I just came from an electronics store and was about to buy this laptop because of this review. Thank god that i brought a flashdrive with benchmark and testing tools along and they let me test the demo display unit with them.
This review and laptop are utter garbage, just running prime95 along with HWinfo temp values jump in liteally 1~2 seconds from 36c to 93c and CPU gets INSTANT throttling @2.1ghz with 85~87c temps for the rest of the stress test and it stays there forever, its cooling system is unable to keep up with the cpu load. What is the point in buying an i7 CPU if you have to run it below i5 performance so it does not burn itself?
It seems that his kind of behavior is now the norm and the throttling "feature" has been widely accepted as something normal, while it is not. Thermal throttling is not a feature but a safety measure so the cpu does not damage itself, meaning that the cpu temp it is actually reaching a point that the integrated cooling solution should never allow to happen in any device, ever.
I was forced to sell my MSI GE70 2PE Apache pro for this same reason, so it's not an issue with Asus or any particular brand.