The worst out of box experience I've ever had with a new laptop. BSOD on start up, re-installation of windows was a complete PITA (disable VMD if you want your drive to be recognized), and black screens from 5090. I don't game much and was using this laptop for AI related things. I have an external monitor that is 240hz, but the screen would randomly black out. I disabled G-SYNC etc., but would crash often and freeze. I tried rolling back NVIDIA drivers etc. but still sucked. Unfortunate. Read more

The whole machine looks awesome, it's a joy of colors especially in the dark, I got the scar 16 with the i9 14th gen and the 4080, it can handle everything, in games I play everything at max, I don't even bother to lower the settings, nvidia dlss and frame generation takes the experience to another level, the only game that I touch settings is fortnite so I can play always at 240fps, the screen looks amazing, it is very bright, even at daylight you can see it perfectly, at night I always have it at minimun since it's very bright, I know there is certain concern about coil whine in some units, but on mine there is not such thing, I kinda heard it a the very first days of owning it but now it is kind of heardless or gone. Recently I have seen some videos of complaints about asus's warranty and their products, but also they have some of the nicests and top notch devices, and they are always trying to be at the top along with other companies. So far I haven't have any issues with it, I used to have another asus laptop which I got like 10 years ago, and I never had any problems with it aside from getting outdated for the new games and programs. This new laptop it's quite expensive but the effort was totally worth it. Read more

Everything is amazing in the laptop, It run all games well and work good and look good as well BUT it keep overheating no matter what I do! I even got a thermal pad but it doesnt help it and even undervolting it doesnt really give me a lot differance other then games start to stutter! would be a 5/5 if not the overheating issue which I know how to fix.... BUT Repasting it will VOID WARRANTY! so I will not do it and suffer. Read more

Decent, if overpriced laptop. This 2024 version has an Intel 14900HX CPU and the nVidia RTX 4080 laptop GPU w/12GB DDR6 video memory, 32 GB DDR5 SO-DIMM system memory; comes with 1TB SK hynix NVME SSD, I added a second NVME myself (Samsung 990Evo 2TB) for storage. The screen is nice, high refresh rate but only 16" so a come down from my desktop system's large 4K. Nonetheless, it looks great. Some minor scaling issues, but that was software based and seems to be solved. Heat has been an issue, so I got a laptop cooling 'pad' w/ 2 fans and it's doing better. Seems to run cooler, just noisy (but wearing headphones I hardly notice it). If it's throttling at the higher temps, I haven't noticed it in performance during gaming. I used it a lot at the beginning, but then switched to my desktop when I upgraded that (finally). Still, I'm glad I have it for when I have to travel. I've not had any failure so far. Read more

Its everything you expect for top tier laptop. It's heavy and the charger is also heavy. So if you trave lots get the thinner ROG with a 4090. Read more