ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6” 240Hz IPS QHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, Intel Core i9 12900H, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, Per-Key RGB Keyboard, Windows 11 Home, G533ZW-AS94Q

The laptop came in a sturdy box. Great performance, nice screen and amazingly fast!

It runs everything well. Not a great value. Check other options as prices change frequently.

5/5 stars great laptop, runs warm but thats to be expected with these specs, however the power brick gets waayyyy hotter than ive ever seen before, unsure if thats normal for these or not.

While the performance is great, it is very unstable and lacks many features.

Theres a lot to talk about here, but I just want to touch on my use cases. Laptop is extremely powerful especially comes with an RTX 4070. Does help offload a lot of pricing power to the graphic art and this is the main reason why you would wanna get this laptop over something else. I was able to play games on max graphic, and it runs very smoothly. I hooked it up to my Samsung G9 monitor and it runs games at 240 FPS. Aesthetically, its not really a look that I like compared to some of the more slicker laptop out there but youre getting this laptop because of the Intel i9 and Nvidia graphic card. Overall anyone that wants to up their gaming machine this is the one. The battery life is obviously very poor, because it drains a lot of power. I wouldnt recommend you playing this on battery powered because it does throttle once it heats up.

Overheating issues (Upon investigating I noticed the Fins damaged )

Running Debian Linux with the NVidia drivers, I was able to (thanks to the community Kernel contributions, and no thanks to ASUS) dual boot Windows and Linux with only one issue so far: Sound doesnt work. Bluetooth and wifi works (need the firmware on your install media to do a netinstall), my gaming headphone dongle works as a workaround, but the onboard sound is no go. Primus works. Performance in games is good. But theres no audio output yet.

Perfect Laptop

This laptop is a beast. On Turbo it is loud, but on performance its quiet even if being pushed relatively hard. and if Asus Armoury Crate to be believed, the heat is fine. It is also CERTAINLY not hot. Compared to some real furnaces that would burn my hand Ive had in the past, this is nothing.

Overall, a very good laptop for a good price.