ROG 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 SSD Works 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 TGP 2. i7-13650HX - beats my Ryzen-7 5800H on my Legion 5 Pro 3. RGB bar looks awesome! 4. Battery 90Wh Neutral: 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've had this computer for about a year, it's fast, efficient, and is a wonderful gaming computer, I can play numerous high quality games without lag!

This laptop has been serving me a few years now and its still holding up strong! Ive recently upgraded to a Desktop PC and gave this one to my grandma to play roblox with! She loves it and talks about how smooth the gaming is on it

Disclaimer: I am writing this review to avail 90 day warranty extension I am writing this review almost two months after I received this beast. It has been a smooth-ish experience. It is amazing for the price. I like that it can run all my games, and I have also used it for programming. It is definitely good as an all-rounder. The battery life is unexpectedly good. Once it reached more than seven hours, which is supreme for a Windows machine. I like the large trackpad. The RGB is also a good addition. Though the laptop becomes loud in turbo mode, I find myself keeping it on either silent or balanced mode, depending on the FPS I am trying to achieve. It runs Cyberpunk max settings with path tracing at 80 FPS native resolution with DLSS Quality at 70 FPS. I can confidently say it can run every game out there at max settings. The only downside is the SSD. Maybe it is just my model, or I am not sure, but the laptop becomes extremely slow while downloading games from Steam, Epic Games, etc. It is almost unusable. Task Manager shows disk at 100% while showing only 50 MB/s writes, which are initially 200, etc. I am not sure about this, but it is not much of a hassle. I only notice it when games are updating or installing. I guess they had to cut corners to make this such a great price. The Black Friday sale made this laptop even more worth it. I paid 1300$ because it had to be shipped to Qatar. It is much cheaper than the alternatives here, though, so worth it. Overall, I am giving this laptop a 5 stars. If only the SSD was better, this would be a perfect laptop. I guess I will probably buy a better SSD later, as this laptop has two NVMe slots.

When it runs it runs good. Plays games up to par without issues when it wants to. My main issue with this laptop is that the USB (C and A) drives decide randomly to cut out and you cant get them to work again until to restart the laptop. Can be very frustrating. I deleted the drivers and reinstalled them with no avail. Also another weird thing is when im using my headphones for gaming the sound card screws up sometimes and i hear sounds in the wrong ear until i unplug and re plug in my headset. sometimes even that doesnt fix it... i know its not my headset because on my tower i never have that issue. im fairly conviced that its a mobo issue pertaining to usb ports. also very frustrating. AND THEN after x amount of hours using the pc just starts running slow as dog and practically almost freezing. i originally thought it was thermal throttling but i checked the temps and it happens sometimes when its not doing anything graphically demanding... overall i wouldnt recommend im sending mine back. do yourself a favor and grab an acer predator lmao

Three months in using, Right off the bat I personally Got this on black Friday on a massive discount but even without that this laptop really gives you your bang for the buck, it came without even a minor scratch given this was imported from my country in South Asia(good shipping experience) everything so far has just worked except for minor rare crashes here and there while booting games(might be my external hard disk to blame) Runs well, haven't benchmarked it or anything but can assure anyone that if not defective this beast will run anything you throw at it with conveniently playable frames, does weigh quite a lot though( I know duh!) so keep that in my mind, screenns great, rgb has a lot of customization options, the battery is fine for a gaming laptop, really tactile keyboards, material used feels really premium, performance really takes the crown but just know that on extreme setting both on the game and on the armory(native performance control center) things tend to Get real loud real fast, so that is what I have to say about this, am really satisfied with my product and hope you will too( If you decide to buy it), have a nice day and peace be with you.

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.

Rceiving a warranty extension from ASUS for this Review* Right out of the gate this laptop is impressive. Everything I've thrown at it, it's played very well. The new 40 series graphics cards features really help with this. The laptop is sturdily built with no deck flex around the keyboard. The screen is 1200p which is a little more than FHD and in the 16" size it looks great. No lightbleed and a strong contrast ratio. Yes you can easily open it up and replace the memory and add another m.2 SSD. The memory is dual channel and the m.2 size is the full length size. Yes the thing is quiet even under some light load. Of course the fans will ramp up if you throw something very demanding at it BUT looking at temps for the CPU/GPU show that it's very well cooled. I haven't seen the CPU go over 85c nor the GPU over 65c as of yet. The power plug is in an odd spot though, it's in the center of the right hand side and with the power brick being so large that might cause trouble for some when trying to position it somewhere. There's an odd issue with the 3.5mm headphone jack where using an earbud with an inline microphone can cause some weird sound issues. Upon looking online I see that low impedance headphones might suffer from these sorts of issues on certain laptops. In my testing using expensive headphones with high impedance show no sign of this issue so that could very well be the issue. I also find the trackpad can be a bit funky, it will sometimes not register clicks and more frequently won't register two finger scrolling correctly. I've tried reinstalling drivers and tweaking settings for both the audio/trackpad issue but nothing has seemed to help. This is a new laptop after all so I'm hoping these issues can get sorted out soon.