Thanks for the info on running the laptop on USB-C. I'm with you on the desire to travel with a tiny 100W GAN charger. Love how you cover the important details that most KZfaqrs reviewers neglect. Keep up the good work!

So much better than most reviewers. Asus does need to start sending you their machines. You have explained things that I have never seen anyone do i.e. cutting back power by 15 watts to only lose minimal performance. What a great way to present a machine's potential. Great job. I am waiting for mine to arrive in the mail any day now so I can't wait to see what this thing can do with the rendering program Lumion that I use. Keep the good videos on this little guy coming.

Thanks. I really liked the deep dive perspective of testing different power inputs and the results. I havent seen any other YT reviewers approach this way. A lot just talk about design, test lids, sound quality ect. Most dont care about that using gaming laptop. We use headphones anyway while gaming and all it matters is performance while gaming and while just browsing using YT. Battery life and heat is that matters most. Even in ultra thin laptops its important. I already ordered G14 6700S version today before seeing this video, but i got same info about performance while using battery or usb-c from other YT video test. So kudos for taking time and explaining it. I also have desktop PC with AMD 5800x + 6800XT and i'm really trusting AMD on laptop also. They are so efficient its crazy for the power they need for that.

Finally a review the is different than everything else and that addresses concerns that the regular buyer has. Thank you.

after watching this i pulled the trigger for an open box deal and i absolutely love this device, no gripes at all. I appreciate how in depth you went buddy, well done

I now have answers to some of my questions I've had about this laptop 😁👍👍 keep up the great work 👏

Great analysis. I had a Sony S13P which was similar to this back in the day. Very powerful in a small package, but high core temps and not that much heat on the system. Over time, I had to downclock it and send it back for repairs because the screen cable got damaged due to long term heat exposure. But I really loved that laptop. I could do my work, and whip out Battlefield 4 or Starcraft 2 during breaks. So I’m looking at this G14 as well!

I'm a truck driver. I just ordered the 6800s model for $1399. I wanted to be able to power it in my truck without as giant brick, & be able to charge it off my 65w car charger the way my wife does with her M1 MacBook Air. I also wanted to not feel like it's a hassle to set up, the way my old Asus 17" is. I had to run it with a cooling pad & exhaust vent even after repasting with liquid metal. Now, with the G14, even my iGPU in the CPU is more powerful than my gigantic 2015 laptop with a useless battery. I'm so happy with this decision so far.

The usbc take helps a lot. Everyone is focusing on the full performance and everything which is understandable, but I can see a lot of people including myself just want to carry a usbc brick when you out for work or school or a short trip in real life use. And tbh with those performance, this thing would be fine with usbc power in the first place, like dell have those 135w usbc charger, would work perfect for this package.

Thank you so much for your tests, exactly the information I needed. Very calm and simply explained.

Thank you very much!!!! I was really interested buying this one, but some reviews on best buy made this laptop look controversial. You made everything clear, great job👍

Open transparent discussion is better. I like it, thanks for the information. Currently struggling picking a gaming laptop that suits my gaming, game development, and programming.

Only things I want to hear!! Great videos recently of the model people will be buying.

awesome, detailed review that covers all of the important. Thank you!

More reviews and info plz...Man,,this guy answered a lotta question i'd never thought of asking. Thank you so much. Liked and subd

Thanks for continuing to bring out content on this little guy. Loving mine minus the boot and loading times I'm experiencing, even compared to a SN550 I run on my desktop which is in theory a fair bit slower. Have about 400/930GB filled. Is there something I'm overlooking here or would throwing in a SN850 / 980Pro bring that zip I'm missing?

Thank you for the information on battery- that's really great information and something that I've not seen covered before. I am enjoying this laptop immensely, although the drivers need a bit of work (stability), but all in all I can't complain. Thanks for the great video!

Great reviews, man! Thanks 😊

Could you do a tutorial on how you're optimizing this laptop? And we could also benefit from a video on the 308 bios, thank you

Thanks bud - this clarifies a ton

I am so happy, I just bought it for $999 at BestBuy! The 2022 model! The best for the price!

Great video! It really helps when making a decision on whether or not to buy this.

Very informative, fantastic video. Thank you for the insight :)

We really appreciate the review man, very different from other KZfaq channels. Can we get 1-2 recommendations for 100w USB-C chargers? Its been misses w/ the ones I've ordered so far. PS - start filming in 1440p amigo!

Hey Cbutters thanks for the info man, I really appreciate your perspective. I wanted to ask a few questions pertaining to "temp & heat"., I've been a desktop guy for a long time and just picked this up because I do long stents on the road( haven't had a new laptop in years btw, and this is my first gaming one). I noticed when I ran this out the box just with simple desktop idle my temps via armoury crate flux between 50-66( I know this is a small gaming laptop with a lot of components in at close proximity, but is this industry norm?). When I plug my laptop up I also seemed to see higher numbers. I bought this laptop to be able to play lost ark on the road and so far I've tried to play it twice plugged in and the computer completely reset on me. would you happen to have any advice? are there some settings I can change or an update that might help? or should I swap it out?

Nice and interesting video, thanks.

People are worried with the longevity of the laptop with that much heat. No ones questioning its performance.

Thanks, I needed this. Optimized mode and USB C is good enough for me haha.

if the cooling system is good enough it doesn't matter ,as long as another manufacturer did it better than Asus , hope you share with us the Deta Temp between the APU/GPU and the exhaust fans. and also keep up the good word I really liked the way you presented this laptop

Awesome info Thanks

Very interesting charts. It would be good to see frame rates on some of the main games with the big power brick, a 100W USB-C charger and on battery.

Got a quick question, so did you need to disable vari-bright in order to achieve max brightness? I got mine yesterday and disabling vari-bright in Radeon didn't do anything for me. I didn't notice any changes in brightness

Great information ! thinking of buying this laptop ,but concern about the heat issue ,which i see from other reviewer said about this machine goes really hot. this video make me reconsider about this laptop. Appreciate that 😁

i like this guys video style. Firs time checking this creators channel.

Trying to decide which is the one to get to me the configurations aren't clear or I only see the high end one. At first I like the flow Z13 then the flow X13 now I am really considering the G14 2022 just can't decide. I appreciate any help

GOOD VIDEO... I LIKE IT.. Keep Going 💪🏻

Great video 👌

Is there a usb c charging bypass for direct powering of the device? Or it's only software configuration that it gives more power by usb than just battery? 2021 and 2020 models were battery drainers while usb c plugged. It gave battery wear because of continuouse charge-discharge loop

Love to see claims backed up by data to sort out true and false. Seems that AMD has produced some excellent mobile silicon and Asus has done an excellent job balancing the performance and efficiency with this years design. Sure the package temps are higher but capabilities justify that. So I was surprised to find actual heat output from the fans was not as extreme as some were making it out to be. Overall very satisfied with my model and love to see some insights into the design.

Have these been released yet?

Im really afraid of the durability with the temperatures. So is it also fine for long term?

Hey man, thank you for this video. Its really interesting. Asus has black weeks and the white model which cant be bought anywhere else in my country is on sale. After I decided to go for a MacBook pro two years ago instead of getting the G14 Im finally close to hit the buy button :) Btw Im pretty much fed up with OSX by now. I miss gaming and I miss Windows. Its strange but I always come back to the OS I grew up with. It somehow feels like home. Its so easy to navigate, I know so many short cuts. Well sadly they messed up Win11 but there are ways to get it to look like its supposed to be :)

Heat vs Temperature explainer 👌 This video really helped to clear up some major concerns about this laptop!

this 6700s model or the flow x13 6900hs 3050ti assuming you could get them at same amount? Thanks

Can hear the fans while doing some basic task like VScode, Word, browsing etc. ?

I was concerned with the long-term issues it could pose. Like will it cause a lot of major problems after 6 months or a year

Great video! im hoping to pick up a g14 in the next couple weeks hopefully for a good deal! Canada here so not likely haha

Finally someone explained heat and temperature properly, everyone has been saying the same thing the laptop is too hot,buh it's actually not..got me worried

You actually sacrifice battery's longevity using usb-c as your primary source to charge. I knew this because I have been using g14 2022 as my primary pc in the past year and I switched to usb-c power for a while. The problem is from Asus. When the laptop is powered by the AC adapter, after the laptop is fully charged, it will stop charging (only trickle charge) the battery and directly power the system. However if you are charging from usb-c, it will constantly charge your battery and your system will be constantly drawing power from your battery.

FYI the TDP doesn't drop off like crazy on the newer model (G14 2022 6800s) which is what I bought for $1400, they did better than the 6700s model. You can go to battery power from AC and lose maybe 10% of processing power, hardly noticeable unless playing on "Ultra" settings where it demands the most, even then, not a huge difference.

How is the fan noise in the different power modes?

Can you verify your best cinebench scores cause I am seeing that I cannot sustain over 35 watts on 308 . It seems before it could sustain 45watt if cpu only.

Hi, I do this things to fix heat problem. I got questions: 1. If i turn mode turbo on G14 then it will be in boosted CPU ? 2. Can I go back to boost default ? Now I don't see option boos in power management 🤷‍♂️ ? Thank you for your answer 😇

have you tested thoroughly usb c powered using GaN Charger? I mean the effects on the battery wear. Been reading online and it kills the battery I do not know if it is true. Most claim and agree that what it does is always use battery then recharges the battery via usb c. and it doesnt get power from the charger directly? Some suggest buy usb c to barrel adapters I do not know what to do. dont wanna kill my battery but dont wanna bring that large brick always. Thanks maybe did something to solve this. I am just planning office works when on usb c. no gaming.

i use cpu sPPT @ 35W and @80 at platform and get the same performance at TURBO preset. the temps hover around 78C gpu and 81-84C and with a 6nm cpu with this kind of power consumption and performance, is ridiciulous and overall from compiling codes, to playing cyberpunk 2077 this machine smokes it. and on top of that the RX6700S i pretty much comparible to a 3070 max q and the battery life switching to the igpu which is a RX680m(comparible to a gtx1050 ti) is awesome. idk people just don't know how to utulize the armory crate. lol for me this is the best upgrade i had coming from a gigabyte laptop asus has more software support and this monster is light. and a premium build. im just waiting on the usb4 driver updates

Hey, I wanted to ask about the WiFi card. Is it as bad of an issue as people say? I see many people swap their mediatek out for Intel because it stopped working so I want to know if I should be aware of this issue.

Very good video!

It's on the biggest sale I've seen so far at best buy. $350 off plus they have open box for about $1,000. First thing I did was put my hand on the top and bottom and it was very very warm perhaps you could call it hot. It didn't seem like anything was running. I checked what tasks were running and some Xbox task was using 10% of the CPU roughly. I killed that task but the laptop didn't seem the cool down. I put my ear up to the laptop and did not hear the fans running at all... but the room was noisy. Also did not feel any hot air coming out of any of the vents and the bottom of the display was not hot at all.... I tried to force the fans on but the armor crate wasn't installed apparently but I didn't have permission to install it so I gave up and went home. I'm a bit confused though because actually I think I was in armor crate at one point but it wouldn't give me permission to go into one menu of settings - but another time it gave me an error message, said armor crate might not be installed correctly. But either way I tried everything but could not get into the fan settings. I'm leaning towards buying an Apple Mac Air or the next version of the iPad mini since it'll be perfect for my drone. I could buy the 16 GB version (and also 512 GB SSD) Mac Air for about 1500. Not exactly cheap but it would be silent yet very fast...and not burn me...

This is like how a lighter flame is 1,500 degrees but does not heat a room, a space heater is 200 degrees but does heat a room

it does get pretty hot using pheonix ethereum miner, thats the real test. however the vapor chamber keeps up with a simple cooling pad

Any concerns about battery longevity when gaming on PD? It certainly seems smart enough to only use what’s available so it doesn’t tap much into the battery but I figured I’d ask.

Excellent information! Exactly what I wanted to see what would happen if we dial down the TDP a bit. That balanced 100W seem like a good way to get most of the performance while being thermally acceptable. Quite fascinating that it is basically able to pull 2021 model's numbers while using 75W CPU / GPU combined. With this info, keeping that 240W brick 24/7 at home and just lugging around smaller USB-C charger doesn't seem like a bad idea either, since you are getting 86% of performance and it will lighten up the total package (laptop + power brick) quite a bit. ETA - how is the fan noise at either 100W or 75W? I'm assuming at 75W it would be very compliant?

great info

Sorry how did you get your hands on the 2022 model without a review model? I can’t find it for sale anywhere

Can you help with the laptop not sleeping correctly? I noticed a lot of people also having the problem where shitting the lid doesn’t stop the laptop from going into full sleep mode. It causes the battery to burn

Question: when they say the temps "are within spec", does this mean that the temps are safe only for the moment? In other words, if 96C is still within spec for the CPU, does that mean it's also safe for the long-term? By long-term, I mean 2 years minimum.

I have this same model, screen would randomly go black during games and reset. Is that the issue you were having before the bios update

Hi , sorry if I missed it but I’ve been listening to your video on this and the X13 about 3 times now but with the G14 did you use the 100w USB C from your other ASUS laptops? Would it play nice with an aftermarket one as I saw they are pricey for the OEM 100w ASUs PSU. Don’t think they would make it detect other PSU and reduce performance Vs thier own but it’s an expensive buy if it’s another PSU at 2-3 times the price from ASUS Vs maybe Anker or others well known brand PD charger makers

Thank you! I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about it getting so hot that it’s shutting off. Also that the wrist area gets uncomfortably hot. Any ideas why. I already bought the laptop and I’m pumped and I don’t foresee me playing demanding games ( I have Xbox ) I’d only use this for school and like Minecraft and indie games

Which side do we use for usb-c power? And does it matter left or right usb-c for an external monitor?

Just bought it with r9 6900hs and rx6800s. It get hot so bad while gaming. I feel uncomfortable when touching the awsd keys in fps game. Any solution?

I noticed that when I did the Adrenaline update my GPU no longer hits 100 watts while in DGPU mode. It will hit 100 watts in hybrid mode though. I may need to reset the PC if I can't find a solution.

I just got one and the edges of the chassis were getting warm just going through the windows installer, so... I think it could use better heat management or power optimization, especially if it's nearly idle. I also had to return it because the touchpad didn't work at all.

Thank you for this perspective. I do think these little babies run hot and am trying to level with that being ok. I have the 144hz screen version and am very impressed with performance but it scares me when I see my GPU temp at 92 degrees during timespy. I hate the windows high performance profile and I wish the armour crate presets didn't default it to on in performance and turbo modes. Am I missing something? Why would Asus see this as beneficial?

Hey Asus, FFS send this guy top tier G14 This review changed my mind from "might buy it" to "take my money"

I just got this laptop around christmas and to be quite honest it gets scolding hot when running WoW Dragonflight on Ultra. I'm getting the performance just not the cooling and its become aggravating. I will say I changed the registry codes as shown in other youtube videos and that reduces my cpu and gpu temps by a large margin but the laptop just gets wayy to hot. And yes I've bought a laptop cooling pad that has helped but not in the way that you would imagine. Can I get some help?

I’ve got some concerns with this laptop. I purchased one early this week and immediately replaced the existing ssd with a 2tb one that came out of my desktop, which this laptop is replacing. After a few blue screens I decided to do a fresh install of windows from a usb installer. After that I went to the G14s drivers and bios page and installed it all. Followed by updating all other drivers. But I was a little disappointed with performance. I do realize that it won’t meet my (now sold) Ryzen 7 5800x, RTX 2070 desktop, but I do notice that the gpu power draw hardly ever goes above 45w and never over 60w. I can’t help but wonder if I did something wrong or maybe I’m just missing a setting. I’ve tried manually changing the cpu power draw in armory crate (which works), but despite limiting cpu to 25w. It’s still only reaching that 45w-60w mark. Doesn’t matter if it’s plugged in with the barrel plug, usb C, or on battery. Any advice?

How do you set it in "optimized level"?

It's because Ryzen CPU has boost enabled by default. When I disable boost on my ryzen desktop CPUs, I get way better heat management. Did you try this on laptop? Lock the CPU to 4.6 ghz and no boost in BIOS.

New sub here. Would like to know what are your sppt settings and an in depth explanation of what they are. Based on your video I think you are talking about the platform sppt on the armoury crate but I don't what it means completely or what APU sppt means. Thank you for these videos tho

Thanks nice

@Cbutters My steam deck reserve is coming up and I can really afford either. I never leave the house these days. I think the Asus would be the better buy, thoughts?

Can we get some gaming benchmarks in direct comparison to the 2021 G14 w/RTX 3060? Games like AC Valhalla, SOTR, Forza Horizon 5 please Gonna buy a laptop soon and was wondering if I should get the older one at a cheaper price

When it gets hot speed goes down

I got the base model of this laptop just recent, but already thinking of upgrading it to the 6800s GPU. The issue I have is that at home I have an external monitor that supports thunderbolt 3/USB-C display. When connected to the right hand side USB-C port it displays to the external monitor with no issues. But when connected to the left hand side port, it does charge my laptop and also detects the external monitor, but does not display anything to the external monitor. Is this a known issue by any chance ?

Regarding temperature disabling cpu boost in processor management significantly reduces temps by like 20% if I was asus just disable boost from the factory and give users options to enable. Problem Solved.

Wow I'm impressed. So will my Samsung s21 Ultra be able to charge it, or does it need a different type c?

My local Best Buy had 10 open box of this asus. Anway I decided to get the Lenovo slim 7.

The issue with temperature isn't that it's making your room hot or the chassis hot. It's that higher temps are bad for long term stability and health of the core. This is straight up mental gymnastics.

I just got this and I was kinda scared because on idle it was running with 50/60 degrees Celsius, is this normal?

HELLO PLEASE HELP. When I play heavy games I start to get a message of low video ram and my game lags so bad!!!!!!!!! Why???? 1849.99 dollars on this laptop , how can something like this happen. I have updated through windows install and installed graphics driver up to date and still get the same message when opening forza horizon 5 and with games like modern warfare the lag is absurd. Please help!!!!

I have a question, so what happens when it's heating a lot, say you are playing a game for a few hours non stop, what's the worst that can happen? is the zephyrus G14 made to withstand these extreme temperatures?? or will it melt internal components and or glue? I want to know this

I spent 1100 total for the 6700s model brand new

After a year of normal usage, my 2022 G14 apparently got a fried motherboard an died on me, I replaced it with a Lenovo Legion slim 5 and it's been great. Anyone considering this laptop keep in mind the motherboard failure is a common issue and not at all easy neither cheap to fix.

My machine overheats so bad when I play games I can’t even press the buttons on the keyboard. Any tips? Searched all over but no real fixes aside for third party hacks.

I just received my Zephyrus and am very intrigued about how you pulled the power back from 115W down to 100W. The power supply is a 240W, so is the 115W to 100W referring only to the CPU? What settings in the laptop do you change to reduce by the 15W? Based on your chart it doesn't look like there is any need to run higher than 100W. Thanks.

would you recommend to buy an open box laptop?

I drop mine down to 22 with a low curve and I lock tarkov to 60fps. Fans don’t really get loud during gameplay. For some reason they do in the menu lol tarkov is poorly optimized too

Repasting? It has liquid metal instead of paste. haven't it?

I have the 2020 G14 and it crashed CONSTANTLY, ran HOT AS HELL and the performance was awful when playing AAA games compared to things like DOTA and more well-optimized games with less effects, draw distance, detail, etc. Apparently on G14 AMD versions, the CPU boost mode is constantly active and cannot be disabled in ARMORY or regular Windows 11 settings. By toggling a register value and some advanced power options the computer no longer crashes (at least not yet), it stays under 80C pretty much all the time, and it runs BETTER than before on AAA high-fidelity games like Baldur's Gate 3 (since performance is no longer throttled due to the CPU being almost on fire). Now I game without boost at all, "silent" fan-spec, low power draw and it works fantastically compared to before. For anyone else who as the same problem on G14 AMD, 2020 version or something else, here is the video that seems to have fixed my PC: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNiAlcd207OsXXU.html