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This is a well built machine with great specs on paper. The issue is that you won't get to it's full potential, unless you delete all the bloatware including the conflicting apps. What I mean by that is there are multiple apps regulating the power and the temperatures, like Amaury Crate, MyAsus App, Windows own power management. And they are fighting each other, trying to set the thermal limits, power limits. and so on. When I set my screen shutoff time, my settings were gone the next day. After deleting about 60 apps of bloatware incl. MyAsus and Amaury Crate, after disabling them in the registry and installing G-Helper everything was much smoother. I had to create a custom profile reducing the PL1 power limit, and finally the thermal throttling stopped and I was able to use Davinci Resolve, Handbrake... Only after that I was able to get to the potential of this laptop.
Since I want to use it as a content creator I needed more storage. It was very difficult to remove the bottom of the laptop because it was sitting very sturdy and firm. Once open there was only 1 additional NVME card slot.
What I did was to clone the C drive and to replace it with a much faster 4TB Samsung 990 EVO PLUS and I installed a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro in the other slot. Now with my 8TB installed it works like a charm
