Best Buy via eBay has
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop (GA402XV-G14.R94060) on sale for
$1049.99 (price in cart).
Shipping is free.
Best Buy has
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop (GA402XV-G14.R94060) on sale for
$1049.99.
Shipping is free.
- Open-Box Excellent ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop (GA402XV-G14.R94060) on sale for $871.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member
Dr.Wajahat for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- 14" 2560 x 1600 WQXGA QHD+ IPS-level 165Hz 3ms G-Sync Display, Pantone Validated
- AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS 8-Core / 16-Thread Processor
- 16GB DDR5 RAM
- 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Graphics (125W)
- Wi-Fi 6E 802.11ax 2*2 + Bluetooth 5.3
- Backlit Chiclet Keyboard 1-Zone RGB
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (support DisplayPort)
- 1x Type C USB 4 (support DisplayPort / power delivery)
- 1x microSD card reader
- 76WHrs battery
- ~3.64 lbs
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I'd take this over the 2024 model that should be available in 6-months. OLED would be nice to get around their persistent backlight problems, but productivity-use still burns in rapidly on the latest OLED monitor displays, and of course the 2024 model has non-upgradable RAM (16GB is the base size for 2024, and may be all that Best Buy will get you for these sales), and goes from a magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis to plain aluminum. They also needed a third fan to help the limited cooling potential in the 2024 model.
IMO, this is the machine to get in a 14-inch today. Especially with G-Helper installed to kill off Armory crate, greatly dropping the idle power usage of the machine, and providing additional "undervolting." 5GHz all-core under CPU load is possible on this G14, at 78W CPU power draw. Of course this tapers off as TDP is pulled with the GPU loaded.
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Love the Legion 5, but mainly use it with my 34" 165hz monitor, but it won't display anything on it or the laptop itself it the monitor is connected to it while I turn it on. If I unplug it and then connect the monitor after is turned on it works fine, but is annoying having to do this every time. And is not my monitor, I've tried other monitors and even a projector and does the same thing either using hdmi or usb c to display port.
Tempted to get the open box for 871!
Tempted to get the open box for 871!
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Tempted to pull the trigger on this instead but the white would be difficult with my dog. Have a feeling it would be covered in black lab hair
Tempted to get the open box for 871!
I think they're delivering it in 3 days. If anyone wants me to check anything out, let me know.
Now to sell the two laptops this one is replacing! lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUSROG/...s_awesome/ - Top reddit comment pretty much sums it up. It's the best app I've seen on any laptop/brand to control all of this.
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Download the app from Github's download link, extract it, and run. I have mine extracted to C:\Program Files\G-Helper. It will appear in the system tray. Opening the window, there is an "Extra" button to the lower right, which you can open and click "Stop" to kill all the Asus factory services. This alone dropped my idle power draw from 11W to 4W.
Keyboard illumination settings are on the main app screen. Fan and power/"Voltage" control, you can find under the Fans + Power button. Obviously test the machine out with Prime95 or something after making adjustments, to find what your specific hardware can do.
Battery Charge Limit will let you force the battery to stop charging at a certain threshold, extending the life of the battery (just crank to 80-100% before you plan on being away from the outlet for hours at a time).
Plus all the other features the program has - it does everything useful that Armory Crate provides, but in a very lightweight system-tray application.
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If it wasn't for G-Helper, I'd like Lenovo's machines more. This app just allows Asus machines to excel on configurability.
While the desktop 4070 is much better than the 4060, the same is not true of the laptop equivalent.
The laptop 4060 is within 5% of the desktop equivalent part. It's only about 20% better than the 3060 but includes dlss 3 frame gen making it 50% better in some games.
The LAPTOP 4070 is only 10-20% better and you often pay 50% more for a laptop with one.
The 4060 LAPTOP is the sweet spot. A 4080 is a big step up if you need the power but at a big cost financially, and in power/heat.
Also while I'm ranting, everyone should take a second look at the 4050: historically/recently nvidia XX50 GPU was trash (2050/3050) but the 4050 is roughly equivalent to the 3060 and a much better option than something like the 3050. The 4050 is upwards of a 40% improvement over the 3050!
All the same I still think the 4060 is a much better long term
Option because it has 2GB more video memory (6 vs 8).
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Battery: 76Wh (I've seen 75-77Wh on these out of the box)
Screen at 60Hz:
Min brightness: 2.9W - 26 hours
50% brightness: 3.9W - 19 hours
100% brightness: 7.0W - 10 hours
Screen at 165Hz:
Min brightness: 3.1W - 24 hours
50% brightness: 4.1W - 18 hours
100% brightness: 7.2W - 10 hours
In general, I'd take the 100% brightness value as 'light desktop usage" scenario - I've found that accurate over the last 10 or so years on different machines.
You may run the screen at 50% brightness, but the system load will bump it up closer to the averaged numbers from the 100% brightness tests. Watching youtube or something, I'd drop that by a couple more hours, down to maybe 8, at 50% brightness (plane ride as an example). Keep in mind that the screen on this thing is quite bright at 100%.
Limiting turbo, to prevent the CPU from bursting, and pumping more Voltage in, can help further. Things will take a slight amount of time longer to load, but you'll be in the more efficient area of the CPU/APU's capabilities.
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