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One of a new breed of gaming laptops, Asus' G751JY doesn't exactly roll off the tongue - but its G-Sync compatible screen certainly gives it a big talking point. It's a pivotal evolution for gaming notebooks, with the screen giving players the flexibility to target a frame-rate, and have it dynamically matched by the panel's refresh (in this case up to 75Hz). MSI and Gigabyte are also set to include G-Sync panels in their own top-end gaming laptops. But at a minimum price of £1,500, and close to £2,000 in this build, just how good is the Asus for high-end gameplay?First off, let's talk about what you get for the price. It's a seriously hefty, but also reassuringly rugged piece of hardware - weighing in at 4.8kg, with an exterior built from hard matte plastics, and a brushed aluminium plate down its centre. It's not gaudy, as can be the case with so many 'elite gaming' products; its red back vents and colour backlit keyboard are the only real extravagances here. The rest is strictly utilitarian; connectivity including Thunderbolt, HDMI, VGA and four USB 3.0 ports, plus an SD card reader and Blu-ray drive.
Prising it open, a 17.3-inch IPS screen is revealed. While its maximum brightness is slightly wanting in broad daylight, the panel is still a very strong, vibrant performer indoors. At a resolution of 1920x1080, we have a pixel count that's well judged for its intended purpose too, aligned well with the onboard GPU. Bearing in mind the laptop sports an Intel Core i7 4870HQ processor, 32GB of RAM, plus Nvidia's GTX 980M GPU (with its own reserve of 4GB GDDR5), we can expect some serious gaming performance from this machine - and a native 1080p is a reasonable goal for most games that doesn't overstretch its specs.
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