ASUSROG Strix G16 (2023) Gaming Laptop, 16” 16:10 FHD 165Hz, GeForce RTX 4060, Intel Core i7-13650HX, 16GB DDR5, 512GB PCIe SSD, Wi-Fi 6E, Windows 11, G614JV-AS73, Eclipse Gray

I wanted to buy another laptop for work purposes but also be useful for travelling and for gaming so I saw this laptop for sale during Black Friday! Excellent purchase! Here is my pros and cons after a week of owning this:Con:1. 1920 x 1200 FHD 165Hz Display is very much an downgrade against my Legion 5 Pro 16" 2560 x 1600 IPS LCD 165Hz Display... But I guess with the parts offered, ASUS had to make some budget cuts somewhere I guess... (for the model I've chosen and not wanting to spend more than $1500 USD).2. Automatic MUX Switching is annoying... it optimizes which option to best suit for your current usage at the time (e.g. if you ran an game vs closing the game and brings you to the desktop). The automatic switch seems like its great and all but it ruins the display setting and when an game is playing, it switches again and sends you back to the desktop and ruins the display setting/resolution once more... Its best to just set it on the dedicated GPU option so you dont have to deal with this...3. Standard SSD Capacity is too low (again with cost saving measures but literally everyone these days just buy additional SSD stick anyways)... so snagged an SK.Hynix P41 SSD 2TB stick on sale to manually install for loading heavy application and games on there; really easy to install and easy to unscrew the back; there is an empty NVMe Gen4 M.2 2280 slot for you to install your SSDWorks Great after installing correctly and no Issues now! (make sure after install of SSD, just load into Windows and open up disk management to reformat (quick format! never full on SSD!) No need to tinker with BIOS setting...Do not tighten the SSD screws too much where the stick bends! thats incorrect! screw in ever so slightly so that the stick itself wont lodge out or move at all.Pros:1. RTX 4060 8GB - 140W Max TGP2. i7-13650HX - beats my Ryzen-7 5800H on my Legion 5 Pro3. RGB bar looks awesome!4. Battery 90WhNeutral:1. RGB Keys - heard mixed reviews on ASUS's design on this; of course, the Legion 5 RGB keyboard design is the best of the best but this is just okay and its not too bad in my eyes.2. Same weight and nearly the same dimensions as my Legion 5 Pro so portability is the same-ish but way better than my old MSI gaming laptop from 2017 where you can put this in your backpack and still have room to put other accessories and such.This is all I've noticed currently but either way, its a great mid-tier gaming laptop! I can run cyberpunk all max setting without issues or framerate drops and every other AAA game titles up to this point... This laptop should last an long time until AAA games becomes more graphically intense and requiring more processing power... but again this is the best you can get for your money and highly recommend!

I'll start from the end - it's an excellent laptop.I will not write the advantages or disadvantages, instead I will write why it is a balanced and suitable for gaming on a sane budget.It has an RTX 4060 GPU with 8GB of RAM. On the one hand, it is excellent for gaming on 1080p, on the other hand, it also allows you to play in high resolutions using DLSS 3 / 3.5.More expensive laptops with RTX 4070 will indeed provide higher performance, but the card also comes with 8GB of RAM, which means that at higher resolutions it will probably cause a bottleneck.Cheaper laptops with RTX 4050 are not worth the price since the card is both weaker and has only 6GB of RAM - can bottleneck some modern games even on 1080p.The rest of the hardware - the CPU delivers great performance, the RAM is not soldered and therefore can be upgraded if needed and there is an additional slot for an another SSD.I bought it on sale ($1100 before tax and shipping) and am very satisfied, definitely recommend.

The media could not be loaded. Gaming: Absolutely fantastic, performance was wonderful, although the fans were quite loud during gameplay (especially while playing Cyberpunk 2077)Display: pretty good display, can't say anything bad about it, I'm not some person who needs the screen hz to be super high... Especially on a small screen.Sound Quality: It's okay for a gaming laptop, but definitely use headphones or connect it to a soundbar which I have.Heat: The 3 fans are doing a fantastic job cooling the laptop, it goes from 57-60°C on idle to around 77- 81 ° C during heavy gameplay. Fans get as loud as 46.5 dBA.Weight: hell of a lot lighter than my Dell G15 which weighs at around 5.8 lbs, while this one weighs in at around 5.5 lbs. Which I didn't expect.Ports : 2 USB Type A ports, 1 HDMI, 1 USB type C thunderbolt4 port, 1 USB Type C with Display port & PD charger support, 2.5G LAN RJ-45 Jack, and an Audio combo jack.What I'm most excited about is the Thunderbolt4 I can finally connect an EGPU to it.If you're looking at this, you're not gonna have a lot of regrets buying it.

I initially left a brutally scathing albeit polite review of this product, because on the initial startup it failed to operate correctly and was overall a terrible device. After a hard reset and a week of usage, I am happy to report that it is not only beautiful, but powerful. This laptop can run ANY AAA game on its own, with stunning graphics and amazing framerate. It even recieves my crappy wifi better, so games that used to give me ~180 ping now settle down to a clean 40. When hooked up to an eGPU, it maintains the straight of performance but can run silently as well. I am glad the reset gave me full functionality of this device, it is truly a remarkable piece of technology.