By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:19:40 +0000

Overall good laptop. I got it for school and gaming.

By: Jermf

Jermf — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:51:47 +0000

Got it used and it was basically brand new. Ive been using for about 2 weeks and it just works. Design isnt over the top which i like.

By: BestBuyRocks

BestBuyRocks — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 13:17:21 +0000

I wanted a VR ready gaming laptop that could handle the VR games. This Laptop has done that and more. My VR games run smooth and the graphics are mind blowing

By: k1zit

k1zit — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:47:12 +0000

This is the most professional looking gaming laptop I’ve ever seen and handled. I love the direction that the Asus ROG team has taken with the Zephyrus line. There are no flashy LED lighting elements or any over the top gaming design cues. Instead you get a very sleek and minimalist profile. The construction and finishing is a matte grey combination of aluminum and plastic that feels very high quality. The weight of this laptop also feels perfectly balanced with an even distribution throughout the body (weighs only around 4lbs). It feels very light but still very premium at the same time. It’s the perfect laptop for a professional that is into serious gaming but also wants the versatility of taking this laptop to business meetings or public meetups without looking out of place. I also love how the laptop props up when the lid is opened to provide better thermal efficiency (it also makes typing on the keyboard much more comfortable!).
In a market flooded with various RTX3060 laptop offerings, I think this G15 Zephyrus takes the top spot. In terms of performance, the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS crushed everything I threw at it. Not surpsingly, it loaded applications and programs lightning fast. As a test, I would put it up against an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and the 6900HS on this Zephyrus always loaded applications at least 2 to 3 seconds faster (applications tested were CPU-Z and Adobe Photoshop).This is a serious notebook not just for gamers but for those power users that are also into content creation, emulating virtual environments (e.g. engineering students), and those that simply like to have a ton of tabs open on chrome while swapping between multiple workloads. I’ve noticed some confusion as to whether this laptop comes with 8GB of RAM or 16GB. This laptop comes with 8GB of onboard RAM that is soldered onto the motherboard as well as 8GB of DDR5-3200 RAM in a DIMM slot for a total of 16GB. I was able to confirm this on the CPU-Z application. You can expand upto a total of 40GB. Hopefully that helps clear up some confusion!
The RTX 3060 performed flawlessly when playing Doom Eternal and Resident Evil Village. I typically averaged anywhere from 75 to 125 FPS on “Ultra” settings on Doom Eternal and anywhere between 80 to 130 FPS on mostly high settings on RE Village. One thing to note though, as most are already aware, the 3060 has 6GB of VRAM. This limited me on Doom Eternal from going anything above “Ultra” settings (i.e. Nightmare and Ultra nightmore modes) and I couldnt go above 2GB of texture quality (High) on RE Village due to a lot of the other settings also requiring a certain amount of VRAM. As you can see on my screenshot, the game itself will advise you when youre going over the VRAM capacity. This is of course just a limitation of the 3060’s 6GB VRAM buffer. If you’re the type of person that just needs to crank everything to maximum, the 3070 or 3080 offerings will serve you best. With that said, gaming on this ROG zephyrus with the 3060 provided an extremely high fidelity gameplay experience. Playing on a 15 inch screen on 1440p, I couldnt imagine that having the ability to turn up the graphics settings to the absolute highest tier would make that much of a visual fidelity difference. Gaming on this was an extremely fluid and smooth experience with some amazing performance. Benchmarking this laptop on 3D Mark’s “TimeSpy”, I achieved a 6870 on the standard Asus ROG “Performance” mode and a very impressive 8251 score when using the “Turbo” mode on this laptop. When using Turbo mode, I also noticed a noticeable improvement in games of around at least 10 additional FPS. I also love how easy Asus made it to turn on Turbo mode (simply hold down the Function key and press the F5 key with the fan logo). Do note that if not using headphones, the fans can get pretty loud on Turbo mode!
My absolute favorite things about this gaming laptop is the touchpad, audio experience, and keyboard. Without a doubt, I think Asus makes the best touchpad on any Windows gaming laptop. I’ve always held Apple as the gold standard for touchpads and this feels just as good. It’s extremely premium compared to the competition. I’ve handled much more expensive gaming laptops and the touchpad is something that is so often overlooked by many companies; yet it’s one of the single most important components that you frequently interact with especially when youre on the go. It is buttery smooth with just the right amount of tacticle feedback without producing an overly annoying click. The audio blew my socks off! This thing has two upward firing speakers near the keyboard and two downfiring speakers on the bottom of the laptop. They’re the best speakers I’ve heard on any laptop yet. The keyboard is a dream to type on. The layout is ergnomic with each key spaced out enough so that your hands never feel cramped. The key action feels squishy and comfy yet responsive. I also love the well thought out placement of some of the keyboard shortcuts like having the audio keys at the top of the keyboard as well as the ROG key. You can press the ROG key to launch the armoury crate software whenever you want to boost your clocks in Turbo mode, edit the lighting on your keyboard, adjust fan curves, or set the 3060 as the discrete GPU (as opposed to swapping back and forth with the integrated AMD graphics to save power) and a ton of other customization options.
The QHD 165Hz IPS display on this laptop is gorgeous. While it is not HDR and it does not offer crazy levels of peak brightness, I found the 300 nits of peak brightness on this display more than plenty. It appears as though the display is also pantone validated and has a color space rating of 100% DCI-P3. It is no wonder that this display produces some great color accuracy, deep blacks, and wonderful skin tones. Skin tones look natural and colors appear bright and vivid while not looking overly saturated like they do on a lot of displays these days. Gaming on this display is incredibly fluid. There is no backlight bleed whatsoever on my display. Uniformity seems very good on an all white background as well. Whatever Asus is doing with the QA on their displays these days is certainly apparent.
The last thing I’d like to touch on is the thermals on this laptop. We all know the difficult challenge gaming laptops have when it comes to dissipating heat produced by a high end GPU. While this laptop can get a bit warm due to the 3060, it’s one of the most thermal efficient gaming laptops I’ve ever used. As seen in my GPU temperature screenshot, when benchmarking on 3D Mark, the RTX 3060 never exceeded 77 degrees Celcius when under full load for extended periods of time. On a lot of other gaming laptops I’ve noticed that the chassis around the keyboard can get quite hot. On this ROG Zephyrus, it always felt cool to the touch. The amount of cooling vents on this laptop is very impressive. The placement was also thoughtfully considered as they don’t compromise the placement of the keyboard or input ports for peripherals.
In the RTX3060 gaming laptop segment, this ROG Zephyrus G15 is my absolute favorite so far. Asus took a lot of tasteful and thoughtful considerations with the design of this gaming laptop. All the way from the sleek and low profile design cues to one of the most premium touchpads to ever grace a gaming laptop. The immersive audio experience and the beast thermal performance were also other aspects that Asus nailed. Asus didn’t just deliver a couple of heavy hitting specs on paper, they delivered a fully thought out package for the serious gamer/power user. This is the reason I believe that this year’s Zephyrus G15 deserves a full five stars rating. Well done Asus! If you’re shopping in the RTX 3060 category of gaming laptops, this is the one to get.

By: KentE

KentE — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 07:29:22 +0000

ive been in the market for gaming laptop for months and havent decide which one would i get.. until this beauty catched my eyes.. its light, the size is right and performance is surprising. if you are looking for gaming laptop or laptop in genral this is the best for you.. if you are not planning to spend 2G’s this is it

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