Customer Ratings & Reviews

Is a good Laptop for on the go gaming. Amazing screen.

Love it. Would buy again, great gaming laptop! Recommending to all my friends!

I'll give this laptop a perfect score! Not because it's perfect but if you consider its pricing I guess it really is! Sure it lacks the biometrics but if you are a serious gamer you don't really need that. All you need is a machine that has a great screen, high level of performance and a very great cooling system. Ran every game I thrown at it at QHD with my temps not going above 90°C. Very satisfied with my purchase.

The laptop is amazing all my games could play in the highest settings. Love it. I too jave that weird sound while gaming but i feel like it’s normal.

Works great. Very fast loading times. Can push any game out there with ease.

This laptop is amazing! The speed is incredible and the picture is unmatched.

So far it has exceeded my expectations. It can handle any game on high settings no problem. The display is beautiful and is amazing to watch. All applications open and run extremely fast. I absolutely love this laptop and have zero complaints.

Great laptop!!! Big screen, fast and powerful. I recommend.

The overall performance is great. No display bleed, No wired noise. Everything good.

Zero problems with my unit, backlight bleed was very minor and well within expected ranges with an IPS panel. Really wish Asus wouldn’t be so stingy with the RAM, but it’s a very easy upgrade. All in all a very good buy especially compared to a scar 18 or Alienware M18

Pros- Beautiful, fast 18" qhd 240hz panel. I measured 488 nits max brightness, 99.9% SRGB, 99% DCI-P3, and 86% AdobeRGB. Full 240hz is great, and I can't see any noticeable ghosting. Amazing performance and excellent price/performance. The maxed out i9 13980HX is outstanding for all manner of productivity and with thermal velocity boost (TVB) single core performance is also really good! The 4080 is really close to the 4090 in the Scar (the scar has 10-15% more frames in games on average) while costing way less. The conductonaut extreme liquid metal does a great job keeping all core thermal loads in check - 120w all core in blender and cinebench have temps barely at 80c. Fan noise is actually better than my other previous gaming laptops. The keyboard feels nice, and the touchpad is excellent. The armory crate software is bloated, but is overall useful. The plastic build doesn't feel cheap, and the weight savings is much appreciated. This machine can travel without feeling like a desktop replacement in weight. There's an adequate amount of ports, and the 2.5g ethernet is a great addition. Charging through usb-c is also great when away from my desk where this machine sits 90% of the time. Cons- After reading the first bit, why only 2 stars? Memory support. The website only goes as far as to say that 32GB is supported. That's accurate. But I went through 5, yes, -FIVE- 32GB kits until I got the machine to boot with one. G.Skill, Kingston, Team Group, Corsair, and finally Crucial. This machine apparently does NOT support dual rank ram or dual sided ram. It also will not support 4800mt/s at any faster than CL40. In fact, the only timings I could get to boot was a Crucial kit that is 40-39-39. The CL34 4800 kit wouldn't boot. The dual rank 2Rx8 kits wouldn't take. It shouldn't have been this difficult to find a kit to upgrade to 32GB! The i9 also is supposed to support 5600 mt/s ram, but this machine does not for some reason. The i9 cpu in this machine is supposed to be unlocked (all of the HX chips are supposed to be unlocked) and this means that the chip is able to be overclocked or undervolted (and NO, the -30mv in BIOS isn't good enough). ASUS somehow thinks this should be disabled. Please add this ASUS - this is an enthusiast's machine and your competition allows both undervolting and overclocking (msi, razer, alienware, etc) of the cpu. Coil Whine - I believe every unit will have the small electronic mice making noises constantly when utilizing the GPU. That means doing anything hardware accelerated or playing games you will hear this constant and sometimes loud noise. This isn't as noticeable when the fans ramp up in speed. This isn't normal, and other brands do not suffer from this - but I will admit that the other brands are more expensive also. You get what you pay for? Primary SSD runs HOT. Constantly hitting 70c when just simply copying some photos and videos (about 50gb). It would have been nice to get a displayport output to not have to buy an adapter to connect to my high refresh external display (which doesn't have hdmi 2.1). Even a mini displayport would have been acceptable. Battery life? Really I didn't expect much when actually using the machine and it is about what I expected. About 3-4 hours actually using it. It could have been a bigger 99.9 Wh battery but that honestly wouldn't have moved the needle on battery that much. Just would have been a nice to have thing. OVERALL- As awful as the cons are, I just don't see a better option with these specs and 16:10 aspect ratio at 18". Some of these things I will have to live with (coil whine, lack of ports) and some can be fixed with a firmware update (unlocked cpu, better ram support). It's up to ASUS to continue support and provide fixes for this machine, and I wouldn't advise anyone to buy this expecting anything needing firmware/BIOS patches to ever be enabled/patched (again cpu unlocked/ram support). Buy this if you can't stomach another grand to get another brand and learn to live with it's faults? That's what I plan to do...

Ive had this monster of a computer for some time now with no issues at all. It may be possible that it is because I bought and installed 64GB of RAM which was overkill njt i didn't think that 16 GB was enough. I also threw in an extra 2TB 980 pro for good measure and I've not had any issues with the screen as other reviewers mention but i did get the protection plan included so time will tell

Very happy with this laptop, mine has no lightbleed, no cool whine, great temps. Runs every game I’ve thrown at it at least 60fps with all settings maxed. Just be aware this is a big laptop, desktop replacement really, but oh so powerful. Great buy at the msrp, even better whenever it goes on sale.

Im in love with gaming laptop everything i needed to game

One of the best purchases I’ve ever made. I’m a student who loves to game, I go back and forth from my parents house to other places so mobility is important to me. The battery obviously isn’t anything to write home about, you’re gonna want to keep in plugged in for sure if you intend on using it for multiple hours.

Good laptop. Great screen size and speed...runs everything at max. Only issue is my video card exploded 2 months after purchase requiring a 3 week repair by geek squad.. drops a few stars.

ASUS truly outdid themselves with this offering. The processor is a 13th generation top of the line with speeds up to 5.60 GHz in turbo mode. Some of the best that Intel has to offer at the moment. The graphics card is amongst the best in this generation from Nvidia and the LED lights, both on the border of the laptop, and the keyboard itself, is a sight to behold. The price-to-performance ratio is amongst the best (these same specs from a different manufacturer like Alienware, could easily end up costing US$500.oo more) and the gorgeous 18" display with 2560 x 1600 resolution running at 240 Hz ensures a crisp and sharp experience. It is not without its issues, but for the price, and for the overall high-quality, they can easily be worked through. My specs: Name: ASUS ROG Strix G18. Processor: Intel Core i9-13980HX (up to 5.60 GHz). RAM: 16GB DDR5. Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB GDDR6. Storage: 1TB SSD. Display: 18.0", WQXGA (2560 x 1600), 240 Hz, IPS + G-Sync. Color: Eclipse Gray.

Bought this laptop and it had screen bleed out of the box. Was able to fix because the bezels weren’t clicked in all the way. I also have coil whine when on battery at idle. Then a day or two after the return period I find out the Asus will not extend Asus Premium Care on any product from Best Buy. Since this was clearly never stated I lost my chance to extend this warranty. I have lost all respect for Asus as a company. No wonder JaysTwoCents banished them! They are not the Rebulic of Gamers they are the Republic of Scammers. What kind of company won’t extend a warranty on their own device. Apple doesn’t even do this come on now. Honestly lost all respect for Asus and will probably never own another one of their products. Just go with a Legion, I know I wish I did. Lenovo will actually allow you to extend the warranty even if purchased from Best Buy.

If you need to play everything fast but on the go (still plugged in) this will do it. Asus Strix 18" has always been GOAT.

I got this PC on Black Friday for $2000. I want to start off by saying that the upgraded screen is completely worth it. It puts all other monitors to shame. The screen is very large at 18". This is great and terrible. Great because gaming on it is so easy. Watching movies or playing a game on this is what I prefer but its almost too large for situations that you may want to travel with it. I dont think I could comfortably play this on an airplane for instance even though that would be cool. The computer itself is an absolute power hungry beast. The games play so smooth, look amazing, isnt too loud when running max performance although not quiet either, LEDS are a great touch. There is a ton of customization and this PC will inspire you to keep wanting to stay on it whether its to game or learning how to code. You will just stay drawn to this device because it just has that much potential.