Win10 system ASUS ROG GL502 gaming notebook detailed evaluation
Game notebook is currently a very popular type of PC products, even in the case of the PC market decline, it is growing year by year, impressive. In addition to those powerful and powerful desktop games, manufacturers have begun to introduce different positioning products, such as Razer Blade, MSI GS60 Ghost Pro series, etc., all provide portable body and good performance, let Players can play games through their laptops wherever they go.
ASUS ROG Strix GL502 is also a game with a balanced experience. The 15.6-inch screen, less than 25mm thickness and 8GB NVIDIA GTX 980m provide a solid 1080P gaming performance, which is also very worthy of attention in the market. A portable game book. Let's take a look at the detailed experience.
1. Design
ASUS ROG Strix GL502 is a very refined design with an aluminum brushed top cover and eye-catching Logo and LED lights, but the plastic chassis is slightly disappointing. In terms of the fuselage, the weight is only 2 kg, which is the main reason for its use of plastic materials, plus 23.4 mm thickness, can achieve good portability.
Although thin and light, the ASUS ROG Strix GL502 also maintains outstanding heat dissipation. At the rear edge of the fuselage, you will see two thick orange heat sinks, which is actually a powerful exhaust system, combined with a fan and copper heat pipe, which constitutes ASUS's new dual heat dissipation design, stable for the game. Operation is very necessary.
The screen has a standard resolution of 1080P, and users can also choose a clearer 3K resolution screen. No matter which one, the color performance is quite outstanding. In addition, the ROG Strix GL502 is also equipped with outstanding speakers, although it seems inconspicuous, but the sound quality and volume are good.
The keyboard highlights the most commonly used buttons (direction keys) in the four WASD games, complemented by a cool orange-red backlight. The keyboard feel is also quite good, and supports custom settings.
Second, the game performance
test model configuration for Intel Core i7-6700HQ (quad core, 2.6GHz frequency), 16GB DDR4 RAM, 128GB M.2+1TB HDD hard drive, The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M graphics card (6GB DDR5 memory) is not the highest-end configuration.
In the actual game test, "Tom Clancy: The whole blockade" 1080P high-definition frame rate is 34fps, 1080P low-definition frame rate is 86fps. Relatively speaking, this score is consistent with the performance of the GTX 970M graphics card. It is more flexible when running mainstream 3D games with medium and low image quality and 1080P resolution, but the high image quality is relatively difficult. If you choose the GTX 980M version, the performance will be better. In addition, the battery life can achieve up to about 5 hours of battery life (50% brightness playback 1080P film), this is not a bad result, of course, not outstanding.
ASUS ROG Strix GL502 starts at $1,249 (approximately RMB 8283) and offers 1TB HDD and GTX 970M graphics cards; and $1,899 (approximately RMB 12,600) increases screen resolution Up to 3K and equipped with a more powerful GTX 980M graphics card.
Summary
In general, the ASUS ROG Strix GL502 does not live up to its positioning, is a stylish, portable, and good performance portable game. Of course, its low-profile version is slightly inferior in performance, not enough to run large games smoothly when high effects are turned on, and battery life can last longer.