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popularDr.W posted Yesterday 06:15 PM
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (Open-Boxes): 16" OLED 2.5K 240Hz, Intel Core Ultra 9 285H, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD $2020.99
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This SSD is 1TB bigger tho...
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This SSD is 1TB bigger tho...
Battery for G16 is amazing as well. Easily 10 hours on a charge. Not sure about the 7i.
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This SSD is 1TB bigger tho...
Best use of this device like the G14 is as follows:
Disable dGPU (ie Eco mode) until it can be placed on an aggressive cooling pad like RAZER or any numerous Chinese knockoffs. It doesn't take long to do and Armory crate makes the process simple.
Under normal circumstances this device does not have the cooling capacity to run a 5080 or 5070Ti long term without a cooling pad.
This laptop's behavior completely changes when you do this. That's where the 11+ hr battery life and zero fan noise rave reviews come from.
I just wish Asus would chose a better system integrator for assembly because their shoddy assembly and QA just RUINS these devices.It's so god damn annoying that they won't charge just a few dollars more to tighten up their supply chain as everything else, including armory crate is fantastic.
There unironically is a simple trick to fix this. Go into the power menu and cap maximum CPU performance to 99%.
What this does is disable PL1 and PL2 boot clocks. When you do this watch the battery life rocket ahead. It's easily double. I was seeing close to 6 hours on the Alienware in this mode.
You have to understand Intel designed that chip and the other HXs to first push workloads to the Pcores initially and then move them collectively to the Ecores.If you cap boost all this caps is the Pcore boost NOT the Ecores so you lose almost nothing in terms of multicore performance.
If you ran the 7i Pro in this mode it would likely tie the G16 or come awfully close for battery life. Once you plug back in and run full PL2 the 275HX crushes the 285H when it's power uncapped.
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just no charger making it a non-deal .. i got the 5080 deal - for 15% more i get an excellent condition, charger, double ssd storage, 4 more gb of vram ..
There unironically is a simple trick to fix this. Go into the power menu and cap maximum CPU performance to 99%.
What this does is disable PL1 and PL2 boot clocks. When you do this watch the battery life rocket ahead. It's easily double. I was seeing close to 6 hours on the Alienware in this mode.
You have to understand Intel designed that chip and the other HXs to first push workloads to the Pcores initially and then move them collectively to the Ecores.If you cap boost all this caps is the Pcore boost NOT the Ecores so you lose almost nothing in terms of multicore performance.
If you ran the 7i Pro in this mode it would likely tie the G16 or come awfully close for battery life. Once you plug back in and run full PL2 the 275HX crushes the 285H when it's power uncapped.
There unironically is a simple trick to fix this. Go into the power menu and cap maximum CPU performance to 99%.
What this does is disable PL1 and PL2 boot clocks. When you do this watch the battery life rocket ahead. It's easily double. I was seeing close to 6 hours on the Alienware in this mode.
You have to understand Intel designed that chip and the other HXs to first push workloads to the Pcores initially and then move them collectively to the Ecores.If you cap boost all this caps is the Pcore boost NOT the Ecores so you lose almost nothing in terms of multicore performance.
If you ran the 7i Pro in this mode it would likely tie the G16 or come awfully close for battery life. Once you plug back in and run full PL2 the 275HX crushes the 285H when it's power uncapped.
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