2021 Asus Zephyrus G15 Review after 1.5 Years! Longterm Review! Ryzen 9 5900HS, RTX 3070!
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Finally uploading my longterm review on my zephyrus g15! I have had this for about a year and a half and it's still my main windows machine. Still working and using it for gaming! It's not perfect though!
In this video I will go over my overall experience after owning this machine for over a year now and let you know any problems that I have experienced during ownership.
Nice review! It’s nice to see how these laptops end up a few years down the line! You saved people money with this video! Thanks!
You really helped me a lot with this review. Thanks dude
thanks for talking about the armory crate issues I've been wondering what happened to my pc at some random screen blackouts
i love year later reviews, wish this was 2 hours long. please
awesome, thanks a lot for the video. One of the least focused type of laptop review on the internet is this "long-term usage" review.
just returned my rog ally and bought a 2022 version G15 with a 3060. Thank you for the review.
As someone considering to buy this product right now this was most helpful! Thank you, very detailed and beneficial!
Very happy to hear this review is helping people out! Like I said at the end of the video I originally planned to do this in November, made a review, but ended scrapping it because I got lazy and thought people wouldn't find much use from it. I'm glad I decided to finally make it though haha
You need to disable boost mood, it will reduce your temps to below 74, i have had this laptop since 2021 and its going great still, still good as new in all aspects tbh, you have to check your battery settings (advanced ones) and set your own option's for sleep mode, better option is to use hibernate.
Can you tell the way to disable bost mood, please. thank you !
@@hoangnguyenbauc9035something called Google exists
Hi, does your laptop also have that markings due to heat exhausting to the screen?
@@bond00000071 Not at all for me and I not only play intensive games all the time with the fans at like 80% speed and my cpu at almost 95⁰, but I would also keep it running all night for games where I was grinding and waiting for things to happen and I have never experienced anything like that.
Seems you may have a faulty model. That or even if the markings get worse, unless it affects the actual screen you should have no problems to worry about
I mean even then, I play games not just for hours on end with my gpu at 100% utilization and my cpu close to that but I also play games that I would leave on all night and going for grinding purposes and I still haven't had any issues with it. Just did a check on it recently and decided to replace the thermal paste just because but it was just fine the way it was. My battery is fully functional as well, I still get a consistent 7-8 hours of battery life even when I keep the resolution and hertz to the max. I feel there may have been many people who received semi faulty models. I mean these were always sold out the day after they are restocked. I even had to within the first week for a speaker issue and now I haven't had any issues with mine since. Honestly I'm shocked to see people with so many issues
Heres my quick review ive had it for over 2 years it will run any game you want at above 70 FPS temps run hotter than most PCs which is normal i sugest a external laptop fan pad and to repaste every year if you do intense heavy gaming year round i sugest thermal grizly kryonought extreme paste it lowers temp by 5 degrees celcious i sugest to upgrade ram and add more storage also i had 1 fan go out replacment was pretty easy did it in less than 1 hour. Laptop is fast and can handle anything you throw at it.
Thanks, bro. I just ordered mine to replace my desktop. I don't game much, but I do a lot of machine learning, coding, and peeping on my little sister and her friends. Hopefully, this machine can replace the first two and help me cope with the latter. Many thanks.
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mine has a 3080, but I fear it will be significantly throttled / won't have enough power draw to unlock the GPUs full potential. Whats your thoughts on that?
.. btw is it true that one of the RAM modules is soldered, leaving me with 1 slot to upgrade?
... is that the same for the nvme? I'm planning to run Linux on one drive and Winsuck on the other.
I got the 2022 model at late 2022. It is my first amd machine and gaming laptop too. I love it for games and a bit of work. Its power on battery is phenomenal, but its incapability to sleep and my hit-or-miss on broken microphone really dissapoint. But overall, happy with the screen, keyboard, trackpad (my favorite), webcam (kinda sucks but works), and material choices of asus
Overall a great machine! I just HATE the keyboard haha
I love this laptop, used to have one with 3060. Unfortunately, had to replace it as 3060 wasnt enough for QHD. Only Legion 7 2022 successfully replaced it 😎 Legion 5 Pro was much worse (speakers, plastic touchpad and build quality). I wanted to get Zephyrus G15 3070ti but in my country its $2,200 while Legion 7 6850m XT $1,500. Legion 7 2022 is very close even beats it in terms of build quality, speakers, touchpad and even more powerful. If you want to upgrade it get Legion 7 Slim 2023 it offers more of everything, as Asus always sacrifices something and never gives full package
I had a 2021 G14 that I had 0 issues with and passed it off to my little sister in high school. I just found an open box ROG 15.6” with a TB SSD, rtx 3080, 16gb ram from Best Buy as open box for $670 with a 3 year accidental warranty…. Hopefully it serves me well like my g14
Woah, what a great deal. What's the cpu?
Awesome! Very infomrative
I got this laptop in early 22, and had very similar weird issues related to the armory crate and ended up doing a factory reset. Also there was some kind of bios update that really helped with the battery life on my machine
My G15 2022 has similar problems to yours. While playing Apex Legends it will suddenly freeze and I had to force a restart, very surprised that Asus didn't fix some of those problems after such a long time.
Does it also freeze when doing other things or only just apex?
I have same on cooling dock and 34' 1440p ultrawide 120hz monitor which I game on and davinci resolve edit....great laptop since 2021😊
Very nice review from cambodia
Armoury crate disabled the nvidia card in favour of amd graphics...had to fiddle with the settings to get it back operational..
Wow I saw you playing Battlefield 1 there which is rare thing to see in any review or benchmark. Can you kindly share how many fps you got? and at what settings/resolution, also how smooth your experience was in general. I'm planning to buy this and I'll be playing BF1 on it mostly. Thanks in advance.
Ye I bought it for sale a few years ago for like $7 I was like why not. As far as performance goes I don't really remember exactly the settings but it was very smooth (dont have it installed right now). I was hooked up to an external monitor which was at 1080p and I had medium-high settings on. I think I locked mine at 60 just because I didn't want my laptop heating up so much with uncapped frames. Was playing at a constant 60 no problem, silky smooth
My BF1 footage was a little choppy in the video for some reason but actual gameplay was smooth 👌
@@thekaydubz Haha same, I grabbed Battlefield 1: Revolution 2 years ago for like less than $5 and it's my favorite fps shooter really. I see, yeah capping fps is a smart thing to do in a laptop scenario. Just needed to know if it'll feel any different from my PC if I play while traveling. It did look like bit slowed, probably camera didn't pick all the motion fully but still it gives you an idea. Thanks for the response, man. Appreciate it. :)
How often do you game on this, and what titles do you play?
I'm going to use this mostly for coding & machine learning, and I occasionally play AAA games (think like Elden Ring, Final Fantasy...) intensively for probably 1 - 2 months per year. Still have doubts about the heat vent design.
I don't play as often as I used to, but when I do play maybe 1-2 hour sessions at a time. Mostly play VR in assetto corsa/half life alyx. I think you shouldn't have anything to worry about!
i have a similar model to this but 6800hs 3080rtx.. the heat blows onto the screen but it doesnt affect the screen or any adhesive under the bezel.. i was concerned there would eventually be bleeding as a result of the heat but it seems to be fine..
Hey man amazing video. I was wondering should I go for this 2021 version with rtx 3060 or the legion 5 2022 with i7 12700h rtx 3060
Although the g15 is cheaper by 200 dollars I'm wondering if its worth it
Thanks
Thanks! I don't know much about the legion 5 but I would assume based off of those specs the legion 5 will be faster since it's got the 12th gen i7 compared to the ryzen 9 5900hs. From what people said the zephyrus has better battery life and is lighter weight, so I guess if you want more power and don't mind portability as much you can get the legion 5
i've same laptop and my display is bleeding red on right side and left side of the screen vertically when screen is completely black it can be seen when windows is booting up and starting game.
Had 2021 g14 3060 that was recently replaced by 2023 g16 4070. This one has the same chassis, but mine is 16:10. That chin on yours is def an eyesore. Also try ghelper, it is an armory crate replacement.
Yeah not a fan of the big bottom bezel. Doesn't bother me too much tho cuz I'm usually hooked up to a monitor
Hey, nice review.
Do you think the heat will eventually affect the screen?
So far there's only just some slight markings on the bottom bezel, don't really notice any damage on the screen itself. Most likely it shouldn't really be an issue in the long run
@@thekaydubz what's the current status as it would've been almost nearing 2 years and still hopefully no screen damage I assume? for your zephyrus the rubber tips on the screen doesn't have any damages right i hear people saying the rubber safety tips comes off?
Hello! I noticed you were on silent mode. If you don’t use the armoury create software I’m guessing you change the performance mode with your keyboard whenever you want to play?
Thank you
Even when I don't use armoury crate, when I unplug the laptop it automatically goes to silent mode and changes the refresh rate to 60. When I plug it back in it goes to performance mode and refresh goes back to 165hz or (144)? so that's pretty neat
@@thekaydubz thanks for answering. My g16 2023 just arrived. I realised it doesn’t sleep as you said when plugged in. It does sleep when it’s unplugged . Have you found any works around to this subject?
Also I noticed the camera lags quite often. For example the image on discord or Google meet seems to be slow and not fluent. Have you had this problem?
Dude they released an update for the finger print sensor and it makes it work 90% better
Was needed! The fingerprint sensor was trash on mine
i am using this laptop too! just disable the turbo boost and its PERFECT!
I disabled my turbo recently, CPU temperatures seem to be staying around 84 so much cooler!
@@thekaydubz yea mine stays around 78 too
Is it gonna be good for 1000 dollars now (i can attemt to exchange my old laptop in which case it would be 650 to 700 dollars)
I just ordered one from best buy for 1200. I feel kinda dumb right now since there are Ryzen 9's with 7040HS and rtx 4060. I am pretty new to gaming laptops, so how do you think it compares?
Every year, there will be new graphics card and processors, so don't worry. My friend has similar laptop and he is very happy. Don't overthink too much
I think from what I've seen the 3070 and 4060 perform very close, except the 4060 has frame generation which I haven't looked into what that means yet. 4060s probably cost more too. I wouldn't worry about it, if it runs what you need to run then it's all good!
Hi, I have a G15 (GA503QR), I notice my wifi connecting to the internet is slow on startup, is this normal? I already change my wifi to wifi 6e, but when I login or startup my laptop, I still wait like 5-10 seconds to connect on wifi to the internet. Even in hibernate. But on other laptop, if they startup their laptop, they already connected on internet without waiting. Can anyone help me?
Ive noticed it doesnt stay asleep...wonder why
bro i have the same exact screen freeze issues with my laptop and I open armory crate often to switch from silent to preformance mode. I dont get how to fix it
You should be able to find an error code somewhere on windows. Even though I didn't have a blue screen, I was still able to find the crash error code which I was able to google that some people mentioned it was from armory crate. See if you can find a crash code somewhere, I forgot where to look exactly
Wondering if this would be worth and upgrade considering it's on sale from my G14, which is very good already.
Probably not if the G14 is already good enough for ur needs. I might even wait a few more years before upgrading mine since I don't really need anymore power atm
What do you mean it doesnt sleep ? How is that possible ? It should work😮
Everytime I put it to sleep it just wakes back up instantly. Same thing if I close the lid it will just power back on while the lid is closed. Very odd
i j ust bought this laptop, but when browsing the temperature around 62-66c. is that normal?
Mine usually idles around there too even when not running anything. I recently disabled turbo boost for the CPU so my Temps are usually near low 80s when gaming
you have nice hands...
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Hey! I've recently bought this one and had a questionable moment with the speakers. What settings are you using? (Dolby Atmos ON/OFF and etc?)
I've been using Macbook Air M1 for the past few years and it's speakers are AMAZING compared to the Zephyrus G15. I DO understand that Apple has one of the best speakers on the market for the laptops, but thought that it's impossible for much thinner Macbook Air having MORE bass compared to Zephyrus G15 being twice as thick. Did you notice that too? I'm thinking that it's just my issue either with the audio drivers and stuff, or I'm REALLY used to the Macbook Air's sound. Feels like such a downgrade in that terms...
I think I have everything pretty much disabled, but yeah macbook speakers are in a league of their own. I recently got a 16 inch macbook pro and the speakers are the best I have ever heard on a laptop
@@thekaydubz thank you for your reply!
@@TheRealSolidSnake make sure you have your sound augmentation turned on in the armoury crate
@@JINNY-dl5yk cannot find this settings in the Armoury Crate... the only sound related settings there are AI Noise cancellation and just the microphone stuff. Can you please hint where it is?
@@TheRealSolidSnake Home tab -> System configuration -> Boot up sound
Did you guys who have this laptop having a ftpm issues? It is randomly shuttering and lagging 1 or 2 seconds during the gaming
Any suggestion?
Never had any issues like that with mine, not quite sure what that could be
Zephyrus g15 with ryzen 6800hs and rtx 3060 (100w) or lenovo LOQ with i7 13620 H and rtx 4050 which is better both with 1440 p screens??
Hmm from the specs they should perform pretty similar. How much you buying these for?
@@thekaydubz zephyrus is $1333 and LOQ is $1440 but the zeph weighs very less around 1.9kg and LOQ weighs around 2.5kg but at the same time I see many quality issues reported about zeph online so I even cancelled my zephyrus after i order it
I guess you made up your mind to get the Lenovo then! The price seems a little high to me for a 4050 tho since my G15 with the 3070 cost $1500 over a year ago.
Edit: actually even found some Asus TUF laptops for $1400 with an RTX 4070 on best buy
@@thekaydubz wow that deal looks really good Nah I haven't made up my mind about lenovo yet cause I am really upgrading from my 2 year old Rog strix GTX 1650ti with i5 10300H and the main reason I wanted to upgrade was to get a lighter gaming laptop that I can use as a personal workstation as well for my work purposes. So the LOQ is heavier than my strix and I found a TUF A15 with RTX 4060 at $1333 same as zeph but it also weight similar to my strix. This is so much more confusing.
Ye you pay a little more for a lighter/smaller form factor. That's why the zephyrus costs a little more than some other laptops. Some of them definitely have quality control issues but if you buy from a place like best buy you should be able to return it and get a new one like I did. I haven't looked at gaming laptops in a while I don't even really know what they have nowadays 😅
Does it leave a dent when you drop it?
I haven't dropped it yet. I don't think I've ever dropped any laptop before. Unfortunately I don't think I will be testing it for you 😆
@@thekaydubzamazing, friend dropped his strix g17 about 16 times and I was thinking if it applied for this laptop.
hello bro please if you can help me or someoe can please because after formating mmy zephyrus g15 2021 using windows 11 fingerprint wont work at all they said i have drivers issue so if someone can i help i will be so thankful
Sounds like a driver issue, have you tried reinstalling it? Hopefully yours worked well. In my case I wouldn't care about the fingerprint reader cuz it doesn't work 90% of the time anyway haha
I would prefer bulky ones with a better cooling system than a thin laptop that generally heats up during gaming while naming this laptop as "Gaming laptop" 🤦
Then you have other options like the strix, what do you expect in this form factor? You make sacrifices with a thiner and lighter package.
Still worth it if I buy it now in 2024?
I would probably go for the RTX 4070 variant at this point but if the 3070 is good enough for you and you can pick it up at a big discount then why not!
hi, can I install win 10 on it ?
Yeah it will work
how can i change the keyboard colour?
I actually never messed with the keyboard lighting haha. I'm pretty sure it's done through the armoury crate software. I've changed the light before by using one of the function keys on the keyboard and it just cycles through white or different strobe effects
@@thekaydubz what key exactly?
I believe it was the aura key which is FN+F4
@@thekaydubz it just change the way of your keyboard light … not the ‚COLOUR‘ cant find anything to that :/
Some people said it's in armoury crate, but not all g15 models have RGB. Does urs have RGB?
I got mine for 400 dollars
Dam that's a good deal
How do you make the keyboard rgb?
Mine came like that
But the G15 don't have rgb keyboard, it have only one type of color.
Unfortunately my device is not supported rgb 💔🥲 Single light backlit chiclet keyboard