ZEPHYRUS GX501VI-XS74, How slender must gaming laptops be? Who desires to carry around a bulky system? But: How slim can gaming notebooks be? Obviously much less than 18 millimeters (~0.7 in) proper now, despite high-cease components with i7-7700HQ CPU and GTX 1080 pix card. Great, pinnacle-notch overall performance in an attractive extremely good-slim chassis.
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| ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS GX501VI-XS74-HID4 |
The gaming pc is placed inside the excessive-end section and its casing is correspondingly fabricated from aluminum and magnesium. The C-cowl essentially bends around the corners in the direction of the lowest, which creates a surrounding polished part. The ZEPHYRUS GX501VI-XS74 design could be very subtle besides for the copper colored rear part, the subtly lit ROG emblem at the lid and the two red LEDs at the inner across the fanatics. It almost seems like the whole thing needed to publish to the purpose of creating a slender chassis.
The torsion resistance of the bottom unit is usually excellent on our pre-manufacturing pattern, we are able to best barely dent the middle place above the keyboard with focused strain. This part of the chase is partly perforated and helps the clean air shipping for the components in the case. The display unit can be twisted with a few pressure, but there aren't any image distortions.
HIGH LIGHT OF ASUS ROG GX501VI-XS74-HID4
The actual highlight of the ASUS ZEPHYRUS GX501VI-XS74 is seen whilst you open the lid. An incorporated mechanism lifts the magnesium bottom plate from the base unit on the rear, so the notebook is sitting at a small angle. This brings essential extra millimeters for the cooling through developing a beneficiant surrounding starting for fresh air. The principle seems to be logical and useful, but you might accuse Asus of some cheating right here because the ZEPHYRUS GX501VI-XS74 is most effective splendid-slender as long as the lid is closed.
It is comparatively smooth to get rid of this plate, that's secured through 4 screws. Asus has even provided the corresponding screw driving force in the container. Once the plate is eliminated, you can access each fanatics and additionally smooth them if important. It is obviously feasible to eliminate all overseas gadgets that is probably interior. It is critical which you make sure there are not any gadgets within the gap earlier than you shut the lid, in any other case you can damage the computer. The upgrade options are very confined since the get right of entry to to all the different additives requires a complicated dismantling and need to no longer be done by customers.
SPECIFICATIONS ROG ZEPHYRUS GX501VI-XS74-HID4
- Intel 7th Generation "Kaby Lake" Core i7-7700HQ (2.8-3.8GHz) Quad Core Processor, 6MB Smart Cache
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q w/ 8GB GDDR5 - NVIDIA G-Sync Enabled
- Genuine Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
- 15.6" Full HD (1920x1080) 120Hz LED backlit LCD w/ NVIDIA G-Sync (Antiglare, Wide Viewing 170 Degrees, Ultra Slim 300 Nits, NTSC 72%)
- 24GB DDR4/2400MHz (1 x 8GB on-board, 1 x 16GB) - installed by HIDevolution
- 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 SSD (Main)
- Built-in HD 2.0MP (720p) Web Camera
- Intel Wireless-AC 8265 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n 2x2 WLAN + Bluetooth 4.2
- Illuminated Chiclet Keyboard - US English
- High Capacity 4 Cells 50 Whrs Battery
- A/C Adapter Output: 230W, Input: 100-240V - WILL WORK WORLDWIDE
- 1 Year Limited Warranty (1 Year Global Warranty)
- Ports - 1x Headphone-out & Audio-in Combo Jack, 4 x USB 3.0 port(s), 1 x Thunderbolt,1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert, 1 x HDMI Port, 1 x AC adapter plug.
SOFTWARE FOR MAKE BEST PERFOMANCE
The main software addition is the powerful Gaming Center, which combines several sub applications and tools such as ROG Aura (configuration of the keyboard illumination), Sonic Studio II (Sound adjustment) and Sonic Radar II (better tracking of enemies in games).The most important element is called Turbo Gear. It is a tool for optional overclocking. While the Standard mode of the GX501VI-XS74(which we use for our tests) uses the default clocks, the clock of the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is overclocked by around 5% from 1227-1336 to 1297-1436 MHz in the Extreme mode. This is not a huge bump and the effect on the system noise as well as the performance is also limited. The 3DMark 11 GPU score is only 3% higher (24169 vs. 23540 points).
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SYSTEM PERFOMANCE
The Zephyrus also performs very well in the system benchmarks. The 15-inch laptop ranks either first (Home Score) or third (Work Score) among the competition, but the advantage of the Alienware 15 R3 and Gigabyte Aero 15 is extremely small, so they are basically on par. Subjectively, the system is very responsive, including boot times, data transfers, application launches or loading times. This is, however, not surprising thanks to the fast SSD.
GPU PERFOMANCE
With the Max-Q design, Nvidia wants to bring the performance of the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 into ultra-slim notebooks. So far, slim notebooks were limited to a GeForce GTX 1050 (Ti) or GeForce GTX 1060. The two top models from the Pascal generation offer sufficient performance for smooth gameplay in all modern games at the highest settings. We want to check whether this is also the case for the Max-Q versions, but we start with some specifications. According to Nvidia, the new models have been optimized for efficiency both in terms of hardware as well as software via drivers.
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