Comments on: ASUS G551JW Gaming Notebook Review (GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5)

By: minhnghia

minhnghia — Tue, 03 May 2016 00:39:09 +0000

i’m pretty sure that the hdmi is not 2.0. not sure with the mDP, maybe 1.2 maybe 1.1

By: CJCHAOS

CJCHAOS — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:54:31 +0000

I have this laptop and I do not think it is M2. I have the back off today and it looked to be a half sized mSATA to me.

By: muayad

muayad — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:20:54 +0000

thank you nice analyzing

By: JeGX

JeGX — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:52:42 +0000

In reply to Ahmad Ismail. Sorry for the delay, here the reference on the box:

By: Nen

Nen — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 09:03:22 +0000

In reply to Joao. Yep i have just bought it ! Gtx 960 4gb

By: Carnaga

Carnaga — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:25:54 +0000

Thank you so much for this article! I actually bought the laptop for desktop computing.

By: Joao

Joao — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:39:48 +0000

In reply to Ahmad Ismail. I'm looking for this model too, since I'm only finding the configuration with GTX 960M 2GB (I need the 4gb version). If you ever found out please let me know.

By: Ahmad Ismail

Ahmad Ismail — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:22:39 +0000

Give you please provide the Full Model name (e.g. G551JW-XXXXX) or even a picture of the label on the back and where you bought it from … because there’s lots of G551JW variations and I’m looking for this specific variation exactly the same as yours

By: Paolo

Paolo — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 03:16:17 +0000

“– first unit storage is slow in writing (128GB SSD M2: only 176MB/sec)”
the reason is that is a halfsize mSATA (which is more expensive, and not so fast), not a M2 unit…
I have one without ssd drive, and was doing some research about upgrading and came to this conclusion =/

By: TayTay

TayTay — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:50:38 +0000

In reply to Andy. Just the beta bios on the rog forum alone fixes the issue as there thermal threshold is set to 83c with it. The new none beta on the support page is 79c the 4c makes a HUGE difference in games like GTA V, Witcher 3 etc.

By: David Peters

David Peters — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:06:57 +0000

Are you sure about HDMI 2.0 and 4K@60Hz capability on this notebook!?

This would be sensational — can you confirm this with reference to the information source please?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:28:49 +0000

Maybe someone finds this info useful – according to ROG forum the new BIOS and changing the thermal compound to more efficient one will solve the throttling problems.