Review on ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2021) Gaming Laptop: 17.3β FHD 144Hz, RTX π» 3050 Ti, Ryzen 7 5800H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 10 by Stanislaw Dwojak α
Perfect product for any user!
- after ating all drivers after going to sleep or turning off the screen (only from inactivity, if the lid is closed - normal) - a laptop, even connected to 220V, goes into power saving mode during games and does not exit it until reboot (max frequency cores 400-600 MHz at 60* and 30 FPS). The problem is treated only by a "cold reboot" (with power off the mains). Reinstalled Nvidia and AMD drivers, erased via DDU - did not help. I googled and found my brothers in misfortune, on their advice I turned off fast boot, in the power settings I turned off going to sleep, hibernation and turning off the screen when idle - and everything worked fine. We are waiting for the BIOS ate, or we roll back to the first versions (according to the info on the ROG forum, the bios ver. 315 and 317 are to blame) - Memory 16 GB, works in single-channel mode. As far as I understand, I will lose the warranty if I add another bar myself. You need to take it to an authorized service for this, correct me if I'm wrong. I am happy with the purchase and give this laptop 5* due to the fact that most of its shortcomings can be solved with basic technical skills. You just have to be ready to play with drivers, add RAM bars and edit the registry - so that the laptop becomes as chic and enjoyable as possible to use.
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- - this is ASUS, which means: a normal 2-year warranty, expensive materials (good plastic, nice switches on the keyboard, a bag as a gift), a well-known respected brand (this is a plus if you want to sell it later), advanced display solutions (300 Hz) and cooling (liquid metal) with a light weight and thin body. - 300 Hz matrix is ββreally cool. It's nice even just to surf in the browser - such and such super-smoothness of all animations and page scrolling. - The workmanship of the laptop: nothing creaks, no backlash, no noticeable light, dead pixels. - This is the first laptop keyboard that I liked. - Power: The 3070 is uncut and stock scores better than my overclocked strix 1080ti. 5900HX - finally normal 8 cores in laptops (in terms of performance, it does desktop 9900k in stock). - Excellent price (if you do not take into account the depreciation of the) for such power: 2200 euros is very inexpensive for the version with 5900HX, 3070, 1TB and 16GB of RAM. - 240 W power supply. This means that the video card and the CPU are not "strangled" by software.
- - Nvidia Optimus with all the consequences. It cannot be disabled on this laptop (on some others you can - google "MUX switch Optimus"). That is, even if you select priority on RTX, the image will still pass through the embed, while utilizing CPU resources. For graphics-based games, the difference is a couple of%, but for all kinds of esports CS:GO, because of Optimus, instead of ~ 300 FPS, you will get ~ 240 on the same hardware. - Hot, very hot 5900HX, with wildly inadequate overclocking, cannot be undervolted - no XTU and no other CPU tuning software. In a load on all cores, it consumes ~ 85 W with a temperature of 80 * +, stifles the potential of the video card (they have one heatsink for two), and fries scrambled eggs if the laptop is on its knees (well, you understand). I solved this problem by disabling the turbo boost (instruction in the next review). Now the frequency is no higher than 3250 and does not go up to 4600. But the consumption has dropped to 35 W (by 2.4 times!), the temperature has dropped by 15*, and the cooler no longer roars like an airplane. In CPU-Z, it shows a result 25% worse. But 8 cores / 16 threads is enough for games even in stock - in the RDR2 benchmark, FPS decreased by 1%. I am ready to sacrifice this for the sake of comfort and silence.
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