Asus G750 JZ 880M laptop...

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Just managed to get my hands on one of these. It's far nicer than the Alienware 17 I have been using and for a G750 it does not suffer the common screen banding issues that I have seen before so it must have an updated screen.

I'm going to do a full review but so far I'm liking it a lot. It's very quite and apart from a few Optimus issues on some games the performance is stunning.

A few pics for now and will add a review once done. I'm looking forward to seeing if the MSI GT72 can better this as tbh I think it has a hard fight on it's hands.






 
Hey Moogleys,

I have been tempted to make a switch away from my 17 too, can you answer a couple of questions?

How is the bulk/weight compared to the 17?
What is the build quality like?
Finally how is the keyboard? I love the 17's keyboard, I tried a GS70 and had to get rid of it because I hated the keyboard so much.
 
How is the audio? The GT72 sound seems to be head and shoulders better than anything else around.

I read Asus partition the SSD and the storage drive? Is this true?
 
How is the bulk/weight compared to the 17?
What is the build quality like?
Finally how is the keyboard? I love the 17's keyboard, I tried a GS70 and had to get rid of it because I hated the keyboard so much.
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I would say the G750 is around the same weight as the 17 maybe a tad heavier but not much. The G750 is thicker with the added rubber feet. It's also considerably quieter than the 17 tbh I'm surprised how quite it really is. Asus have done wonders with the cooling on this machine.

Build quality is very good it feels solid and sturdy. It's plastic on the outside rather than alloy like the 17 but has a single piece alloy keyboard which is nice.

The keyboard is fine tbh I fond most laptop keyboards similar its like the 17 with nicely spaced out keys and a full size enter key and numeric pad. I have been typing and gaming with it and not had any issues. It only has white backlight which I prefer as I'm not into coloured lights all over the place. The keyboard and palm rest are a single piece of alloy which is nice.
 
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Scirocco said:
How is the audio? The GT72 sound seems to be head and shoulders better than anything else around.

I read Asus partition the SSD and the storage drive? Is this true?
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The Audio is good there are a pair of stereo speakers and a small subwoofer underneath. It is quite light on the boom and does distort and higher volumes but it does go quite loud for a laptop. Titanfall sounded fine last night.

Yes the 256GB SSD came partitioned into 2 x 125GB chunks. This is nice as you have one 125GB with the O/S installed and another 125GB free to install anything else.

The 1TB drive also came with 2 x 512GB partitions but this is easily fixed under drive management if you prefer a single drive. There is nothing on the Mechanical drive.


I will be getting a GT72 when they come out and will do a comparison of the two. The only real negative I can find on the G750 JZ is the issues with Optimus. Grid Autosport will play in nothing but a window no matter what I try. The GT72 has manual switching which is something the G750 could really do with.
 
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Thanks for the information, i can see how the SSD partition makes sense, I look forward to your comparison.

Im stumped right now, for me it was a toss-up between the Asus and the Aorus, but the GT72 is too good to ignore and now im considering the GX500, however i expect that might be slightly out of my price range.

Its a good time to be a mobile gamer, some amazing kit coming out right now, but so many choices :)
 
I have had an Alienware 17, Alienware M17 R4, MSI GX70, MSI GT70, Gigabyte P35 and can honestly say the Asus G750 is better than them all.

Asus have really worked some magic on the cooling system on these and although they are not easy to take apart having a 880m laptop that remains quite is lovely.

I think the GT72 will have a hard fight to better the G750 and I'm looking forward to trying it out shortly.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
The keyboard is fine tbh I fond most laptop keyboards similar its like the 17 with nicely spaced out keys and a full size enter key and numeric pad. I have been typing and gaming with it and not had any issues. It only has white backlight which I prefer as I'm not into coloured lights all over the place. The keyboard and palm rest are a single piece of alloy which is nice.
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Hey Moogleys

Just wanted to say that all MSI NB's have the option to go any single colour on the KB, including white. This is all controlled via the SteelSeries engine software.

I know the multicolour backlit KB's are not everyones cup of tea, but with our KB,s you really have every option possibly available.

Single backlit/multi - the choice is the users!

Hope this helps.

Regards

ARJiBEAR
The MSI NOTEBOOK UK Team
 
Moogleys how bad are your issues with Diablo3 and Optimus - easy to work around or is it a pain? I'd heard that even if one can resolve the in game problems, the cutscenes etc still stutter.

This is pretty much the only thing putting me off pushing the button on one of these, if its a pain on Diablo3 I'll just wait for the GT72 with its hardware switch and stomach the ridiculously priced SSD options.
 
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Moogleys how bad are your issues with Diablo3 and Optimus - easy to work around or is it a pain? I'd heard that even if one can resolve the in game problems, the cutscenes etc still stutter.

This is pretty much the only thing putting me off pushing the button on one of these, if its a pain on Diablo3 I'll just wait for the GT72 with its hardware switch and stomach the ridiculously priced SSD options.
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It will only run in a window for me. It plays fine I just cannot enable full screen mode at all. It does the same with Grid Autosport.

If you play Diablo 3 a lot then the GT72 might be a better option with the switch able GPU's.
 
Try windowed mode as a work around
a. Navigate to My Documents>Diablo III > D3Prefs.txt
b. Edit DisplayModeWindowMode "0" to say DisplayModeWindowMode "1"
c. SAVE
d. Restart Game
Once you open the game like this, turn the "vertical sync = on" in graphics menu and it forces Nvidia GPU to run the game. Now you can play the game in which mode you want

worked for me
 
MOOGLEYS said:
It will only run in a window for me. It plays fine I just cannot enable full screen mode at all. It does the same with Grid Autosport.

If you play Diablo 3 a lot then the GT72 might be a better option with the switch able GPU's.
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Thanks for that. So what made you plump for the G750 rather than the GT72 if you dont mind me asking?
 
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