ASUS ROG Zephyrus GX501 Owner's Lounge

For those of you that are interested

https://www.dustinhome.dk/product/5011013853/rog-gx501

This might very well be taken down again, so I'll post the specs here:
FHD 15.6 Anti-Glare 300cd/m2
GTX 1080
I7 7700HQ
16GB RAM 2400Mhz
512GB NVMe SSD
4 Cell Lithium Ion

HDMI 2.0 x1
USB 3.0 x4
Thunderbolt x1
3.5 Combined Headphone jack x1

Dimensions (Somethings not right here)
Length = 37.9 CM
Depth = 1.69 CM
Height = 1.78 CM
Perhaps this is with the laptop screen closed and opened?

23.269 DKK = 3500 USD LOL, no thanks.

 

I like the orange outline - reminds me of the G501. Though I'm not too keen on the idea of not having a wrist-rest. Then again, this thing is too damn thin.... hopefully it doesn't throttle or overheat with that 1070 aka 1080 LITE.

 

1080 MAX-Q.... what a scam

It's a 1070 + OC being sold for the price of a 1080.

Just get a nice slim 1060 / 1070 15.6" laptop and save some money, and disappointment.

For these thin laptops a 1060 is about all they can cool under full performance OC.

Move up to a large frame 17.3" for a 1070 / 1080

 

Not to mention that a 1060 is perfectly fine for ANY game out at the moment. I'd say buying a 1500$ 1060 laptop now and a new 1500$ 1260 laptop or 680 laptop in 2-3 years is a MUCH better option than buying a 4000$ 1070/1080 machine today.

 

OK, that is pretty awesome; the bottom opens up 0.5" when opening the lid for cooling. Reminds me of my IBM 760ED which had the keyboard lift when opened

 

It's pretty interesting for sure, but I wonder how long moving parts like that will last. With the bottom opening up like that, it seems like a very easy way to suck dust into the fan as well, as I don't see much in the way of filters.

As someone who owns a cat, that is a very scary proposition. Other pet owners will sympathise. Edit: Does anyone know if that opening is serving as exhaust only?

I am very curious to see how well the 1080 MAX EW *i mean Q* performs in real world situations, though, but from preliminary information, it's not super appealing, especially not once you factor in the 10X0+1 tax. That is, a 1070 MAX Q performs at a 1060 but is priced like a 1070. +1 tax. The 1080 MAX Q performs like a 1070, but is priced like a 1080. +1 tax.

 

Has anyone seen what PSU is paired with the new ROG Zephyrus GX501?

The lower performance Razer RBP 1080 has a 250w PSU, and performs like a 1070 OC under maximum best tuned performance.

All the other 1080's (pre-Max-Q) have 330w PSU's, or 2x330w for the SLI models.

I wonder where the 1080 Max-Q will sit in the performance curve, a power limited PSU wouldn't help.

 

It is available with the GTX 1070. If it is $400 or more cheaper, may be worth getting that model. but not if it is still more than $2500

 

My IBM 760ED still works great. I use it sometimes to play Win 95 games. But IBM was a very robust brand.

I would hope that it is exhaust only, and the intake was the large grill above the keyboard.

I hope it is available with a normal GTX 1070 not Max-Q

 

You see, the weird thing is, is that you're supposed to exhaust *through* the heatsink fin array. If you open up the bottom to bypass the array, you achieve less cooling.

Which is what makes me think it's an intake for fans from the bottom, which then still exhaust through the rear vents also through the heatsink fin array.

I'd love to be wrong, but if I'm right, that makes it a non-starter. There's no way I'd let my laptop open up like that since i own a cat. Her hair gets in literally everything, but I try my damndest not to let it get into my electronics.

 

Maaaan, my cats' get their hair everywhere, including my damn food and toothpaste. I've basically given up on protecting anything from cat hair.

 

oh man, that bottom lid hack is awesome. A real Transformer.
I need something like that.
It creates more space for air to move around, and probably helps take away some of the heat in the heat pipes with the air flow.
Most of the heat will obviously be dissipated through the fan and copper fins

One criticism I have is the lack of miniDP. This thing should have 3 video ports. 1 thunderbolt + 1 hdmi is not sufficient.

I'm going to mod my GL502 and put a spacer in the back between the keyboard and bottom lid, and see how it does with heat exhaustion.

 

Keep in mind, the heatsink still must align with the vents else what you gain in airflow will be lost in obstruction of the heatsink

On a side note, how are temps on your GL502VM?

 

A release date of July and Pre-Order date of June 27 has been given. Starting price of $2700 ($500 too much depending on storage though)

http://techreport.com/news/31994/thin-is-in-for-asus-rog-zephyrus-notebook

 

If they offered a better panel, I would be very interested, current panel and that price, no thanks.

 

24GB DDR4?? What does this means? Can we upgrade it to 32GB? Also is the keyboard RGB per key? And I heard theres only room for one M.2 is this confirmed? No SD-card reader?

 

"Cutting-edge I/O fills out the ROG Zephyrus’s well-rounded spec. The machine can be loaded with up to 24GB of DDR4-2400 memory and an insanely fast NVMe SSD capable of pushing speeds up to 3500 MB/s. The solid-state drive offers up to 1TB of storage for massive game libraries, and it loads them at warp speed. A full-sized SD slot adds a measure of expandable storage along with a convenient way to transfer photos and movies from DSLRs and other cameras." Is it me or I didn't find where is the SD card slot ?

 

The device on show was the prototype. On the ASUS website for the device, rendered images show a different I/O layout, and different fan grils.




Hard to say which one will be the final version. ASUS hasn't released official spec sheet on website.

https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ROG-ZEPHYRUS-GX501VI/gallery/

 

Pricing announced, kinda thought it would cost more. But what does it matter if we don't know how it performs.

https://rog.asus.com/articles/g-ser...brings-hardcore-gaming-to-ultra-slim-laptops/

 

If anyone wants to see the cooling soultion:

 

Wow, it seem like they cool every chip Except for the PCH .

Hopefully this is pre-production. Not only is the PCH not cooled, a heat pipe passes MM from it. So it will get ambient heat from the pipe, but won't be able to transfer heat to the pipe(s)

 

It's a rather odd keyboard placement for a laptop, no?

 

PC world has the breakdown on performance.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3203...s-performs-with-nvidias-max-q-technology.html

 

here a german review
https://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Asus-ROG-Zephyrus-GX501-Laptop.226328.0.html


Performances are not so good as expected

 

They are already sold out everywhere it seems but I found a killer deal on Ebay! LMAO

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-ROG-Ze...339257?hash=item4b1a923f39:g:jQwAAOSwgv5ZURlk

 

Any "shortages" of Max-Q computers are due to the manufacturers waking up and realizing it's a bad idea and stopped production.

Sold out everywhere?...everywhere I look they are on Pre-order, so they haven't even shipped yet to most places.

Ebay has them for $5699, what a great deal...

 

Amazon and newegg had them for preorder last week and a few of those shipped today.

But ye, I don't see this laptop fitting my criteria, plus they sale a clip on palm rest as an accessory lol why would I want to have a thin laptop just to carry around a palm rest.

I think its safe to say I will be holding off till next Gen of GPU.

 

lolwut

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pr...11-D-Cover-Door-cover/236254_32816167983.html

@hmscott

 

That's typical, replacement parts offered for laptops, they have lots of other brands and models they offer replacement shell pieces.

It is interesting to see that it looks like the inner cover is used as a "heatsink", with several points where heat pads connect to components on the motherboard.

Perhaps the inner cover is used like a backplate on a GPU to dissipate heat, and the lifting with more airflow gives it a heat exchange area protected from the end user - their lap - so the heat doesn't directly impinge on the user.

Thanks for the link

 

Surprisingly, it means just that - 24GB and not 32 GB

The reason being that it has 8 GB soldered on the mainboard and one slot available populated with 16 GB.

 

It still has GDDR5X...

 

I never really understood why they did this. The latency on the included ram is not impressive. My HyperX I got in my GT80s over a year ago has lower latency and the same speed.
Storage seems to be the SM961 from Samsung... Which is okay but they advertise it as if its super fast and something they designed. Replacing it with an MLC drive will be expensive.


Seems to use a standard Asus Charger?
Maybe an external power battery might be able to extend the GX501's battery life?

 

??? Fan cutout doesn't match one single bit
Perhaps the model with GTX 1060 has different cooling layout??

 

The performance is there, but they should have called it 1070Ti tbh. It stays below 41dBA like promised, but you have to lock your framerate to 40/60FPS and according to notebookcheck it still gets a super hot keyboard. Maybe this will be more interesting with a MaxQ 1070 in something like a Aero 15.

 

maxi-pad

 

Could be a difference between the KitGuru pre production unit and the final laptop... Does seem like a huge difference though.

 

Notebookcheck updated their review.

That is just too bad that they couldn't have squeezed a bigger battery into there, but I guess that's a compromise they had to make.

Idle battery life of 3 hours, wifi battery life of just 2 hours.

With longer battery life it could have been a killer laptop.

 

Can the battery be extended with an external battery pack?

 

So you won't buy a larger laptop that can hold a larger battery because it won't be thin enough, but you will buy a larger battery to carry with the laptop??

 

If it supports USB C charging... but even then, those USB C packs are meant for phones, and the largest will probably only give 1 hr to a laptop. You would also have a large tumor dangling off your laptop

 

Here's my initial review: http://www.ultrabookreview.com/16110-asus-gx501-zephyrus-review/

I'll be updating it over the next two weeks. If you have any specific questions, please let me know.

 

is it possible to charge/extend battery life with something like these? They have DC Out.

https://www.amazon.com/Crave-PowerP...ble/dp/B01BLXY3B6/?tag=aboutcom02lifewire2-20


https://www.amazon.com/MAXOAK-50000...iveASIN=B00YP823NA&ascsubtag=trd-364900506-20

 

funny. I wrote my own version of the same lightbox plugin you use on your blog

You can fix the loading dot issue by making the code run in a seperate html file and reinterpreting it with JQuery

 

I'll let the owner know. I just write some of the articles.

 

Any way you might be able to try to extend the battery life with a charger like the ones above?

 

It should charge the battery but it's only 3 amps so gaming is out of the question. I'm not familiar how those work though. Hopefully it doesn't trick the laptop into thinking it's plugged in. If it tries to draw 12 amps, it could be dangerous.

 

is it possible to try one? It would be nice to know