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Well hello there beautiful. Am I talking to the computer, or am I talking to you? I guess we’ll never know. Today I’m going to give you a really in-depth look at the ASUS ROG G20CB-WS71. Seriously, that name is *** dreadful. It’s like meeting a really hot chick named Bertha. ***: eviscerated. If anyone knew how much Endust it takes me to get my desk looking this good, I swear to God, environmentalists would send me letters. A brief preface to this review: today is gonna suck. I want to be up front and tell you exactly why, but first… [Virtual Reality Ginger Intro] Seriously guys, today’s gonna suck. And for those of you that are like, “Oh Ian, don’t be so humble. You’re a ginger and you always make me laugh.” NO. Stop it. For most of you, this review is going to be way too in-depth. Which is why you should feel free to stop watching the moment you get bored. Just don’t forget to click the “like” button and subscribe before you duck out. I need your YouTube affection. First I’m gonna cover the basics of the ASUS ROG G20CB-WS71, which most of you will be interested in. After that, we’re gonna dive off the deep end and get really technical with a bunch of benchmarking software. This is where most of you will promptly hit the thumbs up below, hopefully subscribe, and then move on with your day. But for those of you that love technical details and spring a semi whenever you see PCMark 8 test results, break out the lotion and tissues. This review gives techie details in spades. The Oculus Ready G20CB-WS71 comes with a quad-core i7 6700 processor, a GTX 980 graphics card, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive coupled with a 256GB solid-state drive. When your Rift or HTC Vive arrives, this baby is poised to deliver an above-average virtual reality experience. You’ll see higher frame rates and better graphics than those that sprung for a slightly less powerful processor or graphics card. And can we take a minute to talk about how gorgeous this computer is? I’ve never porked a computer before, but if I were going to, I’d happily make little android babies with this thing. You’ve got LED lighting across the entire front of the computer, as well as underneath towards the back half of the tower. You can customize the colors here with something like 800 billion options (or whatever the ASUS marketing team determined), but by default it kind of pulsates between colors in a really soothing, “I want to bear your android children” sort of way. On the front, you’ve got your slim DVD burner along with access to a mic jack, a headphone jack, and two USB 3.0 ports. If you’re more of a rear-entry kind of guy, you’ve got two each of USB 3.1, 3.0, and 2.0 ports, one HDMI out, 1 RJ45 LAN jack, 7.1 channel audio output, and two DC-in plugs for the external power supply. Personally, I think it’d be pretty difficult to argue against this tower being attractive. It has a matte black finish that’ll show pretty much anywhere you ever touch it, but aside from that, it’s discreet and makes a statement all at the same time. Aesthetically, it’s at least a 9 out of 10. It’s also incredibly quiet. At idle it’s only 22 decibels, and even when under a decent amount of strain, it’s still significantly quieter than the typical gaming computer that might lead you to believe there’s a helicopter attempting to land in your room. I’ll talk more about that when we’re going through some of the technical benchmarks later. So just to wrap up here, before we get into the really technical stuff, personally I’m very happy with the purchase. Even factoring in all of the tech specs I’m about to go over, I’d rate this computer at least an 8.5 or 9 on a scale that maxes out at ten. It packs one hell of a punch for a computer that’s about 13 x 14 x 4 inches, is beautifully designed, runs quieter than any powerful PC I’ve owned, and will deliver an above-average virtual reality experience with higher frame rates and better graphics. Considering I could only buy the components in this computer for about $200-$300 less, and that would give me a much bulkier, louder gaming rig, I think it’s an unbeatable value in the Oculus Ready lineup. If I had to make the choice again, I’d pick this one in a heartbeat. We’re officially to the point in the video that most of you can stop watching. Seriously - don’t forget to like this video and subscribe on the way out if you found it helpful. I’ll be posting all kinds of entertaining and helpful videos about virtual reality like this one. For those of you that are looking for technical benchmarks: oh boy, I hope you’ve got your lotion on standby. Let’s dive in and see what we’ve got: Lets dive in and see what we’ve got in here, in the PCMark 8 test we have a massive, and I mean massive amount of detail. This test took, I think, about 45 minutes to run and you can see all the components there – they match the specs perfectly. Obviously you’ve got the GTX980, you’ve got the Intel processor, and you see the quad core. Yes, it has hyperthreading, so basically this just verifies a lot of the specs you see on the computer, but it put it though various kinds of tests, and you can see the hottest the computer got. To kind of show you what you’re seeing here, during this particular benchmark test it was at about 69 degrees Celsius, which is just over 155 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay – out of everything, that is as hot as it got. And you can see all kinds of information here but I’m going to take you down to what I think is most important for gaming. There are actually a couple of components of this test. You can see it took it through every single one of these, and it took it through every single one these three times. It did three passes so you can see the web browsing, you can click down and see all kinds of data that I have no idea what it means, but the good thing is I do know that when you get into the mainstream gaming part 1 and part 2, obviously part 2 you can tell by the numbers, was a little more intense than part 1. We’ll actually get into this much more in depth when we get into the ‘Heaven’ benchmark, the Unigine ‘Heaven’ benchmark, but right here you can see that the first one we averaged was around 113 frames per second, and mainstream gaming part two, test part 2, we averaged just over 50 frames per second. If that in your mind connects to ‘okay, Oculus Rift at at least 90 frames per second’, don’t let these number alarm you. I’ll talk a little more about that later in the video, but you know, you got it all kinds of different specs here. Hopefully…I guess these mean more to you guys than they mean to me. I think you’ve got times on how long each one of these took, and you’ve got average frames per second…just, I mean, a crap ton of data. And, so I sat through this for 45 minutes to get one little spec basically for this video and just hope that the rest would mean something to you all. Okay, moving on from that we will cover some easy ones. Okay, so the steam VR performance test this computer scored is not quite at the peak of ready. I’ve seen computers that have a GTX980ti and they kinda come all the way over here – especially if they have a six core processor. But since this is this is just a quad core processor, and a GTX980, we’re well into the ready section so we’re gonna see, I’m gonna see great results. I’m going to seen an above average, or above minimum virtual reality experience once my Oculus Rift comes in and when I’m using the HTC behind as well. But you know its not the absolute best you can get, which you know I wouldn’t expect it to be even custom building a computer to hit all the way over into this end of the spectrum. You should probably expect to spend over 2 grand if you are building your own PC, unless you’re just finding incredible deals and are buying used components. And the GTX980 and everything else that came into this computer, after my Oculus discount, shipping, tax, everything, it came out right under $1700. I ‘m actually really happy, especially given the small form factor. So, again, you can see system specs running the GTX980 running the Intel Core i7 6700 at 3.4 gigahertz. So, you come down here, if you look at fidelity it tested really well. It tested between high and very high throughout the whole test. It didn’t drop any, it didn’t drop below 90 frames per second even once, didn’t have any CPU bound frames, so basically what this says is your computer did really well, its going to perform really well with virtual reality, and your USB capabilities haven’t been checked. But that’s fine because we come over here to the Oculus test and they have checked my USB. Now, an interesting thing to note, you’re in the Steam VR performance test and it does this really cool thing; it takes you into the aperture robot repair game, whatever it is, that Steam has developed. It runs in the background and shows your running like you would with a virtual reality headset. So it actually kinda puts us through some testing and kinda feels out your system. What’s funny about the Oculus Rift compatibility test is, that compared to the Steam VR performance test, its like…its like, basically like Oculus hired some dude to come into your house and give your commuter a solid kick, and say ‘its fine’, and then he walks away. This one takes somewhere around a minute (Steam VR), this one takes like 10 seconds (Oculus), and basically all it does is go through your computer. It doesn’t put it through any benchmark testing. It just says ‘okay, boom! You’ve got the graphics at the minimum graphics card, boom! You’ve got the memory minimum, boom! Operating system, boom! Processor, boom! UBS…okay, so it just runs though them all really quickly – even quicker than I just scroll through all that stuff. But I just find it funny how thorough this one is (Steam VR), and how this one (Oculus) just goes through your components and sees that they meet the minimums rather than seeing if they do any actual benchmarking. So we have covered so much, and we have a little bit more to go. So now I want to take you into again, I apologize if I am mispronouncing it, but the Unity ‘Heaven’ benchmark tests. I just wanted to show you the settings here. I don’t want to…again, this isn’t an old-troll, water cooled, custom built rig that you’d see on Linus tech tips, right, this is a pre-built PC ad it’s a powerful one, especially for a pre-built, but I’m not really going to run it through the ringer and run the tessellation up to the extreme, and turn on 3D and turn it up to eight times anti-aliasing. I’ve done that and it performed okay. But I felt like that was, those stats kind of represented what this is going to be testing which is how well this is going to perform with virtual reality. So I have kinda bumped up the settings to be kinda intense on it, fairly intense on it, I’ve bumped the quality up to ultra, which is the top, and bumped the tessellation from disabled to moderate. This particular benchmark test is really GPU heavy and its really gonna a heavy test on your graphics card, and its going to take a little bit of time to initiate so, after I hit run, and it starts going, I’m going to make sure to come back and show you the conclusion, show you what the benchmark comes back as, and talk a little bit about it, but I’m going to cut away after I click ‘Run’ here and show you a little bit about the computer itself. I’m going to shoot some footage of the computer, how it lights up, and hopefully get a good gauge to show you how quiet it is. Alright, so here we are taking a look, front facing at the ASUS ROG G20CB-WS71 it’s a really beautiful computer. And the reason why I wanted to record it while this particular GPU test was running was because this is as loud as I heard the computer get, which I’m hopefully going to be able to show you by taking my lavalier microphone off, which may sound kind of thumpy and harsh, and I’m going to get it kind of as close to the computer as it is to my mouth as I speak right now, so excuse me while I kinda…thump on the microphone. I’m going to try and get it as close, as I can barely hear the computer right now. Actually, I’m in my living room right now, right next to me is my kitchen, when I have the refrigerator running I can hear the refrigerator louder as its fifteen, twenty feet away, and I cant hear the computer itself. I mean, it is very, very, very quiet; even when its running something pretty intense and getting pretty hot. I want to take off the mic, and I’m going to set the mic as close to the computer as it was to my mouth as I was just recording right now. So if I get pretty close to the computer….I mean, I’m showing that on my kind of audio monitor on my camera, it is not picking up any sound at all. So I’m going to try go from the side since the front didn’t work out…so I don’t really show that anything is registering. So what I will say, because this is a wireless microphone, I actually have a Macbook Pro, not the latest generation but the generation before that, and its got the i7 processor and all that stuff. Obviously as Palmer Luckey said, you know, they just don’t make graphics cards that are going to run virtual reality. But obviously Macbooks and Macbook Pros are known for being ultra quiet. Apple kind of doesn’t like to turn on the fans unless they absolutely have to. When I render a video on my Macbook Pro, that computer is louder than this ASUS which I think is very, very noteworthy. So, with all of that in mind now that we’ve taken a look at the computer on my dirty hardwood floor, I want to take you back in and show you the results of the tests and talk to you a little bit more, and then wrap this review up. Alright, so if everything has gone according to plan you should be able to see the results of the Unigine ‘Heaven’ benchmark. And the overall score was 2545. Honestly, again, doesn’t mean a whole lot to me – I don’t know how much…how high that scale goes. Plenty of you watching this review will and I apologize for not being informed enough to tell you. But you can see at the most intense part of the test it went all the way down to 30 frames per second, which is semi-acceptable for most games if you’re running them on a computer monitor, but not really acceptable for virtual reality. So, what I do want to point out is that games that are being put on the Oculus Rift, and the games that are being put on the HTC Vive are being designed very specifically, optimized for virtual reality. This test, unfortunately, is not virtual reality specific, so when you see that dip, all the way do 30 frames per second, especially with an above minimum, an above recommended graphics card – I would say don’t worry too much. I would think that the Steam VR test was much more telling in that regard where it said that we didn’t once drop below 90 frames per second. Just remember that developers on the Rift and the HTC Vive are definitely going to optimize for a minimum of 90 frames per second; at least on the Rift, and I think the HTC as well. So, so don’t take that to heart too much. You can see our maximum frame per second were 196.2 and, again you just see all the same specs as are seen everywhere else. You see that I’m running windows, I’ve got that processor, I’ve got that graphics card, etcetera, so I’m going to go ahead and close out of here. I’m going to close and quit. There are our credits, and I’m going to go ahead and minimize that bad-boy. That does it! This has been a review of the ASUS ROG G20CB-WS71. I’ve said it so many times now my brain is fried, I hope it was helpful. My name is Ian The Virtual Reality Ginger – I run this channel and I want to make sure that virtual reality is simple and easy to understand for everyone. That is the mission fro this channel. Hopefully, I know its hard in this video, typically I try to make things pretty entertaining as well. If you liked this video please give it a thumbs up down below. 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