Eh, I’ll very thoroughly look up customer reviews outside amazon before buying anything from Asus. I have a GL702 laptop that heats up like a fucking stove, has the flimsiest cooling system and, to top it off, causes intense screen tearing when running hot. I keep expecting the screen to die from excessive heat exposure any time I’m playing.
My dad and aunt have used Zenbooks and Vivobooks for years without issue. Maybe the ROG lineup aren’t as durable?
It’s possible. I have an older S46C ultrabook from 2012 and the fella still runs good. The downside is that the GPU sits on the left of the mouse touchpad, so your left wrist will feel the heat if you play certain games
It’s not meant to game anyway, so who gives a fuck?
Everything I’ve purchased from Asus for the last 10 years has been absolute garbage. HP and Dell are better.
That’s right, I said it.
I have the same model. It crashes all the time due to some kind of cpu bug. Also sleep mode stopped working after linux kernel 5.10. Asus, never again.
Oh yeah, reminds me that you can’t spin the fans to the max (~10kRPM) under linux. I had to download a package off github, asus-fan-control, to make it stop frying itself
I use NBFC for that and never had any problem with the fans. They’re probably the best working part of that system - at least you can always reliably hear them! This thing is loud af.
Asus used to be good. These days I’m not so sure.
I recently bought an Asus router that just stops working for no good reason. Looked up the issue and apparently they’ve known about it for a while but have not fixed it.
The default software is kind of shitty and buggy. I flashed my Asus with Tomato. See if your router is supported by FreshTomato for example, it can really make a huge difference in stability and features.
Sucks. After the disaster that was my mainboard I decided its my last ASUS product.
Sorry to hear, I’ve never had a bad experience even with a 3070.
Well… a 3070 is a bit different because the chip itself is manufacutred by NVIDIA, ASUS is packaging it and builds the cooling system, ports, etc.
As is true for every product ASUS sells. They are simply an integration company and don’t produce much themselves.
oof, what was wrong with it?
They had an issue where the mainboard was destroying the new 7950X3D cpus and handled it terribly:
- Made a fuss with the RMA process and refused to recognize the mistake
- Brought out a new mainboard update which was supposed to fix the issue (it didnt) and updating voided your warranty
- and some more things
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Can’t wait for their bloated armoury crate to install on my computer as soon as I launch it.
Considering they’re basically doing that with their Chromebox line, it is not that big of a surprise.
I hope they consider cheap models especially arm based. not just “gamer” crap
