GPU Failure? I'm done with ASUS. Horrible experience, will be reviewing it

[FitnessRegiment]

I'm a YouTuber and thought ASUS was a dream come true, the specs were good and everything seemed awesome. Then after a while I see 1 pixel on my monitor failed, try to contact asus but it's hard to get it fixed.

Now my GPU failed I believe, my monitor has a red line going down the centre of it a few pixels wide. I paid over 3 grand for this laptop. 3 GRAND!!!! And I can't even use it for a year before it falls apart.

I will be posting a negative review, the first one I've ever posted.

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I think this laptop is a return, I actually do, I bought it straight off of amazon, and they are telling me 30 day period is over so I need to deal with ASUS directly. So nothing I can do there either.

I can't believe I am going through this, I was just about to buy one for my brother, I think I'll stick to Alienware.

[clockworksatan]

FitnessRegiment wrote:
wow mate! I am in Glasgow scotland! We should make an ASUS fan club.

Hehehe! Small world, huh? I've not even had my G751 a month yet, so I'm a new inductee. 😄

[FitnessRegiment]

Heh I've had it since February and it's dying. Depressing really.

[OneMoar]

op, pro tip reviewers don't bash a product over one bad experience,that makes vendors not want to deal with you me

btw Amazon's policy is Amazons Policy NOT ASUS's 30 Days is STANDARD for all e-retailers
tl:dr **** happens particularly with high-end hardware spending a lot of money does not mean you get a reliable or even a good product it just means you have more money then brains
I don't care what the specs are at 3000.00 you got taken
live and learn I guess .

[FitnessRegiment]

OneMoar wrote:
op, pro tip reviewers don't bash a product over one bad experience,that makes vendors not want to deal with you me

btw Amazon's policy is Amazons Policy NOT ASUS's 30 Days is STANDARD for all e-retailers
tl:dr **** happens particularly with high-end hardware spending a lot of money does not mean you get a reliable or even a good product it just means you have more money then brains
I don't care what the specs are at 3000.00 you got taken
live and learn I guess .

How did I get taken? It was the cheapest laptop at the time that gave me the specs I needed.... I thought it would last me at least a year. It lasted 5 months.

[joshindaphils]

FitnessRegiment wrote:
How did I get taken? It was the cheapest laptop at the time that gave me the specs I needed.... I thought it would last me at least a year. It lasted 5 months.

Don't bother with that, it is hogwash. Some people just don't see the value of high end products in general and regardless of need or what it enables. Doesn't help that this is a gaming focus form where it is often assumed that your laptop is just a toy, and not a professional tool.

OneMoar,

The G751 makes an excellent workstation in particular if you have CUDA enabled task and don't need double precision. Spending 3k on a workstation is not a lot of money at all. This one is mobile, again not nearly at the top of the market in cost. For the hardware it is a decent value. You buy such things because they enable the things you need to do, or make the things you do faster. If you can get a 15% productivity gain by spending 3k, you do it without batting an eye as it pays for itself from the gained productivity (assuming a reasonable return on productivity). It is that simple, no need for such a narrow view on things 😉

Me personally I needed fast storage lots of ram and a solid CPU, I spent a bit extra for the GPU as a treat to myself so when I get a few hours of down time I can chill and relax with a game. With it being mobile it enables me to take working 'vacations' to different islands here in the Philippines and around SEA. It is a small price to pay for a productivity tool.

Or perhaps 3k is a trivial amount of money to you and you just like how the red accents matched your twin Ferraris doesn't really matter haaha.

TLDR; The point being just because you don't see the value doesn't mean it doesn't exist in a subjective or objective manner.

[FitnessRegiment]

joshindaphils wrote:
Don't bother with that, it is hogwash. Some people just don't see the value of high end products in general and regardless of need or what it enables. Doesn't help that this is a gaming focus form where it is often assumed that your laptop is just a toy, and not a professional tool.

OneMoar,

The G751 makes an excellent workstation in particular if you have CUDA enabled task and don't need double precision. Spending 3k on a workstation is not a lot of money at all. This one is mobile, again not nearly at the top of the market in cost. For the hardware it is a decent value. You buy such things because they enable the things you need to do, or make the things you do faster. If you can get a 15% productivity gain by spending 3k, you do it without batting an eye as it pays for itself from the gained productivity (assuming a reasonable return on productivity). It is that simple, no need for such a narrow view on things 😉

Me personally I needed fast storage lots of ram and a solid CPU, I spent a bit extra for the GPU as a treat to myself so when I get a few hours of down time I can chill and relax with a game. With it being mobile it enables me to take working 'vacations' to different islands here in the Philippines and around SEA. It is a small price to pay for a productivity tool.

Or perhaps 3k is a trivial amount of money to you and you just like how the red accents matched your twin Ferraris doesn't really matter haaha.

TLDR; The point being just because you don't see the value doesn't mean it doesn't exist in a subjective or objective manner.

yea exactly, I needed a fast laptop, I upgraded it to be fully SSD 1.5 TB of SSD, 32GB DDR3L with a nice CPU and 980m GPU for acceleration in softwares I use. I don't really play any computer games. I use it for work, I mean my friend spend 4,500$ just on 1 CPU, he has 2 per system.. I really don't think 3200$ for a laptop is over-priced if it does what you need it to. However this laptop didn't do what I needed it to, which was last at least 1 year.

[OneMoar]

3000.00 is about 500 more then you needed to spend had you actually asked around there are cheaper laptops with better specs AND better build quality available *cough sager cough*
and if you are doing anything cuda related you don't want a 980M Quatro K3100
so Ill reinterate no you do no know what you are doing and yes you got taken bad
I can order a mobile workstation thats nearly 25% faster then yours for about 2650.00 shipped
WITH The Quattro card ...

and woosh I am sure a mod will delete this ASUS doesn't enjoy people telling there users about the competition

[joshindaphils]

OneMoar wrote:
3000.00 is about 1500 more then you needed to spend had you actually asked around there are cheaper laptops with better specs AND better build quality available *cough sager cough*
and if you are doing anything cuda related you don't want a 980M Quatro K3100
so Ill reinterate no you do no know what you are doing and yes you got taken bad

I'm going to have to call you out on this one.. no way is a similarly spec'ed Sager 1/2 the cost. You are full of it. Provide a link and spec comparison to prove me wrong.

Regarding CUDA, it entirely depends on the application, it does not seem you know what you are talking about or are assuming you know more about Fitness's workflow then he does. For certain task GeForce GPUs provide better value than Quattro cards. Whether or not this is the case for him I cannot say.

[OneMoar]

*-see my edit 500.00 cheaper typo
you get
1. fully fledged desktop cpu yes you get a true i7 4790K fully unlocked and fully clocked
2.quatro K3100 workstation card for all your rendering and CAD needs
3.over all better build quality
and yea if you didn't need the workstation K3100 you could get the above but a 15inch smaller SSD and 980M for about 1800.00

[joshindaphils]

Hahah okay OneMoar so in response to your edit:

1/2 the ram
1/2 the CUDA cores
1/2 the SSD drive speed
no Thunderbolt

I guess I see where the $500USD savings comes from much less your crazy silly initial claims of 1/2 price (a typo perhaps?) The g751 would destroy that Sager in many workflows and removes functionality that may be important.

I rest my case.

*edit*

Typed original w/o seeing OneMoar's follow up post.

Again OneMoar you are assuming you know what Fitness's workflow is... Heck perhaps he would of been better off with that Sager but it is a mistake to assume he would be.