ASUS ROG G501JW-DS71 15.6-Inch UHD Gaming Laptop, GeForce GTX 960M 4GB Discrete Graphics (512 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, Core i7)

[Music] who says gaming laptops can't be thin this Asus G 501 is under an inch thick yet it still manages a pack in in gtx 960 the thing is slimming down fattens the price our review unit came with a quad-core intel processor nvidia gtx 960m mobile graphics chip in 512 gigabytes of solid-state memory these impressive specifications make it a solid all-around performer the pci express hard drive is the real standout as it hit read and write speeds of over 1,300 megabytes per second more than twice the category average the gtx 960m isn't bad either though it has limitations every game we tested was enjoyable at 1080p and maximum detail but in games like shadows of Mordor in battlefield 4 the average frame rate hovers around 30 at each games ultra preset which is less than ideal the thicker asus g7 51 one of our favorite gaming notebooks is roughly twice as quick strangely Asus has thrown