ASUS Rog Zephyrus G14 (2024) Full Review - The Best Gaming Laptop I’ve Ever Owned - BUT….Major Issue
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- ASUS Rog Zephyrus G14 (2024) Full Review. In today’s video I go in depth and talk about this amazing gaming laptop. Is it perfect? No. In fact there’s one major issue at the end of the video. But that doesn’t make it the worst, it’s still the best for many other reasons. Also, I’m dumb and I kept calling it the Rog Strix G14, that’s not right. Please Like & Subscribe! Enjoy.
0:00 Intro
0:56 Why Did I Buy This?
1:30 Models and Specs
3:10 Unplugged Review?
4:05 Comsemtics
5:33 Likes
8:54 Dislikes
13:08 Who Is This Laptop For?
13:50 I Was Wrong About Mediatek
15:26 Armoury Crate Software
18:57 Resource Monitor
21:02 Elden Ring on Standard GPU Profile
23:29 Elden Ring on Ultimate GPU Profile
27:19 iGPU Only - HUGE PROBLEM
28:29 Final Thoughts
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Laptops are really funny after a BIOS and driver updates. So head into your UEFI (BIOS settings) and hit enter on "Restore Settings To Default" then "Save and Exit". This cleared up my issues on my RTX 2070 laptop and I have been doing it ever since on all my laptops including AMD systems. Hope this helps you get this beast back on track.
Hey man
Looks like youre kind of new and I hope you keep going with this.
Enjoyed the review!
Natural light in a CZcams video makes everything so life like
Bro, thank you so much! I wanted some insight in battery performance with the integrated graphics, you just made my day gentleman. Keep on the good work, you have no idea how much this means to me, it's my next PC decision which involves tons of thought as I use my computer as my main work tool as a sound designer.
@@ChechoGoto hey I really appreciate the comment. I do this because I love tech and I want others like me to be informed. Stay tuned for more reviews. The new g16 with the new Ryzen ai hex 370 comes out at the end of this month. I’ll be reviewing that as well in the 4070 version.
Hello!
I had the same fps drops with desktop 7600 in Dying light!
Was playing 120 fps smooth and then suddenly fps drops to 60 and processor wasn’t loaded as before.
Great video, very well done and instead of focusing on benchmarks you do a real day in the life which is great. I don't understand why you keep calling it a strix laptop, I believe it is a zephyrus? I have its 16-inch brother and it's pretty much the same story. No weird Nvidia video and audio issues like I have had with the same exact silicon in a Lenovo Legion 7i. I myself thought of doing what you're doing instead of getting a bunch of handhelds but the truth of the matter is they are still two very different experiences, if you can afford to have both great, if not then I really don't think they can be used interchangeably...
Haha I know I kept calling it Strix. I’m dumb. I have a newborn who’s been keeping me up all night. So my brain wasn’t working. I called it Zephyrus in all my other videos. Oh well. I have more videos coming soon on it.
@@GamerVsTech Haha no worries, totally get it! Also I wanted to mention that as I said I tried doing what you're doing last year with the Asus ROG Flow Z 13 gaming tablet PC but as I said in the end I realized the two experiences are very different. This is why even though I loved the Lenovo legion go and still miss it the steam deck is the best because you can suspend your games indefinitely and all the other console like qualities it has. Not to mention that the price difference between an open box handheld at Best buy and this laptop you're talking about is almost threefold at least... But again, do you get a larger screen and more powerful graphics for about the same battery runtime? Yes 👍🏻
Been loving mine!
A laptop can’t replace a handheld for me. I use a handheld to avoid having to lug around a laptop and controller. That said, it could definitely replace my current laptop 👌🏾 looks awesome
It’s been fun. Just wait. I have some really good content coming out.
Great video!!
Great work brother ..
Thank you so much 😀
Nice review.
Glad you enjoyed it
Started playing elden ring and realized I need a new "travel-work-gaming laptop".
Finding it hard to find the correct laptop for me but your video helped alot so thank you! I do have a few questions though:
I noticed you only tested without charging, Is the performance significantly better when charging?
I would like to run games like elden ring on high settings with 60fps. Is it possible with this one?
@@mrsherman3103 oh yes!!! When plugged in I play every game on max settings and resolution. In fact, elden ring has been my life right now and running on the g14 has been absolutely amazing. If I were you I’d get the g14 hands down. The OLED screen is absolutely amazing and makes every game so beautiful.
The new g16 with the Ryzen ai hx 370 cpu with 4070 will be release at the end of this month. If you want to wait for that, it will be a slightly bigger machine. I’ll be getting that in for review as well.
How hot is this thing getting for others? I mean the actual aluminum around the top center of the keyboard. It gets SUPER hot for me, and some of that heat transfers to the screen. I worry it’s going to do damage to the screen. The CPU and GPU temps are fine (never see them above 82 and 70 degrees, respectively). The keyboard always feels pretty cool to the touch, it’s just the aluminum right above the keyboard. It’s actually too hot to touch. Just wondering if this is the norm or if I potentially got a faulty unit?
Also, excellent video! I love this thing otherwise too, and it will hurt to return if it turns out that these temps are harmful.
@@BelleBeep interesting. Mine doesn’t get hot at all. I did notice that because the laptop is so low profile when sitting on a table the thermals are much worse than if I prop the laptop up to allow for better air flow. Definitely a little warm around the keyboard. I pretty much use it this way 100% of the time that I’m gaming. You may want to try to do a clean install of windows and drivers. That may fix things. Hope this helps.
@@GamerVsTech Thanks for your reply! I will definitely do a clean install and see if that helps. I'll update here with how it goes. Thanks again!
How about the temperature? Mine is g14 2022 and the temperature of the gpu if i use it to encoding is 86°c. Very hot
Bought this 2 days ago. Returning it because it gets unacceptably hot. Will burn you.
90c is normal for this laptop. But for more comfort you need to undervolt the GPU.
@@aanatanael11 the 2024 does not get that hot.
Is there a difference in performance in the 4060 and 4070 in terms of frames???
Yes on both battery and plugged in. About 5-10 fps. To some that’s not much but to others it makes a difference. The 4060 version with only 16gb definitely struggles playing games unplugged.
which version would you reccomend for an engineering student? i dont game, but i also want to start content creation..
@@gsdbp7893 so the current two versions are a 4060 model with 16gb of ram and the 4070 with 32 gb of ram. Both laptops come with soldered ram, meaning that it cannot be upgraded with more ram. Whether you are a gamer or student I will always recommend the 32 gb 4070 version because of more ram. More ram allows for a snappier machine when running graphic intensive applications or have many programs and processes running at once. The 16 gb 4060 is a good machine. It’s fast. But it just isn’t enough in my opinion. Hope that helps.
do you have any problem with touchpad? i mean palm rejection, like misstouch or accidentally touching , cause i had that on the 2023 model and im looking this new model 2024 to be my daily driver
Thanks for the video and nice review
No. Touchpad is pretty clean as far as mis touches. I will say that it feels a little bit more clunkier than the 2023 models. The click feels and sounds almost like the device is on a cardboard box. Hard to describe. Not terrible to the point where it’s a factor to not enjoy this device. But compared to other gaming laptops or even a MacBook, not totally on par.
How about the thermal and fan noise?
It’s so quiet. Yes if you manually tune everything the fans can get loud. But on the performance profile and unplugged it’s virtually silent. During the video I tried to increase my mic gain to pick up the fan noise. But it couldn’t. So I would say it’s pretty quiet.
Is the laptop charging or are you trying to game on battery😅😅 on battery performance going to be cut in half. 11:16 ?
@@dantebg100 yes I wanted to test out the laptop’s capabilities on battery.
How come you had to play Elden Ring on low settings on such a performant machine? Is it to keep thermals low?
@@okdokie278 no. This was an unplugged review. I wanted to showcase what the laptop could do completely on battery.
@@GamerVsTech Excellent, thanks so much :)
Use Ghelper and remove ROG AC completely. Your experience will improve further.
Yes. I didnt want to do this at first but after doing that the laptop seems to work better and with less heat
I might go back to g helper.
So how’s going after using ghelper?
@@dagreatkahn I actually didn’t go back to ghelper yet. On the 5th I fired the g14 up and was going to go instal ghelper but saw a new bios update. So I installed that and surprisingly it’s running way smoother for me. I’m doing some more testing as NVIDIA just came out with a new game driver as well.
@@GamerVsTechalso one thing mate since you got 4070 what games have you played on battery and also what graphic setting you usually set and what fps you getting? Sorry for asking too much bro
is legion 7i 2024 good?
It’s a decent machine. If you’re into intel.
My main issue is that it is kind of a downgrade from the 4080/90 2023 models
I also wish it worked well on 100W USB C PD, it kills the GPU when you run it like that
I bought the Flow X13 last year and I found the MTK Wifi card to be "good" but lower range than Intel and had some consistency issues when running in Wifi 6 mode :/
I agree in some ways. The trade off of the 2023 version to the 2024 version is the build quality and speakers. Having owned both, I do prefer the 2024 version when not plugged into power.
I wanna buy the version with the 4060
Just purchased g16 4080 minutes ago!
@@kiosh that’s good device. The new g16 with Ryzen ai hx 370 cpu comes out at the end of this month. I’ll be getting that one for review.
Can we get a drop test
@yearsago-bu7rw
Waiting for your test result.
Why
Why do you use 1080p??
@@JoonKimDMD my review was strictly on battery. So lowering the resolution allowed me to game with higher refresh rates and graphics settings.
@@GamerVsTechand lastly the max res from display itself is up to 1600p aka 2.5k? Not able to run 4k? And for a small screen like this laptop is it necessary gaming in 4k?
@@dagreatkahn no not a 4k screen. No for a small screen like this 4k is way overkill. I usually set game resolution to 1200p and it’s perfect.
@@GamerVsTech ahhh gotcha thanks mate, so far have you encountered any hardware issue or performance issue with fps dropping while gaming while unplugged?
Lastly please share another follow up video how you like with the laptop after running aaa games intensively from full battery till 20%, just wondered if there will be dropping on fps due to thermal /heat issue and if you can get >1 hour ?
Thank you and enjoyed watching the review you explained in the video
@@dagreatkahn yes. I even thought that I bricked the software a few times and did a few clean install. But it was a combination of driver issues. I have found that the more you use the g14 things tend to get better and smoother. But since the last bios update and nvidia driver everything is running smooth.
Looks like you capped the framerate at 60 in Elden Ring, that's why it doesn't ever drop. That hardware is definitely capable of more at 1080p low settings. This wasn't really a good way to show the laptop's potential. It doesn't make so much sense not to use the full power of a gaming hardware just to make the battery life a bit longer, unless you're really playing on the go. If you're home, just plug it in and enjoy the full quality of your games, otherwise it feels like you just wasted $2k on something that's overkill for your needs.
@@torom86 elden ring has a max fps of 60. Running Elden ring at 60 fps at max settings on a 2.5k resolution laptop is a lot harder than you think. And yes. The point of this review was to see the potential power of this laptop while unplugged. The truth is when unplugged you have to make a sacrifice to get more battery life.
@@GamerVsTech Sorry, I didn't know it was capped at 60 by default, I play it on PS5.
That's an expensive 1440p laptop with good graphics card and a stunning OLED display, so it's definitely overkill if your priority is stretching the battery life at the cost of playing at minimum resolution and settings, IMHO. One of the many handhelds you already own would surely be more convenient for your user case, but everyone is free to do what they prefer with their money.
@@torom86 totally agree. Now, when I do plug it in and play in bed it’s an absolute BEAST. Max settings and resolution on everything. Super high FPS. It truly is a great machine. The G16 with the new Ryzen AI HX 370 with the 890 integrated graphics and 4070 will be coming out at the end of this month. I’ll be getting that as well. Can’t wait to review that one.
@@GamerVsTech I really don't get what you do with all those devices, I only need 1 😆 In fact I'd love to get this one but I want to wait for next generation as I need something with AT LEAST 12GB VRAM (current models with the 4080 are way too expensive) for it to be future proof for at least 5 years. I don't want to pay €2k for a premium laptop just for it to struggle with 4k resolution (as I have a 4k TV) and be obsolete in a couple of years.
@@torom86 the new g16 with the new Ryzen ai hex 370 cpu with 890 integrated graphics and 4070 is coming out at the end of this month. I think that will be the best device considering the price for 32gb at $2200 USD.
HAHA but you are right. I have way too many devices. Most of them I upgrade and sell o and move onto the next one. Some I keep.
0:06 asus rog strix :skull:
lol I know. No sleep with the baby. My brain wasn’t working.
Beware it's 144 refresh rate stops working in one year and display gets distorted. Now mine working on 60 hz only
Have you had the G14 2024 for a year?
nice machine, but terrible trackpad, isn't responsive enough, not matter how you configure it it and it is only clickable towards the lower part, ( which i could understand if it had physical buttons ). so overall for productivity without an external mouse it is not a good fit. better go with Lenovo's
I kind of agree. The mouse pad feels a little clunky. I’ll be doing a productivity video soon and this will be one of the points I talk about. It feels nice to the touch but clicking feels very unnatural.
still wait for Lenovo releasing slim, lightweight laptop with RTX like G14 2024 😢
@@fishqwq I’ve test quite a few Lenovo slim devices. They are very nice.
@@fishqwq There's the 14" Legion Slim 5. Look up some comparisons with that but it's gotten really good reviews.
Why does new content creators show more face they should show more off a product