Scar 16 Review - RTX 4080 - Nebula HDR Mini LED - 2023 ASUS ROG Strix G634JZ 

are you in US or Canada. I am waiting for it in canada

The MacBook Pro has a better display imo (MiniLED XDR with 1600 nits peak brightness and 1000 nits sustained) but the ROG Strix is definitely 2nd.

Are you insane? The screen is awful when in HDR mode, there is ghosting on the moving image, you can see halo's around everything... and when you compare it to an OLED, you realise it's showing you a very dishonest image. The 'dimming zones' thing is a real scam, there needs to be 4000-8000 of these 'zones' before it can be used as a HDR screen. You can disable the 'multi-zone lighting effect', but then you don't have HDR. I am returning my unit for a Lenovo Legion Pro 7, long time Asus fan, but this experience, especially with the awful 'Armoury Crate' software, I can not tolerate being ripped off so badly

@@michaelrathbone7258 lol

the screen sucks bro with a matte crap on its not ecen a real mini led with it

I also have/had the issue, but only when I set it to „Ultimate“ in Armoury Crate. Setting the colors to 10 bit in the Nvidia control panel fixed it for me.

the problem occurred out of the box ?.

what is black screen issue? how do you determine that?

@@hakanakdag9491 the screen just goes black and laptop is still running.

@@BuschXD hmm interesting. I did not see it yet but I will keep it in mind.

Yeah I am going to set up a return for it to ASUS, I don’t want to start a warranty claim hassle or something on a laptop that’s only a few days old.

@@TechWithSean I agree. I've heard instances that you often just end up with the same machine back...

Yea and how short the cable from that brick to the laptop is, keep that brick on the table, it will not reach the floor when on a desk. They should also tell you that you can't game on this without it connected. You can game but you really need the brick dongle all the time to "have the He-Man power" LOL

Why?

You get that thing for around 2300 in europe...

Capping out of your ass

​@@samuelmeier1617 3.5k...

Ups, yea, you are right

I love mine, more power than I need but it does make a lot of noise and is super flashy, you might be better off with a new high end MacBook Pro but be ready to shell out $$$ for that. The Strix Scar 16 was built to be a compact gaming machine, no one will take you seriously if you show up at a meeting with this bad boy LOL But if you turn off the LEDs, its got enough power for you to do anything you need to on a laptop for about half the price of a Mac that still can not play games like you can on an ROG Strix Scar 16.

M16 is way loud and also it stays in the above 90°C more than half of your gaming sessions. Asus switching to i9 comes with a cost I guess.

The M16 is way lighter, thinner, and more portable, but at the cost of what’s mentioned above me. (You can solve that with a cooling pad if u don’t mind using those) This SCAR laptop is way more powerful (due to higher Graphics TDP) and maybe a bit more cooler due to it being thicker, but its more of a desktop replacement.

the new m16 runs cooler, but having coil whine is something you have to ask the people who own this

You definitely want to get the scar 16. The reason why is because this processor and this graphics card produced so much heat. You really don’t want a system that’s been designed for lower heat production retrofitted for the specs of the I-9 and 4080. Instead I think it would be a better idea to go with the system that was deliberately designed to withstand the heat. Don’t forget the power the 4080 gets in the system is 150 W versus the M 16 which only get 125 and that makes a big difference

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​@@TechWithSean What about screen bleeding ?

U think it's worth it mane send me the link for yours because if not I'm going to Lenovo.

@@AkayaA7 if you watch real photosq of mine pm me you email

Bad temps on cpu! This is not good. Gpu max should be 75. Im worried about these new CPU and GPU temps. They running so hot! Almost on every laptop...

I bought msi ge 78, it eas terrible.....

Do your own research, look at the specs, read the reviews of people who own them. Make your own decision based on your specific needs. This is the best advice I can give you. I did the research for myself, money was not an issue for me so it came down to best performance (tech) best cooling, best display, best size, the ROG Strix Scar 16 checked all the boxes for me. Sure there are some things I had to sacrifice, like a metal enclosure, crappy armory crate software and BIOS that does not post if hardware goes south and a mouse that gets stuck occasionally on the enclosure LOL. It takes longer to boot than my MacBook Pro or even an old i5 laptop with SSD but it plays games better than I had expected coming form a PC desktop gaming setup. You can game on a laptop now with graphics still better than a PS5 and it is small enough to take with you (as long as you can plug that brick in LOL). The Strix Scar 16 is the best gaming laptop. In its size. In the world. Perhaps you do not require playing games that demand so much power and a cheaper MSI laptop may check your boxes, its all up to you. Don't let other people make the choice for you, make it yourself, like I said read, compare, choose, that is true freedom, exercise your freedom, that's MERICA. 😁

Oh and yes mine has a slight coil whine but its not as bad as in the video, nature of the beast at this price point; $2699 at MicroCenter with new Microcenter card application (pay that sucker off or go with interest free instead of the -$100, also all future purchases are 5% off when using the card, no I don't work there or for ASUS LOL, just a fan of this awesome laptop and Microcenter too), get em while their hot, literally. Yes I would buy this again, and again, it was a good choice for me and I could not find it brand new anywhere else for cheaper. Someone said there was a used one on amazon sub $2600 but could not confirm, I don't buy used anyway especially laptops from Amazon, there is a reason someone did not keep it (just remember that). Anyway I wish someone had told me go for it when I was looking so I am telling you, GO FOR IT, its awesome fer-sure!

Asus laptops r hot, and with that price, they r still using plastic chasis. Feel cheap. My younger brother is Asus fan and he bought Strix scar 16 mean while I bought Alineware X16. ASUS, both GPU and CPU are sitting about 85C mean while my Alineware sitting about 65 for GPU but CPU is about 88 to 90.

@@JohnWick-pr2be I don’t know about your brother - my video card for scar 16 does not heat up more than 80

@noutbuker yah but still around 80ish. So still irrelevant. Just avoid Asus this year. They have very bad QC this year. He just returned his laptop. Only 2 weeks old and battery is swollen. Asus Alley frying sd card and nvme. Motherboard frying cpu.

would it be possible for you to record the coil whine for us , I want to but the Scar 16 but i'm really hesitant of coil whine , does it happen during cpu workload aswell like browsing the internet or doing work stuff, people say they experience it while browsing something...

Hey. The problem with noise gone?

@@michaelkoshkin7997 Not for regular tasks like checking email or browsing the Internet and watching movies. Only get a little noise when loading games, but after that the fans kick in so fans is all I hear. 👍

@@jkwon85 Thank you. Please tell me, is this noise like from a broken (unhealthy) fans, or does it work properly, and is just very noisy? Can you hear this noise in headphones?

@@michaelkoshkin7997 It is a gaming laptop, it is going to be loud. It is normal to hear fans and coil whine, but if you are wearing headphones and playing games It will not be that loud.👍

@@jkwon85 So, it's a great laptop, ye?

I haven’t but I bought it later and apparently a bios update fixed these. I think my thing is the lack of an sd card reader as the big issue lol. Not that I used it anyways but still. The bios update also gives you those missing options people were missing as well.

It’s not a major issue and this is a easy drive a problem that should be fixed. I’ve had this laptop for three days now and spent over 20 hours on it and it’s only happened to me once. I just had to restart my computer. There’s no other laptop in the market right now that compares with us. I said pull the trigger

Someone once told me if you wait for a better computer you will be waiting your whole life, you have to jump on the band wagon at some point, there will always be a better computer tomorrow. If you are ready, and you have the money, get it, have fun with it, start saving for the next one >.

Only the rog strix scar 16 2023 has a rog nebula hdr display

@@sethmcguire9679i do have scar 16 2023

@@AhmedKathiri It's ASUS ROG Strix Scar 16 2023 G634JZ-N4011

@@sethmcguire9679 HDR is only available in the Scar series with rtx 4090.

It's available in Best Buy right now. For Canada at least..... I literally just ordered my right now :)

I have the 4090 now after my 4080 died. They sound the same, jet engine but no whistle sound, just rushing lava air coming out, I fear it will one day melt that short a$$ power connector cord >.

​@@djgeojoehow did the 4080 die?

White shadows are called blooming

Is the issue of number 2 still happening? I’m deciding between this and the legion 7i pro

Legion 7i pro is a VERY solid machine. If mini LED is not important to you then I would get that. Otherwise the Scar 16 is just behind the 7i but with a better screen. @@jakepaucarpura8298

Sadly, I don't know short of physically disconnecting the wires to the lights. They are kind of annoying.

@@TechWithSean I love this laptop but wow hates these lights...thx for the response and I will respond here if I find a solution in the bios

This had mini LED and 4080, ordered directly from ASUS webstore.

​@@TechWithSeanROG Strix SCAR 16 (2023) G634 G634JZ-XS96 Eshop USA, does not have a mini LED. You can check it in the HDR panel to see what the brightness is, theoretically it will show you 1100 nits. If he has. This is Asus misdescribing the product.

Coil whine is not an issue, if it happens for RTX 4xxx, it means it'll happen on any laptop with that GPU series. That's due to high power of coils to get enough juice for the GPU. Nothing a laptop manufacturer can do about it. It's the same story as has been for desktop GPUs once they got powerful enough to create a hearable coil whine. Good thing is that noise is covered by fan noise once you get performance/turbo speeds. It really only sounds so clear when a microphone records it, not when you actually hear it live with your ears. Another example is PS5 when it got released, people uploaded videos with coil whine going crazy how the console is loud. I got the console and you know what? I can barely hear it or not at all. You need to be extra quiet, audio off and close enough to the console to hear it. While on a video it sounds like it's really loud and annoying. So I suggest to hear it live on your own and then decide, don't take YT videos under consideration. It's misleading af.

You cant hear the coil hum under normal conditions. Unless you play on your laptop with the back of it right against your ear lol, or when the room is COMPLETELY quiet. At least I can't. But go grab another laptop. Your decision. They ALL have their problems. There is no perfect laptop.

Lenovo is crap

@@APZeus3 that's bs. Lenovo are one of the best laptop brands currently.

@@owenporter1472 no it’s not , anyone who plays games knows it is TOTAL CRAP

​@@APZeus3 you obviously are just a troll and don't/or ever owned a Lenovo Legion PRO Laptop lol 😂 maybe you should literally try one before you knock it out the water. So you rather have massive hardware screen issues and coil whine ?

@@skylyfeprojects Lenovo is really crap

Asus is trash in general have had nothing but problems with their product won't ever buy from them again.

Not when you compare it to other high end laptops especially MacBook Pro full blown, that's ~$6k and you still can't game on it like you can on the ROG Strix Scar 16 for half the cost.

Also put your mic at the level of your neck and not on your arm to avoid some scratchy noises 😉

Tell me how that goes for ya big spender. I'm thinking about treating myself to the 4090 one too but it all these comments are making not want to get it now. Though I do think it's the coolest laptop out there out of all of them on the current market

@Arash Rezaee of course. The 4090 is a 4080 performance it's like 90 percent desktop performance. Laptops are the future hell yeah! Long term investment price depreciates great. It's a great price

@Arash Rezaee price makes sense. Saving it for my birthday close to Sept

The price may come down by then. My friend is letting me borrow his gaming laptop to hold me over untill the prices drop. $5k for a laptop is a bit absurd.

@@arashrezaee1464 its not 5k. It's under 4k little under.

My experience has been overall pleasing even though my 4080 died, the 4090 is even better! Yes there are some bees buzzing in there once in a while the gaming experience with headphones is still stellar AMAZING! I am glad I picked this one, even after my first one died, I got another better one, if my 4090 dies I will try another brand but would still choose ASUS again in the future, been using ASUS products for over 40 years, only had a few bad apples including my 4080. Sure the ASUS quality has been fading the last ~10 years but its still some of the best tech out there and I still support them. The fake mini LED overseas is deplorable but I don't know who's fault that is, some people just want cheaper and only cheaper, perhaps distributers wanted a way to make more money and perhaps ASUS obliged them by making the laptops with bad displays, who knows.

​@@djgeojoedoes the 4080 version have a good MiniLED display?

There all are kinds nice boxes that light up. And oled Tvs with nice screens. What's the true internal performance? Of all these laptops. To say a 4060 or 3060 can handle any kind of heavy workload in bs.

did u enable mux switch?

@@ardaanldonmez6575 I tried everything, was working on it for a week, 4 Windows installs, various combinations of drivers, it would only work when in dynamic Mode, whenever in only dgpu Mode, I had issues, crashes, lock ups and sometimes HDR not being available

​@@michaelrathbone7258 do you have another laptop in the same price instead of this monster ?!

@@AMBITION6176 no and it's not worth it for what you get

But with the Scar 17 there is. 20% more power at same cpu tgp and better thermal performance and with that better User experience.

@@Optora. 17 is too big :(

@@Optora. that has no mini led :(

Screen's important for me for video editing. Is yours defective or its a normal product and its just how it is? Also have you tested for backlight bleed and is there any?

@@Teddyponsel2626 I did not have chance to do screen tests yet. I want to do it asap. colors are like pale/faded if that makes sense.

I also just bought one and my screen also looks a bit washed out... next to an asus proart desktop monitor there is a small but noticeable difference... haven't had any other issues with it so far tho. As a 'portable' workstation (it is definitely super heavy) I've found it mostly great, and my biggest gripe is that I'm really not a fan of the gamer design style...

@@Salamandella can it be due to the matte layer? Also, do you think the OLEDs on Asus zenbooks is better than their mini LEDs?