i had an Asus g751jy a 4th gen i7 and a nvidia GTX 965m, and I tell ya it booted in one windows loop you know the little circle thing that spins around and with my AW17 takes up to 5 times and I even have raid 0 M.2 drives, my read is over 1,000 and write is about 700, this system should be loading windows in one heart beat and well it doesnt, also file and folder access is slow or hangs before it can get information which talks me its the motherboard and crappy brands being used so im very disappointed, the only thing I can say is I havent seen not one issue from what ive read the AW17R4 has more problems then most laptops however I must be lucky. Anyways just my 2 cents, I am currently looking for a new gaming laptop the area 51 looks great but reviews are reporting seeing high temps in the 100's while gaming they need to get better cooling platform designed here or else there flagship will end up burning ur house down