A recent review of the Asus G501 proves that 4K gaming just cant be done on a GTX 960m graphics card. Why did they put this spec into this design in the first place? To hit a certain price point it seems the major manufacturers of gaming notebooks like MSI, Gigabyte and now still every now and then Asus have not stopped cutting corners in the wrong places.

This machine would have been better suited with a FHD screen rather than 4K, I mean why put a 4K screen on a machine that cant handle 4K and then call it a gamer?

If you want 4K, it has to have a GTX 980m card.

stated by Sean Buckley

“Performance is the difference between a good gaming laptop and a great gaming laptop. The ASUS Republic of Gamers G501 is just a good gaming laptop—and this is what kept it out of the winner’s circle in our big Bests round-up. The GeForce GTX 960M graphics chip at the heart of the machine is a good GPU, but it’s definitely a middle-range performer. This means it can play everything on the market right now, but just not at their maximum settings or the laptop’s native 4K resolution.”

“The Tragic Flaw

That big, beautiful 4K display is way, way more than the laptop’s mid-range graphics chip can handle. Sometimes it makes weird stuff happen: games configured to run full screen sometimes launch at 1080p in a tiny window on the desktop, and almost any game that tries to run at the screen’s native resolution is completely unplayable.”

http://gizmodo.com/asus-g501-lightning-review-if-the-macbook-pro-could-ga-1701243138