Customer Ratings & Reviews

The computer works great. Good speed and handles mmo games well.

I knew when I opened the shipping box, that this laptop was quality. The packaging for this beast of a machine, is only a hint of the wonderful laptop that is inside. In the box, is only the laptop, the rather large power brick and the usual documentation that you expect to see with a new computer. I unboxed and plugged in the brick, then I opened the laptop and first thing I notices is the very large touch pad. I will say the cord from the brick to the laptop is too short. The brick should be closer to the outlet and not so close to the laptop. I found and pressed the power button and waited, and waited! The keyboard was lighting up and that was pretty cool. It took a rather surprisingly long time to get to the initial setup. I actually began to wonder if it was installing firmware. Once it finally did boot into the setup, it did handle everything normally after. The backlit keyboard and front edge lighting is nice! It can be set to static, if you don't like it, but I do like it. The display is fantastic! Large and crisp with great visibility and clarity with motion with the 240hz refresh rate. Sound was pretty decent for a laptop. They are notorious for not having great sound but this was pretty good. They have a deeper spounding bass through the laptop. I happened to lean it up while music was playing and heard it pretty clear coming from the bottom of the laptop. The power of this beast is so much more than any other laptop I've experienced. With the intel i9, the RTX 4080 and the 32 GB of Ram, I believe there isn't anything this machine could do. It is an absolute powerhouse! It handled everything I gave it, including Elden Ring. Game play was perfect. I'm a multitasker of epic proportions and usually have tons of spreadsheets, Word, photoshop, and a great many other things going at once. I've not had any issues with any lag, freezing, or any issues at all. The Storage is HUGE as well at 2TB. This will hold all of your games, documents, videos, everything you can pack in it with room to spare! The one thing that is an issue for me is the keyboard layout. I love having the 10 key. It's configured differently in that the 0 key is narrow, only under the 2. The directional keys are shifted over to where the right arrow, or end key is under the 1. I click this constanting when trying to hit the 0. It's frustrating that it is so different. I can get used to this in time, I suppose but right now, it is my one big issue. Otherwise, I do love this beast.

In the box is the laptop itself, which is sleek, large and with a good bit of heft, the charge cord, a quick start guide and the warranty. There is also an extra serial number label. First Impression - Though not to be taken lightly; as it is a quite heavy laptop, and most definitely needs a sturdy bag for travel. The laptop backpack I chose to carry; which I would like to consider one of my larger backpacks; almost wasn’t large enough, and the corners of the laptop stretch the back ever so slightly. The charger is also hefty, but a nice long length for any complicated gaming setups. Like most new gaming laptops or computers, there’s is definitely a bit of classic set up time you have to prepare for, with the addition of the updating of the NVIDIA drivers (Which are not listed in the QuickStart guide, but are a quick find in the settings). What is listed in the guide is a suggestion to charge the laptop for a minimum of three hours before the first battery session. Following these directions, the battery itself lasts around four to five hours with the screen all the way up and fans on. The STRIX plays all the latest titles with relative ease, with the highest graphics settings not affecting framerate in the slightest. Even with prolonged gameplay, about six or seven hours, as the laptop began to grow a bit warm there were little to no issues. I will note that the STRIX did freeze once, but the game it was running has had known instances of crashing so I do not believe it was on the computer. There were only minor issues that are honestly mostly preferences. The startup sound for the laptop is quite noticeable, and even startling at times. There doesn’t seem to be a visible indicator light for the number lock button, at least I didn’t notice one. While in a video/audio call, with my favorite pair of gaming headphones, the person on the other end says my audio is suddenly coming through quiet and muffled much like a phone on speaker. At this time, I haven’t found a solution but I plan to try using other headphones and changing the settings. Overall the ASUS STRIX ROG is an excellent gaming laptop, one I would suggest to all looking for a powerful standalone; though maybe not for a traveling laptop due to its bulkier frame and weight. I would still recommend to friends and family.

So far its been working great, thermals are good with its cooling. The manufacture site states it only supports 32gb RAM but that's in correct. I've installed Crucial RAM 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5 4800MHz CL40 Laptop Memory CT2K32G48C40S5 with no issues all 64GB show up and usable. My only complaint is all the attention went into its performance and screen quality but its speakers are very lacking in sound and quality! I had ordered the Creative Pebble V2 - Minimalistic 2.0 USB-C Powered Desktop Speakers and at 30% volume on those Pebble speakers equaled the laptops speakers volume at 100%. Its got built in Bluetooth that I've used with headphones and its sounds great. Has room inside for a second M.2 drive. You get two usb type a A plugs and two usb type c one of which can be used to supply power to the laptop or fast charge your phone from. Also has an HDMI and LAN port. Over all im pretty happy with it, I have it setting on the IETS GT500 laptop cooler at Idle GPU temp stays at 32c and CPU stays around 40-45c. Playing 7 days to die on steam GPU temps are around 55-57c and CPU stays around 70-78c with spikes upto 85c. Haven't benchmarked it much but on Cinebench R23 the I9-13980HX CPU in this laptop got 3rd scoring 1336 pts on (single core) with the I7-1165G7 taking 1st and 2nd with 1st place score of 1532 pts. It got 2nd in (multicore) with a score of 24514 pts the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990wx had 1st with its score of 30054 in (multicore).

The new 2024 ROG Strix is awesome and I absolutely love this gaming laptop. The screen is a whopping 18" QHD with 60/240 Hz refresh, it has about a 3ms latency, and Dolby Vision/Atmos support, so you'll be getting an amazingly high end level of picture quality and input response on screen for your games, it will truly be an immersive experience. The storage is 2TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD, which is great for just about most users and should be able to store a good amount of games. The RAM is 2 x 16GB DDR5-5600 for the listed total of 32GB The GPU is the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4080 12GB GDDR6 which is a very high end and powerful graphics card, you should be able to run just about any game at it highest settings within limits to the display resolution of the laptop. The processor is the Intel Core i9 Processor 14900HX, which is Intel's newest and most powerful laptop CPU, favoring performance over battery life. Aesthetically its gorgeous, the grey is like a soft metallic and the backlit keyboard and aurora light sync bar on the lower front of the laptop make it look amazing. The fan performs great for a gaming laptop and isn't loud, however this might be subjective since I've never thought gaming laptops were supposed to be quiet for long especially if you do long gaming sessions. I've gone through a couple of ASUS Zephyrs and Alienware M series laptops and so I'm used to fans but the ROG Strix is quieter than my previous laptops. I went and tested this beast out by playing some Helldivers 2, Halo MCC, Red Dead 2, and Elden Ring, and saw no issues, all my games ran perfectly and looked beautiful. This laptop is such a good performer and I love it so much that I'm making it my main laptop for both my work and entertainment needs.

The Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) Strix is a beautiful gaming laptop. While it is very large, it's sports what I would call a very slim form factor. The enormous screen is amazing for any number of uses, but obviously ideal for gaming or high-end game or video development. Because of the large screen size, there is a lot of real estate where the keyboard and touchpad are. The touchpad is enormous, which I don't particularly mind, but it caused odd placements for the top row of keys. I would have much rather had a slightly smaller touchpad to have a more standard keyboard layout. As for gaming, I have lately been mostly playing Fortnite. Fortnite runs like a dream, everything stays way cooler than any laptop I've ever had. Additionally, it has handled anything I can throw at it from Xbox game pass for PC. The Armoury Crate button and app will be welcome by people familiar with this from other ASUS gaming laptops, as well as the ASUS ROG Ally. This allows you to save specific settings for specific games to accomplish things like longer battery life, keeping your computer cooler, or other things you might want to address depending on the game you are playing. It loads straight into many launchers, and gets you gaming quickly. I actually like the large screen so much for working that I would consider carrying this as my daily work laptop, it's a bit on the heavy side for that, but I don't see a lot of office laptops with screens this big. I appreciate the inclusion of both USBC and full size USB ports, as well as a full size HDMI port and headphone jack. This is a monster setup, and comes with a premium price. But if you absolutely need full on gaming on the go, this rig won't let you down.

If you’re in the market for a robust full sized gaming laptop, look no further. My previous gaming computer was the ROG Zephyr, which has been a great computer for Gaming, everyday tasks and Running CAD software as well as multiple different programs I use for 3d printing. But it had a 14” screen. The ROG Strix boasts an 18” screen that has great graphics thanks to the RTX 4080 and a 240hz refresh rate. Now it’s not 4K but none the less has a great picture. As we all know most games take up tons of space with DLC’s and the games as a whole take up tons of space. Thanks to its 2TB SSD this isn’t a big problem. Processor speed is always a big topic when it comes to operating pretty much anything. With its 14th generation i9 I’ll be the first to say this isn’t an issue. I’ve had multiple programs running while opening some massive CAD files and it never skipped a beat. The ROG Strix has 32gb of ram for quick loading of files with practically zero lag or wait time. I honestly have no complaints with this computer. If you want a laptop for quick on the go gaming this might no be the computer for you. It is large and heavy. For my on the go gaming I will still Rely on my other ROG laptop.

This laptop was great. Everything I needed except I found three downsides which pushed me for an immediate return. One was the fact that the battery life didn’t exceed 3hrs and two it doesn’t support touch screen and three it doesn’t open even up to 180 degrees which is a huge important aspect for me because of bitter past experiences. If you can manage with these, feel free to purchase. But overall performance is just out of this world

This is a beast of of machine very fast, however I did return it. In my opinion the screen had too much light bleed from the bottom and the pictures on BestBuys sight shows the Logo on the lid lights up and there is a LED strip on the back like the Scar. It does not and there is not. Misleading. I would still recommend it. For me, I'm going to save a few more bucks and get the 18" Scar.

Since the purchase, it has been a very stable and powerful laptop.

Its a beast so far. Setup took the longest. But loaded the new ARK game with extra content and World of warcraft, discord, and my microsoft apps all in about 40 minutes.

My laptop was working fine, but for some reason asus kept releasing bios uodates. It felt like every other week i would turn on my laptop and a bios update would start itself. Now my laptop shuts down randomly, and it takes several attempts of holding down the power button to restart it.