ASUS ROG GL551J Review – Experience Power From Within

This time, ASUS ROG GL551J had the opportunity to stop by the Review Lab of the Pemmzchannel team. This Mainstream class notebook is an upgrade of the old ROG series. What kind of performance and new design it offers, let’s look at the review.

Design

ASUS seems to be trying to use a new design for its ROG series of notebooks, the goal of this new design seems to be to make the notebook more compact but still ergonomic, this can be seen in the discard of the old design with two large exhausts on the back of the notebook. .

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This ASUS ROG GL551J also manages to maintain a premium impression on itself through the material used, namely using brushed-metal material with metallic red lists on the sides of this notebook. Don’t forget, ASUS has also embedded a red backlit keyboard on this notebook which we think is very comfortable because of the wide distance between the keys and the simple design.

On the A, W, S, D buttons there is an additional red color on the side of the button which indicates that this notebook is designed for gaming. The touch-pad on this notebook adheres to a one-touch pad style so you will not find separate left and right buttons, this slightly causes the touch-pad to shake a little and seem less sturdy.

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Specification

In our opinion, his 15.6-inch screen is good enough because it uses LED backlit, but unfortunately it doesn’t have IPS technology so the viewing angle it presents is still narrow.
With the support of Intel i7 4710HQ, you will definitely get high performance and don’t have to worry about bottlenecks in the processor. The default memory can already be done
arguably great because ASUS provides 16GB DDR3L dual channel on this notebook.

Display : 15.6″ Full HD (1920 X 1080) LED EWV LED Backlight Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology anti-glare
Processor : Intel Core i7-4710HQ Processor
Memory : 16GB DDR3L 1600MHz SDRAM,
Hard Drive : 1TB Serial ATA 7200 RPM
Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2GB DDR5 VRAM
Optical Drive : DVD/RW SuperMulti
Operating System : Windows 8.1
Networking : Integrated 802.11 b/g/n, Built-in Bluetooth V4.0+HS, 10/100/1000 BASE T/ Bluetooth Support (On WLAN+BT4.0 Combo card)
Audio : Built-in 2 Speakers And Microphone
Bang & Olufsen ICEpower®
SonicMaster Premium
Asus N series external sub-woofer support
MaxxAudio support
Battery : 6Cells
Camera : HD Web Camera
System Dimensions : 15.0″ x 10.0″ x 0.6″ (WxDxH)
Slots/Interface :
1 x Headphone/Microphone Combo Jack
1 x Mini DisplayPort
3 x USB 3.0 port(s)
1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert
1 x HDMI

Performance

In our Synthetic Benchmark testing, the ASUS GL551J is slightly below the Lenovo Y50, but for real-life gaming performance, namely Resident Evil 5 and Unigine Heaven 4.0, the ASUS ROG GL551J has improved and is slightly higher than the performance of the Lenovo Y50.

Touch with the same GPU. We assume this is the result of a newer Nvidia driver update on the Lenovo Y50 at the time of testing.
What we applaud from the ASUS ROG GL551J is the battery life which is much better than the previous series, perhaps this is due to the combination of the adoption of Nvidia Optimus technology and the Maxwell architecture embedded in the ASUS ROG GL551J. At the time of testing with BatteryEatPro we managed to get 80 minutes.

Support

This time we included support categories because we did not find the driver download page on the ASUS official website on this ASUS ROG GL551. Of course, this is a little strange for an ASUS brand that is famous for providing convenience from the aer-sales side. Hopefully this (no driver category) is still under development and in the future driver downloads will be added to the ASUS official website.

Conclusion

For a notebook worth 20 million rupiah, the ASUS GL551J seems a little less competitive with the Lenovo Y50, but of course pemmzholics already know the weakness of the Y50 which lies in its very poor screen quality and still uses TN technology. Maybe because of that ASUS dared to price this notebook at that price range, not to mention the added frills of its ROG.