Customer Ratings & Reviews

Plenty of power, great screen. The 2 USB Cs worked very well with the USB-C port that added even more ports easily. It is a bit pricey for its build quality. No webcam, 3070 is the lower power 80 watt. Even so, run every game decently. Additionally, my unit had a lot of backlights bleed near the top & bottom of the display that I didn't have with my Razer Blade 14 gaming laptop The bleed wasn't a dealbreaker, but the combination of that and the screen bezel black plastic seem to get detach from the metal frame over time.

With this variant of the Zephyrus model GA503Q, Asus (or BestBuy?) put together a selection of components that achieves a high performance per dollar ratio, all in a sleek and modest package. However, there are some issues that get in the way of this model being truly awesome. [ The Good ] - The Ryzen 9 5900HS and GeForce RTX 3700 Max-Q pair very well together in providing amazing performance for the price. - The SSD benchmarked very well for an OEM drive. This is an often overlooked and underrated component that can have a significant impact on the gaming experience. I noticed an improvement in game loading times compared to some other gaming laptops. - The QHD 165Hz display is quite decent for the price point, with good color output and brightness, especially for a display with matte finish. Many (maybe even most) competing laptop displays are restricted to FHD resolutions. - Smooth, enormous trackpad. While I appreciate the size, it could result in increased incidents of accidental cursor movement for some people. - Has an open M.2 slot allowing for expanded storage. [ The Bad ] - While the speakers perform very well in the high and mid range, when it comes to the low bass range, the speakers bottom out, oddly sounding like the cones are striking a hard surface. This ruins the auditory experience and is unacceptable for a laptop in this price range. - Lacks any Thunderbolt ports. - The memory benchmarked well below par, the worst-performing component of the lot (besides perhaps the speakers). The 8GB of soldered memory makes a potential upgrade here a fairly nonsensical option. - Fingerprint reader accuracy was horrible, with it failing at least as often as it succeeded in recognizing my prints. I tested roughly a dozen graphics-intensive games over many gaming hours on this laptop and was pleased with the results. With stock settings, I was getting 3DMark Time Spy scores in the low to mid 9200s, which rates between the averages for desktop RTX 2700 and desktop RTX 2700 SUPER. Larger ‘desktop replacement’ gaming laptops with more aggressive cooling designed for higher TDP will likely get significantly higher performance out of the same CPU/GPU combo. The fans don’t get particularly loud under full load, though the heat does get high, with a significant amount bleeding through the top surface; using a cooling pad is recommended. Aside from the lack of a Thunderbolt port, the port selection is reasonably flexible, with 2 USB-A and 2 USB-C ports all rated SuperSpeed 10, audio out, an HDMI port, and Ethernet port. The inclusion of a microSD card reader is interesting, but I’d rather have had an extra USB-A port. With a keyboard and mouse plugged in, I’m left with no remaining ports for USB-A peripherals--which remain far more common than USB-C--without a USB-C to USB-A adapter, USB hub, or docking station. The single-zone RGB-backlit keyboard has a nice tactile feel with good key travel and slight angling to help ergonomics, but the lack of a number pad, as well as half-height up and down arrow keys, are rather unfortunate for gaming. Though Optimus is currently standard in gaming laptops, it’s still annoying to deal with, and something to consider when considering laptop vs desktop for gaming. There’s no option here to enable a discrete GPU-only mode. Since both the laptop display and HDMI port are logically controlled by the integrated Radeon graphics controller, most settings are not accessible in the NVIDIA control panel. Armory Crate’s iGPU mode--used to save battery life while not performing graphics-intensive tasks--seems to require keeping on top of processes that still manage to use the discrete GPU so you can switch them over to integrated. [ Conclusion ] Used with a cooling pad and docking station (perhaps combo) as well as external speakers, keyboard, mouse, and monitor, this can become a decent gaming rig, as long as you don’t have the need or desire to upgrade the memory at a later point.

Fast. Easy setup. Easy install & ready to go for everything I need

Good look, great performance, and solid build. My only issue is with the screen. Several spots of "light bleed." Other than that, plenty of bang for your buck!

45-50 mh @ 100w power supply runs hot, can run in sleep mode @ 50W.

excellent laptop really good for gaming and the graphics are amazing!!

Good performance, but would have been better with better QC. Had to return due to issues.

Excellent gaming laptop, clean fit and finish with plenty of power.

Great laptop overall. Would be nice to have RGB keyboard. Some keys just don't make sense - there's no mute button but they added an airplane mode button. Lol?

great gaming laptop works well and runs very smooth

wonderful gaming and everyday use laptop, runs games very smooth.

Laptop is exactly what I expected, great performance for the price.

Great laptop, it has a good performance for gaming.

Alien performance without the high Alien price tag

Couple days in and this thing is amazing glad I got this not the tuf

Big upgrade and top of the line specs. I recommend not purchasing open box items because sometimes you won’t get what you purchase. Pay a little extra and buy new.

Some quality issue here and there but not enough to take away the optimum well balance highlights of this machine. Liked better than the M16 as overall package.

great laptop amazing pictures and sounds.keyboard more comfortabe

Excellent Laptop Very powerful Thank you for fast shipping

Picture quality is beautiful . Very light and nice