ASUS G75VW 17.3" Core i7 750GB Gaming Notebook Reviews

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I never write reviews but after seeing that this laptop did not have many reviews and a negative review I decided to write one as it is unfair to write such a negative review. Yes, this laptop is big and heavy, its not an UltraBook and does not pretend to be. You will not find a cheaper laptop with the same hardware and really cool looking design. The fans on the back are a really nice design feature. My last laptop was an old HP Pavilion dv7 and the same weight as this one. The HP Laptop would overheat all the time and I ended up buying a CoolMaster laptop cooler, with the new Asus laptop I ran Furmark (GPU Stress Test) and it was running with no problem.

Mine came with Windows 8 and just go on the forums and they will tell you that the first thing you do is uninstall/disable the Asus live update utility as it messes up some of the drivers. here's a link on what to do with your laptop when you get it.Pro's: 3GB NVidia Geforce GTX 670M GDDR5 Graphics Card

Great Looking & Cooling Fans

The only Con I can think of is that to make this laptop shine, it needs a SSD Hard Drive. There's a more expensive model that has an SSD HD. But for $1,399 this laptop already comes with amazing hardware. Since (afaik) this laptop has only one HDD and has room for two HDD bays,I would highly recommend installing an SSD HD in the 2nd Drive Bay, its worth it. Plenty of help on the forums on how to do that.

Another thing, my laptop came with 2 partitions, the OS C: was 300GB and (Data) D: was 400GB. I have a USB 3.0 external drive for storage so I might end up re-sizing the C: drive.

On a side note I bought an Ibex 17 Inch Notebook Backpack and this laptop WILL NOT fit. You have to buy a bigger laptop backpack because of the fans in the back.

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Nice laptop. Came nicely protected packaging with no issues from shipping. Booted up no problem. Two major issues though.. 1) Windows 8 Pre-Installed. What a piece of crap OS. Has a lot of issues even above the GUI crap. Compatibility with a LOT of software is a major problem but that is not the machines fault.

2) The unit does NOT come with a recovery disc nor is there any way to create a dvd recovery disc! Between that and the confusing Windows 8 crap, it can be frustrating to get up and running if you want something right away.

BUT Hardware wise, the system is awesome. Very solid unit. Very quiet and extremely fast!! Plays Skyrim and other high end games as good as my primary game system.

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Laptop booted once then died. When I tried to turn it back on the keyboard backlight would come on but nothing on the display. Laptop would not boot, no POST, no access to BIOS, nothing!

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Great computer, but I'm having extreme difficulties swapping out the HDD for an SSD. Apparently this can't be done with Windows 8 because Asus is not providing a Windows disk and you can't clean install Windows 8 using the recovery disk you burn once you get your laptop. I've read a few reviews of how "easy" the HDD to SSD swap was. But I'm wondering, for the people who have actually done this (with Windows 8, not 7), how exactly did you do it?

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I eventually gave up trying to swap the drives on my own. I brought my Asus to a local computer shop and they even had some difficulty getting the SSD set up. I would have preferred a clean install of Windows 8, but that is not possible unless you purchase a new copy of Windows. So, the tech cloned the HDD to the SSD and reconfigured everything to optimize it. Even then, it wasn't as easy as plugging in a connection cable and cloning (which it should be). It required some odd workaround that I didn't quite understand. With all that said, in the end everything worked out and the computer is up and running. Just WAY too many roadblocks in order to install an SSD. It should have been a simple 1-2 hour process.

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I'm somewhat techy and have always built my own desktops; however, they've never been the high end I'd like due to budget constraints. About two years ago, I purchase my first laptop because I won a $800 Best Buy gift certificate from the company I was working for. I researched them and ended up with a fairly decent Samsung. Problem is I love Skyrim and even though my Samsung could play it, there was still lag and I couldn't download the high end mods, especially graphics related. Well, Christmas rolled around, and all I asked for was money. I told everyone, whatever gift you were going to get me, just give me the cash cause I'd like to buy a new laptop. I received about $850. So, I did my homework and found this bad boy. It has better specs than the Samsung I wanted and is 400 bucks cheaper. It received pretty decent reviews. It has exceeded my expectations, from the blu-ray movies on a high def 17.3" screen, to multitasking with school work. It's the bomb on networking and seems to connect and download faster? But the best thing is it handles the highest quality graphics mods for Skyrim and doesn't even flinch with all of its extra cpu and graphics speed. It's truely brilliant colors. I know it's crazy, but I thought I'd download as many mods as I liked, and am running over 200 mods playing Skyrim and only CTD maybe once every two days. I run BOSS, Wrye Bash, and TES5Edit for my load order and cleaning, and launch through SKSE. If I tried running that many mods on my old laptop, it wouldn't even run the game. This thing is a power house, and it looks so cool. I did install "Start 8" on it, because I really hate Windows 8. I've gave it a few weeks, and it's very aggravating. Start 8 takes you back to the Windows 7 gui. That's my only gripe, but that's a Microsoft thing. Buy this. For the price you'll be blown away.