Asus beats rivals with first quad-core gaming notebook: the G71V

Asus has scored an industry first with its recently announced G71V notebook. The 17-inch notebook will be the first true mobile quad-core gaming notebook to be released in the market. While others may have quad-core processors in their machines, the fact that the Asus G71V got it in a mobile computing machine gives the company some bragging rights.

For those who are fond of overclocking their notebook to achieve maximum performance, they will be glad to know that despite the G71V’s stock Core 2 Extreme chip running at 2.53GHz, Asus didn’t put any hardware restriction on the G71V notebook. Hence, users can pretty much push the notebook’s performance to rival desktop PCs. More details after the break.