Question 1

How much does it weigh?

Accepted Answer

Thing is pretty heavy if I had to roughly guess maybe like 10-15lbs? If you want I can update tomorrow and actually weigh it on a scale

Question 2

can it play blue ray discs ?

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The version I received did not have Blue Ray capabilities. Amazing laptop however for gaming.

Question 3

Can the GPU be replaced/upgraded?

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No the gpu and cpu are permanently part of the motherboard and not a addon card newer processors would have different voltages and probable more connections BUT by the time a 980 gets outdated it will by many years and time to upgrade all parts

Question 4

Is it able to be downgraded to windows 7?

Accepted Answer

I know, Win 10 is as bad as ME or Vista. --- I wouldn't try it. This comes with nothing but a little pamplet that tells you near nothing. There is no recovery software or anything you can fall back on if things go wrong. On the other hand, It is very big, VERY heavy. It is beautiful but has quirks. Here is another problem with your Window 7 plan,,Pick any ASUS product on Newegg and read the reviews, you will find, as I did, ASUS customer service sucks big time. So if you are going to purchase, I highly recommend purchasing Neweggs 3 year maximum protection plan as I did. That will keep ASUS out of the loop for a while.

Question 5

Can you add a SSD if you wanted to in the future or just upgrade the hard drive?

Accepted Answer

There is are 2 slots in the first bay, and one of them will take a M.2 PCIe SSD, however it does NOT come with the mounting bracket for the SSD.  This took me a bit of research to find, but there is a 3D printable mounting bracket for purhcase on Shapeways under the shop "aeolisio".

Question 6

How does it work?

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I bought this girl as a desktop replacement.   She easily handles all I can throw at her both in the gaming world and for work.  Amazing bang for the buck.  Big and heavy so p_ssys should probably pass.

Question 7

Is this laptop VR ReadY?

Accepted Answer

I haven't received the laptop yet, but I have read that you need to overclock both the CPU and GPU.  A commenter on reddit (Aboba_) said they were able to overclock the Asus ROG G751JY in order to hit the benchmark for oculus ready.  They stated ("I am using mine right now with DK2, Win10/SDK0.8 without any difficulties even at stock clocks.")  ....("For overclocking, I'm using the intel extreme tuning utility for the CPU and Asus' GPU Tweak for the graphics.")  They also updated the Nvidia drivers to 358.78.  The comment was made around Feb. 2016.

Question 8

Few questions. 
Can this run the TB HDD and a SSD drive at the same time? are there enough ports for 2?
If I get a M.2 SDD do i have to remove the HDD?
What type of M.2 SSD can it run? SATA/PCI?
What size M.2 SSD?
What size SSD if not M.2?

Accepted Answer

Other answer is misleading.  You can run 2 drives from the first bay and 1 from the 2nd.  Using a custom 3D printable bracket from Shapeways (shop "aeolisio"), you can put 2 drives in Bay 1 -- one being an M.2 PCIe drive and the other being a naked SATA SSD >250 gb, stripped down with the case removed.  Even without the custom bracket, you can run a TB HDD and an SSD because there are 2 bays.

Question 9

What size/version is the M.2 slot?

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Yup, I've got it on mine. It is in the primary drive bay (there are two), left bay, at the top if you flip the unit over left to right. You can fit anything up to m.2 2280 form factor.

Question 10

So can it come with windows 10 on it with still having the SSD 24GB RAM and 4 GB VRAM? or can i only get that with windows 8.1?

Accepted Answer

It came with Windows 10 when I received it,

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