The Cons: Left vent gets truly hot when gaming; Poor webcam; Mediocre battery life
Verdict: The Asus ROG GL552 is a choice gaming laptop that won't bust your financial plan.
The most effective gaming laptops will take your breath away, yet they'll additionally pummel your wallet. Luckily, you can get a truly incredible portable apparatus for significantly less cash. For $999, the 15.6-inch Asus ROG GL552 consolidates solid execution with an attractive, stealth-contender themed body, energetic showcase and smart console. While we wish its battery life were longer and its left side stayed cooler, this is the best sub-$1,000 gaming laptop you can purchase.
Design
Regardless of a smooth aluminum cover that Asus cases was roused by a F-22 military aircraft, the ROG GL552 doesn't look as smooth as some of its rivals. At 15.1 x 10.1 x 1.3 inches, the framework is somewhat chunkier than comparable 15-inch gaming scratch pad, for example, the Acer Aspire V15 Nitro Black Edition (15.4 x 10.3 x 0.9 inches) and Dell's Inspiron 15 7000 (15.1 x 10.4 x 1 inches). Be that as it may, weighing 5.6 pounds, the GL 552 sits between the lighter 5.1-pound Acer and the heavier 5.9-pound Dell.
Inside, Asus included some silver designing, which conveys a little style to the GL552's dark metal deck, alongside the evil red backdrop illumination. The enumerating on the left vent fortifies the GL552's red-and-dark shading plot, and is likewise a decent suggestion to keep your hands and legs far from that zone, which can get entirely hot.
Sadly, as grungy dark shoes on a recreation center floor, the Asus GL552's elastic feet leave streaks on any surface. So attempt to avert dragging it crosswise over tables and work areas.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The ROG GL55s' console overflows vile red light and elements an additional band of red highlights along the base of the W, A, S and D keys. Writing on the dark plastic keys felt smart, on account of an entirely standard activation weight of 60 grams and regular 1.87mm of key travel. Asus additionally figured out how to press a 10-key numpad on the right half of the console, however since space is at a premium, the keys on the numpad have been contracted to about half size.
On 10fastfingers.com's writing test, I hit a fast 83 words for each moment after only a couple of minutes went through getting acquainted with the console. That is quite amazing, subsequent to my standard writing pace ranges from 75 to 80 words for every moment.
While it doesn't get the same backdrop illumination treatment as the console, the 4.1 x 2.75-inch touchpad highlights a comparable level of responsiveness. The cushion precisely and quickly enrolled my swipes, clicks and multitouch motions, for example, two-finger looking over.
Display
The GL552's 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 screen delights with awesome precision, spot-on hues and top-level shine. It makes both gaming and watching films a joy, and since the non-touch screen likewise highlights a matte covering, you're never compelled to gaze back at your own appearance. When I viewed the trailer for The Nice Guys, the GL552's presentation nailed Russell Crowe's turquoise blue suit in a way that shouted 1970s significantly louder than the teaser's retro textual style.
At 272 nits of splendor, the GL552's screen missed the mark concerning the showcase on the Acer's V15 Nitro (289 nits), and performed essentially superior to anything 222 nits we saw on Dell's Inspiron 15 7000. With a shading range that crossed 116.2 percent of the sRGB range, the GL552 topped the V15 Nitro's characteristic of 115 percent and effortlessly surpassed the Inspiron 15 7000's scope of 70 percent.
What's more, with a Delta-E mistake rate of 0.7 (0 is flawless), the GL552 was more shading exact than the V15 Nitro (1.0), yet a modest piece behind the Inspiron 15 7000 (0.4).
Audio
The GL552's stereo speakers highlight SonicMaster tech that should give rich, high-constancy sound, however as far as I can tell, both music and recreations sounded somewhat shallow. When I listened to Ratatat's "Cream on Chrome," the twangy guitars and pounding bass didn't have the same profundity and effect that I got notification from different frameworks. Changing to the front line preset in the AudioWizard application offered a slight change to the bass, yet at the same time didn't do what's necessary to help the general sound experience.
Heat
On less requesting assignments like spilling HD video from Hulu, the ROG GL 552 strayed only 5 degrees over our regular 95-degree solace edge on its base. The space between the G and H keys and touchpad were cooler at 92.5 and 90 degrees.
The issue is that while gaming, temps close to the vent on the left half of the framework shot up to more than 125 degrees. On its base, temperatures climbed just a few degrees, which implies you can in any case get in some laptop gaming; you simply must be mindful so as to avoid its super-hot left side.
Ports and Webcam
With regards to network, the ROG GL552 gives a surprising sentiment having one foot stuck in the past while the other strongly walks toward what's to come. That is on the grounds that the GL552 sports an age-old double layer DVD plate while additionally pushing things forward with a USB 3.1 port with a Type-C connector. There are likewise three customary USB Type-A ports (two USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0), HDMI, Ethernet, SD card opening and separate amplifier and earphone jacks.
The GL552's 1.2-megapixel webcam takes a really poor picture, even among laptop cameras that as a rule neglect to inspire. In our sufficiently bright office, a selfie I brought with the Asus' webcam highlighted a considerable measure of clamor and grain and transformed my hair and eyes into a dull, vague chaos.
Graphics and Gaming
In this value extent, you're not going to show signs of improvement representation card than the GL552's Nvidia 960M GPU with 2GB of vRAM, which puts Asus' laptop on the same balance at its opposition. On 3DMark's Fire Strike manufactured representation test, the GL552 scored 4,095, which is like numbers from the V15 Nitro (4,069) and the Inspiron 15 7000 (3,929).
When we played Metro: Last Light on low settings at 1920 x 1080, the GL552 scored 59 outlines for each second. That was marginally behind the V15 Nitro's 67 fps and about the same as the Inspiron 15 7000's 58 fps. Be that as it may, when we pumped up the representation to high, each of the three frameworks fell beneath 20 fps, which is not playable.
Be that as it may, on a less requesting amusement, for example, Dota 2, the GL552 effortlessly floated somewhere around 70 and 80 fps on max settings. It's just for illustrations hungry recreations, for example, Metro or GTA 5 that you'll have to venture down the settings in the event that you need to achieve a steady 60 fps.
Performance
Highlighting a 2.6-GHz Intel Core i7-6700 HQ CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD, the GL552 is also prepared to other thousand-dollar gaming machines. In any case, subsequent to the GL552 highlights a 7,200 RPM HDD versus the 5,400 drives in the V15 Nitro and the Inspiron 15 7000, its stockpiling rates were three times quicker. The GL552 moved a DVD of blended media documents in 51 seconds for an exchange rate of 98.59 MBps, instead of paces of 33.97 MBps and 34.62 MBps for the V15 Nitro and the Inspiron 15 7000, individually.
This point of preference additionally appeared on Geekbench 3, which measures general framework execution. The GL552 scored 13,554 versus 12,577 for the V15 Nitro, regardless of the Nitro having the same CPU and measure of RAM. Dell's Inspiron 15 7000 (8,880) was considerably further behind, as its Intel Core i5 CPU essentially didn't give the same level of quickness.
Of course, when we utilized OpenOffice to sort a spreadsheet with 20,000 names and addresses, the Core i7-fueled GL552 (3:44) and V15 Nitro (3:46) completed with the very same time, while the Inspiron 15 700 trailed behind with a period of 3:58.
Battery Life
With a period of 4 hours and 43 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (nonstop Web surfing over Wi-Fi at 100 nits of splendor), the GL552 fell between the continuance numbers turned in by Acer and Dell. It kept going about 2 entire hours longer than the iron deficient 2:40 sign of Acer's V15 Nitro, however missed the mark concerning Dell's Inspiron 15 7000 (6:45) by around the same edge.
Configurations
In case you're willing to go above $1,000, there's a $1,249 variant of the GL552 that knocks up capacity with a 128GB SSD + 1TB crossover and a Nvidia 960M GPU with 4GB of video RAM, rather than the 2GB you get in the base model.
Software and Warranty
The Asus ROG GL552 comes pre-stacked with Windows 10 Home and a modest bunch of valuable utilities, including Asus Live Update for keeping your framework current, the Splendid Utility for redoing your showcase, and the Game First III application that organizes system movement to ensure you don't slack while gaming.
The framework additionally accompanies a standard one-year guarantee, which likewise incorporates one year of incidental harm insurance.
Bottom Line
With a speedier hard drive, more beautiful show and preferable looking frame over its immediate rivals, the Asus ROG GL552 is the sub-$1,000 gaming laptop to beat. In case you're hoping to spare cash, the $800 Dell's Inspiron 15 7000 gives comparable casing rates and more battery life, yet slower general execution and a less-dynamic presentation. Asus could improve this laptop even by enhancing its warmth administration and force utilization. Yet, in the event that you're searching for a gaming laptop under $1,000, the ROG GL552 ought to be at the highest point of your shopping list.
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