Conclusion
The G751J is a great affordable alternative to modern higher-end gaming machines. If you aren’t out to drop $2K+ on a gaming laptop, it offers much of the performance at quite a bit less dough, and with zero compromises in terms of build quality, to boot. Speaking of which, it features an evolved design from last-gen’s ROG machines, and while the move to an internal battery (versus the G750J) might be a bit controversial, for the most part, the changes are overwhelmingly positive. From the solid, subtle (yet sleek) matte case material to the amazing cooling system, there’s not much to knock about the G751J’s engineering.
The speed is still great, too. The biggest negative is the lack of a solid-state drive for general application performance, but this does little to affect gaming. The NVIDIA GeForce 970M GPU is more than capable of handling most of what gamers are likely to throw at it, and while it isn’t the fastest option out there, the cost savings are significant. Elsewhere, 16 GB of RAM (dual channel) is enough for practically anyone, and even the screen—an anti-glare LG IPS panel with good brightness, contrast, and color reproduction—feels like luxury.
Negatives? Sure; it’s big and heavy, the battery life isn’t great, and the touchpad features an unfortunate degree of lag (if you’re ever caught using it in-between gaming endeavors). There’s also some minor niggles here and there, such as reportedly some units with audio crackling problems (still yet to be resolved). Finally, one other issue that might affect you if you’re planning on running dual SSDs or any sort of RAID is the lack of SATA III support in the second drive bay (it only runs at a maximum of SATA II). Overall, however, in totality, this is a shockingly enticing package for anyone looking for some semi-portable gaming on a relative budget. For $1,500 or less, in fact, as long as you aren’t bothered by these complaints, we don’t see a better option around currently.
Though we didn’t get to test them, it stands to reason that the higher-end configurations are also likely worthy of serious consideration. Apart from a few minor complaints, ASUS has thrown down the gauntlet with the G751 ROG series; for the price, we wholeheartedly recommend it!
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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?