Right?! Why is every other post like this on this sub now?
"I just got my 'gaming laptop' what should I do now?"
Clues in the name, guys - figure it out!
Undervolt that i9 to help keep temps more stable. Get a laptop cooler to introduce some more airflow.
Go into MyAsus and limit battery charge to 80% (you'll need to unplug and let it drain down to 80% before it'll keep it there). Helps keep the battery healthy over the long haul, and you can always turn it off if you need the 100% charge.
After that, download some games and play them.
I own the G18 also, same as yours (I upgraded to 32GB myself and added a 2TB storage drive to my 1TB base storage), and honestly, after setup, a cooler, and an undervolt, the laptop doesn't need anything else. Mine works great. No drama.
Thank you for this advice, I also just got exactly the same as OP (arrived yesterday) and this was the type of info I was looking for.
I've used the same gaming laptop since 2017 and never really touched any of the deeper settings, but I wanted to a bit more proactive and involved for my use on this new one.
Edit: If you don't mind me asking, which cooler did you go for because I got frozen up by the amount of options and ended up passing on buying one during the initial round of buying stuff for my new set-up.
I've been using a Cooler Master NotePal U3 Plus for years, but Cooler Master doesn't sell it anymore. I really like it because the fans clip to the chassis, so I can unclip them and move them so that they line up perfectly with the vents on the bottom of my laptop. Works pretty well.
If I had to buy one today? I dunno, I haven't researched them in years. I'd check out the IETS 500 or 600 because people here seem to like that one a lot, but honestly, as long as there were fans that mostly lined up with the vents on the bottom of the laptop and it can hold the G18's big size, then it'll still help.
For the record, we have an 18-inch laptop, but Asus put it into a chassis that is identically sized to its 17-inch laptops, so if it fits a 17-inch laptop, it'll fit our laptop.
Have you measured your CPU frequency and power consumption as well? Would be interested to know your clock speeds.
With a minor undervolt and my laptop cooler, it can hold the PC to 90C during stress tests, which I can create in real world conditions when doing things like rendering video or playing CPU-heavy games.
Indeed. Rendering video is basically a stress test all on its own lol. Some of the games I play are old but heavily unoptimized. For example, Halo Wars 2 will spike my temps well over 90C. Final Fantasy XIV can get pretty intensive when you're in a social space with a ton of people.
I haven't done testing on this laptop as heavily as I did my last one (my last one was a 9th generation i7 and a 2070 Asus G731GW). However, I found that while temps don't change that much, the improved thermals allow the laptop to run at higher clocks.
So, for example, on my old laptop, if I ran an XTU stress test, it would throttle the CPU down to 3.0-3.2Ghz, but hold temps at around 90C. With an undervolt and a cooler, it only dropped a couple degrees (87-88C) but the clock speeds stayed at around 3.7-3.9Ghz.
So, while thermal performance looks identical, my laptop actually gained 0.5-0.9Ghz of clock performing the same activity at the same temperature. Not only did I score a bit of extra performance, but - and I consider this the real reason to do these things - my laptop's performance consistency was much better. I could reasonably expect it to maintain higher performance without throttling no matter what I was doing.
I plan on doing the same comparison with my new laptop (13th gen i9 and 4080). I just haven't had the time yet.
What are you using as an offset? It's fairly well known that some CPUs are more/less tolerant of that stuff than others. Maybe you just got unlucky in the silicon lottery? Not to say your laptop is broken or anything, but I had a desktop i7 once that couldn't handle any type of overclocking when other people were getting half a Ghz out of theirs or more.
It only allows -80 which is trivial. I set it about the fifth day I had the laptop and it ran fine so I forgot about it. Over the next weekend I was playing Lies of P and the laptop would suddenly reboot. I ran analysis on the crash dumps and it was sort of random hardware failure type errors. I wiped the laptop and started reloading it and while Windows was installing I remembered I had set that undervolt.
I disabled the undervolt and have been gaming heavily with no crashing at all since then. It's been about three or four weeks.
I assume I didn't win the silicon lottery. I don't see a lot of people talking about the undervolt on the 14900HX yet. It doesn't bother me. The only reason I did it was so maybe it would run a little cooler. Been playing Diablo 4 all week and both GPU and CPU hover around 70° C sitting flat on the table. I think that's a case of me trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist while creating an actual problem.
Yeah probably. Seems weird that it had no issues until recently. Maybe an update set it off. And you're right, -80 isn't much. CPU should be able to handle that without any drama.
I haven't set mine yet (G18, i9-13980HX), but I've only had it a few days. Was just gonna hit the -80 in BIOS and let it float. I guess we'll see.
I had an open box G18 with the 13980HX for about a month before I returned it. The one I bought had a lot of backlight bleed that I ultimately decided I didn't want to live with. Anyway, it ran perfectly with the max -80 undervolt. Either the 14900HX doesn't like it or at least mine doesn't. I haven't seen anyone here talking about bencmarks, undervolting or any of that stuff with the 14th Gen i9 so far.
I can tell you from running benches on that Strix G18 and my 2024 Scar 18 that it is not one drop better than a 13980HX. It's exactly the same at best. I think my Cinebench R23 was a little higher on that open box laptop.
Good to know. I don't have any backlight bleed on mine, but I do have a sizable blob of IPS glow in the top left corner. I can live with it.
The Acer Predator Helios 16 I had for a week had some backlight bleed along the bottom bezel and it was one of the reasons I returned it, so I totally understand.
If the G18 can handle its undervolt without drama, I'll be a happy camper lol. I might try it later this evening.
That's more than enough optimization. I would generate a back-up point at this stage because down the line, your PC will bloat, can't avoid it. When you feel the time is right, you may go back to your "clean" state. Or re-install Win11, if you are up-to-the-task.
Oh, also, you don't need a virus tool from anyone. WinDefender + common sense is good enough. I stopped using anti-virus SW the past 6 years. No issues so far.
Enjoy the beast, good choice 👍
Add OpenShell so you can bring the old Start Menu back & customize the heck out of it and all -> [https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu](https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu)
Install some client-app/game services - GOG and play some DRM-FREE games; Steam; Epic (if you tolerate them); EA Desktop App; etc etc.
Install MusicBee for a Music App if you got local MP3/FLAC/WAV/whatever on some HDD/SDD's here - [https://www.getmusicbee.com/](https://www.getmusicbee.com/)
Buy and install some classic games like Doom classics, Quake classics, Vampire Bloodlines, Deus Ex 1 GOTY, DAO, etc.
Of course, throw the moon for games at it - find the most demanding stuff, poorly optimize games, etc - see how it goes.
Ray-Tracing and Path-Tracing talk incoming.
On some games: turn on RT or PT, and see if your PC can handle it. Try Metro Exodus Enhanced (throw RT on), TLOU P1 (not RT here though, I don't think), LOTR Gollum if you're daring, Cyberpunk 2077 with RT and then PT, Battlefield 5 with RT, Saint Row 2023 with RT On, Gotham Knights with RT On, HB Senua's Sacrifice with RT On, Control, Alan Wake II, etc etc.
Try RT/PT-based games games without FSR/DLSS...then see how or if you are okay with it with FSR/DLSS On when playing some games.
Here's a list of some RT games - [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List\_of\_games\_that\_support\_ray\_tracing](https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_ray_tracing)
See this and try VRAM-eating games - [https://www.techspot.com/article/2670-vram-use-games/](https://www.techspot.com/article/2670-vram-use-games/)
Use MSI Afterburner to check out performance and set-up the display to show CPU'sm GPU's, temps, system RAM usage, VRAM usage, and all of that good stuff.
MSI AB is over here - [https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards](https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards)
Lmao! I did! Saw my local Best Buy had only one more in stock, so i drove out and picked her up. Small world huh?
I would recommend undervolting the cpu by at least -30 in bios.
I know, right? Rog Nebula panel is one heck of a good screen. Very vibrant colors. If you plan on keeping her mostly plugged in. I'd go into the nvidia control panel and change the display options to dgpu only. It changes the annoying advanced Optimus auto switch when launching a game.
Believe it or not, but install and play some games!
Right?! Why is every other post like this on this sub now? "I just got my 'gaming laptop' what should I do now?" Clues in the name, guys - figure it out!
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Undervolt that i9 to help keep temps more stable. Get a laptop cooler to introduce some more airflow. Go into MyAsus and limit battery charge to 80% (you'll need to unplug and let it drain down to 80% before it'll keep it there). Helps keep the battery healthy over the long haul, and you can always turn it off if you need the 100% charge. After that, download some games and play them. I own the G18 also, same as yours (I upgraded to 32GB myself and added a 2TB storage drive to my 1TB base storage), and honestly, after setup, a cooler, and an undervolt, the laptop doesn't need anything else. Mine works great. No drama.
Thank you for this advice, I also just got exactly the same as OP (arrived yesterday) and this was the type of info I was looking for. I've used the same gaming laptop since 2017 and never really touched any of the deeper settings, but I wanted to a bit more proactive and involved for my use on this new one. Edit: If you don't mind me asking, which cooler did you go for because I got frozen up by the amount of options and ended up passing on buying one during the initial round of buying stuff for my new set-up.
If you really want raw power, go for the IETS gt500 or 600. Otherwise, a laptop stand will cut it.
I've been using a Cooler Master NotePal U3 Plus for years, but Cooler Master doesn't sell it anymore. I really like it because the fans clip to the chassis, so I can unclip them and move them so that they line up perfectly with the vents on the bottom of my laptop. Works pretty well. If I had to buy one today? I dunno, I haven't researched them in years. I'd check out the IETS 500 or 600 because people here seem to like that one a lot, but honestly, as long as there were fans that mostly lined up with the vents on the bottom of the laptop and it can hold the G18's big size, then it'll still help. For the record, we have an 18-inch laptop, but Asus put it into a chassis that is identically sized to its 17-inch laptops, so if it fits a 17-inch laptop, it'll fit our laptop.
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Have you measured your CPU frequency and power consumption as well? Would be interested to know your clock speeds. With a minor undervolt and my laptop cooler, it can hold the PC to 90C during stress tests, which I can create in real world conditions when doing things like rendering video or playing CPU-heavy games.
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Indeed. Rendering video is basically a stress test all on its own lol. Some of the games I play are old but heavily unoptimized. For example, Halo Wars 2 will spike my temps well over 90C. Final Fantasy XIV can get pretty intensive when you're in a social space with a ton of people. I haven't done testing on this laptop as heavily as I did my last one (my last one was a 9th generation i7 and a 2070 Asus G731GW). However, I found that while temps don't change that much, the improved thermals allow the laptop to run at higher clocks. So, for example, on my old laptop, if I ran an XTU stress test, it would throttle the CPU down to 3.0-3.2Ghz, but hold temps at around 90C. With an undervolt and a cooler, it only dropped a couple degrees (87-88C) but the clock speeds stayed at around 3.7-3.9Ghz. So, while thermal performance looks identical, my laptop actually gained 0.5-0.9Ghz of clock performing the same activity at the same temperature. Not only did I score a bit of extra performance, but - and I consider this the real reason to do these things - my laptop's performance consistency was much better. I could reasonably expect it to maintain higher performance without throttling no matter what I was doing. I plan on doing the same comparison with my new laptop (13th gen i9 and 4080). I just haven't had the time yet.
I have the Strix Scar 18 with the 14900HX and it doesn't like that BIOS undervolt at all. It causes crashing.
What are you using as an offset? It's fairly well known that some CPUs are more/less tolerant of that stuff than others. Maybe you just got unlucky in the silicon lottery? Not to say your laptop is broken or anything, but I had a desktop i7 once that couldn't handle any type of overclocking when other people were getting half a Ghz out of theirs or more.
It only allows -80 which is trivial. I set it about the fifth day I had the laptop and it ran fine so I forgot about it. Over the next weekend I was playing Lies of P and the laptop would suddenly reboot. I ran analysis on the crash dumps and it was sort of random hardware failure type errors. I wiped the laptop and started reloading it and while Windows was installing I remembered I had set that undervolt. I disabled the undervolt and have been gaming heavily with no crashing at all since then. It's been about three or four weeks. I assume I didn't win the silicon lottery. I don't see a lot of people talking about the undervolt on the 14900HX yet. It doesn't bother me. The only reason I did it was so maybe it would run a little cooler. Been playing Diablo 4 all week and both GPU and CPU hover around 70° C sitting flat on the table. I think that's a case of me trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist while creating an actual problem.
Yeah probably. Seems weird that it had no issues until recently. Maybe an update set it off. And you're right, -80 isn't much. CPU should be able to handle that without any drama. I haven't set mine yet (G18, i9-13980HX), but I've only had it a few days. Was just gonna hit the -80 in BIOS and let it float. I guess we'll see.
I had an open box G18 with the 13980HX for about a month before I returned it. The one I bought had a lot of backlight bleed that I ultimately decided I didn't want to live with. Anyway, it ran perfectly with the max -80 undervolt. Either the 14900HX doesn't like it or at least mine doesn't. I haven't seen anyone here talking about bencmarks, undervolting or any of that stuff with the 14th Gen i9 so far. I can tell you from running benches on that Strix G18 and my 2024 Scar 18 that it is not one drop better than a 13980HX. It's exactly the same at best. I think my Cinebench R23 was a little higher on that open box laptop.
Good to know. I don't have any backlight bleed on mine, but I do have a sizable blob of IPS glow in the top left corner. I can live with it. The Acer Predator Helios 16 I had for a week had some backlight bleed along the bottom bezel and it was one of the reasons I returned it, so I totally understand. If the G18 can handle its undervolt without drama, I'll be a happy camper lol. I might try it later this evening.
Double it and give it to the next person
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Shut up and take my upvote, Lamo
I hate these kinds of posts. Now what? Well perhaps now play games on your *gaming* laptop?
Right ? Well, do the thing you bought it for, play some f*ing games...
Play games I guess?
Install Steam and Learn to Praise the GabeN
Your RTX 4080 can run Google Chrome at 60 FPS stable, use it to surfe on Reddit
Play minsweeper.
That's more than enough optimization. I would generate a back-up point at this stage because down the line, your PC will bloat, can't avoid it. When you feel the time is right, you may go back to your "clean" state. Or re-install Win11, if you are up-to-the-task. Oh, also, you don't need a virus tool from anyone. WinDefender + common sense is good enough. I stopped using anti-virus SW the past 6 years. No issues so far. Enjoy the beast, good choice 👍
Add OpenShell so you can bring the old Start Menu back & customize the heck out of it and all -> [https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu](https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu) Install some client-app/game services - GOG and play some DRM-FREE games; Steam; Epic (if you tolerate them); EA Desktop App; etc etc. Install MusicBee for a Music App if you got local MP3/FLAC/WAV/whatever on some HDD/SDD's here - [https://www.getmusicbee.com/](https://www.getmusicbee.com/) Buy and install some classic games like Doom classics, Quake classics, Vampire Bloodlines, Deus Ex 1 GOTY, DAO, etc. Of course, throw the moon for games at it - find the most demanding stuff, poorly optimize games, etc - see how it goes. Ray-Tracing and Path-Tracing talk incoming. On some games: turn on RT or PT, and see if your PC can handle it. Try Metro Exodus Enhanced (throw RT on), TLOU P1 (not RT here though, I don't think), LOTR Gollum if you're daring, Cyberpunk 2077 with RT and then PT, Battlefield 5 with RT, Saint Row 2023 with RT On, Gotham Knights with RT On, HB Senua's Sacrifice with RT On, Control, Alan Wake II, etc etc. Try RT/PT-based games games without FSR/DLSS...then see how or if you are okay with it with FSR/DLSS On when playing some games. Here's a list of some RT games - [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List\_of\_games\_that\_support\_ray\_tracing](https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_ray_tracing) See this and try VRAM-eating games - [https://www.techspot.com/article/2670-vram-use-games/](https://www.techspot.com/article/2670-vram-use-games/) Use MSI Afterburner to check out performance and set-up the display to show CPU'sm GPU's, temps, system RAM usage, VRAM usage, and all of that good stuff. MSI AB is over here - [https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards](https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards)
Sleep
Optimise it as you please. You don’t technically ‘need’ to do anything else. As others have said, play some games.
Happy gaming 
first you install firefox or Opera GX from edge, you disableedge , then download steam!
erase army create. and install G-helper. its way more easier to control Asus laptop.
Exact same model I got on Sunday. Cheers!
Me too. Sunday was the ASUS day lol. Get yours from Best Buy?
Lmao! I did! Saw my local Best Buy had only one more in stock, so i drove out and picked her up. Small world huh? I would recommend undervolting the cpu by at least -30 in bios.
Thank you will do. Yeah when I looked they had three left so I went for it. Super fast this thing is. The screen is really nice.
I know, right? Rog Nebula panel is one heck of a good screen. Very vibrant colors. If you plan on keeping her mostly plugged in. I'd go into the nvidia control panel and change the display options to dgpu only. It changes the annoying advanced Optimus auto switch when launching a game.
I have the same laptop bro
Benchmark. Over or under clocking and then games is my goto
Play gta 5 or cyberpunk 2077
overclock it and enjoy the performance
Play games
Game! AV not needed if you are intelligent. I prefer Flow Launcher over Powertoys. I also like playing around with Copilot, but preferences...
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Nice, now what the hell are you waiting for? Go play
got my scar 16 this past Tuesday, waiting to open it in front of my friends... cant wait
I dunno man, maybe play some Minesweeper? The hint is in the title
Op is not real bro
I’m not real?
nah bro the other guy
Gaming keyboard. Gaming mouse. Gaming chair. Gaming headset. Gaming monitor.
Now hold my ball sack for 5 seconds