The Fastest Gaming Laptop We've Ever Tested! #Helpful Post

this right here believe it or not is the

fastest single GPU gaming laptop that we

have ever had in our office the zephyrus

GX 701 is an absolute beast rocking a

six core core i7 processor and a geforce

r-tx 28 Emacs q that's clocked closer to

a desktop spec than the laptop one but

how the heck have they managed to cram

all of that power in here and has the

extra performance been worth the

interesting design choices that you know

like the keyboard placement wait wait

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the Zephyrus GX 701 does an excellent

job of looking both classy and gay

Murray at the same time blending eye

catching details like the colorful ROG

logos and RGB keyboard with a very

sturdy black magnesium alloy chassis

that gives the device a distinctly

premium feel

now the zephyrus does look a bit like an

oddball but at this point we've pretty

much come to expect its small offset

vertical trackpad it's shifted keyboard

and the ventilation flat party trick

that opens up the back of the chassis

for improved airflow speaking of party

tricks in the Box you get a little metal

sculpture of the ROG logo which is cool

I guess but honestly ASIS I would have

much rather there was a Gigabit Ethernet

dongle in here it's the only port that's

really notably missing from what's

otherwise a very solid assortment of i/o

with USB C with charging and full-sized

HDMI all making appearances now let's

get into performance as we discussed in

our review of the msi gs70 5 invidious

mobile r-tx cards can have extremely

varied thermal and power targets with

about half of their performance

depending on laptop manufacturers

ability to completely optimize both

cooling and power delivery so with that

in mind before we proceed with our

testing we need to disable the

illuminated logo right here above the

keyboard because according to a soos

it's possible to see a three degree

increase in temperatures while it's on

and when push comes to shove it turns

out that we are not actually willing to

give up real performance for RGB

lighting and we don't have to in the 3d

mark portroyal test our GX 701 s

graphics core managed 1600 megahertz for

the duration of the test time which is

shockingly close to desktop performance

and side note absolutely smashes the msi

gs70 5

translates into real-world performance

that just run circles around last end

laptops enabling high refresh rate

gaming and triple-a titles that

previously would have run closer to 60

FPS than they would to 144 now we

haven't got any other max-q laptops in

yet so we don't know if others on the

market will be equally fast but we do

know that they won't be faster for that

you would need something truly massive

like the ROG mothership or the Alienware

area 51 M and there's more good news the

FPS isn't the only thing that's been

turned up here so has the screen size

with a 17 inch thin bezel display

sitting where a 15.6 inch one used to be

but this did come with a sacrifice not

only is there no webcam up here there

isn't one anywhere else on the machine

blasphemy

now asus solution was to pack a 1080p

60fps webcam in the box with the logic

being that well we have to choose

between one of two options including a

barely usable webcam like what i'ma

sided with the GS 75 stealth or include

one that doesn't fit in the laptops

chassis but is frankly good enough for

twitch streaming well okay fair point

but here's my take why are you guys

acting like there are only two ways of

doing something why is it my job to come

up with something else here's an idea

free of charge you make an indent here

and you put a camera bump there the

smartphone industry has been doing it

for years and then we could have even

better front-facing cameras or I mean

while we're thinking outside of the box

instead of this going on like this

how about magnets there is no reason

that they couldn't have run a USB 2

interface up here had little contact

points that power it and handle data and

you just put it on there and it snaps

into place now in fairness as it is the

quality is great the best that we've

seen on a gaming laptop but the

implementation is truly clunky back to

the display though this thing it's very

impressive

it's a

144 Hertz IPs 1080p panel with g-sync

3 millisecond response times and factory

calibration from Pantone frankly it's

awesome to game on and it's got other

benefits to a soos astutely noticed that

a lot of people purchase gaming

computers like this for professional

tasks like cad music creation and video

editing so they actually tuned the

display to be more suitable for these

tasks and it's great because video

editing on laptops used to be a giant

bag of suck nowadays honestly for basic

cutting you can't tell the difference

and even for some light after effects

work they are pretty darn capable of

course for more professional or creative

work CPU power is key

which is why desktops still have a lot

of life in them by the way I mean any

system with the core i7 8700 K will

destroy the Zephyrus for a lot less

money but Asus has done quite a bit to

make the core i7 8750 H in here more

potent it's 1200 score and Cinebench is

higher than most core i9 laptops that

we've tested and under an all core

synthetic load the CPU gets toasty while

it's turbo Eng Ben settles down to a

more reasonable level at around 3

gigahertz sustained that's not bad

the only way to get more performance out

of a laptop would be to buy something

much thicker which is kind of becoming a

recurring theme here and along with its

strong CPU performance the GX 701 can be

equipped with up to 24 gigs of RAM 8

gigs soldered while the remaining 16 is

on a sodium slot and a one terabyte nvme

SSD from Samsung that really impressed

us like this machine regularly loaded

games and completed tasks faster than

the two rate zeroed SSDs in the GS 75

but performance only gets you so far

let's return to the questionable

keyboard and trackpad placement I'm

actually gonna let Alex who did up the

review on this field this bit over the

last two years here I've used a ton of

laptops and I have to say this design

choice of putting the key word rig here

is not nearly as bad as you think like

you doesn't get on your lap

is a really bad time and so is going

from one side of the screen to the other

with this trackpad but beyond that I'm

always surprised by how quickly using

the trackpad on the right of the laptop

becomes natural to me after a day of

using the zephyrus I suspect you'll be

reaching for the numpad on other laptops

instead of the usual trackpad placement

the only real improvement I would have

made is to bring back the front fire and

speakers from the last efforts and use

this space to make the trackpad even

wider but Linus and I ended up just

debating of whether we'd end up giving

up the surprisingly good sound quality

asus has been able to squeeze in here

one thing we agree on for sure though is

the quality of the keyboard it's got a

bit of an unusual feel but the strokes

while short have a nice tactile feel and

the keycap stabilization is well above

average making it pretty forgiving for

inaccurate typists it's solid and Asus

was actually particularly proud of their

volume knob which really does have quite

a nice feel and satisfying click for

mute ok alright so that's all fine and

good but the biggest problem with the

Zephyrus has always been its portability

its small yes light ish but the last

model had a Wimpy fifty-three watt hour

battery that struggled to get three

hours of light to moderate use in our

testing to address this shortcoming asus

has finally up to the battery capacity

to 76 watt hours now to get the most out

of it you're gonna have to make some

tweaks you're gonna want to switch out

of dedicated GPU mode which means

disabling g-sync

and allowing the Intel I GPU to takeover

for later tasks and of course you're

gonna have to dial back your RGB and not

the screen refresh rate down to 60 Hertz

but if you do all these things it adds

up to letting this guy run for about

five hours on battery with light to

moderate use not too shabby

and the type-c USB charging also helps

in this regard because it allows you to

pack a much smaller 65 watt charger if

you don't plan on gaming saving you a

pound or two and you

backpack so as long as you have a desk

wherever you're planning on working the

Sepphoris is now a much more compelling

option than ever before ask for

upgradability well no one's perfect

opening it up and replacing the RAM or

storage is possible but there's only one

RAM and one m2 slot making upgrades more

wasteful and therefore expensive which

in turn makes it harder for us to

recommend these specs down versions of

this guy if there's any chance that you

might need to upgrade them later which I

guess brings us to the conclusion for

our model here coming in and an

eye-watering 3300 u.s. dollars it's

expensive so if you want something

cheaper the msi gs70 5 is a solid option

and the Zephyrus jacks 531 still gets

you the same CPU for about $1,300 less

but the GX 701 still walks out of here

with a solid recommendation thanks to a

Seuss's zero compromise approach to

cooling battery life and build quality

with extra marks for the Pantone

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