ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2025) Reviews

Owns the 2025 Strix G16, which runs hot and had to be sent back within three months for a motherboard replacement; they also had trackpad trouble and rate durability poorly.

Uses the G16 2025 with Core Ultra 9 275HX and RTX 5070 Ti. CPU wattage keeps dropping below 20W in games with both Armoury Crate and G-Helper, fixed only by a manual power limit.

Bought the AMD RTX 5070 Ti G16 in July 2025 and later had crashes and a hot chassis; service found the factory liquid metal over-applied and losing contact.

Owns the same G16 2025 and sees the same CPU wattage dropping problem, suspecting a liquid metal issue.

Bought the G615LR with RTX 5070 Ti in June 2025; a USB-A port failed within two months, keyboard marks appeared on the screen, and service was slow and unhelpful, though performance itself is smooth.

Bought the G615 with RTX 5080 but had frame drops and lag in light games on the charger, later traced to a faulty DC port, and returned it for a refund.

Recently bought the RTX 5060 version and saw CPU temps reach 90-92 C while playing Fortnite, which worried them.

G16 2025 with RTX 5080 and 275HX had random black screens and TDR errors, then G-Sync stopped working after a BIOS update. It went to ASUS RMA for a hardware fault.

Just got their G16 2025 and has random black screens while playing regardless of power profile or temperature, even after a fresh install, and plans an RMA.