| Product Summary | | Manufacturer: Asus | | Mfg Part#: G71GX-A1 | | UPC: 00884840435976 | | Buy.com Sku: 211273655 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 82274 | | See more in Notebooks | |
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| | | Republic of Gamers G71Gx-A1 Gaming Notebook: An Extreme Machine Destined to Dominate
The Republic of Gamers (ROG) G71Gx is a supreme machine designed to out clock, outgun, and flat out dominate the competition.
When your overheated opponents are stretched to the limit, your G71Gx keeps its cool to go for even more extreme levels of speed, performance, and firepower.
The ROG G71Gx features an ASUS Dedicated Graphics Engine (DGE)-- powered by the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M with 1GB GDDR3 memory .
Throw in 6GB of system memory, quad core processing and a powerful arsenal of exclusive gaming features—like instant overclocking--and you’re ready to play today’s most resource intensive games.
The G71Gx lets you light up the 17-inch, 1920x1200 Color Shine screen with intense, responsive gaming action that blows away your wildest expectations.
Great standard notebook warranty in the industry is icing on the cake.
Most other brands only offer 1 year of warranty service, and can charge up to $100 for an additional year. ASUS notebooks come standard with a 2-Year Global Warranty and more*:
Thirty-days flawless display guarantee
Free two-way standard overnight shipping
24-hour tech support seven days a week
Plus ASUS Accidental Damage Protection:
ASUS notebooks are also protected come with a One Year Accidental Damage Warranty protecting the notebook from drops, fire, spills, and surge.**
Key Features
- Powered by Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q9000 for high-end gaming performance
- Extra bright 17-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Color Shine widescreen for immersive cinematic experience
- Blistering fast ASUS Dedicated Graphics Engine (DGE) powered by NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M with 1GB GDDR3 video memory
- 6GB of DDR2 system memory for smooth computing with Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) installed (free upgrade to Windows 7)
- 640GB (2x 320GB) 7200RPM hard drives for fast, convenient storage and access of all your documents and entertainment
- Built-in 802.11 b/g/n & Bluetooth wireless connectivity for total wireless gaming freedom
- Integrated 2.0 megapixel webcam for connecting with family, friends, and foes
- Encompassing surround sound with four Altec Lansing speakers with Dolby Home Theatre Certification and Dolby Space Expander
- Gaming keyboard with numeric keypad for intuitive input and lightning-fast reflexes
- 2 year global warranty and 1 year accidental damage warranty (over $350 USD estimated value!)*
- Free ROG gaming backpack and ROG gaming mouse (by Razor)
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Access Life with ASUS
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Unmatched Quality and Reliability
For a consistently reliable computing experience, ASUS notebooks are your best choice.
In fact, they have been recognized twice as the most reliable in RESCUECOM's consumer reliability report--outscoring other major brands--and consistently win iF Gold Awards and Red Dot Awards for product design excellence.
ASUS is the world leader in motherboards and graphics cards, and is the fastest growing of the top 10 notebook brands.
The ASUS product portfolio includes notebooks, Eee PCs, motherboards, graphics cards, and much more.
In 2008 alone, ASUS products won 3,056 distinguished awards.
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Outfitted to the Extreme
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With mind-blowing performance, games come to life on your G71Gx with blinding explosions, reactive debris, realistic water and lifelike character motion.
Extreme components include an Intel® Core™2 Quad processor and sizzling graphics powered by a Dedicated Graphics Engine featuring NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M graphics card with 1GB GDDR3 graphics memory.
NVIDIA’s PhysX hyper-realistic physical and environmental effects and CUDA code acceleration round out the recipe in this explosive blend of technology.
Whether you're a LAN-party fanatic or just prefer to annihilate the enemy in person, now it's easier than ever to head over to your "friend's" place with a ROG G71Gx-A1 notebook as your weapon -- and make him wish he'd practiced a bit more. Got a group of gamers? Huddle up, order a few pizzas, skip the set-up time and back-ache, and still blow them out of the water.
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Intelligent Video
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You won’t believe your eyes when you experience ASUS Splendid Enhancement Video Technology.
The 17-inch, 1920x1200 Color Shine WUXGA display offers full HD resolution and more, giving you a commanding view that adapts to battlefield conditions.
Use six different on-screen settings to intensify images, videos and gaming graphics for thrilling 3D realism like you’ve never seen.
With an HDMI output onboard, the G71Gx can also output High Definition content right to your ASUS LCD monitor.
Using a dual screen or external large screen setup, your get a tactically superior view of the playing field to help you win your next battle.
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Superior Multimedia Entertainment
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Your ROG G71Gx offers much more than just the cutting edge in mobile gaming. It packs the muscle to deliver a totally immersive HD entertainment experience.
With HDMI connectivity, hook up to an external monitor or TV to enjoy a true cinematic quality, or take advantage of the G71Gx’s 17-inch widescreen and premium Altec Lansing speakers to watch the latest Blu-ray movies from wherever you choose.
More storage space with the 640GB (2x 320GB) SATA 7,200RPM hard disc drives gives you greater freedom to play more games, watch more movies and download more entertainment anytime, anywhere.
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It Packs a Mean Punch
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ASUS G71Gx-A1 has the extremely powerful and versatile Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q9000 with four (4) cores designed to maximize your productivity and gaming experience.
Leaders of the pack seeking monster performance, look no further.
With four execution cores, the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor blows through processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments and makes the most of highly threaded applications.
Whether you're creating multimedia, annihilating your gaming enemies, or running compute-intensive applications at one time, new quad-core processing will change the way you do everything.
Powerful gaming notebooks start with ASUS and Intel inside.
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Buy Now, Upgrade to Windows 7 for Free
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The most optimized Windows 7 experience starts with a qualifying ASUS notebook.
Your upgrade to Windows 7 is easy as 1-2-3, and is free.
Buy the ROG G71Gx running Windows Vista Home Premium between June 26, 2009 and January 31, 2010, register online, and get an upgrade to Windows 7 from ASUS.
Limited time offer.
Please visit here for full details, terms, conditions and to register.
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More Cutting Edge Convenience
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With ASUS SmartLogon face recognition technology, entering your digital world is automatic--you don’t have to lift a finger.
With just the press of a button, ASUS Express Gate saves you time with ultra fast access—less than 10 seconds--to a host of your most commonly used features, including a web browser, email, instant messenger, Skype, photo manager and music player.
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Industry Leading Customer Warranty
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ASUS' complementary notebook care package offer a level of coverage that would add hundreds of dollars to the price of competing laptops:
Industry Leading Warranty: ASUS 360 -- 2 Year Global Warranty (estimated $200 value, FREE)*
30-Day flawless display guaranty: If you discover one defective bright dot within 30 days of purchase, ASUS will replace the panel at no cost.
Two way free overnight shipping
24/7 tech support
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Accidents Happen
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You have extra protection when they happen to your ASUS notebook purchased in the US or Canada. ASUS will fix it or replace it for you at no charge during the first year after purchase in the event of damage from accidental spills, drops, electrical surges, or fire.**
Warranty covering accidental drops, spills, power surges, and fire damage
Target 3 business day turnaround time for repair / replacement; not including receiving and shipping time
One-way shipping (from ASUS to the user) at no additional cost
24 hour toll-free phone support
One incident covered per notebook
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Warranty
ASUS 360* (2 Years Global Warranty) + ASUS ADW* (1 Year Accidental Damage Warranty**) + Flawless Display Guaranty
ASUS Notebooks come with ASUS 360 (2 years global warranty), ADW (1 Year Accidental Damage Warranty*) and Flawless Display Guarantee. If the purchaser discovers one defective bright dot within 30 days of purchase, ASUS will replace the panel without cost to the purchaser.
What's in the Box
ROG ASUS G71Gx-A1
Deluxe Republic of Gamers Backpack
Deluxe ROG Gaming Mouse
8 cell Battery Pack
AC Adapter
Warranty Information Cards
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| | Tech Specs |  | Processor & Cache Memory: | | Intel® Quad™ Core Processor Q9000 : 2.0 GHz 1066MHz FSB, 6 MB L2 Cache; | | Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T9400/P8600/P8400/T6400 : 2.53 GHz - 2.00 GHz, 1066/800 MHz FSB, 6MB/3MB/2MB L2 Cache | | Operating System: | | Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64 bit | | Chipset: | | Mobile Intel® P43 Express Chipset +ICH10 | | Main Memory: 6G | | Display: 17" WUXGA Resolution 1920x1200, Color-Shine (Glare-type),Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology | | Video Graphics & Memory: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GS 512MB GDDR3 VRAM | | Dual HDD: | | 1 Terra Byte(500Gx2),5400rpm | | 640G(320Gx2),5400rpm;7200rpm | | 500G(250Gx2),5400rpm | | Single HDD: | | 500GB,5400rpm | | 320GB,5400rpm;7200rpm | | 250GB,5400rpm | | Optical Drive: Blu-Ray DVD Combo | | Card Reader: 8 in 1 card reader, SD,MMC,MS,MS-Pro,xD,mini SD w/ adapter,MS-Duo,MS-Pro Duo via adapter | | Video Camera: 2.0 Mega Pixel web camera | | Fax/Modem/LAN/WLAN: | | Integrated 802.11 b/g/n (optional) | | Built-in Bluetooth™ V2.1+EDR (optional) | | LED Status Indicator: | | Power-on/Suspend | | Battery Charging/full/low | | Storage device access | | Capital / Scroll / Number Lock | | Wireless on status indicator | | Bluetooth on status indicator | | Email in box | | Touchpad Lock | | Interface: | | 1 x Express card | | 1 x Microphone-in jack | | 2 x Headphone-out jack (1 with S/PDIF) | | 1 x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor | | 4 x USB 2.0 ports | | 1 x IEEE 1394 port | | 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert | | 1 x HDMI | | 1 x WLAN On/Off Switch | | 1 x CIR for remote controller | | 1 x E-SATA | | Security: | | BIOS Booting / HDD User Password Protection and security lock | | Kensington lock hole | | Supplied Accessories: | | Gaming Mouse | | Gaming Backpack | | Multimedia Software: ASUSDVD V7.0 ( *For Basic & Business only) | | Virus & Tool Software: | | Norton™ Internet Security 2008 | | Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 | | NERO 8 Essentials | | Power2Go | | Green Compliance: RoHS | | Warranty & e-support: | | 2-year limited global hardware warranty | | *different by country | | 1-year battery pack warranty | | 30days Zero Bright Dot LCD | | On-line problem resolution through web interface (BIOS, Driver update) | | OS (Microsoft Windows Vista) install/uninstall consultation | | Bundled software install/uninstall consultation | | ASUS software supporting | | Built-in TV-Tuner: Hybrid TV Tuner (Analog+DVB-T) / Digital TV Tuner (DVB-T) / No | | OS Compatibility: | | Windows Vista | | *Windows XP driver is not available |
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