ASUS G751JT 17-Inch Gaming Laptop [2014 model]

I never gave a review on any electronic devices, so this is my first time. I am so excited to own this laptop. I was always impressed by ASUS Republic of gamers line of laptops for complete use of office, entertainment, and gaming (what not?). Especially with all the reviews online, I knew this was the right one to get.I'm just going to dive in to the main features, feel free to comment, like, suggest or ask me anything about it or related to it. will be glad. :)Starting with its design and exterior looks, this laptop is just beautiful with its keyboard lighting, that helps you find your keys, esp. ASDW which is very important to a gamer. The typing is smooth, I already played some hardcore games (which is listed in the end), almost thinking I destroyed the keys, but it is so perfectly designed and spaced, for you fingers to move around, for both gaming and typing fast.Similarly, the touchpad is just smooth, with so much surface area, to move across the screen/click on anything. Love it.Speed: With 16GB of DDR3 RAM, it boots in less than 15 seconds to the desktop already (imagine how fast with an SSD, then?) with a startup of at least 10 applications. Never have I seen something that fast. Even while browsing, running multiple tabs, playing many youtube videos in 1440p HD videos so smoothly. While browsing, through both chrome and explorer, it has been super fast, with its wireless type - 802.11 A/C, I am getting around 60 Mbps as download speed when my wifi server provides only 50.The Screen: Just amazing, with the IPS panel, no glare, full HD clarity, amazing viewing angles, with 17.3 inches and 1920X1080 resolution, it couldn't get any better!! No joke, watching all tv shows, and movies on this laptop, and suddenly switching to my old lenovo or anything lower than this clarity, it just hurts your eyes, lol. NOTE: The screen quality is so good, that the last time I saw something this good is with the latest MAcbook pro which has the retina display, so yea, it is as equivalent to that.It comes with 4 USB ports 3.0, 1 VGA port, 1 HDMI, 1 Thunderbolt, 1 microphone, 1 headphone Jack, 1 DVD multi recorder.The camera has got around 1.2 MP with HD feature( which is absolutely enough and more I believe for skyping)The Vents right at the back, for both the GPU and CPU respectively, is perfectly placed, which is very important for gaming and heat issues. I always had issue with my previous laptop, with the chipset graphic card, and trying out load of games, always heated and crashed games and aps And so far, it has been running this one on top load, it just stays super cool, and so quiet, without making lot of noise compared to the desktop, which I should say is one the main features in this laptop. Perfect.Now coming to the main pros: The Graphics: with Nvidia's latest GeForce 970M (October 2014 released) with 3 GB graphics and a processor of i7 4710 HQ (2.5 GHz) quad core processor with 5% overclock, this is just what I wanted.To test it out, I played so far Titanfall, Fifa 14, Tomb Raider, NFS RIvals, CS:GO. Remember all these games are 2012/13 and above, so as to test out the latest next generation games and all of them in maxed out settings, (ultra) anti-aliasing at 4x, with every detail to be displayed. and result: I have never experienced something as good as this even with my friend's xbox one. No joke. I will be soon posting some gameplay videos through shadowplay to show how it actually is. I also used Unigine Valley 1.0 to benchmark my results (Do check the screenshot for it here) For now the game results are:Titanfall: 40-50 FPS, so smooth, I played like 2 hours continuously, with the temperatures still remaining at around 45 deg celsius, (which is not bad, I believe, anything less that 65 deg celcius, your gig is then running fine!) Oh and about the game, I am no expert, but it just blew me, with the advancement of technology used in the game, there is no way you can stop playing this online game, absolutely fun with the titans and insane graphics, especially on a dream machine like this. :)FIFA 14: Just so realistic and beautiful playing this game. (can't imagine how it would be playing FIFA 15 then.) I got it for a higher range: 70-75 FPS range (since its not as demanding as titanfall, I believe), sometimes it dropped to 60-65 FPS when I played seasons with online friends (due to different internet speed are ports when playing online, I believe), but still not lagging at all even when it drops, which is just amazing.NFS RIvals: Trust me, not a racing fan, but this is one of the best NFS released in the recent years, and it is plainly just amazing, you wont stop driving and racing around in so good clarity and background. Again, not even a glitch or lag, I got continuous 30-40 FPS on this too, playing it with my wireless 360 controller. I believe the game can go higher with the FPS, but its a game I got from torrents, and from reading the reviews since the update and patch wasn't the latest, there were chance of locking it to 30FPS.CS:GO: Counter strike, well, might be wondering what's the deal in graphics here, but trust me, this is one of those CS gamess, where you get everything from 1.3,1.5 and 1.6 all in advanced and remastered edition that should just blow all CS fans and without a doubt the best CS game right now. It did give me a lot of memories playing good old maps such as assault, nuke,and de_dust2. :) It does have a lot of graphic options, in which I got around 250 FPS while playing it on complete high, which I have no clue how that happened, maybe a glitch. I turned it all down from high to ultra settings, and the FPS came back to 65-70, which was still smooth and really hard to tell the difference.Tomb Raider: Like Titanfall, this game did make me nervous too, with the amount of texture, and details option, I still turned everything ultra and maxed out settings, and to my surprise I was still playing it smoothly, although the temperatures were a little bit higher than the other games. I must say this game does demand a lot of load and graphics. and I am glad that this machine plays it so well. and the game is just brilliant. A must play for any action-adventure fan. I got around 40-50 FPS on ultra settings( I use this setting only in case I need to connect it to a projector or a big tv screen), and 70-75 FPS when I lowered it to high settings, which I normally play with. Just simply smooth. :)Cons:Not a lot, but definitely the weight of the laptop, weighing 8.4 lbs (almost 4kg), it might be a little burden to carry around, but can get used to it.The speaker sounds are not all that great, but decent enough for songs and videos. From what I read in the ASUS forums, it is a common driver issue that is causing it to sometimes give an unbalanced sound via speakers for everyone with the latest update on it. Probably rolling back the driver to the previous update or waiting for a fix by Asus is the solution. (If someone knows the fix, please do let me know) But not an issue, since I use my headphones most of my time. :)The battery is built in, and I have tested around 2 hours and 30 minutes roughly to use it continuously for watching videos, using MS office, and other applications, all unplugged. If playing games, it might stretch around max to an hour before dying out, which again, battery life should not be a problem, cuz everywhere I go or use it, I plug in and no one wants to game without plugging in your laptop to get maximum performance. :) Other than that, its Windows 8.1, so far, not a lot of problems, except for the updates and here and there bugs that are common, that come and go, but a techy guy like me shouldn't even complain about it, but to work around and solve it. :P :) !!So far, three days, I was only able to try these many games(wanted to do more). Will be doing more games in the future with hopefully videos in you tube. Especially ones releasing later this year (Arkham Knight, GTA V, Mortal Kombat X, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and many more.) I hope I covered most of the important tech specs of it. I must say for the price, it is worth every penny (do check the link to see the cost and more specs and features), I was nervous at start, but couldn't be happier now. It is absolutely true, like they said in the amazon and newegg reviews, that it is truly a desktop replacement, if you're looking for something that can be portable, yet powerful, with stylish look and finish, and above all giving a performance of 110 percent. Welfl done ASUS. I look forward in the years, to upgrade the RAM (only if needed 16GB is way fast and sufficient) and maybe an SSD storage, and other accessories.Thanks to Amazon for delivering this on time and in perfect condition, since I did read a few reviews who had dead pixel screen, or windows not starting up, and some other issues. Thank god. :)Do check out the photos. Thanks for reading. :) :)

I've held back from reviewing this laptop, despite having had it for going on six months now. Particularly, I just wanted to be sure that when I DID give my review, that it would have sufficient ground on why I felt the way I did.To start off with, I will comment on how great of a deal I consider this computer to be priced at. Starting about a year ago, I realized that I wanted a laptop, as I was soon to be moving. Looking around, there were a few in particular I had in mind. For a long time, I had been a satisfied customer with HP before. I had heard that Alien Ware made great systems, albeit pricey, but alas still good systems. And then, after some major comparisons between features and reliability, I came across the ASUS ROG line. I began drooling over the idea of buying an ASUS ROG laptop, my eye set particularly on their higher end model costing roughly $2.5k. For several months, I saved and tried cutting back on any personal expense I could. I even started working extra hours at my job, which played a great role in all of this. My circumstances were growing in difficulty and so I eventually settled and bought an HP laptop. It cost roughly $1k and for the price, wasn't a bad deal.However, the system just did not match up to the expectations I had, which were probably in part due to my attraction towards the ASUS systems. So, I sent it back. While owning the HP, I had installed a nice collection of games on it, as I knew I wanted a system that could at least handle a portion of the games I had. This is where ASUS made itself such a strong contender. But, the goal of saving up for the $2.5k system just felt so daunting. I finally decided I would give one of the lower priced models a go and that if I didn't like it, I'd send it back and keep saving for the higher priced one. The price hasn't changed much for this since I bought it, but I looked at the ROG models that Amazon had available and settled on this one, the $1.5k model.I had read multiple reviews of people who complained about the size and weight of the machine. But, as I would say to anyone interested, this is a *gaming* laptop. It is meant to supplement, or even replace, a person's gaming rig setup. So right off the bat, I knew battery life, notebook dimensions, and total weight were all going to be on the side of being "sub par" (if that is even the right word) to industry standards as far as it goes for a person seeking mobility. But none of these things trumped my interest.My first impression with the laptop was that the exterior is made of a slick matte plastic that I assumed would get scratched very easily. Between moving it back and forth between my room, the living room, and my friends houses, the exterior is still sharp as ever. If your fingers have any grease or oil on them, it WILL show very prominently, so keep that in mind. There are many people that have complained about the screen of this laptop having an off-color tint to it, but I will say right away that this wasn't in the slightest bit a problem for me. If you tilt your head to a very awkward angle and squint, it does get a bit of glare, but I really have to try to achieve that. A laptop with a 17 inch screen, my word, is a god-send. I am very spoiled, as my desktop rig has two 32" and "42 inch LCD screens running for it, so I am used to having a wall of view for my computing. This screen is just perfect for being a foot or two away from my face while lounging.Now, I want to comment on the hardware itself, in this machine. From a cold boot, it takes roughly 10 seconds to reach the Windows log-in screen. Comparable, if not better than, my desktop system. After logging in, it is usually another 5 to 10 seconds until everything is fully loaded and ready to go. Very satisfactory. And here is my favorite part - since I am a gamer, I thought why the hell not push the boundaries and see what this baby could handle. Sim City - like a charm. Elder Scrolls Skyrim - maxed specs. Grand Theft Auto V - high for most and ultra for some specs in the game, no lag. Storage space - I have a total of 84 full games installed on this computer as well as 80 GB of music. Truth be told, I am running low on available space on the drive, but I am most certainly going to install another hard drive in here once I can get confirmation that I'm buying a good model for this system. Everything boots up quick as ever, I never get any lag while running power-hungry applications, and I can count on one hand the number of times I have had running errors.Now, for some negatives. My first and probably my most serious negative feedback on this system is the power supply and plug. For those that don't know yet, the system comes with a massive power block that is about 8" x 3" x 2". It gets hot very frequently and has actually gotten hot enough to the point that it turned itself off and wouldn't charge the computer for a solid 30 minutes. Scared me a bit as these power supplies are on the pricey side. Another thing, the plug is CONSTANTLY coming loose from the adapter feed in the computer. When I first started noticing it, I took it to be that it got bumped while on my lap and would get knocked out. But there have actually been times where I've been looking at the laptop sitting on a desk and had the "battery charging" symbol go dead and wouldn't start back up again until wiggling and pushing back in the cord. That can get quite old when you leave for a couple hours and then come back to a completely dead computer because somehow the cord wiggled out. Next complaint, in line with this, is the battery. The detailed info on this product made it seem like a solid 3 to even 4 hours could be achieved on its own charge..but I'm lucky to get close to 2 hours of battery life on this machine, and that is not even while playing games, just browsing the web or instant messaging. BUT! You shouldn't expect the battery life of a thin-book or tablet, as this is a power hungry machine. Also, I've seen it mentioned in reviews here, but the extra line of keys at the top of the keyboard can get disorienting, as the screen video capture hot key is located where the Esc key is usually located, so I've countlessly pressed that when I intended to use the escape key. Lastly, the DVD drive is insanely sensitive. I am always bumping it by accident and having the tray pop out. Not a huge ordeal, but an irritant, non the less.Overall, this is a wonderful machine. When I saw that it was able to run all of my games without any hiccups, I no longer felt the need to save up the additional $1k. It would be nice to have the extra hard drive space, ram, and a blu-ray player, but this system has met and exceeded every benchmark I have put before it. If you are looking for a system that will at a bare-minimum *play* every game out on the market, this will absolutely meet your expectation. If you're looking for a system that will actually have the power to even surpass some desktop rigs, this laptop will surprise you, I promise that. I truly hope that this computer will last me a few good solid years. As long as it can boot up and load a game without much or any lag, I intend to keep this as my primary machine.