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Asus ROG Zephyrus Laptop: 14" 1600p, Ryzen 9 6900HS, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD Expired

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Best Buy via eBay has Asus ROG Zephyrus Laptop (GA402RJ-G14.R96700) on sale for $1099.99 (price shown when added to cart). Shipping is free.

Best Buy has Asus ROG Zephyrus Laptop (GA402RJ-G14.R96700) on sale for $1099.99. Shipping is free.

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Specs/Key Features:
  • 14" (2560 x 1600) 120Hz 500nits WQXGA Display
  • AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8-Cores, 16-Threads (3.3GHz Base / 4.9GHz Boost) Processor
  • 16GB DDR4 RAM
  • 1TB PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive
  • AMD Radeon RX 6700S Graphics
  • WiFi 6E + Bluetooth 5.2
  • Backlit RGB Keyboard
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 1x HDMI 2.0
    • 2x USB 3.2 Type A
    • 2x USB 3.2 Type C

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This deal is back. BestBuy goes off and on with the $1099 price.

If you are OK with open box items they currently they have:
- Geek SQUAD Certified for $1025
- Excellent for $1002
- Satifactory for $947
- Fair for $924

Personally I would not go below excellent. BestBuy's Open Box quality control went downhill in the last a few years. I had to return "excellents" that had detached metal from the screen, dysfunctional keyboard etc.. All those were Lenovo though, your ASUS experience may be better.

Cheers!
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Model: ASUS - ROG Zephyrus Advantage Edition 14” 120Hz Gaming Laptop – AMD Ryzen 9- 6900HS – 16GB Memory – Radeon RX 6700S – 1TB SSD

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I waited for this deal to come back and got it 2 days ago. I heard all about the heat issues and how to overcome that. That wasn't a concern for me.

However, what I didn't know, and wasn't highlighted in many Youtube reviews I watched, was the coil whine. It's listed in quite a few online reviews after digging into it. You will notice the coil whine when the 6700S is under load. If you are gaming, not a big deal because the fans will kick in and drown it out and you are wearing headphones anyway. But if you using this for creative editing, you could well hear it and it's a deal breaker for a lot of people.

They list things like turning on the keyboard backlights or plugging a USB device to fix it, but none of those work for me. Mine has a manufacture date of 11/2022 so it might have worked for older ones.

I am keeping mine because it's an amazing machine and has insane battery life on the go. I can deal with coil whine.

Just something to be aware of.
Why would they? It's new at the listed price, and they also shared potential open box pricing.
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dawnerd
04-13-2023 at 07:07 PM.
04-13-2023 at 07:07 PM.
I picked this up last sale a few weeks ago. Works really nicely. But just go ahead and uninstall all of the asus rog junk and just use GHelper. Can find info about it on the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/
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ruffruder
04-13-2023 at 07:21 PM.
04-13-2023 at 07:21 PM.
I bought this bad guy, but i9 and 3070ti CD ver, open box for 1200, very happy of it
Very comfortable form factor and weight as for gaming laptop, not even talking about software. Usually first task to do with new laptop was reinstalling windows... Not this time
P. S Is it possible to get backup file for this system
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Rippa_MD
04-13-2023 at 07:32 PM.
04-13-2023 at 07:32 PM.
Bring back open box prices
$823 fair
$864 excellent

Or NO DEAL 🙅🏽 ♂️
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easymonies
04-13-2023 at 07:55 PM.
04-13-2023 at 07:55 PM.
This was the laptop that caused me to ditch windows after three decades(Since Win 3.1) and move to a Mac. Not sure if it was this super hot laptop's hardware or was it windows 11 insisting on rebooting the laptop while on sleep, but I had enough.
Huge learning curve mastering numerous details but can't be happier. Now converted everyone in the household to a Mac.
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AznEsq
04-13-2023 at 08:05 PM.
04-13-2023 at 08:05 PM.
I bought this same configuration when it was $1,250 at Best Buy. My two gripes are: (1) fan gets loud and the laptop shutdown, likely due to overheating, twice on me in the year I had this laptop; and (2) the wifi card somehow "lost" it's drivers and I had to reinitialize Windows to get my laptop working again.

Despite these issues that some may consider deal-breaking......I love this laptop. It's a productivity machine during the day and gaming machine at night. I purchased a $20 laptop cooling fan on Amazon and now I don't have the overheating problem. Fan noise doesn't bother me too much. I love that this is able to play modern AAA games with great graphical fidelity. I highly recommend.
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Luigis3rdcousin
04-13-2023 at 08:06 PM.
04-13-2023 at 08:06 PM.
That's a shame this runs too hot. It's a nice looking laptop
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Jay3303
04-13-2023 at 08:32 PM.
04-13-2023 at 08:32 PM.
Picked up the dell G15 when it was on sale last year. Although this one's smaller it seems like a much better deal considering they were around the same price.

Also, there's a 20% off with certain credit cards from Best Buy. Had it on my Chase Freedom. So it'll be about 200 less, give or take.

Specs seem much better. Probably just gonna sell my old(ish) Dell G15 for this.
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04-13-2023 at 09:07 PM.
04-13-2023 at 09:07 PM.
Quote from BrianB4000 :
I'm not very computer savvy. Just looking for a good gaming laptop that can handle AAA games.
Recommend Lenovo Legion 5 Pro or Legion 7 when on sale unless you need portability.
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04-13-2023 at 09:20 PM.
04-13-2023 at 09:20 PM.
Quote from BrianB4000 :
I'm not very computer savvy. Just looking for a good gaming laptop that can handle AAA games.
Now $50 more expensive but a really good option. Last gen though but you saving $100s versus buying a 40 series card. And with DLSS 2.0 and QHD, you getting good looking frames on that amazing 16:10 500 nits display.

https://slickdeals.net/f/16560334-lenovo-legion-5-pro-16-qhd-165hz-ips-ryzen-7-6800h-rtx-3070-ti-16gb-ddr5-512gb-gen4-ssd-usb4-win11h-1299-99-f-s
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04-13-2023 at 10:30 PM.
04-13-2023 at 10:30 PM.
The only game I've ever played on this was StarCraft 2. The thing gets hot and fan is loud like a turbine of 777. Nowadays I use it exclusively to play videos using external DVD player and do PowerPoints presentations to folks. The fan still comes on quite often even doing those two things. The battery is absolutely atrocious. With only office software installed and at 75 percent ish brightness, it barely lasts 2 and half hours before it asks you for more juice. I have to carry the big o brick charger all the time.

The build quality otherwise feels extremely premium like a MacBook. I love the keyboard and the white color way. I had a great time playing StarCraft 2 on it back then. The screen is super nice and smooth for a laptop. Overall, not good for work but decent in a workstation I guess.
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04-14-2023 at 05:51 AM.
04-14-2023 at 05:51 AM.
Quote from auspicious :
The only game I've ever played on this was StarCraft 2. The thing gets hot and fan is loud like a turbine of 777. Nowadays I use it exclusively to play videos using external DVD player and do PowerPoints presentations to folks. The fan still comes on quite often even doing those two things. The battery is absolutely atrocious. With only office software installed and at 75 percent ish brightness, it barely lasts 2 and half hours before it asks you for more juice. I have to carry the big o brick charger all the time.

The build quality otherwise feels extremely premium like a MacBook. I love the keyboard and the white color way. I had a great time playing StarCraft 2 on it back then. The screen is super nice and smooth for a laptop. Overall, not good for work but decent in a workstation I guess.
If that is all that you are using the laptop for then you can probably just use the IGPU. That should cut down on the heat generated and keep the fans off. Your battery life should greatly improve too.
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FreeBaGeL
04-14-2023 at 08:18 AM.
04-14-2023 at 08:18 AM.
I bought one in the last open box deal. Didn't notice any issues with heat (of course it's going to run relatively hot when actively gaming) or coil whine.

But mine was a total lemon that deteriorated over a few months and is now in Best Buy's shop with a 3 week+ timeline on when I'll get it back.

Color had a very purple ting to it out of the box. Heavily purple. I set a custom color profile but could not get it to stick no matter what I did. I would have to manually re-select it every time the computer slept. Found lots of other people with the same issue online.

Computer also wouldn't wake from sleep fairly regularly and would have to do a hard reset. Again, lots of people with the same issue online.

Wifi card is REALLY bad. Plan to replace it. Works fine if you're close to the router, but even a little ways away my connection was an order of magnitude slower than other laptops I had nearby, which of course is not ideal for gaming.

Then finally it just went nuts. Would reboot after a few minutes in windows. Wouldn't boot up sometimes. Sometimes would boot with artifacts all over the screen. Fan would get stuck on full blast with no way to disable it. Brought it to Best Buy (Asus requires going through them if bought there) and when guy was doing the report to send to Asus he just said "I'm just going to put that this thing has freaking issues, lol".

It's one heck of a sexy laptop though. It definitely feels premium. Keyboard and trackpad are great. I'm hoping when I get it back the issues will be resolved but it's been a major headache so far. It seems like Asus' proprietary software and Windows just don't play well together and they keep overwriting each other's settings every time you reboot or sleep.

ETA: The white color is beautiful but it does seem to get stained/scratched easily. Just sliding it in and out of a backpack a few times the white top had smudges that didn't come off easily.
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04-14-2023 at 04:03 PM.
04-14-2023 at 04:03 PM.
I've tried so many laptops, bought, returned, etc... but kept coming back to this one because nothing else beats the price, portability, screen brightness/resolution, and power. I've read comments about this running hot, but because this is the 6700s the temps won't become too extreme. The bottom acts like a heatsink in a way, so it may seem warm to others, but this system was made to be a bit warm. If you want it to run really cool, you can lower the TDP of the processor a bit, with one click in the Armory software. It doesn't impact gaming performance too much, and may actually improve speeds because then the video card gets more power. Check Youtube for links =).

Laptops I've Tried

Legion 7 Slim - AMD 6900HS + AMD 6800S Video Card - Bought for $1264 even though it's like $1950 MSRP/ Returned it

Runs Cool, Powerful, Larger Screen

Cons
The Powerbrick is huge! It's much heavier. Performance was almost the same as the Zephyrus G14 with 6700s. I didn't notice any difference in games and even benchmarks The screen had a lot of IPS Glow.

Alienware X14 - Intel i7 + Nvidia 3060

It's a beautiful laptop, but the keyboard on the G14 is better. Also, battery life is better on the G14 because Alienware used Intel processors.

Zephyrus M16 - Intel i7 + Nvidia 3060

Powerful laptop but has less battery life. Also, everyone I tried had terrible IPS Glow.

HP Omen 16 - Intel Processor + Nvidia 3060

The screen wobbles like crazy. Returned it because of that.
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04-14-2023 at 05:57 PM.
04-14-2023 at 05:57 PM.
Outstanding laptop! Upgrade ram and maybe nvme to 2tb. You won't regret this purchase!
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04-14-2023 at 06:50 PM.
04-14-2023 at 06:50 PM.
Quote from CoralPen5986 :
Legion 7 Slim - AMD 6900HS + AMD 6800S Video Card - Bought for $1264 even though it's like $1950 MSRP/ Returned it

Runs Cool, Powerful, Larger Screen

Cons
The Powerbrick is huge! It's much heavier. Performance was almost the same as the Zephyrus G14 with 6700s. I didn't notice any difference in games and even benchmarks The screen had a lot of IPS Glow.
tell me more about this legion slim 7, i m also very seriously considering that (or waiting for the price to drop to ... 1264 ?)
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