ASUS ROG Strix Scar Edition 17.3” 120Hz 3ms Gaming Laptop, 8th-Gen Intel Core i7-8750H Processor (up to 3.9GHz), GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, 16GB DDR4, 128GB PCIe SSD + 1TB Hybrid HDD, Windows 10 - GL703GE-ES73

I use a gaming laptop as my work laptop too. Im a writer, and I also do audio and video recording and editing. Then once Im off the clock, Im a long-time gamer. This beauty handles all of these with amazing aplomb. The keyboard is fast and smooth, the screen is beautiful, and the six cores and 16GB ram mean that even with lots of VSTs running, my performance is rock solid. Battery life isnt great, but its a gaming laptop: thats not odd.

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I bought two of these and so far the users have had absolutely no complaints. They are using them to play online games and general usage. Doom is on one of them no problems. The users report display is decent for the price. I have 1050 ti on desktop and run Adobe programs, this card handles fine. So what do you get? ASUS build quality and assets of ASUS mobo. ASUS gaming expertise with few corners cut. I would have given this 5 stars from my user reports but was really disappointed with the micro sized ssd drive. They dont cost that much. Defeats the purpose of ssd to have mechanical disk drive. I had delivery problem that was taken care of and have no problem with dealer. Why I am praying they dont break down is that ASUS support is beyond horrible. If you have issue and eventually you will, they toss you from person to person like a pinball where you start your case from the beginning. <EDIT> Its a bad plan you dont want to deal with. I have nightmare stories with them and I hate giving ASUS $$$. My users wanted this system and it met price point that day but never as good as my 2 Alienware.

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Looks good and works well for gaming. The biggest problem i have is the power button. I have to push it 3 times every time to get it to turn on. The power supply plug in is flimsy at best. it doesnt seem to plug in all the way. If i move my computer at all i better be checking it because it will come undone. And the ether-net cable is far too close to the power supply plug in. I owned a Asus prior to this one and it was the best for 5 years. Was built like a tank! This one is ok. I would never take this one on the road like i did the other one. I realize this is not a top of the line Asus, but i still expected better.

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Great bang for the buck, I went with the 1050 ti model since I mostly only play competitive games (LoL, Overwatch, CS:GO) and was more interested in the high refresh monitor and 8th gen CPU. I was blown back by how powerful even my model is and how enjoyable it is to use, Im getting 120-150 fps in DOOM on ultra for reference. I used to own the Razer Blade 14 and this laptop is a breath of fresh air. The fans are powerful but dont get too loud (razer blade fans were like a jet engine), I havent seen the gpu pass 80C even at full load, and the build feels premium even with the plastic bottom. 10/10 Im very happy with this purchase, I feel I got exactly what I was advertised.

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Opened on Christmas day, monitor dead: where is your quality control, ASUS? Too busy filling orders to bother checking, or too big to care? I may or may not revise this review based on the replacement we receive.

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I was shopping around for a new laptop for a while before I bought this one. Im really happy with what I got for the cost of it. It runs games smoothly, even when Im multitasking, and is more than powerful enough for my schoolwork. I havent had any hardware issues with it yet, which is great, because Im cursed with hard drives. Speaking of drives, the SSD boot drive makes booting up SUPER fast. Also, it has programmable keyboard lights, which are really cute. Makes me feel fancy! This is a heavy computer for its size, by the way, which for the price is expected. I took a star off for the battery life because it feels sort of short, but I could probably tweak the performance settings and get WAY more life out of it if I made an effort. YMMV

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This laptop is great for mid to mid-high level gaming. Graphics are decent, speed is decent, load time is decent. Plays GTA Online with almost no issues. Videos look great. The problems with this laptop are that sound will not play at all with hp plugged in, or with a phone plugged in via USB to charge. It also will not maintain an Ethernet connection once powered down or after a restart. I might occasionally get lucky and not have to restart my modem first thing in the morning when powering on this laptop, but usually I have to restart my modem between 2 and 5 times to get this laptop to fully load webpages or log into games. Ive run all kinds of troubleshooters and diagnosis, and I contacted Amazon tech support, but after a few basic questions it was suggested it may be defective and to return the laptop. To avoid further hassle I decided that was the best course of action. The laptop also runs extremely hot, especially in games such as GTA Online, even with a chill pad. Overall Im really disappointed because I actually love this laptop and the level of gaming I can achieve with this mid-price laptop, and I really dont want to have to return it.

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The only dislike is the battery, if your playing a game such as Rainbow siege, GTA, you have to have it plugged in to the charger at all time for best quality and No lag. Asus customer service is very good, u get over 1TB storage, REALLY GOOD SCREEN QUALITY as well I compare this laptop to other laptop my co-worker amd friends have, such as digital storms, and laptop over 2k and 5k, they experience technical issue with their laptop, yet i haven’t had not even an issue with this laptop. For the price, it’s an absolute STEAL! I had an expensive Mac laptop and only this laptop beats my Mac. I can do all my Mac work and performances on here, athough the battery drains, battery his laptop has an option where if ur not gaming, u can lower the performance of the battery and set it to “normal battery performance” which means it will last longer. I’m a college student and I change my battery performance to normal and the battery last me, then when I get home I put it to “gaming performance” which of course has to be plugged in. This laptop, u can link MOST OF YOUR accounts, FB, Spotify, insta, steam, Xbox , PS4, UPLAY, ETC, all in the screen and ur computer is customized to YOUR CHOICE. The keyboard lightening is an extra that makes it beautiful. Don’t spend 2-3k on a laptop, this computer works just as well.

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I bought this laptop as it had mostly everything I wanted, SD card reader, graphics card, and most noticeably it is a gorgeous laptop. Once I got it how ever I realized this product is very, very, cheaply made, for example when I ran a bench mark it posted that the 16GB Ram was one slot card, to be honest the speed of the Ram posted Slower then Dual card 16GB DDR3 @ 1600, and I had all setting on high performance. Why would you only use one slot of ram card on a Gaming laptop ? This is one of the strangest things I have ever seen, when games depend so highly on Ram. Also on the key board one of the keys was brighter then all the rest of keys, and was always a different color then the keys around it, and yes I know it has asus aura, but this one key the downward arrow key was totally different brightness then the keys around it, that were same color, it was a defect in the one key. Also come to find out you can not download asus aura without going to Microsoft store, something I simply will not do, I will not be part of the Microsoft monopoly that forces you to be logged into a Microsoft all the time.... As for the display it was pitiful, the colors are not even close to being realistic, even when using the asus aura system for display, I am sure it would have helped if this unit was able to run the Asus splendid utility but it could not. All and all this is a beautiful design laptop, with poor quality control, and very poor ideas on specs, like not using dual 8GB Ram to make the 16GB Ram, and not going with a ISP display panel, something all Laptop should have now....

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I have had this for about a week now. I was having problems with frame rate until I download the Nvidia drivers that I needed. I used the custom imported settings from NVidia on Tomb Raider. Im getting 60 fps on ultra. I recommend doing the same...using Nvidias imported settings for your games...its fine tuned to get the most out of your GTX1050ti. Its also awesome for new PC gamers who dont know much about all those settings and dont like tinkering with it. This laptop is fast too..no complaints there. The only complaint I really have is the game center sometimes force closes when going to open it with the keyboard button. Its an easy fix that I found on Google. Just find the ROG gaming center in the accessories menu and click "stop". Then its good to go. The mouse that came with it is really nice as well. Its super quiet too. I read the reviews about this laptop getting hot and/or the fans being really loud but I havent encountered any of that. It stays cool and quiet for me. I even bought a base cooler at the same time I bought the computer, thinking that I would need it because of the reviews. I use it just so I can prop the laptop on the blanket on my lap without it over heating...the cooler works great for that. If any issues come up I will update the review.

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