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ASUS - 17.3" Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 12GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 - 1TB Hard Drive + 128GB Solid State Drive - Black Anodized Aluminum

ASUS Laptop: Enjoy high-end gaming performance with this Asus Republic of Gamers laptop. It comes with Intel's sixth-generation Core i7 processor and the GeForce GTX1060 GPU for smooth frame rates in the latest high-definition games. This portable Asus Republic of Gamers laptop provides stutter-free, low-latency performance for the latest interactive virtual reality entertainment.

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This Laptop is not reliable!

on May 16, 2017

Posted by: MZA916

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This laptop died in less than 2 months!

I really wanted to love this laptop. It has all of the specs I was looking for (i7, over 8GB Ram, M.2 hard drive, 1060 6GB Video Card), and even a few bonuses (g-sync, 75Hz screen, Thunderbolt 3 - almost). However, after buying this laptop, I noticed that it ran HOT (over 82c CPU and over 86c GPU, even on games like skyrim). I should have taken this as a warning that the Laptop would have issues, but I figured that ASUS wouldn't bring something to market that would fail for heat. Turns out that this is a known issue with this model. Read about it here: https://rog.asus.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-89061.html

Aside from the heat, I later found out that the Thunderbolt 3 ports isn't actually true TB3 specs, it's acually the "low power" version and only can run up half of full TB3 speed. Read about it here: https://rog.asus.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-91258.html

So, this laptop just died while I was surfing the web. I maybe put 4 hours of gaming on it total during the less than 2 months I owned it and babies this thing. I'm not even a gamer, but want'ed a work/personal laptop that I could occasionally game on.

I am currently trying to work with Bestbuy to exchange this for a different brand Laptop, since this is my first ASUS, and after all of this, it's most likely going to be my last.

My Best Buy number: 4017165721

No, I would not recommend this to a friend.

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