Customer Ratings & Reviews

A bit expensive and they nickel and dimed me with loads of extras but was only offered and self inflicted ……. overall a great deal and worth the money !

I have it for a year and it still works and it’s soo the when am playing gaming and when doing work as well it good laptop

Overall a great gaming laptop. We have used it as a different gaming laptop. Each game specs are different and can hold more than one game.

As usual asus delivered a top notch laptop but the experience at the Best Buy store when trying to price match is always lackluster

Great for the children . Is great for a comfort and tome passer while traveling with children

Great system - especially the R.O>G> hub in which you can change the performance of your fan and other factors for gameplay. Great laptop!

This is a tough Laptop. My only problem is that is does not come with a Lan Port. Only wireless.

If you need a gaming laptop with high performance, this is it. Sxreen has a refresh rate of 120hz making gameplay buttery smooth.

Hybrid drives are annoying but it's an ok laptop for what I wanted it for. Something to use to game if I dont want to be sitting at my desktop.

It’s a really amazing laptop it functions as a gaming laptop and as a college laptop amd it’s got a hint of everything. that’s why I like it.

The good: great power, performance, looks, screen, keyboard, cooling system. The bad: kind of loud when pushed, only just one USB-c port

I bought this laptop to replace a previous gaming laptop. It works great and is super portable. Runs every game I've tried great.

This is my first gaming PC and wow I must say I'm absolutely impressed! The quality is amazing! ASUS you've gained a new customer!

This gaming laptop meets all our basic requirements and my son is enjoying it, hopefully for many years with the newer processor.

This is an overall really good laptop, as to be expected from ASUS. It has a 120hz screen, which basically means it is MUCH smoother than your standard screen (2 times smoother to be exact) and the difference this makes in playing games is huge. 120hz can mean the difference between hitting or missing a shot in games like Overwatch and Fortnite. The GTX 1060 inside can easily power these games at 120 fps on high settings. The GTX 1060 is a powerful midrage GPU, gaining 11% more performance than the GTX 970. What this means in real world performance is that you shouldn't be seeing any stuttering unless you're trying to do something that would be completely unreasonable for this card. (i.e. play a game in 4K at high settings) This is a very capable GPU, and shouldn't bottleneck you at all. Another thing I am very pleased to see is the inclusion of a Thunderbolt 3 port. Even though one of the typical benefits of thunderbolt 3 is the charging capability, that cannot be used here as the laptop requires too much power. The reason that the inclusion is so important is that it future-proofs the laptop by allowing for an external GPU enclosure. The GTX 1060 will eventually become obsolete. That is just something you have to expect with computer hardware. The thunderbolt 3 port can mitigate the need for an entirely new laptop by allowing you to breathe new life into the laptop by buying a GPU enclosure, a new GPU, and plugging it into the laptop. Moving onto the CPU, it is a 6-core, 12-threaded i7, which means it is FAST. On Cinebench R20 it did better than the desktop 7700K processor, which is impressive. The exact Cinebench score I achieved on this laptop was 2662. Now, moving onto the other parts of the laptop. The build is amazing, featuring aluminum for the keyboard area and the area covering the screen. There is plastic for the bottom panel and screen bezels, but that doesn't make the build feel cheap at all. The laptop is thin and looks really nice. There is very little, if any, flex in the keyboard area and your hands never get hot even if you're pushing the laptop really hard. The keyboard itself feels nice, with a perfect amount of travel for me that I can jump around as Lucio in Overwatch with no issues at all, which is very important for his kit. The port selection is great, with 4 USB A ports, 1 HDMI port, 1 AUX port, and 1 Thunderbolt 3 Port. Now, I will move to the not so good areas of the laptop. Moving to the track-pad, this is one area of the laptop I don't like a whole lot. The surface is nice, but the preinstalled drivers aren't the best and the tracking isn't as nice as it could be. The size is small, but it is good if you install different drivers. You can disable it with Fn+F10 which is really nice if you're playing games and don't want to bump the track-pad. Another area that I really dislike is the RGB lighting on the keyboard. If you have it set to rainbow, it can freeze up in the middle of a game, requiring a restart of the Aura Core software for the rainbow pattern to start going again. The biggest issue I have with the laptop, the only thing keeping it from a 5 star rating for me, is the cooling. I get that overboost increases the power draw of the components and increases the temps, and I am fine with that. Increased power draw means better performance. The big thing is if you have it set to Balanced, which it is out of the box, it will throttle when it hits 78 degrees Celsius. This happens during battles in Overwatch, and it drops to 20 FPS. This shouldn't happen. Maybe the balanced mode could limit the FPS to 80 so it doesn't get that warm in the first place, or maybe there could be a change to the software so that you can change that temperature limit. Regardless, this behavior isn't optimal. Keeping it on overboost is fine for me because I didn't buy a gaming laptop to use in a coffee shop or anything, but because I just wanted a gaming machine I could bring around with me to wherever I was going. Overall, this laptop gets a recommendation from me, even with the few minor gripes I have with it. It is very powerful for the form factor, and performs very well due to the specs it has. I am very happy with this laptop, and I'd say that if you're on the fence about the laptop to go and buy it unless you see a better spec'ed laptop on sale for cheaper.

I would of given 5 stars but for a gaming computer there isnt a place for disc which I find disappointing.

Off all the laptops that I compared before buying this has the better specs price wise. My kids love using it for games and school.

I have very few complaints. Overall a great machine. My biggest gripe is lack of control of features like keyboard lighting.

Bought this for my daughter, she requested it, and said she had done research on the model. So far she is loving it.

Love my computer but I am having minor issues. I will be contacting Geek Squad soon though so I can understand more features.