Amazon.com: Customer reviews: ASUS ROG Strix GL703VM Scar Edition 17.3” 120Hz Gaming Laptop, GTX 1060 6GB, Intel Core i7-7700HQ 2.8 GHz, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB PCIe SSD + 1TB SSHD, RGB Keyboard

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018

I love this laptop. it is really fast and looks awesome. Great Deal. Everything that I was looking for.
I bought this laptop to use primarily for coding and making websites and software development which I know you don't really need a PC of this caliber for but I tend to go a little over board and wanted something nice that would last a long time and be really fast. Originally I was looking at the MacBook Pro but for $2800 for the 15 inch screen I couldn't justify spending that much. This Laptop PC IS WAY MORE POWERFUL at a fraction of the price! Windows defended is actually pretty good antivirus although I ended up downloading AVAST free antivirus which is a little better. What would you rather spend? 3000 after tax on a smaller screen macbook pro with shitty keyboard or 1500 for a way more powerful faster PC?
Also I bought the game PUBG and play it from time to time and this Laptop handles the game really well.
PRO'S:
super fast
Great hardware for the price, see specs...
keyboard is a joy to type on and I really like how it lights up and you can customize the colors
plenty of usb ports and HDMI etc...
Doesn't come loaded with too much junk software. I only had to uninstall a few programs ie.(mcafee antivirus, clash of clans, and a couple other apps I wasn't using)
THIS LAPTOP IS A BEAST

CONS:
This laptop does tend to get fairly hot. You will definitely need to buy a cooling fan. ( i bought the Tree New Bee cooling pad for $20 (the blue one with four fans))
The battery life on this thing kind of sucks. You can adjust the battery performance usage but doesn't make a huge difference. Only lasts 2 -3 hours however I always have the charging cable with me so that's not really a problem for me.

At the end of the day. For $1460, you won't find another laptop with a 17.3” screen 120Hz , GTX 1060 6GB, Intel Core i7-7700HQ 2.8 GHz, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB PCIe SSD + 1TB SSHD, RGB Keyboard
Great deal and really sleek.

This may not be the right laptop for you, but for me it is Awesome. Just wish the battery lasted longer and that it didn't get so hot but those are minor issues for me.

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Andrew Pazos

Great when it works, but overheats tremendously.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2021

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This laptop worked great for a few months back when I purchased it on February 26, 2018. It could handle World of warcraft, and Final Fantasy XIV at high settings with many players on the screen as well as some AAA titles on steam. However after some time, the fans began buzzing extremely loud and would cease to function all together. The laptop was still under warranty so Asus had me send it in and repaired the issue. (This was another ordeal altogether as the laptop went missing for some time at the repair facility.)
This was a temporary solution as the laptop would still run extremely hot. Temperatures of 90 degrees Celsius plus. This was with a laptop cooling pad underneath as well. I've opened it up to try and apply thermal paste but one of the screws on the inside was badly stripped ( I found it like this) and I was unable to completely remove the case. I was able to apply the paste which helped for a short time, but the problem with the overheating keeps on happening. Its a beautiful laptop, the screen has great colors, but the performance and cooling take a nosedive after a few months of operation.

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Land of confusion

Nope nope nope

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2018

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I'll start off with I have had a RoG for years that I abused the hell out of and it last through 5 years of constant gaming for hours on end and with a heavy load on graphics (high population WvW servers in GW2). I'm glad I kept it, because I despise this computer. It's pretty to look at and it's super light and that's about all the positive I can muster on it.

Probably doesn't help that I'm posting while pissed as my main issue with this computer just happened yet again - while gaming, the computer keyboard just stops working. I think it overheats and then it doesn't matter what key you hit, nothing works. I have to hit the power button to be able to log semi-restart and it seems to jog the computer into working again. I've not played GW2 on it, but some Blizzard games in HoTS and WoW and both games had this happen. Not good when you're trying to PvP on a team and have to drop. In WoW, I'm just doing normal PvE and this happens.

The computer runs stupid hot, I've never had my other do this at all. I had read about it, but figured it was an exaggeration and nope. It's also loud. LOUD. Like I thought the computer was going to just eat it right there loud. It's fine while surfing the web and even Photo Shop, but any kind of gaming just sends it (and me) into fits. I would say the keyboard thing will happen a few times a week. Going to have to spring for a fan to see if it helps, but I may just go back to my old RoG and use this on the couch for trivial things. SO disappointed, ASUS.

March 24 update - Have a fan for this damn thing and it still overheats. At this point I might as well try a block of ice underneath it. The keyboard still stops randomly and it happens without a high graphic load now. It makes my headphones cut out once it gets hot and has rendered two pair (one old set I replaced as I thought maybe it's just time and then it did the same to the new pair about 2 hours into gaming and no one in discord could hear a full sentence) This thing is built for gaming, so why all the damn problems? I'd have been better off buying a $900 laptop at this point

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BG

Great product. But the product instructions manual has misleading information caused a lot of trouble.

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018

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Update after the replacement:

I've received the replacement. It was same as the previous one. So I've realized that something is wrong. After thorough research on the internet, it turns out that so called "soundbar" was just the secondary heat grille. The misleading information on the instructions manual caused me a lot of trouble below. Also customer supports should have known these things before throwing "reinstall, reset" words out of their mouths.

The laptop itself is a beautiful, powerful. I've faced no issues playing PUBG at High settings. When it is in stress, the fan sound is loud. But it is expected from high performance gaming laptop. It is not noticeable when you wear headphones.

As for the low speaker volume issue, I think any new speakers with or without subwoofer out there will do the job.

Finally, I am updating my 1 star to 4 stars despite having troubles I went through. Because I like this laptop.

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When I received this item, I didn't pay much attention to the sound as I was able to hear Cortana's voice. I've moved all my data from my old laptop to this new laptop. And cleaned my old laptop before I sending it to my sibling.

Then I've noticed that sound is not so great on this one. So I've tried to change the volume up. However, even it is at 100%, it was no way near loud compared to my old dell laptop. After some inspection, I've found out that main soundbar in the middle is not producing sound, only side small speakers were working all these time.

Contacted with product Supports, they have suggested me to reinstall the sound driver Or reset the laptop. I've tried them both. Reinstalled the sound driver, but it was same. Then I've decided to reset the laptop. At this point, I had to cancel the shipment of my old laptop in order to move my data back before resetting this one completely (I could have reset only the windows. But I had a feeling that resetting will also be the same. So I've decided moved my data back to prepare it for replacement). After complete reset, it didn't help as well.

All these time consuming extra works and frustration are the reason for 1 star.
I've requested replacement. After I inspect the replacement, I will think of updating my stars.

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DrGrommit

Great computer. I've had this computer for a month ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2018

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Great computer.
I've had this computer for a month now and haven't had any real issues with it (noise level). I run this with Maya for Animation only. It can get loud as other reviews have stated, But it really doesn't bother me too much. Aside from that, runs everything perfectly. Starting it up for the first time it will prompt you to update everything so I had no issues there. No battery issues as I usually keep it plugged in. Keyboard lights up and feels comfortable typing on, trackpad doesn't get in the way. Screen display is very nice. Solid laptop. Cheers.

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AmeliaBedelia

Not recommended

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2018

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It is still new, so I'm a bit awkward about posting a review when things could go bad further down the road. Right now, it is fine. When I first turned it on (and for like 3 times after that), it had an error message about accessing memory. That stopped within a week, though, and it has run fine since. So far I am having a blast on it. I will say that it gets really hot really fast and I am purchasing a cooler so that it won't be so hot. Ok so it is one year later and the motherboard has completely fried. Since the company decided to WELD the cpu to the mobo(!!!) I had to buy a refurbished model for close to same price and drop drives in. So not recommended at all.

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leighton valencia

solid choice for a "budget" gaming laptop.

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018

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been running mine about a month now. VERY fast, great monitor, solid keyboard, solid specs. upon receiving the unit I immediately dumped the 1tb HDD (its a 5400 RPM hybrid) for a Samsung 500GB SSD and its worth every penny.

Pros: a lot of laptop for the money
minimal bloatware
fast. very fast. boot un in less than 15 seconds

Cons: can be loud under load (i use headphones so not a problem)
the 1tb hybrid drive should be a 500 or 1tb SSD
heavy (its a gaming laptop, what did you expect?)
hot under load (again, its a gaming laptop)

replaced a ASUS g73sw bought back in early 2011 and i have no regrets buying the unit. Would recommend.

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Chi

Good Product !

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2019

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I love this laptop and everything about it but the overheating problem. With normal operation everything works good and no problems but when I game on it the temps would get up to 98 degrees Celsius which is hot. Asus standard is 100 degrees Celsius which is okay for them but Intel says no way. So I called Asus and told them my problem and they were willing to help me, but I am currently in online college for software engineering and this was at the time my only computer so I could not send it in for repair like they wanted me to because I could not miss school. Asus really had no real solution to my problem other than take it to a computer specialist and have it fixed which would be no different than sending it to Asus. So me being the the computer specialist I am I took upon myself to fix it. So what I did was take it apart and use liquid metal on the cpu and the gpu heat sinks and the result was amazing, it was running 20 degrees Celsius cooler wow. Also dont leave your charger behind this laptop dont last long on a charge. Now that I got the overheating problems fixed its the best gaming laptop for me because I dont game all the time, I do my school work and game in my spare time to unwind. So if your a good tech and like to work on your computers this is the one for you so good luck !

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Hunterking

Hot item, Just not in the good way.

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2018

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So Im going to start this review with the ups.

-Its fast and plays games like Fallout 4 on ultra settings
-looks beautiful
-Would be great if not for its major flaws which i will now list.

-there is really one flaw but its so big it give it a 1 star and gets to be sent back. Plus 1 that is a direct result of that 1 flaw.
-it runs HOT. i mean 70° to 80 ° on a simple unity game, it runs hot with Fallout games, it even runs hot with old games like Fallout 3 or Skyrim without mods. That is the kind of BS i have had to deal with. I had issue that also happened when when leaving chrome or firefox open for too long. I even bought a cooling fan with it because i wanted one to help with any heating issues.
-to show the extent my fear was with this product. Durring the initial windows installation i could feel the heat coming off the keyboard. It got to the point i feared it would burst into flames.
-the initial sign that helped me realize this was when the fans kicked in. Those fans ran as loud as jet engines and did a S!$% job at cooling. I ran Fallout 4 for about 10 min it took about 7 min to dissipate the heat. The inicial heat was 82°C that was the point i gave up and sent it back.
-IF YOUR SYSTEM IS DOING THIS SEND IT BACK. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. I LOOKED UP THIS ISSUE ELSEWERE ITS A KNOWN ISSUE.

I plan to avoid buying this again and will likely look more closely at these issues beforehand purchasing of another laptop. If this issue is as wide spread as it looks this system needs to be recalled.

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Cong Do Nguyen

Five stars, great price on this market

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2018

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The design is great, fairly thin, thick enough to help with the heat. I have been deciding between the razerblade pro vs this one. I love the razerblade pro design, however, I would rather choose this because of its price and its quieter when running game(there is more space for heat). I don't really care about battery time.

I also have a Macbook Pro 15'' and of course when you get used to retina or 1080p+ resolution, you will find 1080p screens are bad. However, I mainly use this laptop for gaming, gaming on 1080p is awesome, and all I care about is performance. I am into fps game and with the 120hz screen, it makes the game feel butter smooth. However, playing CSGO, I don't know why I set all the settings to low with 1600x900 resolution, sometimes the fps drops below 120fps which is kind of sad.

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