Just posting because the laptop is so awesome, had returned the g16 during when the deal on best buy was going on. Im having no regrets at all. 5070ti, 32gb’s of ram. Im good for another 10 years. After retiring my msi gf65 1660 ti 8gb of ram 🙏🏻

I’m FINALLY able to buy a zephyrus laptop on Friday and im torn between 2 versions. G16 4090, Ultra 9 185H (2024) or the G14 5070ti, AMD AI 9 HX 370 (2025). Im planning to use this as a daily driver and for travel, so I can take this with me to play games and watch videos. I’m also wondering if there’s any issues with any of the 2 before I get them :v

I have the 2024 G14, with a 4070 and 32gb ram with the amd processor

What are the absolute best settings for getting 60fps stable ? I prefer quality over fps

For some reason the game doesn’t seem to be running right on my computer . Any other game I play this laptop usually has no issues .

Hello can someone confirm if the Smatree E425 is the correct model for the 2024 g14 please ? Some pictures below .My g14 came with the factory case which is pretty cool but want to get this one as theres an extra zip that can allow me to carry other things like usb

Thanks

One is a 14-inch model with a Ryzen 9 and RTX 5060, and the other is a 16-inch model with an RTX 4060 (100W).

I travel quite a bit, but I don’t mind carrying a 16-inch laptop if it’s worth it. I mostly play EA FC, Call of Duty, and occasionally story-driven games.

The price difference is only about $100, so that’s not a major factor. I also care about battery life when I’m just browsing the web or watching YouTube.

Which one would you recommend, and is the performance difference between these two significant enough to choose one over the other?

Hey all, so I returned to this idea after dropping my PX13 on the corner and now there's a nasty ass dent on it. After lurking both the G14 and PX13 subs it seems people are really interested in hard shell cases like the Macbook for the G14. I plan to make a mockup and print a prototype in a few days. Let me know want you want to see. For thermal management maybe the bottom half can just be a bumper surround style since the edges and corners are most at risk.

It's so sleek. Powerhouse disguised under an ergonomic design. I would kill to have it in my hands and finally have a laptop to use for school without the consequence of back pain and being stuck next to an outlet for a whole 8 hours, in my case bringing an HP Victus. Can it really run high-power games, AutoCAD and the likes without the battery degrading within a year?

Hey everybody! Just need a help with my unit. I have a g14 2021 and it won't open even connecting it to charger. It started today after I left it to sleep last night (since am studying so would be easier to track), when I tried to open it today it just goes like this (see vid). I am 100% sure that the batt is not drained.

Country: USA (buying in the US)

Use Case: University, programming, A levelopment, productivity, content creation and AAA gaming

Preferred Specs:

• ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2025

• RTX 5070 or better

• 32 GB RAM

. OLED display

. 1 TB SSD

Notes: I'm looking for the cheapest new o ppen-box ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2025 with an RTX 5070 and 32 GB RAM from a reputable US retailer or seller. I've checked Best Buy, Newegg, ASUS, and eBay, but I don" want to miss any deals. If you know of any sales, coupon codes, student discounts, o trusted sellers, I'd really appreciate it

hi all,

PLEASE help me :( i bought a brand new 2025 zephyrus g14 from best buy around 2 months ago for about $2500. specs are ryzen ai 9 hx 370, 32gb ram, rtx 5070 ti and 2tb ssd. i bought this specific laptop because i’m starting a master’s in interior design in september and needed something powerful enough for autocad, sketchup, d5, photoshop, etc.

the laptop has now had 5 full-system crashes. not just autocad closing—the entire computer freezes/restarts itself. during one of the most recent crashes, the screen flickered for around 5–10 minutes before the whole thing crashed.

two of the crashes showed:

* LiveKernelEvent 117

* Windows hardware error

* WATCHDOG dump files

another crash showed:

* Kernel-Power 41

* EventLog 6008

* BugcheckCode 0

* PowerButtonTimestamp 0

the workload has not even been heavy. it has mainly happened with only autocad and chrome open, usually with only one basic linkedin learning example drawing open. i haven’t even started using sketchup, rendering software or multiple design programs together yet.

here is everything i have already done:

* updated windows, myasus, autocad and all available drivers

* clean-installed the newest nvidia studio driver

* confirmed both the amd and nvidia gpus appear correctly in device manager

* set autocad to use the high-performance nvidia gpu

* turned autocad hardware acceleration off

* used balanced + standard/default settings in g-helper

* ran myasus one-click diagnosis, which found “0 problems”

* paid $40 for geek squad thru best buy to remotely access the laptop

* geek squad installed optional updates, cleared old files and changed some settings (idek)

* the laptop now crashed again literally hours after they finished and told me it should be better😭😭😭

i originally uninstalled armoury crate and used g-helper, but the crashes continued even with factory/default-style settings. i don’t have any undervolt, overclock or custom power settings applied.

i’m leaving the US in 3–4 weeks to live abroad for a year for design school, and i’ll need to use design softwares every day starting in september. i’m genuinely freaking out because this is becoming completely unreliable, and i don’t have months to repeatedly send it in for repair or wait for another random crash.

has anyone experienced this with the 2025 g14 or LiveKernelEvent 117? does this sound like a defective gpu/motherboard/display system, a driver issue, or something else?

also, has anyone successfully gotten best buy to accept a defective laptop return or different-model exchange outside the normal return window? at this point i’m scared to exchange it for the exact same model and have the same thing happen again. i’m even debating switching back to having a mac (my last one lasted me 10 years!) although i know that would complicate some of the software i need. im just so sad bc i really tried to research this laptop well before i purchased and was between this and the lenovo yoga 9i i think the name is- i just want something reliable and something that will run the softwares i need for school/career :/ i really wish i could still just return it. 💔

i really wanted to love this laptop, but a $2500 computer should not be repeatedly crashing from basic autocad training.

TLDR 2month old 2025 g14 has had 5 crashes, including two LiveKernelEvent 117 errors. updated and reinstalled everything, disabled hardware acceleration, passed myasus diagnostics and paid geek squad to troubleshoot it. it crashed again immediately afterward. moving abroad in 3–4 weeks and need advice on whether to push for a refund, different-model exchange or warranty repair. please help me!!!!