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ASUS ROG Strix Laptop: Ryzen 9 5900HX, RX 6800M, 15.6" 300Hz, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD

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Best Buy via eBay has ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition Gaming Laptop (G513QY-212.SG15) on sale for $1,399.99. Shipping is free.

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Best Buy has ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition Gaming Laptop (G513QY-212.SG15) on sale for $1,399.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal.

Specs:
  • 15.6" 1920x1080 300Hz (3ms) Full HD IPS-Level Display
  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8 Cores, 16 Threads (3.3GHz Base / 4.6GHz Boost) Processor
  • 16GB DDR4 Memory
  • 512GB Solid State Drive
  • AMD Radeon RX 6800M Graphics
  • Intel Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) + Bluetooth 5.1
  • Backlit Chiclet Keyboard (4-Zone) RGB
  • Windows 10
  • Ports:
    • 1x HDMI 2.0b
    • 1x USB 3.2 Type C (Gen 1)
    • 3x USB 3.2 Type A (Gen 1)

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $250 lower (15% savings) than the list price.
    • This is $100 lower than the last time this laptop was a Frontpage Deal.
  • About this product:
    • 1-year manufacturer's warranty
  • About this store:
    • Best Buy via eBay offers 14 day returns. Buyer pays return shipping.
    • See the Best Buy return policy for returns information. When purchased now through Jan 2, you can return most items anytime until Jan 16. 

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Best Buy via eBay has ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition Gaming Laptop (G513QY-212.SG15) on sale for $1,399.99. Shipping is free.

Additionally, select eBay Accounts Earn 8% in eBay Bucks. See our Frontpage Deal for the eBay Bucks offer for details.

Best Buy has ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition Gaming Laptop (G513QY-212.SG15) on sale for $1,399.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal.

Specs:
  • 15.6" 1920x1080 300Hz (3ms) Full HD IPS-Level Display
  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8 Cores, 16 Threads (3.3GHz Base / 4.6GHz Boost) Processor
  • 16GB DDR4 Memory
  • 512GB Solid State Drive
  • AMD Radeon RX 6800M Graphics
  • Intel Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) + Bluetooth 5.1
  • Backlit Chiclet Keyboard (4-Zone) RGB
  • Windows 10
  • Ports:
    • 1x HDMI 2.0b
    • 1x USB 3.2 Type C (Gen 1)
    • 3x USB 3.2 Type A (Gen 1)

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $250 lower (15% savings) than the list price.
    • This is $100 lower than the last time this laptop was a Frontpage Deal.
  • About this product:
    • 1-year manufacturer's warranty
  • About this store:
    • Best Buy via eBay offers 14 day returns. Buyer pays return shipping.
    • See the Best Buy return policy for returns information. When purchased now through Jan 2, you can return most items anytime until Jan 16. 

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Model: ASUS - ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition 15.6" FHD Gaming Laptop - AMD R9-5900HX - 16GB Memory - Radeon RX 6800M - 512GB SSD

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Please keep in mind I was informed that the next advantage edition will release Jan 31st. With the amd 5980hx and 165hz Qhd screen fyi. The debate!
Not unless you are going to remove the back, disconnect the battery, remove the cooling chamber.. and clean off all the liquid metal.
No.
IFyou are willing to do this, YES.. but open it in store, turn on and make sure the dedicated gpu is working fine.

(I am typing on my G15 Advantage Edition now) these had a flaw of over applying the liquid metal which caused the liquid metal to work its way off the chip to the surrondings of the chip.. be cpu or gpu. Mostly GPU's.
So you would have people returning the laptops and stories that Bestbuy sold them as open box. (without poperly checking if GPU was shorted out).

What I did with my G15 Advantage Edition.. was straight after I took it out the box.. remove the back cover, disconnected battery.. removed ! sticker on the heat chamber and removed the head chamber. Exposing both CPU and GPU. then carefully and tediously removed ALL Liquid Metal. (there was a lot of it on the chips.. just flooded with the stuff).
Then I cleaned with rubbing alcohol 90 percent. Then re thermal pasted like a regular laptop desktop.
This swap out of Liquid Metal to regular thermal paste eliminates anything to do with over doing Liquid Metal. Problem solved.

Now, there were rebooting issues on these G15 Advantage Editions. After we (many forum threads including Discord ) finally got the issue passed onto the correct department of ASUS.. ASUS has put out 2 updates to resolve this issue. Yes, they are resolved.
One was " Hotfix " that installed a bios on the video card (vBios).. and the other was a Bios update.
After all this time from when the G15 Advantage Editions have been out, that has been fixed. Took a long time to sort out.

Now then, finally.. the RAM. You can get slow secondary timing RAM sticks, or fast.. luck of the drag. It was because of supply and demand and covid... ASUS put slow secondary timings in these models as well as regular secondary timing RAM.

It only has a 512 m.2 drive as well.

No dedicated MUX, BUT you can use USBc to Display port or HDMI cable to your external monitor. As long as you connect from USBc of the laptop, you are dedicated from the GPU 6800! So MUX switch results!

The battery on this is insane. 11 hrs just browsing web. You can dedicate programs to use the GPU like games.

There have been pictures of ASUS addressing the ' over flow of Liquid Metal ' issues by ' revisions' of protecting the surrounding of the chips by certain thermal tape applied. Looks slightly different then mine. Anyway, 100% remove the LM in either case.. it is only time where LM will cause an issue In My Opinion!


So, no, I honestly wouldn't recommend a open box.
Get the newer stock, chances are you have the revised thermal tape around the chips, and the secondary timings maybe faster on the RAM.

Discord for this laptop model : discord.gg/KXsnyjyD

IF I wanted a QHD, I would by the G15 zepherous. Top 5 Gaming Laptops of the Year (2021) [youtube.com]

There is Gizmo's spreadsheet of laptops and deals found HERE [google.com]

His review for this G15 Advantage Edition HERE [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AQAkErpRFg this is a great video by Jarrod's tech to get you up to speed.

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This is the way.
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So this fixes the only flaw the regular g15 has with the monitor response time. That's great.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o54aKk5LZdM
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This one pretty easy to add an additional SSD into?
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Please keep in mind I was informed that the next advantage edition will release Jan 31st. With the amd 5980hx and 165hz Qhd screen fyi. The debate!
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Quote from DomP3363 :
Please keep in mind I was informed that the next advantage edition will release Jan 31st. With the amd 5980hx and 165hz Qhd screen fyi. The debate!
Probably gonna start in the $1800-$2000 range though, idk, did they release the msrp?
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Probably gonna start in the $1800-$2000 range though, idk, did they release the msrp?
No, but it should be releasing at 1649 ish. They had it at 1549 pre-sale at one point, but might debut at previous cost this one was.
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Great deal. This was on sale regularly for $1450 earlier this year. You could've even bought open box for less only because of its biggest flaw: there were a lot of QC issues in the first batch as this model uses liquid metal thermal paste, which would leak out and short out the board causing all those open box returns.

Apparently they fixed that issue, but better to run it hard maybe run a few benchmarks after you get it. This laptop even comes with MUX switch (USB-C output).
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Quote from DomP3363 :
Please keep in mind I was informed that the next advantage edition will release Jan 31st. With the amd 5980hx and 165hz Qhd screen fyi. The debate!
31 days too late to get the ITC credit for this year tho !
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Quote from MumsBasemeant :
Great deal. This was on sale regularly for $1450 earlier this year. You could've even bought open box for less only because of its biggest flaw: there were a lot of QC issues in the first batch as this model uses liquid metal thermal paste, which would leak out and short out the board causing all those open box returns.

Apparently they fixed that issue, but better to run it hard maybe run a few benchmarks after you get it. This laptop even comes with MUX switch (USB-C output).
Not exactly mux switch as it should run full power without external monitor if so(which it doesn't), but that's correct it will output full power GPU wise via usb-c with an external monitor. When done this way the performance is supposed to be closer to an Nvidia 3080, however no dlss like those optimized for Nvidia and doesn't push Ray Tracing the way the Nvidia does, even the 3070.
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Quote from DomP3363 :
Not exactly mux switch as it should run full power without external monitor if so(which it doesn't), but that's correct it will output full power GPU wise via usb-c with an external monitor. When done this way the performance is supposed to be closer to an Nvidia 3080, however no dlss like those optimized for Nvidia and doesn't push Ray Tracing the way the Nvidia does, even the 3070.
Yes, no DLSS, but AMD did promise to bring FSR (AMD's performance mode) to more major games; currently there are about 70 games with native support.

You can virtually get FSR to run on any game as it's open sourced. Refer to article: https://wccftech.com/heres-how-to...ling-tool/
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Quote from DomP3363 :
Please keep in mind I was informed that the next advantage edition will release Jan 31st. With the amd 5980hx and 165hz Qhd screen fyi. The debate!
In India, the only model available is the one with QHD 165 Hz Screen.
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If you are looking for a powerful laptop this is it, best deal ever! you don't need to upgrade ram as this should come with faster 2x8GB dual rank (unless you need more than 16GB of course)
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picked one up, thanks
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There is 8-7% on ebay bucks which makes it even better deal.
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Wish this had the 16:10 screen
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