ASUS ROG Strix G15 Laptop: 15.6" 1080p, Ryzen 9 5900HX, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD Expired

Bought this after seeing an open box deal on it for ~$970 and change. I was setting it up and it was giving me some issues with Chrome originally, then went to install Warzone and I kept having rebooting issues. I never loaded a game before it would just reset. No blue screen or anything. Sucks because the specs for the cash are amazing but damn the thing won't stay on.

I have had this system for over a year and wouldn't recommend it, even at this price point. The built in thermal handling is abysmal and you have to manually set the APU/system wattage to avoid constant, lag-inducing, thermal throttling. I've also had to mail my unit to be repaired twice for thermal issues in a 10 month span. This last time the motherboard was replaced due to extreme oxidizing issues from incorrect application of liquid metal from the factory. I just exceeded the warranty on it and am not sure it will make it much further before another critical hardware issue pops up.

I paid this same price for my MSI Delta 15 which is an amazing machine. The Ryzen 9 5900HX is about the same as the Ryzen 7 5800H that you see in other laptops, but the RX 6800M is pretty damn nice (the MSI Delta 15 has the RX 6700M).

Only warning about the Asus Rog G15 is apperently they use liquid metal for the GPU thermal compound so be very very careful if you ever open this machine up (especially if you have to remove the cooling solution).

Only reason I ended up going MSI Delta 15 is because it is over 1 lb lighter than the vast majority of the machines in the same price range.




Not really.. the 6000 series isn't even a generational increase. It is just Zen 3+ which is a "more efficient" Zen 3 (uses lower wattage) and has slightly higher clock speeds. It also supports quad channel ram but good luck finding a laptop that would ever support quad channel. Sure Zen 3+ uses RDNA2 graphics on the chip, but you aren't buying a gaming laptop for the onboard graphics.

Also Zen 3+ uses DDR5 so the total cost goes up for not that much improvement with 2 dimm setups. In fact DDR5 still suffers from higher latency and stability issues.

All in all the review say there is about a 3% total increase in performance with Zen 3+_vs Zen 3 when you dont look at the iGPU.


Because this model uses liquid metal I would be very careful with open box and ensure no one has opened it up and screwed with it. Because you can make a mess of the board very fast.