Mine is less than a year old, only sees use on some weekends, totally unacceptable to have a failure of this nature on a gaming laptop. I've submitted a Tech Support request. Will see how that goes.
If I have to
buy a new laptop it wouldn't be another Asus.
Intel 3960 CPU, 64GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 ram, ASUS RIVE Motherboard, ASUS GTX590, Seasonic 1200W PSU, GTX280 for physics, Corsair H100 cooling, 512GB Samsung 830SSD, Blueray reader, three 1000GB HDD's, Blackbird002EE case.