ASUS ROG Strix Advantage Edition G513QY Full HD 300Hz Windows 11 Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen R9-5900HX, AMD RX 6800M 12 GB Graphics, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Wi-Fi 6)

This is my first time buying a laptop over £1000, and a high spec one at that. In the past i never had a high spec anything, and have very little experience with these things so was unsure what to expect. I had another laptop for work/youtube/study and some light gaming, but i was getting annoyed that most games i tried to play couldn't run on my laptop, probably because of the terrible graphics, so when the screen broke on that one, i decided to get a high spec laptop and this one caught my attention.The good:Please take my spec review with a pinch of salt, because i'm basically completely new when it comes to graphics cards, rams and processors. But to me, it looks like the graphics are really good, i would say on par with consoles, maybe even better. I've only tried Gears Tactics which runs great, best i've ever seen for a gears game (used to play gears of war on xbox a few years ago, and this looks better). It feels like a powerful laptop, starts up really fast, and runs heavy programs easily. Good amount of storage, and in general is a very sturdy laptop. They keys are nice to type with, they kind of feel soft.The design is nice too. Kind of a matt black finish all over, with plenty of vents, and connection ports. I was a little put off by the "gamey" look at first, but its fine. There's a small silver logo on the back, I think it looks cool. There's also a little red thing on the back corner of the laptop (not sure what for), which can be removed and replaced with a black or silver one that comes in the box. So it's pretty cool that they give you that option, when you put the black one on it looks like a regular laptop, incase you work somewhere and worry about judgemental people thinking it's unprofessional (silly but that was actually in my mind). The w, a, s & d keys are white though, so it looks a bit odd at first but personally, I don't think it's a big deal. The laptop also has some interesting lights, and by default i think they're like, red, yellow, purple and it kind of changes around. You can play with this in the settings, change it to any colour or brightness you like, or turn it off completely, its up to you.The battery is fine for me. When working (emails, meetings & excel, or something heavier), or watching youtube/netflix, the battery lasts a couple of hours no problem, which is cool, but if i want to play a game, i will connect the power because it can run out quite quickly.A few issues:There is no camera, so if you need to be on zoom/skype/teams meetings you'll need an external camera. The delete key is right next to the airplane mode key, there is no number pad on the right. I'm used to having numbers on the right, and they rest of they keys to the left, so whenever i try to press delete, or the end key, or home key etc. i keep pressing the wrong keys because of muscle memory. You can press FN and one of the arrow keys to skip around, and the delete key is the top right one. So bear in mind if you write a lot on your laptop, it may take some time to get the muscle memory right.The laptop can get kind of hot when running a heavy game or program, but the fans seem strong enough to keep it cool, and i haven't had any issues with performance. Also kind of a pro, but even when the fans are highest, it was quieter than my previous laptop.Basically, I'm very pleased. Maybe it's overkill for what i use it for, streaming, work, and some light gaming, but i'm happy with the laptop, and might explore some games i missed out on in the past.

It's FAST.. holy S**t fast. I play World of Tanks (PvP Online Multiplayer) which is known for it's extremely high quality Ultra setting, chewing up a laptop's performance. Haven't seen any performance issues so far and enjoying the beauty of playing in Ultra setting from hours at 165Hz refresh rate.It's so much powerful than my last laptop and worth every penny. I bought it for £1500 during the Black Friday sale.. a beast that gives you an all AMD treat. Ryzen9 coupled with the RX6800M.. no wonder it's called an "Advantage Edition". 16GB RAM is sufficient however if you are a nutjob asking for more, it supports upto 32GB.. go nuts. The body is sooo smooth and for those who likes a Gaming laptop look. Very good battery life for a laptop with this kind of spec.If you are lucky enough to get this in stock and have the cash, don't think. Same performance in Intel product would easily cost you £2500 or above on this day. It's truly a GAMING laptop.

I bought this laptop to become my daily driver. I would use it for work and gaming. About a year into having it I noticed issues related to booting. I am not sure of the fault, but while plugged into mains the charging indicator led would be off. After unplugging the charging cable I would have to wait for - period of 45 minutes to an hour. The laptop would then miraculously turn on and function normally.About a 3 weeks ago, out of nowhere the laptop would self boot or awake from sleep without any input from me (we are talking middle of the night). This problem went on for sometime.About a week ago the I thought the w key was stuck as it was continuously inputting the letter into any text box I clicked on. I tried to reinstall the driver to no avail. After a reboot the w key stopped working. Somehow the laptop pulled a recovery and started functioning properly. Today out of the blue I lost about 9 keys on the keyboard. By this I mean the key do not work, and when I do press them the Caps Lock led would light up on key press. To my surprise the left shift combo with these keys would input whatever letter in caps or symbol corresponding. I tried my luck with a restart and nothing. The problem persistedI decided to just turn in for the night, and decided to shut the laptop down only for it to turn itself back on each time I shutdown. After about 20 mins of self booting I decided to back up my files to an external drive and factor reset the Laptop.Everything seems fine, I managed to reset the laptop. during the reset the laptop when into a BIOS update. After a successful BIOS update I was prompted to restart the laptop in UEFI, but it suddenly turned off. Now, no charging LED, not booting on power button press, leading me to believe this laptop has finally kicked the bucket.Very strong feeling this is hardware related, but being outside of warranty I have basically lost this laptop to some catastrophic failure, disappointing that hardware of this calibre and cost is prone to failure.I would recommended going for alternative.