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 laptop for years and it still works flawlessly. Highly recommend, and when I got it, it was on sale for about a grand! I recommend you swap the RAM for 32gb if the prices ever drop. Turns this thing into a beast! I edit videos for full-time work, and this thing handles After Effects and Premiere easily! (Besides windows being windows for these programs). As for gaming, yeah, this thing does just fine. Max out Diablo 4 or Elden Ring just fine.

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.

Dead. Completely dead. No power, no charge LED, nothing. One day it worked fine, the next morning it was a $1,500 paperweight. I did every troubleshooting step: removed the battery, tried AC power only, swapped chargers, held the power button — zero response. Opened it up and found the cause immediately: a burned/corroded area on the motherboard right next to the left fan screw. This is a widely documented defect in the 2023-2024 G614J series where an improperly sized screw shorts out the PCB. Don't take my word for it. Go to the ROG Forum and search "G614J motherboard burnt" — you'll find thread after thread of owners with the exact same failure on the exact same spot. ASUS even started putting insulating tape on that area in later production batches, which tells you everything you need to know about whether they knew about this problem. No recall. No service advisory. Just customers left dealing with a dead laptop and an out-of-warranty runaround. If you already own one of these: open your back panel NOW and check the area near the left fan screw for any signs of discoloration or damage. You might catch it before it kills your board. Photos of the damage attached. Model: G614JV-AS73.

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.

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.

Better than I expected and bought it for $1,390. I chose between several brands and studied competitors for about 2 weeks. Many competitors had up to $1,500, had a poor quality of the screen, the case, or they did not turn on at all. Judging by the reviews, a large number of defective models were commonplace on 4060 and 4070 video cards. As for this model, the pros: The laptop turns on without defects! I was looking for intel i7 13 xxx and rtx 4060/4070 graphics card. Decent performance, excellent build quality. The screen is good, nvidia g-sync, 165hz, pantone + dolby vision certified (without standard HDR) The sound from the speakers is normal with dolby atmos. The keyboard is gorgeous with backlight in several zones and is pressed pleasantly. There is a MUX switch. The metal cover of the laptop. Quiet and cold compared to other laptops in this price category. Disadvantages: Inconvenient USB-A on the right side if you are right-handed and you have a wired mouse. (I bought a USB-C to USB-A adapter) Inconvenient charging port on the left side in the center (the wire is heated by the cooling system). The screen is 8 bits (without standard HDR). The absence of the numpad that is on the images. Overall, I am very satisfied, the rating for this price (under 1500$) is 10/10.

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.