting will also extend battery life but I haven't tested that. IC Diamond Advanced Thermal Compound was also applied on the CPU + GPU by HIDevolution which probably helped with thermals a bit. For testing I used Intel's ETU and just some games from steam.
30 Mins Default Volt
CPU Idle Test Average: 42-45C
CPU Stress Test : 70-72C
30 Mins Undervolting
CPU Idle Test: 42-45C
CPU Stress Test : 67-70C
1 Hour playing Fallout 4 and Neir Automata
GPU Idle Test: 48-50C
GPU Stress Test: 70-74C
Overall, this was a huge upgrade to my MSI 17" GE72 GTX960M laptop which got uncomfortably hot just browsing the web, burning hot when playing games, fan noise like a jet engine, heavy, thick and ran games at medium to low quality to get...
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