Performance Part 1: Processor and General
Sporting an Intel Core i7-4710HQ CPU, 16GB DDR3L RAM, and a 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce 970M GPU, we should be able to expect respectable performance from the G751JT. There’s just one sticking point: the 1 TB hard drive (a Hitachi 7200 RPM model), which of course pales in comparison to any SSD. So while general system performance is surely going to suffer a bit, processing speed during games and CPU-intensive activity should hopefully prove no issue.
On a side note, if you’re interested in upgrading your notebook aftermarket, you’ll be pleased to know that the machine accepts up to 32 GB of RAM, and, as we mentioned earlier, the second hard drive bay is already equipped with an empty mounting bracket to make the addition of an SSD quick and painless.
So, let’s see how this thing holds up.
Performance – Processor
SiSandra Processor Arithmetic
The G751JT’s CPU holds up well against the field, which is to be expected considering it matches the GT72’s (i7-4710HQ).
Cinebench R11.5
It’s the same story for Cinebench, which also places the G751JT near the front of the pack.
Futuremark Peacekeeper
Finally, Peacekeeper’s judgment of the speed of the PC, while heavily browser dependent, assigns the G751JT a 4483 (running in Chrome).
Application Performance
We expect application performance to be subdued in comparison to the CPU/GPU performance as, again, the mechanical hard drive is easily the weakest link in the equation.
PCMark 7
Unsurprisingly, for all its CPU/GPU prowess, the G751JT positions itself as the weakest of the bunch due to its comparatively slow mechanical hard drive. The score of 3980 is over 1,300 lower than the nearest competitor, the MSI GE40.
Hasn’t asus just announced
Hasn’t asus just announced that g-sync is coming to the G751? The weren’t clear whether this model is getting it with a driver update, or new hardware (?) only.
I have 2 g751 of different
I have 2 g751 of different configs. But both of them seem to have massive USB issues. The usb ports on the right side seem to work fine but the two on the left will never mount external HDDs.
Are your USB external HDDs
Are your USB external HDDs drawing power from the USB or is it external power? If I recall, not all the USB ports are fully powered on most, if not all Notebooks.
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph drives, powered externally was what I was using. Also, if you plug in a thunderbolt device it drops all the internal sata drives except for c.
I am teh cool guy
I am teh cool guy
These laptops are riddled
These laptops are riddled with trouble, they software they use to make backup disks rarely works, bios updates fail on a regular basis bricking the laptops, the quality of assembly is plagued with defects, the ASUS brand software is known for causing latency issues that make the machine unusable for WIFI gaming. They use the same cheap keyboard internals as their 300 dollar model laptops that don’t even support 3 key rollover. Do use use ESDF to game? Not on this laptop, Shift+E+Space is a dead key. If you have to send in for warranty repair, expect it to come back damaged and have to fight for a claim. Buyer beware.
If you don’t believe me just
If you don’t believe me just go read the ASUS ROG forums.
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7 for a few years, I thought ASUS quality would be on all their products, evidently NOT!
After reading the above revues, I won’t be buying any ASUS products in the future, but..the Nexus 7 works perfectly!
Well it appears to be a hit
Well it appears to be a hit or miss thing apparently because I have owned 5 different ROG laptops ranging from the GTX8 series all the way to the 10 series and other than the first model I had that had an issue with blowing out the KB leds when you flashed the bios requiring it be sent in for a new board, all of them worked as advertised, even my G751JT-TH71 I have flashed 5 bios revisions without any issues, I think alot of what you read in the forums is also alot of non-technical consumers doing things, and breaking them. Case in point the number of users using winflash over the UEFI bios update (preferred) and bricking their units. Any tech worth their stuff knows even if winflash does what it should, the method that most often is more secure and successful is not withing the windows environment.
The only complaint I have for the G751 is this rediculous notion that ASUS will not just give us i7 4710HQ owners the gsync option, it can be done, its not hardware related both panel, GPU and connection support it, its a silly license.
So, at that same price you
So, at that same price you can get the brand new G-sync MSI GT72 with a slightly higher clocked Broadwell. Most of the rest of the specs are virtually identical. The MSI has USB 3.1 ports rather than the Thunderbolt port, but I would take the USB 3.1 ports anyway.
I can’t imagine buying a non-G-sync laptop, especially when you can get a G-sync one at the same price.
I don’t get why it’s not
I don’t get why it’s not getting 9,000-10,000 3dmark 11 points? Is it the ssd or lack of?