ASUS ROG Zephyrus G GA502DU 15.6" FHD 120Hz Gaming Laptop (AMD R7-3750H, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti 6GB, 512GB PCI-e SSD, 16GB RAM, Windows 10)

First time back in over 15 years using a Windows PC and I've got to say I like it. Use the laptop for offshore and gaming wise it's fantastic, played Apex Legends, Doom and GTA5, all look great and play at very high FPS. Battery life is fine when using it for normal use, gaming it runs the battery down quite fast which is to be expected. When gaming the laptop is quite noisy but nothing I can't live with. All in all, great laptop, great for gaming and a decent price.

Overall a competent gaming on the go/productivity laptop (using it for CAD design in Fusion 360/Solidworks) and some gaming/productivity. Performance in sufficient to run productivity/3d modeling software and classic games or new AAA titles on mid-settings. It's competent and delivers. Form factor is brilliant - nice build quality and finish. Keyboard and touchepad is comfortable - and it has enough ports to plug all the peripherals you need. Saying that - it has issues; big annoyance at the beginning: ASUS software (Armory Core) works and allows for nice hardware control - but out of the box the coloured keyboard backlight didn't work (after install of the laptop) Update of the Asus software (Armory Core + AURA SYNC) within the appliaction made it even worse; the AURA service would crash at startup - causing keyboard/touchepad to stop working. Apparently it's a well known issue (not on just this laptop) - after 3h of fighting with it (installing different versions/doing cleanup of file system/registery) I finally gave up and uinstalled whole AURA control software. Absolute annoyance.

I've had this laptop for close to a year now and originally bought it for the specs as I just need some power to do some analytics and figured a gaming laptop would be the way to go. I think for the price you get a good amount of hardware which is basically what I was after (though I did get the 16GB version on deal at ~ £900. For any other Data Scientists our there just looking for something with enough grunt to do some moderate lifting then this is a good way to go IMO. I'm not much of a gamer but have played a couple of games on the laptop and it general runs things fine, but not with crazy frame rates if you're in to that. There are a few foibles of the laptop, which tbh I think can be expected at this price for this amount of hardware and wouldn't put me off buying it again for my purposes: - The screen case feels a little flimsy to me, I've had no issues but I don't know if it could handle getting bashed around too well - I had some issues with performance when I enabled Hyper-V for virtualization. This seemed to go away when i disabled and renabled - The screen brightness is a little lacking - The sleep mode seems a little temperamental and won't wake up sometimes, meaning you have to full restart - It is Loud! If you're doing basically other than web browsing the fans really start going and it's the loudest laptop I've ever owned, in fact it's louder than most desktops i've had. I dm this too much, just put my headphones on but it may really bother some people.

Cool laptop for that price, I'm more then happy, but some times is overheating. Obviusly you can control it in settings, but fan is super loud. I was kinda surprist with a speakers. Comparing to the Alinwear they have better sound quality.

Asus, I really wanted to like this product; I really did. But you have seriously dropped the ball on this product. Purchased two units for myself and my boyfriend for portable gaming rigs; however between the fan issues on my unit, the EXTREME thermal issues on my unit and the system/fps lags on my boyfriends has made us return these units. My boyfriend could not pay siege for more then 5 minutes without starting to struggle with random FPS and system lags that completely ruined the experience of this system. His unit seemed fine, no weird thermals or indications to what was causing it. Was it a faulty unit, maybe? My unit seemed to come with a loose cooling fan which clipped against the frame of the unit, making me think the thing was about to fall apart! The specs of this machine looked good however I cannot recommend this until Asus figure out what is wrong with these units. Were they just defective units? Probably yeah, but getting two faulty units in the same order is unacceptable I find. Filed for a full return within four hours of using the device.

Amazing laptop for the price! Great quality screen and plays games easily without any problem, love the design and great size with the thin bevel on the screen!

Upon opening this item, it came without charge which is unusual these days but hey, that's not something that would make me not want to keep the laptop. What DOES not want me to keep the laptop is the insanely loud and obnoxious coil whine. It is such a loud high pitch that it can be heard across a very big room. The coil whine occurs when: 1.) The back-lit keyboard is turned to low light or off 2.) The GPU isn't loaded to the slightest (which is whilst i'm not gaming) 3.) When no USB is connected to the laptop (when I plug-in my mechanical keyboard the coil whine lowers or goes away) Everything else about the laptop is great. The 120hz monitor is something I never thought would work on a laptop, but then again we are entering the year 2020! The keyboard and touch-pad feels really nice compared to my 2015 ROG model. The design of this laptop is absolutely beautiful, very slim looking and quite discrete for a gaming laptop. Yes the fans can be loud at times when gaming but this is the laptop doing its good job at cooling the laptop. Whilst you game, the fans may be inaudible at times then all of the sudden the laptop will go to super-jet-engine mode and blast the fans to get that heat out, once the components are cooled the computer lowers the fans and the cycle continues. TL;DR Coil Whine is a really big issue. I'll keep the laptop a tiny bit more and see whether the issue persists. If it does I will be returning it for another one. Based on my research however, this seems to be a very common issue amongst this series.

Good performance while gaming Good graphics I wasn’t expecting good slung from it but it has some amazing sound