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Josh addressing my biggest question in the first 30 seconds. Still watched the whole video anyway.

Had issues with fan noise out of the box as well which really bothered me while I was using it for light tasks. After researching a bit, I ended up uninstalling armoury crate and installed G-Helper. Now I can have 0 fans running and my CPU temps are consistently reporting below 45 C. So don't get deterred by the fan noise as reviewed!

Josh, I had the same issues with the fan noise. With the 4080 version. I did a clean windows install and it is now far more optimized, runs cool and silent with No Fans. It's also quicker. I'm sure that some software in the background was running. Give it a try and see if it's better.

From my G14 2024 experience, there was a moment where things seem to bug out. I too had that I couldn't get it quiet while doing nothing in quiet mode. I rebooted and replugged the power, and/or reswitched modes between performance and back to silent mode, and suddenly the fan noise was gone. The fans stopped instantly, machine was very cool still and still got 16000 in Cinebench R23. Since then I had multiple bios versions and it didn't happen again. I wonder if this is the same you had, specially since you hear a lot of people saying they have a quiet machine, and also a lot of people claiming they have a noisy machine :).

Pointing out in detail about the different pitches in fan noise was a huge thumbs up from me. Reviewers generally miss details like that and noises like that can be detrimental for someone like me during personal use.

thanks for comparing the diferent variants! I'd been leaning towards the 4080 one, but instead will wait a year and hope they fix the fan noise and heating, or that they redesign the M16 too... maybe I'll just cave and get one of the outgoing XPS 17s on sale...

Interesting to hear your take on fan noise. I returned my 2023 asus m16 in Lou of the 4080 G16. Noise was much quieter in my experience than the m16 and due to not having that small fan in the middle, the pitch of the noise was also less annoying. I felt that I could comfortably use the speakers while under load without much discomfort.

Hey Josh Great video as always, especially adressing the main concern of the video in the first 1 minute. This stands out as most youtubers would make you watch the entire video to find something out. Anyways, I was also wondering if you could review the recently revised lenovo ideapad pro 5i. It now has a core ultra 7 155H processor and thought it could be a good video to compare this ideapad to other core ultra laptops like the new zenbook or spectre 14.

Hi josh great vid do you have any clue what the rpms are on the fan on full/min load? Thanks!

Hey Josh, love your backgrounds on each aspect in incredible detail. I could not find another KZfaqr that went over real world use of the NPU in the core ultra. Would you be able to make a video on real world use cases of the 512 MB or 1 GB NPU?

Love your reviews!

Great review as usual! Any plans to do 2024 Razer Blade 16s with 4080 or 4090?

I've never heard someone pronounce Zephyrus like that. Now I'm not sure If I've been butchering the name or if you did lol.

Love your review that focus on metrics that normal user care about. Battery life, heat, fan noise, and efficiency is rarely cover by other channel. Every manufacture can pump more power and spin fan faster, and call it a day. And the tradeoff of performance over any else is rarely worth it. I would like to see your coverage of 15 inch M3 MacBook Air with 16GB Ram and 512 GB SSD stock configuration.

Great review, Josh. I've been thinking about getting the G14 with RTX4050 and would love to hear your thoughts. (I currently use the Yoga slim 7 pro. I owned a Legion Slim 7 a few years back but it's too hot and not so efficient.) This would be my only al-round laptop I use for both office works and entertainment (web browsing/KZfaq/Netflix let's say 70% and gaming 30%). My main concern is the heat and battery consumption on light load when I bring the laptop outside. Would the G14 be an appropriate choice for this?

Thanks for this review. Addressed my number one concern right away.

Hi! Thanks for the video. Are you going to do review of dell xps 16, which was released last month?

Excellent review. Subbed! Blade 16 4090 in the works?

I really enjoy watching your reviews even if the product isn't something I would actually buy. I have almost entirely switched over to Macs for nearly everything and a gaming laptop isn't something for me since I don't play games on PC (only Xbox and Switch) but it is still cool to see what is out on the market right now.

you should give ghelper a try. It helped me with the fan noise problem and also gives me better control for my 2022 G15

You got me. Liked and subbed. Ty for your honest reviews

Great video! Is the full review for the transcend 14 on the works? I watched the live and can’t wait for that one !!

I just got my 4080 version and I think the fans are just a QC issue. Mine has no fan noise while doing non-intensive tasks such as web browsing or watching a movie. Even while under load in performance mode, fan noise rarely goes above 45 dB. Hopefully not everyone has to deal with high fan noise with this amazing laptop.

Thank you for being honest! I too hate fan noise, its not even worth considering buying laptops that have terrible fan noise! Kudos to this channel!

Really appreciate the contrast with the Yoga 9i. Great laptop for comparison and consideration. Been very tempted to the Yoga Pro 9i for awhile now.

I have this laptop, browsing and light gaming the fans fine. It only goes loud when you push it to max efficiency. You can tweak the fans in amoury crate

The zephyrus lineup is great but feels like it stuck beetwen 2 ends. I have a zenbook 14 currently which is honestly just awsome in all aspects. I am looking to upgrade tho because of gaming preferences, i would rather get the strix 16 for the same price as the zephyrus 16.

There is more, the power plug is an exact right angle exposing to being easily snapped off or causing a short when bumped.

Been waiting for this review!

I wonder if part of the issue is Armoury Crate? I had fan/heat issues on my 2023 M16 and the deck was always really warm no matter what I was doing due to high CPU temps. Changed to G Helper as had been suggested and have had no more issues. Barely hear the fan and even with moderate workloads the CPU is staying at around 44 - 55 degrees C where it was around 65 - 80 previously (even when doing very little). Fans can still get loud when gaming on Turbo mode, but I mostly keep it at balanced where it's still loud, but not terribly so.

I have to say I haven't had any of the fan issues you mentioned (had the 4090 model). So that's strange (but not entirely surprising if you've ever browsed the various ASUS forums) and I wonder how widespread that issue is. With that being said, here's how my experience best summed up: Pros: • Quiet Fan (maybe just got lucky with my unit but have to say my experience was dramatically different than what Josh experienced): Laptop either had fans turned off or generally under 2000rpm and were basically inaudible. • Impressive Audio Quality: The speakers provide clear sound with great mids and bass, comparable/superior to the MacBook Pro 16 (though I did have to set Dolby Atmos to Movie-balanced mode). • Beautiful OLED VRR Screen: First of its kind and it looks stunning. But I wish they instead just ironed out the issues they had with the previous mini LED models and gave us a glass mini LED panel with anti-reflective coating. 450-ish nits is not quite enough for use in brighter environment or outside, but it's manageable. Great if you plan to use it mostly indoors, but even at night the minimum brightness is too high. With all the R&D they put into that partnership with Samsung Display, I think those ux details could've been ironed out. • Plugged-In Performance: When connected to power, the laptop delivers solid performance, showcasing a beautiful display without noticeable slowdowns. • Design and Portability: just barely over 4 pounds along with the screen size means it's the most portable gaming laptop I've ever used. • USB-C Passthrough Charging: finally, ASUS listened and gave us something we've been begging for. Will help significantly reduce battery wear while using USB C charging. Cons: • Underwhelming Core Ultra Chip Performance at Lower Power Levels: The chip did meet my hopes, especially for demanding tasks or at lower wattages. My main use cases were coding, very simple ML models, and web design. • Battery Performance: Performance dips significantly on battery power, with occasional stuttering and sluggishness in battery saver mode, and the battery life was 5-ish hours unless I manually capped the PL1/PL2, in which case it just too slow to get work done without hitches. • Hibernate and Modern Standby Issues: Modern standby needs to go away and MS should figure out how Apple does it. ASUS auto places the laptop into hibernate after like an hour which means you have to wait 10-15 seconds after turning it back on before you can use it. You can disable this, but then you get (IMO) excessive battery drain and come back later that day with 2-3% dropped every hour. • Battery Life Management: It's 2024 - can a laptop vendor just optimize the power modes on the laptop so we don't have to constantly adjustment settings to optimize performance on battery. It's a hassle for the majority of people who just want everything to work as advertised (and ASUS advertises 10 hours of battery life for web browsing). • Limited Maximum RAM: 32GB is fine for gamers but they don't even sell higher capacity models. Since everything is soldered, at least give us the option for 48 or 64. 32 is not enough for more advanced LLMs, after effects work, large photoshop files, etc. Only mentioning this because ASUS markets the G16 as a creator laptop + it even ships with Nvidia Studio drivers.

Thatswhy Intel didn't provided EVO certificate Black EVO sticker. Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 2024 is great.

Make a video about what to check , step by step , when buying a used, private sale Macbook from Ebay, with no warranty

Fan noise isn’t an issue for me, as long as its temps are okay!

Nice review. Awaiting review of Legion 7i 2024

Would love to see how the Omen Trancend 16" OLED compares in fan noise to the noisy G16.

i have an M16 11th gen i7 and to be franc had the same fan noise issue with it until i opened it up and saw half of the CPU with liquid metal and half without same for the GPU. After a good maintenance now my M16 is finally quiet with temps between 48-54 in Performance mode and normal use. Gaming 75-80 CPU and 63-66 GPU.

can u check if there is any color fringing when looking closely at text/icons , because OLEDs have a differing RGB sub-pixel layout and sometimes that causes issue with rendering clear text, thanks

Hmm still getting the 4080 this Friday thanks for the Windows reinstall tip. I currently have a 3080 8gb zephyrs and really love them so let’s see if this can win me over. Oh and to add my current model is silent when in windows or silent mode so let’s see. If it is true that this is loud then I am sending it back

I was thinking of getting the G14 model from this brand/series but it’s quite expensive, would you recommend it? i’m not gonna use it for something specifically but i would like to buy a laptop and not have to worry about buying another for the next 5 years at least, would that make the price worth it? any thoughts on the laptop itself?

Josh, awesome review as always. Is the noise issue as bad in the G14? Noticed the similar dB measurements.

I get the impression the 14” version is better rounded, something not right with the power and cooling here. In my region you can get 32gb with 4060 and 4070 but it comes with the upgrade to the i9 cpu

Let me preface this by saying that I am extremely new to optimizing laptops but would undervolting the cpu help with the big issues of heat and fan noise as you said that the cpu gets such bad diminishing returns?

Thanks Josh for the video examples of the fan noise. Holy crap that's awful. Keybard and underside temps are also so useful as someone who works on commute and has my laptop on my lap. Those 4070 temps are miserable.

We need comparison between this and razer 16, focusing on the building quality. Please

Thanks for this. I have cancelled my order for the G16 and will wait for the Yoga Pro 9i instead.

I'd be interested to know how the 100 Watt gharging is on these. I like to carry one 100W charger for my zenbook, tablet and phone and keep it light.

What about the new Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra? Wouldn't that one be a solid quiet 16" alternative?

Please consider doing a video on the new msi creator 16 ai studio a1v, I live it will like a large segment of the audience

⁠I just got it alongside the G14 and man…you’re right. the fan noise is always there, no matter what you’re doing. I’m in love with the 16” OLED screen though so I don’t know what to do. I already had a 2022 g14 and wanted something bigger. The Yoga 9i looks good but I’m not willing to downgrade in speaker and screen quality. Also numpads are dumb on gaming laptops IMO. Mini LED just isn’t OLED for me. The Razer is ridiculously expensive. I guess I just live with the fan noise. One thing I noticed about the G14 is the keyboard is brighter and the speakers are significantly louder. It actually makes no sense.

Problem with windows ecosystem is poor efficiency vs performance when compared to Apple chips and on top of it clumsy configuration on Windows to get the right things in place for optimal performance. In Mac OS there are no such configuration like performance and turbo and that too separately for CPU and GPU. This is really frustrating for a experienced software engineer like leave aside professionals or students.

Great review, JJ and Team! Eeesh, how can Asus improve the fan noise when the surface temps get that hot? I bet the components are cool enough but it's the actual surface temps that need to be under control, resulting in Asus tuning the fans to behave this way. I love how Asus takes a swing and redesigns its machines every couple years, or every year in some cases; but i feel like this time they took the thinness just a hair too far. A couple mm of extra thickness would have gone a long way, I think, in terms of cooler surface temps and quieter fans. (And with this comment, I admit I know nothing about computer design; i am sure Asus employs some damn good people who know what they're doing. It just seems from afar and from a layperson that the design team won some battles over the engineering team this time around.)

Had my mind on this one or the G14 but the fan noise, temperatures, oled screen (possible burn out) and also not sure if it would be a nice one to play a couple of AAA games... back to square one 😔 Thanks for the great info!!

Hi Josh, Hope you doing well Please give us review of acer predator triton 17x I found rare reviews online Thank you

Excellent video. When can we expect the full review for the 2024 Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1? 😁

Love your videos josh...would you please to a review of the Samsung book 4 ultra??

This was a great review, the best I watched about this laptop actually. A little more emphasis on price to performance comparisons would make it perfect.

I hope you did bios and windows updates for new intel ultra core cpu before testing.

Given that im planning to tune power and fan speed with Ghelper anyway so i think this is a pretty good choice all things considered

According to your speaker sample i like speakers of Yoga Pro 9i more than MacBook and G16.

I just picked up the G16 4070 version. I can definitely hear the fans. Won't bother me, I had a 10th gen razer blade whose fans reminded me of jet turbines, so I'm used to the sound. So far, I like what I'm seeing on this thing! The audio is really solid, easily as good as my MB Pro 14

Good video. It must be the Ultra 9, as I have a G16 with a 4060 and Ultra 7, and on Silent mode it's entirely silent with no fan noise at all.

this was exactly what I`ve been searching for, thanks man !

How long will it take for all the testing of Galaxy Book 4 series

Again excellent Sir, can you please tell us that it has custom fan tuning option or not? If it has custom fan so we can reduce fan speed according to our need.

2 thunderbolt ports and i would have said it was the best 2024 laptop they should have used the solid state blowers instead of fans

Any chance you can review the omen transcend 16 2024 version with an oled screen?

In my country,they are going to sell the 4070 model with 32gb of ram for the same price as the 4080 model shown in the video here.

@JustJoshTech Please, compare the previous models of Asus Zephyrus G16(2022,2023) with the current 2024 model and conclude the factors which are better in there generation and development that has been done in higher generations

I got the 2024 g14 4060 and was worried it would be loud on idle but i haven't heard the fans on light tasks so far.

Can we expect the HP Transcend 14 review by tomorrow ?

are you make a shorter summarised version of a review for hp transcend 14? I love your review but can't warch a whole hour of the time.

haven't seen such detailed info anywhere else. absolute gorgeous work josh.

How's the hinge and screen wobble?

While it may not fix fan noise issues, it sounds like this laptop would benefit from an undervolt for temps and efficiency

After years with a microsoft surface and a macbook air I forgot that laptops have fan noises

Will the fan be bad on the 4090 version?

The 4070 and below versions of the g16 are crazy handicapped. May as well ignore and dismiss the low end models. 😅

Hi, I'm an architect looking to change my laptop, i really want a 14 or 15 inch device that is powerful enough to handle Autodesk and Adobe softwares, Nvidia GeForce graphics, also would really love an OLED screen but there are a lot of options in the market and I don't know what would be the better purchase for the long haul? if you got any recommandations i would really apreciate it.

So despite better cooling for 4080 its still hella noisy with basic daily routines like browsing ? I dont game but still had to return 4060 one because of the non stop fan noise even when it was near idling or very light use, was really stunned with how slim and lightweight it was for 16 and that screen alone .. Had a hope that 2 cooler design might be significantly more quiet. Please advice ! Thank you.

Have you tried G-help ? to control the fan noise

i've always wondered why my asus zephyrus gets so much fan noise just for light web browsing like youtube

1:14 this is not undervolting, this is simply setting a power limit.

Should I get the asus g16 with 4070 , or the transcend 14 with 4060, or the hp spectre 16 worth 32gb ram and 4050? I'll mainly watch videos and sometimes maybe play warzone and fortnite. And maybe other games but mostly cod and fortnite. Which one should I get?

needs per key rgb and quieter fans, not worth the tradeoffs right now when considering the price

any updates on the omen transcend 14 full review?

After removing blessed amoury crate, my G16's fan speed drop significantly. In quiet mode, G16 maintain 0 fan speed constantly now.

I am considering MSI stealth 16 Ai lets see that review

which has higher fan noise, g14 or g16?? please answer

Hi, do you have an issue with this laptop with an Ethernet cable connected with an USC C adapter on the boot of the computer? In my case get stuck in Asus logo

@JustJoshTech Can someone do me a favor and check your ROG Zephyrus 2024 for similar issues? I have the model with the RTX 4090. I noticed several things I either do not like or might be defective: 1. I noticed the trackpad mouse click is very stiff. By stiff, I mean perhaps the stiffest click I have ever encountered. After using the laptop for awhile my wrist is throbbing. Are you guys finding the mouse click to be higher than other laptops? I find the stiff click to a be a real letdown. 2. Just an observation but the fans on the default power mode are loud, very loud. I don’t understand why the fans need to be loud and audible just typing an email or work document. Obviously, I can change to silent but then the power drops and you defeat the point of paying for top-of-the-line hardware. I owned the Razer 16” recently and the fans never came on to browse, type, or do similar low wattage activities. If you use your computer to work all day, it is not fun to hear the whistle of fans constantly. 3. My biggest concern involves the OLED panel. Specifically, when I am looking at medium to dark colors (blacks are fine), especially greys, I can see what looks like noise. Medium to dark solid colors don’t look uniform. The way I would describe the noise is it looks like compression artifacts from a low-quality signal or a high ISO digital image. I wasn’t even looking for anything and I started to notice many of my dark backgrounds contained noise, much like a lower quality panel. To make sure I was not just being picky, I compared the colors to my older, cheap laptop with and IPS Screen and my 5 year old Benq photography monitor. Neither had any hint noise or uniformity issues. I’m really wondering if there is an issue with either my laptop or these OLED screens in general. The problem is easy to identify and replicate, simply go to Fullscreen.one (or Google search it) and click on the 60% or 80% black and look closely. On mine you can see all kinds of random noise patterns. If you have this laptop, please do me a huge favor and check out your results and post what you find. Thanks guys!

i also have the g16 with 4070 and my fans are off when using the browser (dgpu off) and word and stuff i almost never hear the fans exept for when i play games

Love your videos. I need your opinion. I am a developer and a gamer and I want a laptop as secondary machine (my primary PC is a desktop) which one would you recommend between this one or the alienware x16 R2?

This guy always makes great reviews. From different perspectives to different use cases, as he himself relates to many real world use cases. Thank you for being a youber.👍

many users in the Chinese market complained about the liquid metal cooling system, idk if people here run into the same issue

Can the fan noise be fixed with updates? Or will it stay like that? I mean the fans don't bother me normally but they seem really loud and maybe I wanna learn in a Library, I think then it's a problem. The fans on the g14 are better?

im looking for new laptop myself, been considering this G16 with either 4080 or 4090, but that fan stuff does seem like it would be massive annoyance on the go. Now kinda considering the Razer Blade 16 instead, even tho it's more expensive and heavier it still seems to be about the best sweet spot between portability, build quality and performance. any thoughts on that? or would i be shooting myself in the foot with a blade laptop, haven't tried any of them before. feel like i'm nearing insanity researching laptops in this current day and age lol

Great work!

The laptop companies should take notes from your videos to make their products better 😁 Great review!