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| Processor | 2.6 GHz core_i7 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
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| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GTX960M 2GB GDDR5 |
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| Graphics Card Ram Size | 2048 MB |
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| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 2 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 7 Hours |
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ASUS ROG GL552VW-DH71 15-Inch Gaming Laptop, Discrete GPU GeForce GTX 960M 2GB VRAM, 16GB DDR4, 1TB (ROG Metallic)
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| Brand | ASUS |
| Model Name | ROG GL552VW |
| Screen Size | 15 Inches |
| Color | Metallic |
| Hard Disk Size | 1 TB |
| CPU Model | Core i7 |
| Ram Memory Installed Size | 16 GB |
| Operating System | Windows 10 |
| Graphics Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GTX960M 2GB GDDR5 |
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- Powerful 6th-generation Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6GHz. 16GB RAM; 1TB 7200RPM Storage.
- 15.6 inches Matte IPS FHD display. 1920 by 1080 resolution. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M gaming graphic card.
- GameFirst III technology prioritizes the flow of the game data across your network.Refer user manual below
- Feature the latest USB3.1 Type-C port for more convenient connectivity options. Input : 100 -240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
- 100 solder points for durability and solid-feel, one piece keyboard with 1.8mm of key travel, gives you responsive keystrokes when typing and entering commands; The slide-off upgrade panel offers instant access, fit an M.2 SSD, a bigger hard drive or upgrade memory.
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| Customer Rating | 4.3 out of 5 stars (860) | 4.4 out of 5 stars (614) | 4.7 out of 5 stars (8391) | 4.5 out of 5 stars (784) | 4.7 out of 5 stars (231) | 4.5 out of 5 stars (190) |
| Price | $1,229.00 | $1,279.41 | $910.34$910.34 | $1,799.78 | $911.00$911.00 | $616.00$616.00 |
| Sold By | Nationwide Tech Biz | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Adorama | ComputerTechStar |
| Computer Memory Size | 16 GB | 16 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 16.0 GB | 8 GB |
| CPU Manufacturer | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | AMD |
| CPU Speed | 2.6 GHz | 4.9 GHz | 1.8 GHz | 5.6 GHz | — | 4.5 GHz |
| Display Resolution Maximum | 1920*1080 pixels | 1920x1200 pixels | 1440x900 pixels | 1920x1200 pixels | — | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Screen Size | 15 inches | 16 inches | 13.3 inches | 16 inches | 13.3 inches | 15 inches |
| Display Technology | LED | WUXGA | LED | WUXGA | — | FHD |
| Hard Disk Size | 1 TB | 512 GB | 128 GB | 1 TB | — | 512 GB |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 10.1 x 15.1 x 1.3 inches | 13.94 x 0.89 x 10.39 inches | 14.3 x 10.5 x 2.2 inches | 13.94 x 0.89 x 10.39 inches | 14.75 x 11.25 x 4.25 inches | 14.11 x 0.71 x 8.05 inches |
| Item Weight | 5.60 lbs | 5.51 lbs | 2.96 lbs | 7.00 lbs | 6.00 lbs | 4.11 lbs |
| Operating System | Windows 10 | Windows 11 Home | Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah | Windows 11 Home | Mac OS | Windows 11 Home |
| Processor Count | 4 | 14 | 2 | 24 | — | 8 |
| RAM Type | GDDR3 | DDR5 RAM | DDR3 SDRAM | DDR5 RAM | DDR4 SDRAM | DDR4 SDRAM |
| Wireless Communication Standard | 802.11ac | Bluetooth, 802.11ax | 802.11abg | Bluetooth, 802.11ax | — | Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
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| Brand | ASUS |
|---|---|
| Series | ROG GL552VW |
| Item model number | GL552VW-DH71 |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Operating System | Windows 10 |
| Item Weight | 5.6 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 10.1 x 15.1 x 1.3 inches |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 10.1 x 15.1 x 1.3 inches |
| Color | Metallic |
| Rear Webcam Resolution | 1.2 MP |
| Processor Brand | Intel |
| Number of Processors | 4 |
| Computer Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| Flash Memory Size | 16 GB |
| Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
| Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Optical Drive Type | DL DVD±RW/CD-RW |
| Voltage | 19 Volts |
| Batteries | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. (included) |
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| ASIN | B01578ZKPO |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #67,192 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories) #14,219 in Traditional Laptop Computers |
| Date First Available | October 9, 2015 |
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This laptop has been excellent so far. I am writing this on Day 1 of owning it, so there will potentially be updates to come. Enough about that, let's dive in!
Externals:
The laptop is a very nice aircraft-gray brushed-aluminum look on the exterior. It is nowhere near as bad a fingerprint magnet as its predecessor (GL551), but it is still quite the magnet on the inside/keyboard/trackpad area. The plastic on the bottom has an engraved "futuristic" design, and offers easy access to user-serviceable internals (SSD slot, HDD, memory). The keyboard offers the same backlighting as the GL551, with pronounced lighting on "WSAD" keys for gamers. The chiclet keyboard has a very nice feel and is easy to type on. As a lover of mechanical keyboards, the chiclets give a nice tactile feedback while not being too "laptop-ish" like a Macbook Pro or other laptop. This has a similar feel to higher-end non-mechanical short-throw/wireless/portable Logitech keyboards. It does include a full range of keys including the ever-elusive "delete, prt sc, pause, home, pgup, pgdn" keys that often are missing from laptops. A full-featured numpad and function keys are included as well.
Internals:
The specification list is somewhat iffy on Amazon's page. This DOES NOT have a 1TB SSD. It is a 1TB 7200 RPM mechanical HDD. If you opt for the DH74 model, an M.2 SSD is also included. This one does not have an SSD, but has the slot for a user to add an SSD if they so choose.
With older models (I'm looking at you GL551), in order to achieve 16GB of RAM, you had to buy an extra module, this laptop comes with 16GB DDR4 clocked at 2133mhz. As mentioned, it also has 1TB of HDD space, split into 2 partitions, OS and Storage. After partitioning/file system/recovery, the OS partition has 371GB of space, the Storage partition has 558GB of space. An optical drive is also included still (unlike many laptops now). This is a DVDRW drive, supporting all CD/DVD media...it is NOT a bluray player/burner.
Graphics:
This laptop sports a GTX960M (not the 4GB model, but the 2GB) which is more than fine to play most any game at high-ultra settings, including, but not limited to: Elite:Dangerous - Horizons, Fallout 4, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 & 3, Guild Wars 2, and others.
Also included (thanks to the processor) is the Intel HD 530. This particular little guy is what is causing me to give this laptop four stars, as it will be a tremendous pain for anyone purchasing a Skylake-based laptop on Windows 10 with default manufacturer drivers as it causes rapid crashes and recoveries, blue screens, and flickering/black screens. The driver Asus includes is made for Windows 8 and the Insider Preview for Windows 10. Asus has since updated their driver on their support page (still not the latest Skylake Intel HD driver, but it fixes the issues), and you CAN use the generic Intel driver from Intel's page...but both of these options will have you pulling your hair out unless you know the work around, as both of these options give an error "This driver is not verified for your device" when you try to install them.
*****HERE IS THE FIX!!!*****
(Links to both Asus' site and Intel's site in comments, Amazon wouldn't allow external links in the review)
You can download either the updated Asus driver from their support website (slightly out of date) or obtain the most recent Intel driver; both will work to solve the crashes/inconsistencies.
Download either of these, and extract them somewhere easy to remember (Desktop or Downloads folder is fine). DO NOT INSTALL THE SETUP.EXE, THIS WILL NOT WORK!
Instead, click on the start button (or hit the start button on your keyboard), and type "Device Manager". After typing the first few letters, you should see it populate in the list on your Start menu and be able to either hit enter or click on it. From there, click on the little ">" next to "Display Adapters", right click on "Intel(R) HD Graphics 530" and click on "Update Driver Software". This will bring up a new dialog box. In this box, click on "Browse My Computer for Driver Software". Do not Search or Browse, but instead click on "Let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer". Once this window is up, don't click on any of the suggestions it gives you, instead click on the "Have Disk..." button on the bottom right. NOW in this window, you click on "Browse", then navigate to where you extracted the driver package you just downloaded from either Asus or Intel. There will be a folder in your download named "Graphics", open that up, and you're going to want to point this installer to the file "igdlh64.inf". Click on Open, and proceed to install the driver this way. If your computer prompts you to restart, please do. If it does not prompt you to restart after installation, do it anyway.
NOTE: This will be the only time you will have to update the Intel HD driver in this manner, from now on you will be able to install both the generic ones and the Asus ones via the install .exe as intended. This will fix your Windows 10 Intel HD related crashes and instabilities.
That's it for this review, enjoy, good luck, have fun with a very solid, very quiet, very cool (except on the left side by the ventilation...holy moly, it keeps my coffee warm) laptop.
UPDATE 4/8/2016:
This laptop is nothing short of amazing for the money. I now use it regularly in conjunction with a Hauppauge - HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition High Definition Game Capture Device for my Twitch stream (shameless plug: twitch.tv/phydeaux86) to capture gameplay from my desktop PC, PS4, & Xbox One. When I'm not using it for streaming and recording...which it handles like a champ...I have also started playing more recent games like Tom Clancy's The Division...which also runs flawlessly. (Again, also using other apps such as Discord, Skype, OBS, DXtory, Steam, etc. simultaneously.)
UPDATE 7/25/2016:
Nothing but positives to give this laptop. I have still delayed in getting an m.2 SSD for this (although a friend who bought the identical model has one, and the boot time is insane), yet it runs amazing. I have barely touched my desktop due to owning this laptop. I have even been playing DOOM on medium-high settings at 1080p on this. Granted, I'm not a 144hz/300fps/0ping PCMR gamer...so there ARE some frame drops in this hefty of a game, but I average a good 40ish FPS while playing at these settings, more when not streaming. So...as a final update...yes, this thing can hold up to games like DOOM while streaming at 1080p/30fps to Twitch!!
UPDATE 8/25/2016:
Still going strong, still haven't swung for the m.2 SSD, I really want to one of these days...I've seen what the boot time is like with one...and I'm jealous. My poor desktop is starting to get dusty! I am now running No Man's Sky on medium-high settings with some graphics mods (removing vignetting/abhorration, and 2x resolution patch), streaming to Twitch, and playing via my SteamLink on my TV via this single laptop. Amazing, amazing, amazing. I would not be able to achieve this performance with another laptop without spending almost 2x as much as I did for this one. Very highly recommended in my book!
My initial reaction was very positive. This is a very fast machine with almost no startup time. It has a solid state primary drive and a large terabyte regular HDD, so I was able to put all my files on the latter while running most of my programs on the former. Though it's a high-powered gaming laptop, it's also very portable in design. It was everything I wanted in a computer - portable but with power to run memory-intensive programs and games.
Unfortunately after about a week of use it started to develop some small bugs and other glitches. The first had to do with the battery draining itself very quickly even though I had the machine in (what I though was) sleep mode. I closed the lid at about 95% battery, came back 2 hours later, and it was down at 20%. So something was obviously still running. I think I got around most of those issues by changing the sleep settings, but then another issue emerged. The screen started just randomly going dark (albeit with the backlight still on) while I was typing. The screen came back by just hitting the function key and F7, but still - it's an totally unnecessary glitch. It wasn't happening very often - maybe once every 3-4 hours. But it was enough to be annoying...so I called tech support, and spent an hour on the phone with them as I individually uninstalled and reinstalled all the graphics drivers.
I think (read: hope) the issue is finally solved, but I'm also concerned that some other users have reported similar things and there seems to be no clear fix for it. In any case, this SHOULD NOT HAPPEN to a brand new computer. I'm sufficiently annoyed that if it happens again and I don't have a fix within the next few days that I'll be doing yet another return to ASUS...and then switching brands. I really really don't want to do that because (a) I love everything else about this laptop and (b) it's a giant pain in the you know what to keep swapping them out.
UPDATE 11/27/16:
The random black screen issue continued after the driver reinstall, so I called ASUS tech support again and was instructed to do a clean install of Windows. I did this 4 days ago and I haven't had the problem since then. Fingers crossed that this fixes it for good. I'll update on any other developments.
Here's my assessment of the good & bad as it currently stands:
PROS:
- Very fast machine for the price
- SSD is great - almost instant startup and access to files on it. Games run seamless off of it
- 1TB secondary hard drive - more than adequate to store photos, movies, and run some games
- 16GB DDRM is more than adequate, but upgradable to 32GB in second slot
- Removable battery pack - means I don't have to open it up when the thing goes bad eventually in a couple years
- Quiet dual fan cooling system that you barely even notice
- Relatively light for a gaming laptop - about 4-5 lbs
CONS:
- The aforementioned random screen shutoff thing was a pain to deal with. Seems to be software related, but it took a week of headaches to resolve.
- Battery is smaller than most laptops. Still good for about 4 hours of power with moderate app use.
- Comes pre-installed with lots of bloatware - all the Wildtangent crap, off-brand music managers & PDF readers, trial packages trying to get you to buy their cloud storage services, and crappy ASUS software to get you to download even more bloatware galore. I probably recovered 5GB of SSD space just cleaning out the garbage
- Not really ASUS's fault, but Windows 10 sucks. Especially Cortana. But Windows 10 really sucks.
UPDATE 2: 12/4
The clean reset of Windows seems to have fixed the main issue I was having with the random screen blackouts. But now a new issue has emerged: random battery drain when the laptop is disconnected from the plug. Something about the way the computer is configured seems to make it interact strangely with Windows 10's sleep & hibernate features. Every other laptop I've owned has retained most of its battery when in sleep mode and almost all when in hibernate mode. Instead, this one seems to discharge it - including very rapidly. I put my laptop in what I thought was sleep mode for less than an hour as it was unplugged. When I opened the screen again the battery had discharged from 95% to about 30%! That's a faster discharge than the computer itself is supposed to go through if I was using it on battery power to surf the web or something.
I called ASUS tech support (again) and their unhelpful technician's only suggestions were (1) do yet another clean install of Windows or (2) mail it to them for service. I'm uninterested in even more back & forth on this computer, including multiple hours wasted on reinstalls and tech support for a product that was supposed to be functional out of the box. It's a real shame because, aside from all these bizarre glitches I keep having, I really do like the computer's features & capabilities. So here's the deal - I'm at the point that I'm going to try to address the battery issue with Windows 10's power settings to see if I can figure out what the drain is and how to shut it off. If I can't, or if any more of these ridiculous issues keep coming up, then it's back to the returns department and try again with a different brand of computer.
UPDATE 3: 12/9
I think I FINALLY have this machine figured out. I played around with the power settings. The trick is to set it to automatically go into hibernate mode after a time limit when the machine is unplugged and running on battery. There's still a huge design flaw and/or something wrong with how this machine interacts with Windows 10, because it should not discharge its entire battery in an hour while in sleep mode. But hibernate does the trick, and since it's an SSD it takes almost zero time to wake it back up. Praying that there are no more bugs that emerge, because otherwise I really do like the machine and what it is capable of - both in games and general operating speed + features.
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 548.695 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 516.137 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 309.755 MB/s [ 75623.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 272.256 MB/s [ 66468.8 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 512.610 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 464.141 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 37.515 MB/s [ 9158.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 98.000 MB/s [ 23925.8 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 81.1% (188.1/232.1 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2016/01/14 18:16:13
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 10586] (x64)
I also found screws from my local machine shop "M2 x 3mm" screws with phillips head works like a charm.
ATTN - Driver failures are due to not fully updating windows 10 after initial computer setup.
I could not connect to nvidia servers and update nvidia drivers at all. After completing the initial setup it looks like it did its windows update thing but it didnt there's more. Update windows 10 manually to the newest and nvidia drivers update successfully.
This thing rocks. For the price you can't go wrong for a solid mid-end gaming laptop. The mettalic version has a very solid lid the brushed aluminum is very nice. Even without M.2 its pretty fast, applied 20GB ESO patch at 79 mbps. Installing games and programs is a brease even on the HDD. I love this this thing.
My only issue is the keyboard the key presses are OK just my far bottom left CTRL key is not a springy as the others its mushy on the left side of it.
After some brief conversations through the basement door, I have interpreted the resultant grunts as follows: The hardware was excellent once it was working. However, it was necessary to download and install a number of external drivers to get devices as fundamental as the speakers to function. The information on how to do this was extremely simple to find in online forums, but perhaps this should be addressed by the manufacturers. Otherwise, it runs everything he needs it to run for his school program (audio engineering) and provides him with excellent streaming of out-of-school entertainment as well.
Pros:
-Great bang for your buck in terms of performance
-Visually appealing design
-Really cool backlit keyboard
Cons:
-Need to manually install graphic card driver.
-CD/DVD drive can be quite loud and rattles often when ripping or burning
-Only 5 hours battery life (less if you are running demanding applications)
A small note: Many websites say that this computer is not energy star certified, however it came with the energy star certification on the computer. Overall I love this computer and would recommend it to anyone who needs a good gaming computer but doesn't want the desktop! It even came with a free screen cleaning cloth and cable tie.

















