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If you're attractive for the bodily picked prepared gaming housewares out there... well, you don't appetite the Asus ROG Strix Scar 15. You appetite a desktop or a laptop that weighs seven pounds, requires sundry powerfulness bricks, as well-built as is basically a desktop. Except if you still appetite something you can realistically siphon around, the Strix is implicitly as prepared as it gets.
We've studied a number of Asus laptops this year that are membership of the ROG Zephyrus gaming line -- powerful, while still transportable as well-built as attractive. You'd buy a Zephyrus if you appetite differentiating gaming results except conjointly appetite an hardened assignment mechanism you could bring into the office or class. The Strix lineation eschews the latter role. These are gaming laptops. They are nonbelligerent for games. They're not cheap, they're not subtle, as well-built as they prestige rapine back.
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. That's area the Strix Scar 15 stands out. Every element is designed with the gaming enthusiast in mind, as well-built as there are a number of unrelated features for those customers. Of course, those conjointly come with a few trade-offs -- as well-built as implication who oyster need to use their mechanism for tasks besides gaming should rubber-stamp other options.
The Strix Scar 15 starts at $2,199.99 on the Asus store. The base model comes with a Helpers i7-10875H, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super, 1GB of SSD storage, as well-built as a 240Hz screen. The paradigmatic we're attractive at today is simply a significant step up from that: it costs $2,799.99 as well-built as is powered by Intel's eight-core Helpers i9-10980HK as well-built as an RTX 2070 Super, which are juxtaposed by 32GB of RAM, 2TB of storage, as well-built as a 1920 x 1080 300Hz awning (3ms response time). The 10980HK is simply a crammer -- it's one of the picked prepared mobile chips on the bazaar -- as well-built as 300Hz is the fastest dissimilation you can get on a 15-inch laptop.
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. If you clicked on this review, you're apparently picked disquisitive implicitly the frame ante this laptop is putting up. Suffice to say: they're good.
On CS:GO at picked settings, the Strix Scar averaged 248fps. Toast to this model's 300Hz screen, the chips aren't nonbelligerent unearthing 248fps; you're categorically seeing 248fps. You'll see a frame span eccentricity betwixt this system as well-built as an identical one with a 240Hz display, albeit a small one. (But to implication who play quite a few esports as well-built as first-person shooters, a small eccentricity can matter.)
Overall, CS:GO was a bland experience. The Scar only dipped circumcised 100fps once when I was sedulous through a thick flurry of dust.
Not all titles are coextensive to take full advantageousness of the 300Hz screen, unless you plan on bumping the sickness settings down. The Strix put up 67fps on Shadow of the Tomb Raider's highest settings with ray tracing on Ultra. On Red Defunct Summation II (one of the picked stressful hambone out there) cranked up to Ultra, the Scar averaged 54fps. Both hambone were quite playable on those settings, after any stuttering or slowdown. Those results are right on par with the MSI GE66 Brigand (which put up 50fps on Red Defunct and 70fps on Tomb Raider) as well-built as engender the subside Zephyrus G14 by a significant margin.
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. It's account percipient that while I was monarchy the Scar rip in Turbo mode (the highest powerfulness silhouette available) the 10980HK got quite hot throughout my gaming session, spending a cleat of time in the mid-90s as well-built as plane hitting 99 degrees Celsius a couplet of times. When I swapped to the sought Personation profile, the CPU spent other time in the mid-high 80s, as well-built as I only saw a 1-2fps eccentricity as a result. So if you're worried implicitly frying your hardware, you won't miss much if you time-out on the Personation profile.
Moving on to other laptop stuff. Divorced from its chips, what distinguishes the Strix Scar 15 as a gaming laptop is the design. It features a customizable per-key RGB keyboard, a radiant logo on the lid, as well-built as a fluorescent LED stripe implicitly the front three sides. A glowing stripe may seem obnoxious, except this one is categorically other subdued than strips you may have seen on gaming rigs like MSI's GE66 Raider. It wraps implicitly the undeserving of the deck, so you don't see it full-on; the effect is less garish gamer than the GE66 Brigand as well-built as other fancy nightclub. (You can turnover all of the RGB stuff off, of course. Except then, what's the point?)
Another daffy thing is the dizen design, which is printed with what Asus calls "Cybertext." Basically, Republic of Gamers is accounting all over it in an urban-chic sort of font. It's subtle as well-built as far from distracting, except it gives the whole artefact a subtle sci-fi vibe.
Speaking of the keyboard deck: the palm rests are coated in a unrelated "soft-touch paint." It's much smoother than your archetypal palm rest (you can actual much finger the eccentricity when you touch the rest of the chassis) as well-built as is quite nice to lay your hands on..
Asus keyboards are often among my favorites, as well-built as the Strix Scar's keyboard is no exception. I love typing on this. I finger like my fingers are flying while application it. There's a satisfying clink with actual little resistance. As well-built as I extraordinarily confess the eligible row of hotkeys at the top, which includes aggregate controls, a microphone mute, one that changes the personation profile, as well-built as culling button that brings up Armoury Crate (Asus' app area you can allineate various settings as well-built as features).
If you'd rather plug in your own peripherals, you have a good roads variant at your disposal. There are three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports as well-built as an audio jack on the larboard side, while the back-up houses one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C roads (which supports DisplayPort, except not PD charging), the charging port, one LAN RJ-45, as well-built as one HDMI 2.0. That's picked of what you'll need except there's one hot-headed omission: Thunderbolt. Plenty of people may not contretemps implicitly this, except it's a roads I'm disappointed not to see on a $2,799 laptop.
On the right synchronous is simply a Lemma II reader. A Lemma II is simply a concrete key on which you can save personal settings. You can conjointly use it to colonize a top-secret accumulator space, which Asus refers to as a "shadow drive." This can be encrypted if you have Windows 10 Pro. (Only this paradigmatic ships with that operating system. You'll need to upgrade from Windows 10 Home if you buy the brown-nosing configuration.)
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. The Lemma II is simply a particular idea considering how mucho settings as well-built as profiles there are to pension track of on the Strix. In the ROG app GameVisual, you can stargaze betwixt colorant presets for unrelated types of hambone (FPS mode enhances radiance as well-built as contrast, RPG mode prioritizes volant colors, etc.). In Setting Creator, you can interpret your keyboard's colors as well-built as animation. In GameFirst VI, you can pronounce bandwidth betwixt the programs you have running; there are presets like Gaming First, Roused Waking First, as well-built as Multimedia First.
One other thing I like: the speakers. Music sounded great, with a nice surround quality. The Strix won't shilly-shally a good imported speaker as well-built as percussion was a bit tinny. Except vocals were quite clear, as well-built as at picked volume, I never heard distortion. The laptop's fans get quite loud during gaming, except I had no unrest hearing my games' audio over them. (You can conjointly switch to the Silent silhouette if the whine is bothersomeness you.)
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. There's lots of good stuff on the Strix, as you can see. Except there are trade-offs, too. Picked of them aren't swell songful to gaming (and thus, forgivable on a laptop like the Strix), except they're account buttonhole in mind nonetheless.
For one: there's no webcam. It's not a deal-breaker -- streamers will be application their own equipment jerkily -- except it's a big minus for anyone who would otherwise use the Strix for an passing assignment nooner or basic catch-up with friends.
I conjointly have a couplet of issues with the trackpad. It has nonpartisan clickers, which crave a bit other skittering implicitly to printing than integrated buttons. I like these particular clickers other than most, except they're still exhaustible to miss as well-built as I sometimes found myself whacking chassis when aggravating to click. Generally, I found it less acknowledging as well-built as less apodeictic than I wanted it to be. Occasionally, it thought I was mill when I wasn't, causing me to unexpectedly shuffle things everywhere.
The touchpad conjointly has a nifty feature area it can morph into an LED number pad if you printing an integrated NumLock button in the top-right crotch -- except I hit this button with my palm while typing as well-built as unexpectedly correlated the Numpad several times. Warring with Asus' ZenBooks that conjointly have this feature, you can't navigate with the touchpad while the Numpad is up, so I kept obtaining to kibitzing my workflow to deescalate it. (You can disable the touchpad itself with F10, except there's not an exhaustible way to disable the NumPad after disabling the touchpad.)
The biggest downside, though, is hail life. I averaged two hours as well-built as 28 mitzvah of sustained multitasking as well-built as office assignment with the Strix on the Hail Saver silhouette with the awning implicitly 200 nits of brightness. (With all the battery-saving features off as well-built as a slightly other load, I got as low as one hour.) The Strix is simply a gaming laptop, so I wasn't expecting hours upon hours of juice. Still, plenty of competitors do better: The MSI GE66 Brigand (also powering an LED stripe as well-built as RGB keyboard) made it through four hours of that same workload.
Gaming on hail is possible, except not great. Red Defunct ran mostly in the high-reaching teens as well-built as low 20s. I got an hour as well-built as 15 mitzvah of the game on a charge, except I started to see stuttering when the Strix was fuzz to 60 percent (about half an hour in) as well-built as the game became unplayable at 10 percent. Realistically, if you plan on bringing the Scar anywhere, you'll need to bring the massive 280W adapter as well-built as spend some time charging the device. (It took 45 mitzvah to incrimination up to 60 percent during actual moonlit Chrome use.)
Overall, these nitpicks emphasize Asus' priority with the Scar. It's not a laptop that's meant to double-barreled as a biking companion or a work-from-home passenger -- don't buy it to be your primary PC.
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. But that doesn't midpoint the Scar isn't hebetic at what it's declared to be hebetic at, which is gaming. Its results are on par with those of the all-time 15-inch rigs on the market, as well-built as it offers well-paying customization software with a unrelated crystal-clear erecting to boot. If you need the all-time frame ante as well-built as the fastest screen, the Strix Scar 15 is simply a fine purchase.
Photos by Monica Button / The Verge
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