ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 (2022) Gaming Laptop, 15.6†300Hz IPS FHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti,Intel Core i9 12900H, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, Per-Key RGB Keyboard, Windows 11 Home, G533ZW-AS94

For a laptop, this is extremely impressive. The i9 12900H can outperform my previous desktop pretty easily and the RTX 3070 TI can handle most 2k gaming without struggling. This laptop comes with performance tuning and RGB adjustment right out of the box. The keyboard is nice, I personally don't like the number pad and had to disable that function because it's just to easily activated, having the number pad to a keybind instead would have been perfect though. Additionally, only16gbs of RAM and 1tb of storage in a $2000+ laptop is kind of underwhelming and 32gbs RAM and a 2tb drive for the OS would have been more ideal, but at least they are fully upgradable with and have an extra m.2 slot available assuming you are willing to open up this thing.I am personally not bothered by the lack of webcam because my phone's camera is more than good enough to use instead.The included power brick isn't very small or light, but don't see how they could easily make it smaller considering the power this machine requires.Only 4 USB connections total is also unfortunate and that's including the tb4 and the displayport capable 3.2 on the back. To make matters worse, there's also no native displayport, so unless your monitor has an HDMI 2.0 port, you won't get full use out of it. The tb4 is very handy though and if you are willing to get a tb4 splitter/hub it can add a lot of the ports that are otherwise absent, but all of the decent ones I have found all are more than $100 dollars and require external power just to operate as far as I know.As far as performance goes though, this thing won't disappoint, the fan noise is also much more reasonable than I expected. Of course it's not going to be quiet under higher loads, but it gets quite reasonable performance even when it's optimized for more quiet operation. I got unlucky and my particular unit unfortunately has some coil wine when under load that is particularly annoying to me, but that's most likely just due to bad luck rather than a problem with every laptop.Quick Edit: The coil wine went away after a few days of running the laptop.I mostly got display port alt mode to function through the USB 3.2 the display is 2k 165hz and it runs at that speed with no added latency (the reason why I say almost is that I can't get the Nvidia control panel to detect the display, but it's there in windows settings).I also upgraded the RAM to a 32Gb kit of Kingston fury 4800mhz cl38, the new RAM makes the laptop even faster in games that are affected by RAM speed I would recommend this upgrade if you can afford it, a Kingston 2tb pcie gen 4 ssd is also on the way.

I bought this as an alternative to my last working Msi gaming laptop. The last 3 Msi laptops were disappointing to say the least, defective when received and never repaired properly or were too fragile transporting to work and back, requiring constant maintenance and lasting 1 to 2 years before going out on me. So I was hoping ASUS could do better and wanted a 15.6 for my regular backpack. I was surprised that once I got the Win 11 OS configured right this little rig proved to be one of the best gaming laptops I ever bought. I have owned 6 or 7 over the years and this one impressed me with it's reliability and although it looks kind of frail, proved to be pretty rugged so far. The Fed ex box it came in was banged up and there was virtually no foam, or padding of any kind around the inner box with the laptop - I was really surprised the laptop was not damaged. It is very light as well, so it is easy on an old back, but it will run almost any of my games maxed out and I can game with it in my lap without the fans burning me. No camera which is a bummer and the battery life unplugged is short as you would expect with such a powerful laptop, but I think it is an excellent gaming laptop for the casual or serious gamer hands down.

Coming from a desktop rig I built in 2019 (ryzen 7 3700x, rtx 2070 super, 32gb ram) this thing annihilates it in gaming. Some initial thoughts after playing with it for a few hours tonight:- Build quality is good. It's no Macbook but feels premium for a Windows laptop. Not a fan of all the RGB lighting, though I'm just using this plugged in as a desktop replacement. Luckily nobody will witness me lit up like a Christmas tree.- The included ROG software is easy to use. Some useful physical hot-keys allow you to quickly switch between the different power modes (Silent? No way, give me Turbo!) Enabling the MUX switch is simple through the ROG software (and does require a restart)- Tested Battlefield 5 and Halo Infinite. Laptop handled both like it was nothing (consistent 100+ FPS in both with mixture of med/high settings, didn't try to push it as I prefer performance over fidelity.) I'll have to test some more demanding games, but between those too I see significantly better performance than I did on my old desktop.- FHD screen not a big deal personally, picture looks good and buttery smooth with that high refresh rate.- In turbo mode the fan does get really loud, and I can definitely feel a decent amount of hot air blowing out onto my mouse hand. Will be nice in the winter.Thing is a beast for the price. The fact that it can outperform desktop gaming rigs of respectable calibre is stunning for a laptop. Excited to put it through more rigor, which I feel confident it will be able to handle very well

Before getting this beauty I had an MSI gaming laptop. I liked it but after not a lot of use the lettering of the W A S D keys wore off. This laptop has an even higher build quality and no sign of the lettering wearing off. Plus look at the pretty multi-coloring of the backlit keys!The lid seems to be of metal and has a texture that doesn't show fingerprints. The main body on and around the keys does show them somewhat. A minor quibble that.My next gaming laptop will likely be another ASUS but Lenovo does have some attractive offerings too so we'll see.