Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent computer for our application. Perfect. Staff recommended by Best Buy.

I love this little monger, I’m running AAA games and they look pretty good. I increased the hard drive size to a 2tb SSD. That is the only drawback, I don’t remember an option to get it with a larger SSD. Anyways with it being on sale and the high quality I don’t regret buying it. I would recommend this.

ASUS is known for making top quality products that focus on usability and customization. Both are represented here with the GA402XV-G14. This laptop sits in an almost perfect balance of form factor, usability and performance. Out of the box, the design of the laptop is very straightforward, a nice white slab. 14” is a sweet spot for me, however if you’re looking for a hardcore gaming laptop, you might want to look at something with a larger screen. For me, 14” offers a nice balance for both gaming and home office, web surfing and even light picture/video editing. While not the thinnest or lightest out there, it never feels too big or too heavy, but just right. It has the unmistakable ROG design asthtice with angled perforation and hard angle vents, etc. Very nice to look at. It also offers a nice matte feel both outside and in. The I/O is split across both sides, with the right side offering 2 USB-A, 1 USB-C ports and a microSD slot, and the left side housing the power, HDMI 2.0, additional USB-C and headphone jack. All the USB portals are 3.2. I really wish the HDMI port was 2.1 for hooking up to compatible external monitors, big miss there for me considering the GPU inside. The networking inside is 802.AX and Wi-Fi 6E compatible. Connection is super-fast if you have the capable network hardware. I have an ASUS Wi-Fi 6E mesh network in my home, the PRO ET 12, and the laptop connects instantly at 2.4Gbps. Wi-Fi download speeds on my 1GB fiber connection were amazing even on the standard 5ghz band, around 750Mbps consistently anywhere in the house. The monitor lid has the traditional ROG fan blade design which hinges down behind the laptop, creating more immersive feel when viewing and keeping bottom bezel fatigue to a minimum. The keyboard is very nice, with full size keys in a chiclet style. Keys are very firm and pleasant to type on, which good response feedback, but almost virtually silent, no “click” or anything. You get all the traditional key placements including some custom ASUS buttons that will take you directly into the Armory Crate app and also keys for backlight, GPU modes and more. Boot up for me was super fast, even right out of the box. It did the usual Windows and application updates for the first few minutes which is expected for any new PC purchase. I will say, for the first couple days I thought I had an issue with the storage encryption software BitLocker. After boot ups from sleep or a recent update, I would be taken to the BitLocker Recovery screen. That seemed concerning at first, you shouldn’t be presented with storage recovery on a simple boot. I looked online to find some support answers, and actually after a few more ASUS updates, including one directly to the BIOS, the issue seems to have gone away. So I’m going to just chalk this up to some settings on my machine and possible config changes that updates were making, until finally a more recent update to the BIOS got it all squared away. You also have the option to turn off BitLocker if you choose, but that leaves your storage unencrypted. Needless to say, this machine is a beast. The specs are all here, Ryzen 9, plenty of RAM, RTX 4060 GPU, etc. This thing can handle just about anything you throw at it. All the benchmark testing was super impressive, I’ll attach some screen shots. When using for home office or watching videos or web surfing, just having fun, you can’t put a dent in this. It’s flawless. The speed at which applications open and close, multitasking, it’s all super impressive. The onboard display resolution is 2560 x 1440 (QHD) at 165hz. The screen is beautiful. Colors pop, blacks are deep, HDR looks really good. It has a matte finish as well so reflections are not a problem. Some people might be looking for a touchscreen capability at this price? But I’m not one of them. The display is great! I also love the amount of customization that ASUS and NVIDIA allow you, when configuring and tweaking the display and GPU settings. You have access to everything. ASUS makes most of the main controls right up front and easy to find in their custom dashboard, and then NVIDIA control panel allows you to configure to your hearts content, to get the best possible experience out of this machine. Gaming was excellent on this. Yes the processing power and GPU are beasts, but it is still a laptop. So you’re not going to play most current games at their highest end settings and get full FPS or resolution. But you can come pretty close. Being able to tailor in game settings with the GPU settings independently means you can find that sweet spot for each of your favorite games to maximize the resolution and FPS. Games played super smooth and in such hi fidelity. I was also able to push my LG UltraGear 48” 48GQ900 OLED external display at full resolution and 120hz. So when I’m at home and want to have that large, immersive experience on the LG, this laptop can deliver flawlessly. Picture editing using Lightroom was amazing as well. Using the LG display, pictures were vibrant and accurate, and the ASUS didn’t struggle at all to run the app plus push the monitor. It’s going to be a great workflow machine for both home and travel. It does have a few things I don’t love, some are small like the activity lights are centered above the keyboard, but they are behind the top panel, actually facing the screen. So unless you stretch to look over the top of the keyboard to see your activity lights, you won’t see them, but a small tiny reflection in the bottom bezel of the display. The charging brick is HUGE. It does deliver a ton of power and rightfully so, but I feel it could be smaller, and also the location of the power input is right in the middle of the left side I/O. It should be placed more toward the rear of the chassis. Last is the heat. When using GPU intensive programs, this thing gets hot. Like really hot. The fans are not the quietest I’ve ever heard, but not the loudest either. With that said, you will hear a lot of fan noise. Once the GPU gets humming, the fans will hum non stop. Headphones will be a must for longer gaming sessions. I will say I also feel I noticed some heat throttling when gaming for a period of time, when it became it’s hottest, FPS certainly did dip when playing the same games with no change in physical settings. I would 100% recommend a laptop stand for this, as the bottom becomes so hot you could cook on it. And the vent design to me is terrible. The main exhaust fans vent out the rear. Usually that’s fine. But ASUS laptops have that fan blade design that hinges down, so the bottom of the display lid sits directly behind the back of the chassis. So all the hot air is being exhausted out the back, directly on to the display. Doesn’t make sense to me. All in all, I love this machine, it’s the second ASUS ROG 14” laptop we have in our home, and we love them!

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a refresh to their 2022 G14 offering that comes with the updated AMD 7XXX series processors and Nvidia 4XXX series GPUs. I am familiar with ASUS gaming laptops as I have a TUF Dash F15 from 2021, and a TUF Gaming A15 from 2022. The ROG series sits at the top of ASUS’s laptop hierarchy with the Zephyrus combining sleek design elements with high end components. The Zephyrus G14 is also the most portable of the lineup. Specs Processor – AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS - CPU 8C/16T @ 4.0 GHz with boost to 5.2 GHz Graphics – NVidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU w/ 8GB GDDR6 @ 2300 MHz Radeon 780M onboard the Processor @2800MHz Memory – 16GB DDR5 4800 Single Channel (40-39-39-77) Storage – 512GB PCI-e 4.0 NVME WD SN740 SDDPNQD-512G-1002 Display - 14” 2560 x 1600p 16:10 (WQHD) LED IPS screen @165HZ, 3ms, 100% DCI-P3, G-Sync Camera – 720p IR Webcam Network Adapter – 802.11AX (WiFi 6e) adapter / Bluetooth 5.3 Radio Ports – 1X USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with DisplayPort and power delivery / 1X USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with DisplayPort / 2X USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A / 1X HDMI 2.1 / 3.5mm TRRS jacks for headsets / 1 MicroSD Reader Battery – 76Wh – Good for 8-10 hours of web browsing and some light gaming OS – Windows 11 Home – a few preinstalled ASUS utilities The G14 comes with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, which is part of the new Zen 4 architecture. The onboard graphics card is a Nvidia 4060 laptop GPU. The R9 processor is a multithreaded 8 core with a 4.0GHz base clock with a single core boost up to 5.2GHz. The 4060 supports ray tracing and DLSS 3.0, which will help the GPU keep up with the 2K panel resolution. The laptop can be connected to multiple external monitors through the HDMI 2.1 port and the other through the USB-C ports. Your monitor count is limited by the bandwidth each monitor needs. The G14 comes with a single 16GB RAM module that is mounted on the motherboard - it is not a removable stick. There is an open SODIMM slot if you wish to upgrade. The G14 uses DDR5-4800 RAM with a max capacity of 32GB (adding a 16GB stick in the open slot). Seeing some of the RAM heavy new games coming out it might be a worthwhile upgrade in the future, but for me the 16GB is fine. Storage comes in the form of a 512GB PCIe 3.0 M.2 2280 NVME drive from Western Digital. There are no additional slots, so if you need more storage you would have to swap the drives and reinstall the OS and utilities. The display is a 14” 2560 x 1600p IPS screen with a 165Hz refresh rate, which ASUS calls the Nebula Display. This is the mid-tier display offered in the G14 with the top tier being the Nebula HDR. This is a pretty good panel with solid specs. The 3ms response time is on par with most IPS panels, and its peak 500nit brightness is plenty bright for a laptop. The display also handles support Dolby Vision HDR, and supports a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut for a very accurate display color. The display can be driven seamlessly by the 4060 GPU or by the processor based 780M GPU thanks to the included MUX switch and Nvidia Advanced Optimus. The system will automatically toggle between the GPUs depending on the process needs. The screen is excellent to watch movies and TV – I watched a few shows and was very pleased with the brightness and image quality. I didn’t see any backlight bleed and the contrast levels looked pretty good even though it doesn’t have local dimming zones. Games and Benchmarking I ran the G14 through a similar series of benchmarks (3DMark Time Spy, GeekBench, PCMark, Cinebench R23, Dirt Rally Benchmark, and Shadow of War Benchmark) that I used to test my A15, which has similar hardware (Ryzen 7 6800S with 3050Ti). I have included a screenshot of my raw results table. The results from 3DMark (per their readout chart) puts it just behind a high end gaming PC from 2020 with a i9-9900K and 2080. Compared to my A15 from last year the scores are up all around. Render times are down, FPS is boosted, and productivity tasks are improved. Overall, this is a quick system that should be able to keep up for years. Using my existing Xbox Gamepass subscription - which I added the included 3-months redemption code - I downloaded a couple of my favorite games. I currently play a lot of Halo MCC and Forza Horizon 5. With Halo MCC I played the game on the highest settings. The graphics on the screen were super crisp, and gameplay looked great. I noticed very little, if any, screen tearing or artifacts. Load times on the single player campaign were quick – maybe a little faster than on my Series X. Toggling between 2K and 1080p really didn’t affect things much. I know frame rates were higher at 1080p, but without a counter I couldn’t quantify it. However, there wasn’t any impact to my experience or gameplay with lower FPS on the full 2K resolution of the screen. Forza on the other hand was a little more demanding. Playing at 2K I had to knock the settings down to high to stay around 60FPS. Ultra settings were dragging the FPS into the 30’s at the lows and started producing some jutters and tears. Medium settings I hovered around 100FPS with no noticeable tears or juttering. The maps also loaded very quickly and the render distance was great. Knocking things back to 1080p I was getting 65-70FPS on ultra, and around 100+ on high. Screen tears were gone or imperceptible at 1080p. Honestly I had no need to drop it down to 1080p since the game played just fine at 2K with the lower quality settings and FPS. Design This version of the G14 comes in Moonlight White. It has a sleek and premium look to it. The brushed metal accents and the dot matrix on the lid really set it off. The body shell is plastic, but it feels sturdy and pleasing to the touch. The bottom cover has an aluminum ventilation plate that also helps dissipate the heat. This plate works in tandem with the exhaust and intake vents along the sides and back of the body. The screen hinge is located underneath the body which helps to prop the body up when the screen is open, and giving a nice little angle to the keyboard surface. The hinge design also allows the screen to open a little beyond 180°. The main body is pretty slim at just .73” thick and weighing just over 3.5lbs. Again keeping with the portability aspect, this will be easy to cart around in small laptop bag. The G14 keeps a narrow bezel around the 14” screen while included a camera at the top. The screen itself is a 16:10 ratio, which I actually prefer over 16:9 because it gives you just a little extra screen real estate. The screen is easy enough to open up, but the lightweight nature of the laptop means you have to hold the base down a bit while initially opening it. Having that extra screen height means they keys aren’t scrunched together or made narrower. Above the keyboard is a row of media controls and a dedicated button to launch the Armoury Crate App. The power button is still the triangular shape that ASUS has used in years past. Keyboard and Trackpad The keyboard is a tenkeyless full RGB chiclet membrane design. The keys have a nice amount of travel The RGB is bright and has excellent color range. When the RGB isn’t lit up the letters on the keys appear dark gray against the white keycaps. When the keys are lit up the lighter colors make it difficult to see the key letter against the white keycap. If need to look where you type, you might want to avoid the color cycle option. You can customize the colors in the included Armoury Crate app under the lighting section. However, it doesn’t support individually assigning colors to keys. You can apply different lighting profiles – breathing, strobing, static, and color change. The keys themselves have a 1.5mm travel distance and feel nice to use. Typing on it is quiet and the keys have a reasonable amount of resistance force. The trackpad isn’t too bad to use, and it’s pretty big – about half the width of the machine is the trackpad. I am not a big trackpad fan as I typically reach for a mouse, but on a laptop sized for portability the trackpad should see regular use. The large size is nice for moving around and utilizing gesture controls. It feels accurate as well. You can easily toggle it off if you don’t need it by hitting Fn+F10. Upgradability The G14 is pretty limited on upgradability. You can’t add any additional drives, but you can swap out the current one for a larger drive if needed. You are also limited on RAM upgrades since the included RAM is built into the motherboard. For RAM you can add an additional 16GGB stick for a 32GB system max, but you need to make sure you match the existing RAM specs in order to get the a dual channel boost. To change out these parts there are 11 screws to remove. The bottom right screw is captive, and it serves to pop open the cover after you loosen it. 4 screws are along the bottom edge, and another 4 along the hinge edge. The remaining 3 are across the middle and are cover by little adhesive-backed rubber dots. These were pretty difficult to remove, and added to some frustration with getting the back cover off. Once the screws are removed the panel comes off easily and the RAM and SSD locations are easy to spot. Final Thoughts The G14 with the R9 7940HS and Nvidia 4060 makes a compelling argument for a portable gaming system with enough power to keep up with its full-sized siblings. The design of the G14 is eye-catching and well thought out. I would have no issue tossing this in my laptop bag with my work laptop when I have to travel. I think I would hardly notice it. I didn’t find any drawbacks or things to not like about the G14. Its thermals were good, so using it on my lap was comfortable. Setting it up on a desk and hooking up to an external monitor worked great as well. Honestly as long as 512GB of storage works for you and the games you play are easily handled by the 4060, then I think this is really a nice machine to take a look at.

Very good experience 10/10 laptop love the screen battery and keyboard

Great Laptop for the price only thing I did was upgrade the storage and memory, which was very easy and affordable. Use it as main PC for gaming/office

I’m in impressed it is a beast it runs really well.

I needed a gaming laptop for my AutoCAD class and I am so happy with my purchase! The guy at the store was so helpful and showed me many options and helped me pick the right one that best suited my needs. Highly recommend this laptop!

One of the best option for a professional video/photo creator. And as a plus: you can play games at highest resolutions!

This is literally one of the BEST products I've owned. The sheer power in such a small package is insane. People complain about it overheating but that really only happens when you're playing cyberpunk with rtx on, on a carpet.

Its good for everything, the only downside I found is the temperatures I get when playing, it gets too hot, and stays hot as long as you play some games.

Great Laptop, in the smaller side yet powerful. Can run programs on the heavier side. Good when gaming and also casual use. It’s Upgradeability is a huge plus

Great computer. I got it for travel and so far it’s been great for work and gaming. The monitor is small but I love how bright it is and the colors are quite nice as well the the qhd.

Its a very good gaming laptop only issue is sometimes game crashes but that’s because Some applications need to be manually installed but I really like this laptop too!

really solid laptop, great frames in all popular games and fine performance in adobe premier. keyboard backlighting is a bit faulty however.

This computer worked surprisingly really well would have kept it if the better version didnt go on sale for the same price even still you cant beat the performance for the size of it

I came from a macbook pro and will never go back its awsome for gaming and everything else. I would definitely recommend

So far it's been really great! A good laptop for beginners, easy to find what you're looking for and has a decent amount of storage.

Excellent laptop, it is more than I expected, punctuality in its shipment and the package arrived very well. Thank you Best Buy, on time and safe.

Very good quality, and so versatile. RAM is upgradeable, which it is not on the new model. Long term value