GL702VI with GTX1080 is out. Anyone?

I am quite surprised that no one has ever talked about this laptop anywhere at any forum before. It is out now and some people already got it at their hands.

What do you think about this model? Has anyone ordered it?

Hope we get a review soon.

https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ROG-Strix-GL702VI/

 

Its actually a really badass looking laptop. Nice to finally see asus release a laptop with a full gtx 1080 thats actually black. Seems like all their big gpu laptops are always that dull grey color. Too bad it doesnt come with an unlocked processor.

 

Well so far for my G701VIK, I have never used extreme mod or haven't unlock the overlock option at Throttlestop(if it is the place whe single CPU goes till 4.30)

I haven't played yet very demanding games. Only Hitman 2016 and Far Cry Primal. I also use Vysnc so that I can lock FPS to 120 and it definitely works more silent like that.

I used GL702VM for a short time and for GL702VI I can say that I don't like the keyboard. Movement buttons should be a bit further like GL703 models.

 

That ROG Gaming center software looks nice. I wonder if it will work with other models Asus ROG laptops?

 

How is fan noise when gaming? Temps?
Been going between getting a bigger full GTX 1080 laptop or something thinner with 1080 MQ.
I realize getting something like the Zephyrus or the GL702VI are totally opposite and both have there pluses and minuses but if the GL702VI runs quiet like the Zephyrus I might go with that...
Any chance you do a review?

 

No idea how GL702VI is. It is like a laptop which is ignored by all notebook users and also review webpages. No info, no video, nothing

If you ask regarding G701VIK, well, I kinda managed to use it silent with fps lock. However, I hate the speakers. It is even worse than my very old Clevo. Speakers are sizzling, creates a total dissatisfaction.

 

My bad!
I thought you had this model.
I've been looking for reviews too but they either don't exist or this laptop is to new for anyone to test yet.

 

So it's the fastest 1080 laptop out there according to the reviews that do exist, but the speakers weren't to your liking? All laptop speakers aren't to my liking, but I still keep them

Get external speakers or headphones, and enjoy the high performance laptop, laptops aren't physically adept at hosting speakers there isn't enough physical volume to make good sound.

That's like selling a Ferrari because you don't like the carpet

 

I am comparing it with my G750JZ. They do not need to discover America again, they can use same design and same stuff with the speakers. That is what I ask only

 

I'm kind of interested in seeing the battery life on it since it has a fairly large one.

 

This is the closest thing to a review I’ve found so far.



Found one for under $2000 and would love to see more reviews.

 

Any other reviews found?
For a fairly cheap GTX1080 laptop its like no one has one yet.

 

Customer reviews

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/review...e-256gb-ssd-rog-metallic-copper-style/6113512

https://translate.google.com/transl...sus-rog-strix-gl702vi-gc059t.html&prev=search

 

Thanks but that’s not really much help, looking for a more in-depth review with temps, performance and fan noise when gaming.
Does anyone else find it a bit strange there are no detailed reviews?

 

Not really. Small run high end laptops often don't get seen much, especially Asus models that only ship in certain regions, or take a long time to release like new models. Sometimes Asus gets the engineering samples out too early, then we wait a long time, or Asus ships before sending the out for review, either way it's frustrating.

Keep looking, reviews will show up eventually, or Asus will pump out a new variation and we will see reviews for that

 

Finally!

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Strix-GL702VI-i7-7700HQ-GTX-1080-Laptop-Review.281912.0.html

A little dissaponted about performance.

 

I'd be a little worried about the CPU cooling.

Though, overheating would be the least of your worried. Bottleneck heaven there.

 

I just ordered this laptop a few days ago from Ibuypower. Built tons a of desktops over the years, but never had a laptop. Finally decided to get a gaming laptop for mobile gaming. This is going for a really good deal right now. Once i get the laptop, i can hopefully answer some of peoples questions about this model. Report back if undervolting helped or not. It's still being processed at the moment.

 

Have you received the laptop yet? Any positive/negative feedback?

 

Hello, yes I have received this laptop. So far it's been fantastic. It has actually far exceeded my expectations of how well it was going to perform. I would have loved the 7820HK over the 7700HQ, but it still does the job very well. It essentially performs around the same as my old desktop i5 3570k overclocked to 4.5 GHZ. Which is not too bad. The gtx 1080 delivers on the fps very well for the 120Hz screen. Been playing Warhammer vermintide 2. Only setting I lowered where sun shadow effects since those are on high cpu demand. From extreme to high. Do not really even see the difference and it really smoothed out the experience. Frostbite engine games are really fast, BF1 and Battlefront 2 run awesome. Things to mention. I ordered my laptop with a clean OS install from ibuypower since I hate bloatware. This kinda backfired on me however. The RGB features are not guaranteed by Asus to work without the OEM version of windows (I had no warning of this) that comes pre-installed from ASUS. So I have a red led keyboard that I CANNOT modify. I tried everything to get that crap to work right with no luck. So that's a bummer. I also had them apply thermal grizzly paste on the inside of all the thermal connections to the cpu and gpu. temps can hit up to 85'C, but not usually much higher in normal gaming use. The craziest part is the boot up. I'm not sure if the stock laptop boots up as fast as mine, but there is this PTI boost from ibuypower that's installed. I have not researched it yet. But the laptop honestly boots in about 4-5 seconds fully into windows. My super overkill desktop is not even that fast to windows. Also, my cpu idles at 3.5Ghz and not the normal 2.8GHZ of the 7700HQ. When running any game is throttles up to the max 3.8GHZ instantly and will stay there as long as I have a game running. So I'm not sure what's that's all about but I'm happy it's that way. Saved me from doing that myself. I was also able to undervolt the cpu to keep temps lower. If the RGB had been able to work on my clean OS install, this laptop would be essentially perfect for the money.

Coming from a guy who runs a 8700k @ 5.0GHZ, overclocked Aorus 1080 ti, 16gbs trident 3600 ram, Asus hero X z370 mobo, with 1 tb Samsung PM961 NVME, on a x34 3440x1440 100Hz g-sync ultrawide panel. This laptop at it's native 1080p 120hz g-sync panel plays near the same experience in gaming, sometimes feels faster oddly in some situations and not in others. If you don't have the extra $500 to get the bigger G701VI-XS72K with the lovely 7820HK, then this will be a great slight step down. I do recommend this laptop. Just be warned that a clean OS will F over your ability to use the Asus Aura Core software and features and I don't think I will ever be able to access without installing the OEM version of windows. I'm not really sure if I care at this point, but I would like the features I paid for to work.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the IPS glow at the edges, particularly the bottom right and top left are rather bad. Totally fine in gaming as long as there are no real dark scenes. It's totally livable, but the only real part where you can tell they tried to save on cost. The screen clarity is really great otherwise. Very crisp and sharp, even for 1080p. I also had my panel calibrated with a spider elite 5. I just increase NVidia vibrance to really help games pop beyond natural color. Turn vibrance back to default if I edit any photos.

 

Try this.
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/GamingNB/GL702VI/ROG_Gaming_Center_Win10_64_VER215.zip

 

I have ran this file before. I always get a Dr. Dump error. Never figured out how to fix this. Same result for this file. If there is a way to stop that, i would like to think this would work. Thank you for helping.

 

Very nice Hedrowin!
How is fan noise when gaming?
I can see it performed really well but hate excessive fan noise.

 

So far Warhammer Vermintide 2 is the only game I have played that has gotten the fans to noisy levels. (my desktop gets warm with this game too) Playing injustice 2 I don't even really hear them at all. BF1 has the same result, you can hear them, but its very mild. I may not be as sensitive to fan noise as other users though. I know some people get really critical over this. To me, they are good for the job they are doing. I turned the fan curve to max once just to see, they have the potential to be silly loud if they were to ever run max speed. The honest truth, for the price this laptop is going for with what it has inside, it ticks all the boxes a gamer would want in 2018 for under $2k. No laptop is 100% perfect. The speakers are even loud and clear with just a tiny hint of bass. I would recommend getting this laptop from one of the big chain outlets that do custom extra's like after market thermal paste and storage expansions. They don't charge too much for the job and it saves you the trouble of doing it yourself. Plus your warranty is saved. I would also do a simple under volt with Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel XTU) to shave some temps off and keep the noise levels down.

 

Alrighty, so i would like to update everyone on this laptop. Now that I have had time to really get some serious tweaking and gaming in. After many hours of careful overclocking the gtx 1080, i was able to stably manage +170 core and +605 mem. I was shocked at how well this gtx 1080 could overclock. This really increased the overall performance by a decent margin from stock. The cpu is setup to run full turbo 3.45ghz all cores all the time. That's the max i can get out of 7700HQ as it is. So wish i could overclock it, lol. It's important to note that this laptop was completely re-pasted with thermal grizzly when i ordered this unit. I have the Asus fan boost set for 27% as this is the range i like for low thermals and mild hair dryer noise. Yes, she does get a little noisy at high game loads, but they are still not too bad for me. With headphones on, its even better. The cpu temps run about 78-83'C and the 1080 hits 72'C. This is with the overclock while gaming for long sessions.

Now, the big part of this adventure that needs to be brought to attention. When i bought this laptop, i totally over looked that the 16gb of ram in this system was on one big stick of ram. I just assumed logically that it was 2x8gb in this system. It had been bugging me that there was allot of micro-hitching and stuttering. In warhammer: Vermintide 2, this was really bad when i was smashing away at lots of AI enemies on screen. I would NEVER claim that 16gb is not enough ram, 8gb is stall fairly viable in most games. Once I realized i was running in single channel, everything made sense to me as to why this laptop had a fair amount of stuttering. So i went for the trusty crucial RAM that matched the stock Apacer stick. This totally changed how games play on this laptop. I have read and watched many reviews on single vs. dual vs. quad channel blah blah blah. It was not looking like there would be much of a benefit in getting another 16gb for dual channel 32gb of ram. I am so glad i trusted my gut and bought the extra stick for dual channel. This laptop is now silky smooth with near zero hitching and microstuttering. I'm not kidding when I say I am now able to turn most setting up to Ultra on all my games vs. compromising with lowering other settings to reduce the jutters i was getting.

My advice, when buying this laptop, make sure you upgrade to 2x8gb if you get one from one of the big vendor that offers custom extra's. It was $30 extra to go from 1x16gb to 2x8gb. I would have done this if I had realized i was only getting 1x16gb. It's kinda cool to say you have 32gb of ram, but as a gamer it's overkill and the stick cost $158 vs. $30 2x8gb for dual channel.

I was trying like hell to hit 16k in the firestrike demo. I got really close to this, but had to setting for almost. One of my passes netted 15764 marks. But that overclock began to degrade after an hour or 2. I tend to avg. 15500 marks with my current settings. This laptop sometimes has really good bench runs and lower in others. Never seen this big of a delta from one test to the next, but it runs great now all the time. I'm currently running allot faster than a stock $3k+ 7820hk system. With the ram upgrade and my storage upgrades from a stock gl702VI-wb74, total cost for this unit was about $2210. Given it's performance after tweaking, this laptop i feel is an excellent value for powerful mobile gaming. I hope this helps those out there looking for info. I know it's really annoying when you can't find data on a product you want to buy. I really hope this info helps those looking to get into an "affordable" gtx 1080 system. Even if you don't plan on tweaking, DO MAKE SURE you have dual channel memory configed. 16gb or 32gb will give you the most potential out of this laptop.

 

At stock I have like 85°C on both GPU and CPU.
A repaste with liquic metal did not do much.
Setting - 0.170V on the CPU and locking the GPU at [email protected] still results in 78°C on CPU and 83°C on GPU.
A Opolar Cooler on medium settings brings these temps down to 75°C on CPU and 80°C in GPU.

(Tested with Overwatch with unlocked framerate, resulting in a steady 97% GPU load).

Is this normal? I am especially disappointed at the GPU's performance. Normally a stable 2.000 MHz overlock is the minimum which is to be expected from every GTX1080.

 

Congratulations on your new GL702vi!!

Everything seems normal, and I'd undervolt the GPU with MSI Afterburner to get better clock rate and performance - that's the trick with Pascal GPU's

Use RTSS to limit FPS to refresh rate of your display - the rest of the frames are dropped on the floor to run cooler CPU and GPU while gaming.

LM or any repaste on high end Asus laptops often results in only a couple of degree's C improvement, hardly worth it. There have been other such reports in this and other threads for high end Asus laptops.

Same happens on other laptops too, it's really best to tune with software first - get the most performance and coolest operation with undervolt, fan curve, frame limiter, and application tuning to get an optimized baseline before deciding on re-pasting, usually it's not necessary.

Your temps seem great, and with FPS frame limiting to refresh rate, fan curve tuning, etc you should be good to start gaming right now.

 

Honestly, I am quite disappointed right now. Users with laptops from different manufactures but with similar specs (like MSI GT73R) report much higher achievable overclocks on the GPU with lower temps.

As I said, I already undervolted the GPU. I gradually ramp up to 0,875V @1848Mhz with a flat line behind that. Temps are still really high for that.

 

It's something we all need to come to terms with, not having the best with others having better. The low percentage of best performing parts leaves most people in this situation.

What work's best long term is to be happy with what you have right now. Accept the good fortune to have what you have, make the best of it within reason of diminishing returns on effort to make it "better", and enjoy using it for your original intention of purchase.

Getting caught up in a never ending cycle of chasing the best performance is a fools game that never ends.

Even if for that fleeting moment when you do finally have the luck of the draw, you manage to have the "best" performing example of hardware, best scores, best temperatures - after that incredibly brief instant in time passes - there are new CPU / GPU hardware or better die yield and performance from newer process optimizations for the CPU's / GPU's in newer laptops.

Don't worry be happy. And, if you can't be happy for others having better luck of the draw, then stop reading about it and instead spend your time enjoying what you have, because if you can't learn to be happy with what you have, you may never allow yourself to be happy with anything.

Of course, you don't want to hear that, you want better than what you have right now, so the only way to get it is to sell what you have and buy something else, and hope that the new hardware makes you happy...rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

Or, just be happy with what you have right now.

Seriously though, a couple of mhz higher clock on the GPU won't give you enough % improvement in gaming performance, especially given the already phenomenal performance of the 1080, you are likely going to be dropping any additional FPS on the floor anyway as Vsync/Gsync limit FPS to the display refresh.

Getting more performance in the form of a couple of FPS on top of already too many FPS for the display to use isn't going to make a higher clocked GPU any better than what you already have.

So really, seriously, there isn't anything to be disappointed about, you can allow yourself to be very happy, right now.

 

First of all - optimizing the system, tinkering with both hardware and software in order to squeeze out an additional couple percent of performance increase is part of the fun of buying new hardware, at least for me. If I just want to play games I could just get an XBox One X.

Second I am using a 1440p 144Hz monitor. Since it does not feature G-Sync trying to stay above 144fps as much as possible is one of my goals.

 

Sure, but you seem to feel you've reach the potential of the hardware, and there is no more tuning to do. And you are not happy with the end result.

So either you find a way to be happy with what you have, or you instead spend time trying to find ways to pick at it's inability to make you happy, and as it turns out it's much easier to find fault and inadequacy - a range of performance beyond which the hardware won't deliver - than it is to be happy with what you have.

At this point you can return or sell your laptop and continue chasing happiness outside the reach of your current hardware, or enjoy what you have.

Again, even if you were to find a laptop 1080 that delivered 2000mhz+, it wouldn't give enough of an FPS boost to be noticeable. It's just numbers.

If you want sizeable improvement, noticeable bump in FPS, wait for the next generation GPU's to arrive in laptops - and hopefully they will drive performance high enough to not quite reach 240hz monitor refresh - 240 FPS, and people will be unhappy with that plateau as well.

I've seen it happen dozens of times over many years, when you've optimized to the limits of the best hardware someone will come out with a new yardstick that measures outside those limits that you won't be able to reach, without new hardware.

That's how these guys make money. You know that, right? The whole game is tuned to continually extract money from your "unhappy" pockets to attain happiness.

That's the optimal response tuning that is performed on us.

Instead of being an "optimized" unhappy victim of the money grubbers game, choose to allow yourself to finally attain happiness.

You've got the best hardware - tuned to it's optimal limits - there is no more useful performance in this generation to attain, so now it is up to you to decide to be happy having attained "the best".

Happiness is not something you buy, it's something you allow yourself to have - and it's free!!

 

Not everything are made equal, perhaps yours needs a different approach of settings and make sure the cooling is working efficiently.

 

Sorry you are not happy with your results. I'm sure if you ran a game on a good binned laptop vs. your result you would not really see much of a difference other than in benchmarks. If it makes you feel any better my 7700HQ is a weak one. The best single core score I ever got and it was only one time was 155 marks in cinebench . Seems like 160-165 is not uncommon for msi, aorus, and other extra premium laptops. I tend to get 140-147 marks. Kinda makes the extra gains i got with my gtx 1080 overclock less exciting since there is a bit of a bottle neck going on. Any games settings that involve high cpu usage are very much felt while gaming. As long as i tweak those settings a little, games run awesome. Vermintide 2 tells you what each setting impacts which helps to fine tune that game. if you get a chance, run cinebenchR15 single core test, heaven benchmark, 3d mark firestrike demo, and superposition. We can compare and see if it's really that big of a delta. Remember that even these laptops are not up to today's desktop speeds. They are WAY closer than in previous years thanks to pascal however. Like the very wise words mentioned before, don't forget to have fun gaming on your laptop. When ever i travel or work at my other facility this laptop spoils me with great performance everywhere i go. I have friends that don't even have this level of performance in their desktops. Eluktronics has a desktop i7 8700k laptop if you want to full monty @ a reasonable $3k price. I already have a super gaming desktop pc, so it would have been a bit pretentious of me to speed that much more for a mobile version of my desktop. http://www.eluktronics.com/P775TM1-G if thin and light don't matter to you, this laptop is like Thanos's glove. lol

 

I got this laptop fairly cheap (1.500 EUR) with my "old" G752VS with i6700hq/GTX1070 selling for 1.150 on ebay. So this was a reasonable investment for a significant performance boost (and slightly better display). Since I am using an external 1440p monitor this upgrade really did make a difference, keeping the Framerate above 144fps in First-Person-Shooter games.

My GTX1070 laptop maxed out at 1648MHz. After improving the cooling on the G702VI (repaste with liquid metal, putting some electrical tape on the gaps between fand and cooler, Opolar laptop cooler on hot days) my temps max out at around 75°C, a 10°C improvement over stock. Lower temps also improve efficiency of the mosfets, so higher clocks are attainable. I now max out at 1.900MHz which is a 44% improvement in raw computing power compared to my old laptop.

 

Hey everyone!

I have this laptop as well, I purchased just "as is" from the store (as in no re-pasting/upgrades/etc) and I'm not feeling like opening it up to re-paste and all that jazz (yet maybe in the future!), but just wanted to get some additional info about it, as there was very little to be found when I first got it.

I, too, was all hung up about the numbers compared to other laptops with similar hardware seeming to outperform this one, and was feeling a little down about it.

But once I got over that and just started using it for the purpose I bought it for in the first place, I started to really see how awesome it is!

One of the first things I did when I got it was, as was previously stated about bloatware and whatnot, is to do a fresh format/partition with Windows 10 Pro (Education) WITHOUT any ASUS/other bloat. And once I reinstalled some of the ASUS stuff, including the AURA software, I am able to use my keyboard lighting just as before. So I am sorry to hear you had issues with it, I am not sure why that is, because I have seen zero issues with it whatsoever. I can change adjust all of the settings exactly as I was able to before, so any others with this concern, I think maybe it is not a universal problem...

My question to anyone that can help is, I am VERY new to laptop gaming, and was looking to see what kind of tweaks I can do to get the best performance out of my system that I have grown very appreciative of (and attached to!)

I am hitting in the lower 90s when gaming (on my CPU) and feel as though I could be doing better, possibly with an undervolt? And if there is any headroom for GPU overclock, I am willing to give that a try as well.

I apologize for my noob-ness, but is there anyone that could give me a tutorial on how to do such things with this specific laptop? Or point me in the right direction of where to start?

Thanks to everyone that has provided their experiences thus far, it is greatly appreciated!

 

Oh! Also! For anyone with this laptop that has had issues getting VR to work, specifically the OCULUS RIFT!

I had a heck of a time trying to get this figured out! But, finally, after extensive testing and researching, I found out how to get it to work.

For whatever reason, the HDMI port does NOT work with the Rift headset. It worked fine for Windows Mixed Reality headsets, but for whatever reason, it refused to work with the Oculus Rift.

I tried using a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapter (from Walmart - ONN brand I believe) and that also did NOT work.

I was about to give up.

Until I saw a similar post from someone on Reddit, and found that not all mini-DP to HDMI adapters are the same! They said they got one from Best Buy (Insignia brand) and it worked for them.

So, I didn't believe it would work, but thought I had nothing else left to try, so why not...

And.... it worked!

So, FYI to anyone with a similar issue.. try another adapter, as I found the Insignia brand worked perfectly and I have had zero issues since!

 

That's awesome info, a bit more detail though, which model / part number / sku at BestBuy is the right one? Link? URL? Thank you!

 

I have been using my Oculus Rift on the GL702 HDMI out for half a year now. No problems at all.

 

Ah, you must have the 702 "VM" or maybe you do have the "VI" but with a different sub-model than the "wb74". It is a known issue with the "wb74", confirmed with others using this specific model. Always had to use the mini-dp to HDMI adapter with the Oculus Rift.
Otherwise, audio may or may not work, but video definitely does not.
Black screen in the Rift headset when going directly in to the HDMI port.

 

I think ANY Insignia brand adapter will work. The Walmart "ONN" brand must not be able to pass through enough bandwidth for the rift, I assume. That or some other technical issue prevents it from working.
Either way, I just went to my local Best Buy and grabbed the first Insignia brand adapter I saw and it works perfectly.
Others have reported the same with Insignia brand, whether ordered online and shipped to them, or picking up from a Best Buy store, had worked every time.
I'm sure other brands work as well, I just know for a fact, the Walmart ONN brand does NOT work!