Pefect laptop for gaming, delete the asus software though its buggy. I actually upgraded to 96gb ddr memory in it and it works perfectly. Upgraded 2nd drive to 4tb. Easy to work with system.

So, my previous laptop was starting to show signs of failure, which meant it was time to get a new laptop. I shopped around and looked at reviews. Their were two types people focus when shopping for laptops: the literal on-the-go, compact, multi-day battery types of laptop; the other the high-powered, alternate to your desktop kind of laptop. Out of all the present models I chose the Asus ROG Strix for having an excellent balance of efficiency and power. Now I need to note that this review can't be a direct review of a new laptop as I got mine from Amazon Warehouse (lightly, once used tech resold at a discount). So I do not know what a version of this laptop fresh out-of-the-box is like. I can review how this laptop has been, and so far it has been excellent. It's light-weight and compact yet has a bigger screen than my original 14" laptop. The fans are quiet most of the time and running at top power they are still smooth with minimum noise. It has a descent size touch pad (it does not come with a number pad on it) that is not over-sensitive and works as well as a mouse. As for the batter life, it's unclear how long it can really last (I estimate it at between 4-6 hours without major features running). As for the physical features It comes with two regular USB ports on the right side next to each other, a LAN line port, an HDMI, and two USB-C ports on the left. The body and frame is a solid yet smooth metal-like plastic. It also has an LED light running along the front of the underside. Both that and the keyboard can have their lights and color chanced using ASUS's armory crate app that also lets you control most other features of the computer. All in all I love my new laptop and have been enjoying using it and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a new computer.

Great gameplay, but too many tweaks and manual settings required to use/keep this gaming laptop. (I got the model w the i9-14900HX and the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070. 32g RAM.) So firstly... it does definitely play/display games amazingly. I mainly play World of Warcraft and i have all the settings on high and i put an fps can on at 100, and it holds that 100 STEADY like i've pretty much barely ever seen it drop below that yet. Smooth gameplay and the world looks so good on the 18" screen. THE PROBLEM..... if you use Asus's manual settings in their "armoury crate" app which is the software that lets you control fans and power and all that..... eventually this thing will damage itself. I had it on what's supposed to be a "balanced" mode so not too much power usage and no turbos or overclocking on anything, and when it's in that mode it BARELY kicks your fans on! It still was playing great but it let my CPU temp jump up to 87C and it was still climbing but to protect the longevity of this laptop i shut the game and went back to armoury crate. My fix has been throwing it "Manual Mode" and setting my own custom fan curves (I set them to come on much stronger much sooner than the base Asus settings would) and this has helped a LOT. Last night i played WoW for like 4 hours and my CPU temp never exceeded 72 which is really good in game under load temp. But again my point is....... If not for my manual setting..... this laptop would beat itself to death. I'd like to be able to recommend this gaming laptop to other buyers but in my right mind, i can not. Between those awful built in fan/power settings , AND then also the random CPU temp spikes i see while idling (and NO i do NOT have any background apps running lol, anddddd i stopped any unnecessary background tasks/processes as well.) I'll still sometimes see my idle CPU temp randomly jump from 43 (awesome idle temp) up to like 64 (AWFUL idle temp, this is the temp of a pc that's under a moderate load.....not idle.) So between Armoury Crate, fans, power settings and CPU spikes....... i'm sorry but I have to say no, do not purchase this gaming laptop. Save your money and checkout some other companies and hopefully you find something better than this! Hope you appreciate the honest review and good luck in the hunt for a solid gaming PC

Such great screen quality and the heat level is perfect along with the performance and sound quality ! The battery life is awesome and the durability is beyond what I expected !

So far its been working great, thermals are good with its cooling. The manufacture site states it only supports 32gb RAM but that's in correct. I've installed Crucial RAM 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5 4800MHz CL40 Laptop Memory CT2K32G48C40S5 with no issues all 64GB show up and usable. My only complaint is all the attention went into its performance and screen quality but its speakers are very lacking in sound and quality! I had ordered the Creative Pebble V2 - Minimalistic 2.0 USB-C Powered Desktop Speakers and at 30% volume on those Pebble speakers equaled the laptops speakers volume at 100%. Its got built in Bluetooth that I've used with headphones and its sounds great. Has room inside for a second M.2 drive. You get two usb type a A plugs and two usb type c one of which can be used to supply power to the laptop or fast charge your phone from. Also has an HDMI and LAN port. Over all im pretty happy with it, I have it setting on the IETS GT500 laptop cooler at Idle GPU temp stays at 32c and CPU stays around 40-45c. Playing 7 days to die on steam GPU temps are around 55-57c and CPU stays around 70-78c with spikes upto 85c. Haven't benchmarked it much but on Cinebench R23 the I9-13980HX CPU in this laptop got 3rd scoring 1336 pts on (single core) with the I7-1165G7 taking 1st and 2nd with 1st place score of 1532 pts. It got 2nd in (multicore) with a score of 24514 pts the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990wx had 1st with its score of 30054 in (multicore).

El HDR de esta computadora se nota demasiado, diferente a una laptop full HD,el sonido Dolby Atmos se nota mucho y suena bien configurado correctamente. Se puede expandir hasta 64 GB de ram aunque en las especificaciones diga que solo 16. A veces parpadea cuando lo conecto a la corriente al inicio pero se recupera así que no es ningún problema. Estoy satisfecha con la compra 👍 El diseño es muy lindo, ya saben entre más rgb más fps. Solo falta probarlo para transmitir en twitch, espero y no decepcione.

El equipo es un equipo muy completo. Por el precio al que la compré fue una excelente realación costo-prestaciones. Algunos detalles que puedo compartir son los siguientes: Los materiales de construcción son muy buenos. La sensación al tacto del prástico utilizado es muy buena. Se siente muy bien construida. La bateria a configuración máxima de trabajo dura aproximadamente 2 horas sin estar jugando. Jugando Fall Gays por ejemplo dura algo así como 1 hora 20 minutos. Para hacer que dure la bateria obviamente hay que reconfigurar el equipo. Bajar la frecuencia de pantalla, configurar la tarjeta de video en modo standar, bajar la retroiluminación del teclado, etc, permite que la bateria dure hasta 5 horas en un uso "de oficina". La tecla enter de pronto se confunde con las teclas que estan junto a ella por que el enter en pequeño. además de que cerca del enter se encuentran las teclas de flechas de dirección y a veces presionas las teclas de las flechas en lugar del enter. Nunca he usado las teclas multimedia que estan al final del teclado del lado derecho. Con el cargador conectado, cualquier programa que yo utilice (simuladores de electrónica, office, juegos, etc) funcionan de maravilla y extremadamente todo muy fluido al reconfigurar todo el sistema en configuraciones de máximo desempeño. obvimanete cuando se tiene conectado el cargador (que parece un ladrillo y pesa como un ladrillo) se puede usar la frecuencia de pantalla a 240Hz y la experiencia visual es muy buena. Los ventiladores en general son muy silenciosos. Obviamente cuando se está jugando, se ponen a maxima capacidad pero el ruido no es tan molesto como otros equipos que he tenido. El diseño del equipo es muy compacto respecto a otras laptopgaming. Es decir, no es tan voluminosa como otros equipos; obviamente el peso es mayor que una laptop de tipo slim. En conclusión, es un equipo bastante completo con prestaciones extraordinarias

Used for gaming and running multiple vms. This laptop is a beast

After a year of using this laptop, I am honestly impressed with it I brought it to an Asus Service center (🤣just for a Bio update) and was reassured that everything was up to par, only difference was that this is a USA model Thus far, these are the main points of consideration for future buyers: - trusted brand and quality - a solid year of usage without issues - no overheating or freeze frames - tried on multiple games including Triple A titles - prolonged usage on streaming platforms (binge watching 🤣) - overall excellent and quality product So conclusion is, just buy it

I edited my comment as i am having problems on this design. Plugging in the power when the battery almost low, shuts down the laptop and won’t turn back on. Had it repaired as it was still under warranty. mother board was damage and had it replaced. From time to tine Monitor black out and had it hard reseted 3 times before monitors display something. 3 months after buying problems starts to appear. Pretty much disappointed on this laptop.