ROG Strix GL702VI Gaming Laptop 17” Full HD Panel, Intel Core i7 2.8GHz Processor, GTX 1080 8GB, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD 1TB HDD

This is for the ASUS GL502VS-DS71 ROG Strix 15.6" G-SYNC 120 Hz VR Ready Thin Gaming Laptop, GTX 1070 8GB Core i7-7700HQ 16GB DDR4 128GB SSD 1TB HDD, BlackOkay, so, I'm an avid gamer. Someone who's played quite demanding games on an old Asus N56, and a custom built gaming pc that has a 970 GTX as it's GPU. Let me say, that even as the 1070 GTX, this is an extremely beastly machine. I'll get into the Pros and Cons quickly besides giving you guys a bunch of filler, and minor things some may be worrying about when strolling through Amazon to find a gaming laptop.Pros:-The 1070 GTX runs beautifully. FPS goes all the way to 100+ frames on mid-level demanding games. On high demanding games, a solid 70+ fps on High/Ultra. Minor differences between the types of games youre playing.-The keyboard LED's are neither harsh on the eyes nor is the red color that intrusive (for those who are worried about the color itself.)-The build is NOT metal, by the way. The back of the 1920x1080 screen is aluminum, but everything else is polished plastic.-The outlets for USB's, chargers, ethernet cables are all smartly placed. (3 USB's, 1 HDMI, left side is the charger.)-Additonal space for another RAM chip for heavier lifting. Suggest buying two of the same brand, if you can.-The Price. These models of laptop are the best out there without paying for the brand itself. You're paying for the $1,500+ price tag because it's simply a powerhouse, with a few downsides because of how powerful it is.-While idle, it can stay at 50-60 Celsius. Slightly higher with several non demanding applications open.Cons:-The plastic feel of the keyboard/dashboard may be unattractive to some.-Minor grievances, like some basic keys being moved around, making you depend on the Fn key more. (Num Lock. End. Pg Down, Pg Up.)-The silver finish around the keyboard can rub off easily (This is completely due to user error, though. I am usually travelling, playing in smaller rooms than my man cave, tending to play with a mouse on the right corner of the deck.) It started to slightly fade within the first 4 weeks of use. Ive actually cut a rubber/felt SteelSeries mouse pad to the size of the corner and it works beautifully for me now, when im not using a desk.-MAJOR heat spitting out of the exhaust depending on how demanding the game is, which is due to the copper pipe connecting both the CPU and GPU, essentially making them share temperature, which is good and bad. There are multiple ways to combat this, but ultimately, you are going to deal with this thing reaching 80-90 degrees Celsius. Sorry guys but with a machine this beastly, there has to be some trade off. In this case, it's heat. I'll post how to combat this and prevent it from reaching the 90's, which at the 80's it spits a hot but tolerable heat.----Reducing Temperature-----Hit the ROG logo key, increase fan speed in the bottom left corner, to 20-30 percent. This will increase fan noise, but expel the hot air out so it doesn't overheat components and most importantly, make the top of the keyboard too hot to touch.-Download Intel Extreme Tuning Utility , Install it.-Adjust the Core Voltage Offset between -.100 V and -.140 V for noticeable results.Anything over -.140 V and you will most probably get bluescreened Windows error and have to restart, which isn't good for your PC.What putting the Core Voltage down to -.140 V does is undervolt the laptops Core power, essentially lowering just enough energy to lower the heat exhaust from the CPU and GPU. This process should help a lot in staying out of 90 Celsius. Also, disable Turbo Boost Max Power Enable.-Other minor fixes if it is really bad, lower from Ultra settings to High. Disable V Sync.And there you go, it runs beautifully without setting our whole house on fire.Hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do.

First impressions of this laptop are amazing! Of course there is Pros and Cons with any laptop so I will start with the Pros.Pros:The specs are great and have been playing countless games at maximum graphics including Assassins Creed Origins, Prey at 120fps, Elex around 90fps (the games looks beautiful)Keyboard is very sleek and feels very nice to touchDisplay is great with the 120hz refresh rateSuper fast loading times from the processor and SSD allows you to open up many programs all at once without much lag.Very light for a gaming laptop and only have to use one hand to open the lid.Cons:The Touchpad feels quite cheap and sometimes fails to register your finger movement even with the updated drivers.Fan noise when gaming is super loud so this means you will have to turn up the volume of games if playing without a headsetRuns hot when the gpu and cpu are under heavy gaming (90+ degrees) ( I use a book or something to prop it up off the table to allow the cool air vent underneath to circulate easier and it seems to drop it to around 70 - 80 degrees)Sound is ok, but would have been great if it had a deeper baseStrange clicking noise on mine, happened right out of the box but only randomly, not sure if its the HDD or trackpad (have looked up on google and others have had the same issue but still no concrete evidence as to what it is. Only happens usually when plugged in and it can happen for a split second then nothing for an hour or so then another few clicks here and there. Don't believe it is anything bad but it does get frustrating if it goes on for a while.128gb SSD, although it works very well, I would consider going for the upgraded version of the 256gb or 512gb versions.Battery is like any gaming laptop, can usually get around 2 hours of surfing the web, gaming about 45 mins to an hour before you will get promptedOverall:This is a brilliant laptop and does everything it is supposed to, although the flaws above I have raised, I am super happy with it and love playing all games on ultra settings with a great frame rate. I haven't tried the VR on it yet but I would have to say it would be awesome! I highly recommend it to anyone.

I purchased this to replace my nearly 4 year old Lenovo Y50 FHD 2014 gaming laptop. As 4th year university student in Industrial/Experience design, I really needed a powerful machine capable of rendering complex 3D environments multiple light sources, custom shaders, and high levels of anti-alising. The 1070 is no joke. It's got some serious power under the hood with each and every cuda core on full blast, only software like keyshot that is limited to CPU rendering took quite a while where as all GPU based rendering was totally destroyed. I know I could have gone with a workstation but as someone who plays games when im not studying/working this made a lot more sense considering my 2.5k budget.Price to performance is unmatched considering other options with 1070's are roughly $2.7k+ CAD. The GL502VSK is a considerable upgrade from my previous laptop that I had put through 3 solid years of near 24/7 use and hard gaming with both CPU+GPU sitting roughly 90+ degrees. Sadly, despite having two dedicated heatsyncs on this new laptop, temps can still reach 90+ and although the CPU wont throttle till about 98-100 degrees celc, the shell is quite physically hot to the touch. On the bright side there is full fan control and unlike my 2014 Y50, the fans are not locked my the ec controller on the mobo. With the laptop on a cooling pad, fans set to full blast and no background processes apart from skype, my logitech G502 mouse software suite and steam open, I managed to play 3+ hours of ArmA 3 online without any throttle with the max temp hitting ~90 degrees at it's peak on CPU (game fully maxed out, battery on high performance, plugged in on latest nvidia drivers as of early August 2017),I consider this hot but not unreasonable considering my ambient room temp was likely around 25 degrees. My previous laptop; the Lenovo Y50 would be sitting about the same with only half the performance. Games like GTAV ran 1080p maxed (with Extended Distance, long shadows, Nvidia's PCSS) out for 80-110fps dropping to 55 in super grassy areas. Turning MSAA down to 2x for both general world object meshes and also MSAA on reflections to 2x never let the frame rate drop below 70.World of Warcraft maxed out at 1080 for 100+ depending on the zone dropping to 50 in garrisons but keep in mind this game is strongly CPU dependent and gpu usage is usually like 10% with v-ram usage only at 10-15% at best. CS:GO was a solid 250+ on low 1080p. It's a competitive shooter and in my 1000+ hours never once played on high so I dont have results for that. Arma 3 was a solid 100 outside of cities and 70 in towns on a private 2 player co-op server with a friend. On a public Malden life server with 60 players, framerate was a solid 30fps in busy towns, as expected- it does not matter how powerful your machine is. BF4 Ultra 1080p max MSAA, 120-200fps capped depending on the situation. While flying att-heli or jets the fps caps at 200. While on ground in even the most intense fights at 1080p I never once had the framerate drop below 100fps. And finally Black Desert, I also tested this with the framerate sitting a steady 50-70fps with the game maxed out with high-end mode enabled.Im extremely impressed by performance for both rendering the work I do also also realtime performance in games I play. My friend build a fresh desktop with new parts. An i7 6700k, 16 gigs of DDR4, GTX 1070, 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD + monitor + keyboard/mouse + windows. His total expenses have hit over $2700 and has a mere 5% performance increase. I'd take the portability of this machine over that pricetag and stationary desktop any day.As a side note:- Screen Colours are great, no calibration necessary. Has a fair amount of Adobe RGB for a TN panel but certianly not as good as newer IPS ones. They clearly cut the costs here. Its still a massive improvement over my Y50.- 120hz gsync is awesome and I can drop to 75hz via nvidia control panel. Quite a few games can power through it- Touchpad is horrid. Have a nice mouse- Keyboard lighting turns itself off over time. Actually a nice feature unlike my last laptop that had it on constantly- Keyboard lighting is not RGB, its red and only red.- Keys feel great to type on. Good travel, and a very good sound when typing- Laptop's speakers are pretty crap in comparison to my Y50's JBL speakers. They're quiet and cant be heard over my room fan- Hinge for screen is smooth but not as tight as my last laptop. Still feels sturdy and overall build quality is solid.- Boot times on SSD are 7 seconds into desktop. HDD is 5400RPM i believe. Still alright as long as you frequently defrag- Laptop came with a bunch of bloatware such as teamviewer, xplit, Asus Gift, Asus web helpers. I uninstalled everything except the BIOS Flashing utility and the ROG gaming center that gives me fan control- Battery Drain while gaming is real. If you read about this online I can confirm my model has it. Its clear the power adapter may not be supplying enough to power the 1070 + charge but honestly its no big deal. With only 1hour 30mins battery on high performance I dont expect to be anywhere without the charger anyway. Be real, unless im stuck in a lecture taking notes, it'll be just fine on battery for a few mins as you move form one power outlet to the next.- BIOS was out of date upon opening. Takes a moment to update- Wifi Card is actually good. Connected to my 5Ghz network quickly. I was scared as it uses an updated wifi chip from intel in comparison to my Y50, and that older model had serious dropping issues with my DSL Modem. But I can happily say wifi has been solid and i've gotten the full 60mbps we pay for- Port selection is not too bad. Even has some newer ones while keeping legacy support for older ones- Noise is pretty loud fan wise but this is to be expected on a machine with a 1070. or any gaming laptop for that matter. I cant hear the fans at all over my room fan anyway so its no big deal to me since my headphones are always on. HOWEVER with everything off, it can get quite loud on full blast. Still nothing to worry about.Overall very satisfied with this laptop. Apart from it running hot, I have no real complaints. I've put my Y50 though hell and it can finally rest after being dropped like 9 times but surviving all with really bad cracks and general body damage. The GL502VSK feels like it'll take a fall a lot better, and that's to be expected to happen multiple times carrying it from place to place.Its 2017, mobile gaming is finally a real thing with desktop grade components in compact form factors. I strongly recommend this laptop and hope it lasts me another 3+ years of great design work and gaming like my last one did. And if you choose to buy it, hope it does the same for you too.

I purchased an open box version and I must say, I was not disappointed even the slightest. This machine is a beast and can handle even Ark: Survival Evolved on max settings, and it does not have the overly flashy design of other gaming laptops that is a turn off for me. I have had no issues with the sound or graphics, and the built in Nvidia software helps me select the optimal settings without me needing to spend hours on research for the best results on each game.I wanted to mention that the camera seems to have a beautifying default setting? No other words to explain it other than: I look more attractive when using the built in camera for Skype than when I look in a washroom mirror. Similar to how we look when we use beautifying settings on our phone camera for selfies. No complaints though, just a pleasant surprise.It is reasonably heavy that it would likely not be taken to classes for notes, but is certainly built to be easily placed in a big backpack. Great for students that need to travel far away from home and can't migrate their desktop every other semester to a different dorm.

This laptop is absolutely amazing. The 1070 & 7700hq destroy games. The screen is bright and vivid, with great contrast and colours. 120hz is really smooth. The sata3 ssd drive makes windows 10 really snappy and boots quickly. The laptop itself is great looking. It's very slim and light. The brushed chrome look doesn't pick up fingerprints too much. This is a all around, well built laptop. One negative is this laptop gets kinda loud when gaming. But if you're wearing headphones you have nothing to worry about. Other than that, this laptop is awesome!Note - returned this laptop because of driver issues

Red, why did it have to be red. -1Plays games well, gets super hot in the back. Got a cooling pad for it. Wished the laptop had more vents on the underside to allow cooling pads to be effective. Overall, it is great. After agonizing for months over the MSI vs asus, and the 1050 vs 1060,and every conceivable model in-between glad I just said yolo and got the 1070.Edit: I have now had this a month or so, The screen has issues. I am on the fence about returning it. The screen will blur and ghost significantly after rebooting. the problem seems to be worse if i pack it in my bag, move it to another place. I read online about removing the ROG bloatware to fix the issue and it seems to have helped, but I still got the ghosting after that.The laptop also does not come back from hibernate, screen goes black after the ROG logo and doesnt come back.I am concerned that it is the LCD Panel, and not something fixable with updates.I'll attach a picture where you can see the ghosting/ burn in.. or whatever is going on there. You can see the desktop background and desktop icons, and even the ROG splash logo from before windows even loads burned in on top of the browser window.

I bought the laptop 10 days ago on June 14th, 2017.The first thing I noticed when I started using the laptop was that one of the 3 USB 3.0s was not working properly. It supplied power to any device connected to it, but the laptop itself did not detect those devices, so I sent ASUS a support ticket, to which I was only answered, "Thank you for contacting ASUS Support Center. If there is a problem, feel free to send us an email." So, I figured I would just wait a while and see what will happens and if they reply again. However, after a light gaming session yesterday, I shut down the laptop and did not touch it during a 20 hour period or so. However, when I tried opening it again, I noticed that the laptop was excessively overheating, even though it was completely shut down and was not in use all day. It also completely stopped working and will not turn on. Unacceptable.