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Product Description
ASUS ROG Zephyrus GX501 15.6" Full-HD 120Hz Ultra-portable Gaming Laptop; 8GB GDDR5 GTX 1070; Intel Core i7-770HQ Processor 2.8GHz (6M Cache, Turbo up to 3.8GHz); 256GB Pie NV Me SSD, 16GB DDR4; Windows 10 Pro; G-Sync; Dual Band 802.11ac Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 4.1; 1x HDMI 2.0; 1x Thunderbolt; 4x USB 3.0; 1x Headphone-out & Audio-in Combo Jack; HD Webcam; 50WHr battery; Illuminated Chicklet Keyboard.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1872 in Personal Computers
- Brand: Asus
- Model: GX501VS-XS71
- Aspect ratio: 16:9
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .70" h x 10.30" w x 15.60" l, 4.90 pounds
- CPU: Intel Core i7 2.8 GHz
- Memory: 16GB DDR4 SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 0GB
- Graphics: Dedicated 8GB
- Processors: 4
- Battery type: Lithium Ion
- Display size: 15.6
Features
- Ultra-thin and ultra-light with a thickness of only 0.7" (with the lid closed) and weighing only 4.9 lbs
- Next-generation performance with GeForce GTX 1070 8GB with Max-Q design and Intel Core i7-7700HQ 2.8 GHz Processor (Turbo up to 3.8GHz). Windows 10 Pro. 120Hz Panel
- Quiet and cool featuring ROG Active Aerodynamic System which improves airflow by 40% and reduces temperatures by 20% compared to conventional cooling. *Actual cooling performance varies due to system and environmental conditions
- RGB Gaming Keyboard featuring ASUS Aura technology. Adjust the QWER and WASD clusters separately to adapt to MOBA and FPS titles
- Fast SSD and RAM: featuring 256GB PCIE G3 x4 NVME & 16GB DDR4 2400MHz. 802.11ac 2x2 Wi-Fi
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
I'm thoroughly happy with this purchaseBy James Demopoulos
I'll start by saying that after 2 weeks, I'm thoroughly happy with this purchase. It is as advertised; slim powerful, and we'll designed. I was a little worried that Max-Q tech was basically just a remarketed version of Nvidia's previous Mobil GPUs, but that's certainly not the case here. The gtx1080 eats through games, and I think a 1080p screen (which looks great) with 120hz is a smart choice for a 15in laptop as it still has a solid pixels per inch and the gpu can really pump out the fps at this resolution. (Ive had a 4k laptop and ended up runming it in 1080 because everything was way too small)
That said, I wanted to share a couple of drawbacks that you may want to consider before purchasing.
By far the biggest for me is the limited storage. 512gbs fills up way too quick, and there's no expansion option. I've gotten. Around this with with a thunderbolt external hdd to keep my steam library on and it works fine, but it means having to plug in another piece of hardware.
I've seen people complain about the keyboard layout, but I actually really like it - particularly having the track pad on the right which feels much more natural.
Yes it is quiet, but when you're really maxing it out, it's not as quiet as I thought. It's still less noise than other gaming laptops I've had, but not "near silent. That said, the "whisper mode" setting in Nvidia's latezt drivers does in fact make it near silent, but it downgrades performance in order to do it. Its an understandabke tradeoff, but a tradeoff nonetheless.
Two quirky this vs I've run I to. 1) when coming out of sleep mode the laptop doesn't always wake up, and I'll have to restart it. 2) from time to time the speakers (which i would characterize as "okay") go on the fritz and have a really band high pitch distortion to them. I thought i had blown o e the first time it happened but after restartig it was fine. I've spent some time trying to solve both of these but no luck so far. Both seem to be software issues, so I'm hoping future driver updates will solve. In the meantime these are pretty sporadic and when the laptop can do a full restart in about 20 secs, it's pretty manageable.
Anyway, ad I said before I love this laptop and there are far more positives than negatives. But since everyone has already gushed on how great it is, I just wanted to post a few caveates.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
It is a shame.By panfeng
Best design ever screwed by terrible quality. Full of light leakage (Blame AUO). PWM inductance makes a very disgust high-pitch noise (much louder than the surface pro 4) . I will see if it is common or just the computer I bought is the special one.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
In love so farBy Caicomics
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 above 30fps. The Zephyrus fixed all all of these issues.
Extra
One finger hinge open and close is awesome
Can't hear the fans when light browsing or typing papers. Barely audible when stress testing and gaming.
Keyboard never got hot and barely even warm.
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