ASUS announces three new ROG gaming notebooks - the ROG G751, G771 and G551
ASUS announces three new ROG gaming notebooks
ASUS has just introduced three new ROG gaming notebooks, which are equipped with Intel's newly refreshed Haswell processors and NVIDIA's new mobile GPUs based on the new Maxwell architecture. They are the ROG G751, ROG G771 and ROG 551.
Confusingly, the flagship model is the ROG G751. It has a 17-inch Full-HD IPS display and it is powered by Intel's quad-core Core i7-4710HQ processor (2.5GHz, 6MB L3 cache), 16GB of RAM and can be spec'ed with either NVIDIA's latest GeForce GTX 980M or 970M mobile GPU. Storage comes in the form of either a 256GB or 512GB M.2 PCIe-based SSD with support for an additional 1TB SSHD. It also supports Wireless-AC Wi-Fi and ASUS TurboMaster GPU overclocking technology that claims to be able to boost gaming performance by 5%.
Following closely behind is the ROG G771. Like the ROG G751 before it, the ROG G771 also has a 17-inch Full-HD IPS display and is powered by the same quad-core Intel Core i7-4710HQ processor (2.5GHz, 6MB L3 cache) and comes with 16GB of RAM. Where it differs is that is that it comes with NVIDIA's older GeForce GTX 860M mobile GPU and only has SSHD storage options (up to 2TB).
Finally, there is the ROG G551. The ROG G551 is simply a 15-inch version of the aforementioned ROG G771 and comes equipped with the same processor, memory, graphics processor and storage options.
One thing to note is that unlike the slim ROG GX500, which we saw earlier this year Computex, these three notebooks are really desktop replacement systems and are pretty bulky. The ROG G751 is around 43mm thick at its thickest point and weighs a hefty 5.3kg. The ROG G771 and ROG G551 are slightly slimmer. The former measures roughly 35mm thick and weighs 3.4kg, while the smaller ROG G551 is thinner at around 31mm and weighs 2.7kg.
Unfortunately, ASUS has yet to announce availability nor pricing details for these models yet. That said, we do expect them to be available later this year or at worse early next year.