Just got mine the other day and the best way to describe it for me is it's decent. A good laptop with a few flaws here and there. It's mostly made of plastic (fingerprint magnet) and the top cover of the laptop (not the metal part) scratches pretty easily.

The screen does a good job of not glaring and the colours are nice but not perfect until you calibrate the colours yourself.

The keyboard is fine. Comfortable and sturdy. Also, adjustable sexy red backlighting and a bunch of useful function key functions. The gestures for the clickpad (with the drivers) work great but man clicking with it just sucks (left and right clickpad).

Alright, the CPU and GPU. I have not tried any of the resource heavy games like Battlefield or Crysis but the performance I've been getting for other games (LoL, osu!, some fps games) has been great so far. The i7 definitely runs like an i7.

On the temperature side, it does get a bit warm (but definitely not too hot) Around 80°C for the motherboard, 70°C for the CPU and the coolest was the GPU at around 65°C/under 70° (during heavy load). The fan runs quietly too, like really quiet.

The battery life, the HDD. When strictly not gaming/no media playing on Intel Graphics + power saver mode, it can last for about maybe 5 hours, 3 hours or so on the GTX 950m (ddr3). Personally, constant usage of the CPU or GPU like copying files or gaming on the GPU lasted me less than 1.5 hours. Kinda lame but it's to be expected from a 4 cell battery. The 1 TB HDD (5400 RPM) is okay overall, nothing special. Mine was pretty sluggish until I reinstalled everything from scratch.

Last but not least, the sounds. The laptop is running with Conexant drivers instead of the commonly used Realtek. It sounds great with my cheap headphones and just decent without them. Had to send my GL552 back for maintenance cause the left speaker was crackling and stuff at around 60% volume so I would really recommend those getting this baby to blast the sounds on the spot when buying.

And I'm done here

This post has been edited by Dafetti: Jul 26 2015, 02:07 PM

Can't really give too much detail about my (GL552JX-DM174H) screen model cause I sent it for repairs but I did not notice any flickering at max or lower brightness levels. But just to be safe, you should probably check out the model for yourself

This post has been edited by Dafetti: Jul 18 2015, 07:56 PM

Gave my laptop back to the shop a week before raya and just got it back this week. 2 weeks total. Aaand the speaker is still crackling.. but it doesn't vibrate like before (jittering, vibrating sound like that).

Honestly have no idea what they did with it. I asked the seller if they changed my motherboard cause my OS was reinstalled (they did a backup of my stuff) and there was a different BIOS logo (ASUS and Intel instead of just ASUS) but he said no, only reinstalled my OS and my speaker (maybe?). I don't even know anymore. Can't send it back again for now cause I need it for work and stuff.

I also went to the ROG forum and asked if anyone with the GL552 was having the same issue and a guy said no, nothing like it. Think it might be a hardware issue on my end. My only choice right now is to either send it back again and hope for the best or bring out some cash and ask them to replace my MOBO/speaker/something

This post has been edited by Dafetti: Jul 26 2015, 02:08 PM