Customer Ratings & Reviews

First of all, I love the design, the make and the look of this laptop. It's very simple to the point and beautiful. Quite simply put it is a gamer's laptop. It's got the Nvidia GEForce RTX, And it definitely gets the job done alongside the AMD Ryzen 9HX (I have long said AMD is the chip maker when it comes to gaming) these two perform amazingly together. I ran my Grand theft Auto 5 online on this computer and it ran like a dream. The graphics processing was beautiful and astonishing. It's really hard to say that anyone thing was better than the other. Now to push it a little more ihdmi out of the computer into my gaming screen and it's still held up flawless performance. The one negative. If you want to call it that is screen size and the main reason I hooked it up to my gaming monitor. If the screen was just maybe 3 in bigger I probably wouldn't cry about it as much but even for its size it still holds up. My second issue is that there's no right panel number keys. However, this being a game on laptop I don't really need that so maybe I'm just used to size and if that's the best I can come up with for a complaint. This is definitely a gaming laptop to have. Be sure to get one

Ever since most multiplayer games went to being played online, many gamers probably don't see gaming laptops as an option, especially with little to no ways to do any upgrades. I remember my friends and I getting together for LAN gaming parties where you either had a laptop to bring or brought your entire system to play. But, sometimes having a laptop that is more than capable for gaming along with being portable for other uses is something that makes sense. Such as with my youngest son, who is about to start college, so having a robust laptop that he can use during classes, but still be able to handle any gaming, is definitely a plus. The ASUS ROG Strix G16 16" FHD 165Hz Gaming Laptop, with an AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX Mobile Processor and its built-in, recently released, NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti 12GB Laptop GPU is a very nice "entry-level" into the next generation of premium gaming laptops. So, I'm just going to say that even though this is called gaming laptop, it won't really be used as a laptop. Or least not recommended to be used as a laptop. The bottom design, with different areas that stick out that could be uncomfortable to the legs, plus how it is set up for its excellent, extra airflow that probably shouldn't be blocked, makes this more of a "portable gaming" computer rather than a gaming "laptop" computer. I'm usually very critical about how some manufacturers package their products, no matter what type. For this laptop, with the way they package it, unboxing it is a rather unique experience, with the way it presents the laptop for removal and the area with the power supply. It was a rather nice touch. The laptop is decently weighted, the lid has a nice semi-smooth texture, and nice overall design. The 280W power supply that it comes with seems to almost weigh just as much as the laptop. The lid/screen is fairly thin, about the same thickness as another ASUS general laptop I have. The full body width of the laptop is almost exactly the same as that other 15.6"ASUS laptop but is a little over 1" longer due to the increased vertical size of the screen. The screen resolution is 1920 x 1200, giving it an 8:3 ratio, compared to 16:9 for normal widescreen. The extra 120 pixels gives just that much more to see. The lid isn't hinged directly at the back of the base, but by a couple of arms on each side that almost glide in and out of slots in the base. I was a little surprised that the lid has as much flex to it as it does, like it is missing a little reinforcement along the edges. It's not like it is going to roll up but will probably want to focus on using the little opening grip in the front-center and definitely not carry it around by the screen when opened. For I/O, LAN (full-height RJ-45), HDMI and two USB-C ports on the left side (with both USB-C having DisplayPort support, Power Delivery, as well as G-SYNC support), power port (which I was a little disappointed it still uses a barrel plug instead of a magnetic connector like some are using now (like with one of my other PC laptops) to prevent wearing out the port), and a 3.5mm headphone jack. On the right side, there are two USB-A 3.2 ports. The touchpad is very smooth, glides with ease, and is slightly oversized compared to the other widescreen laptops I have due to the larger base. The keyboard is nice and quiet (which is my preference!), with just the right response rate. When starting up, it has a BIOS Boot startup sound that was getting a little annoying after a few reboots. I did finally go into BIOS (F2), then Advanced Settings -> Advanced -> scroll to Animation Post Logo Configuration to be able to turn off initial boot sound (if desired). After going through the usual Windows 11 initial setup, then the installation of all the gaming apps, I got into MyASUS app and then Armoury Crate to go in a set things that way I prefer as well as check on all settings that are available. While I'm not really a big fan of all the RGB-on-everything craze, I did like some of the options on this system. There is the back/under-lighting of the keys on the keyboard, but then there are a few keys (QWER ASDF and Spacebar) that are translucent that allows them to stand out. Then, there is a strip of lighting along the lower front-edge that wrap slightly around each side. By default, there is lighting that comes on when it goes into Sleep mode. I didn't really care for that and was able to turn that off in Armoury Crate, under Lighting -> Settings, then turning off Sleep. Once I finally started to try out some of my regular, that is what confirmed that is it a great system. All the games ran great on the highest display settings, nice and smooth at 165Hz. I will say that during gameplay, the top of the laptop, mainly all along near the screen was quite warm to the touch after 20 minutes or so. It did cool down fairly quickly after stopping game play. The GPU and display work great together. On a starfighter game, I saw at one point it was getting to 530 fps during the game, with the GPU running at around 92%. One extra positive is that two of the items that are usually the biggest needs to upgrade, RAM and storage, are indeed upgradeable. There is an extra M.2 2280 slot for added another NVMe drive, and there is another SO-DIMM DDR5 slot for adding more memory. So, if you are looking for a really gaming system with really good specs and would also like to be able to take it with you, this is definitely one to consider.

The Asus ROG Strix G16 is a fantastic gaming laptop. Gaming laptops have come a really long way in the past several years, and this packs in all the tech that you need to play modern games, all without being an unwieldy beast of a machine. This G16 comes with an AMD Ryzen 9HX, RTX 5070Ti, 16GB ram, 1TB ssd, and a 16" 165hz fhd display. While I would have liked 32GB of ram and a 2TB ssd, what is provided here is still sufficient to play modern games at high settings. I tested the system using 3DMark and a variety of different games, including COD and Cyberpunk 2077. The 3DMark scores were fantastic, almost performing as well as my 3090 gaming desktop. And in COD and Cyberpunk, I was able to have the settings all pretty high and still achieve great framerates. In Cyberpunk specifically, I was able to set everything to the highest settings and still achieve 60fps. I'm not a huge performance fiend, so 60fps is more than enough for me. However, if you want to achieve the 165hz that the screen is capable of, you'll need to turn down some of the raytracing settings. Overall I was just very impressed with the performance that this laptop provided. I have been very impressed with Asus gaming products over the years, and the Strix G16 continues that tradition. If you are looking for a more than capable gaming laptop that is made with high quality components, then you can't go wrong with the Strix G16.

Also 5 stars to Best Buy open box excellent condition. No scratches. I highly recommend to upgrade the RAM. I upgraded to 64GB and I achieved all the benchmark results reported online so far but I assume 32GB are sufficient. Especially the CPU geekbench 6 benchmark was on the very low end. In general it’s a nice laptop, good size and not heavy at all (first I thought Best Buy shipped an empty box when I picked it up lol). Altough I think the original price of $2k is a little bit too high (6/24/2025) considering that you have to spend a few bucks on RAMs too, to make that thing using all it’s power. The open box prices are the spot the laptop should be in in my opinion.

Very good laptop that can handle most games at high settings. One thing I noticed early on is the base SODIMM Ram is on the lighter side at 16GB, within the first month I had to swap it out for 64GB that I purchased separately.

This is the second PC laptop looking for something to game on and this thing is so fast it blows my mind. But like I said I’m just now getting into PC so I’m sure there are faster but wayyyy faster than any console I’ve ever used!

The build quality of the laptop is very good, it is a very solid machine. The keyboard is quiet, the RGB lighting is very customizable. It is ready to upgrade. It came with a single 16GB RAM stick, and a single 1TB SSD drive. You have to take the entire back off old school style, removing the screws to add in or replace the memory sticks or the SSD stick drives. After intial testing, where th,e laptop performed very well on games, which it should using a very good video card on a FHD 165 hz display, I upgraded the memory to 32 GB (2 x 16 GB sticks) and I cloned the Gen4 1TB to a Gen5 1TB SSD for the system and game drive and repurposed the Gen4 1TB for storage. The Gen5 drive tested faster than the Gen4 drive, so that speaks favorably for the Laptops Gen5 capable SSD slot. The added RAM help a bit with performance in games and memory capability in general as you would expect. The display is very quick and you can max out the settings in a lot of games and still get good FPS because the display resolution is only FHD. The 5070ti does a very good job in Frame Generation, it is getting better every generation Nvidia puts out for laptop video cards. I am impressed by this laptop, outputing to a 4K TV it is still playing games at a high level. Direct Storage capable games are working very well with this laptop. I would recommend this Laptop for any gamer.

The unstable drivers have been updated. Its a solid laptop! For those of you who are claiming that RoPs should be 96 on a RTX 5070ti LAPTOP are wrong! It should have 80 RoPs NOT 96 that number if (96) is for the desktop version. Stop spreading FALSE information!

It's a good device, everything works very well. I haven't tested it with such demanding games yet, but so far there are no problems.

Amazing notebook, i bought it by 1550 usd and it is the best notebook for that money.

Perfect value to performance ratio. Runs everything you throw at it

Product works as expected. 5070ti is phenomenal with the AMD CPU. Im thoroughly happy with my purchase.

Too many compromises at this price. try to get it on sale, maybe 500 off id say. i dont hate it just think its too expensive at this price. 300nit panel is meh, i dont mind the resolution cant connect igpu to external display. can only charge on one of the usbc i do like how its only 5 lbs in weight build seems solid for so much plastic still

Its a good laptop but the battery life is horrible.

The graphics card failed after my second use of the laptop.