Yes fan noise and heat are the Achilles heel of these laptops. I've got a 2021 Legion 5 with 3070, and I set a frame rate cap in the games to give the chip a bit of breathing room, and prop it upside down like a tent when connected to my screen. On the plus side, one of the games I like is Flight Simulator so it kind of blends into the background of the jet noises 😅.
How is the fan sound/heat outside of gaming? Aside from light gaming, I will mostly be using this for office work/plc/low level 2d cad. Might cancel my order if it's as bad as everyone says, dont want any of that within the office
@@itchynose6980 It's very quiet while browsing the internet and using battery saver mode - the fans generally stay off but will run on a slow speed while watching a video. The fans run frequently in balanced mode, but I find battery saver quick enough for general tasks and it makes a big difference to the run time. I don't use CAD, so I can only guess, but imagine it would get the fans going a fair bit. It's only really noisy when under a constant load, especially with the discrete GPU enabled, but engaging vsync to cap the framerate helps quite a lot.
1. Just “raise the bottom” let more air into the machine and you will found cpu&gpu each them reduce 10~15°C or in high usage will have more efficacy 2. You shouldn’t be use “laptop cooler” , cuz that effectiveness actually just like you put two bottle caps under laptop to raise it. But the cooler still use your limited power and it will let cpu&gpu become more hungry. Unless it has an “independent power supply”. There also very many ways let your experience better , like “gamer most of the time should limit cpu’s PL1&PL2 and offset voltage” “discrete graphics card overclock”. “Replace the thermal paste and clean the fan dust”. Sorry my bad English,hope it's not too hard to read. Just want help you gus. From Taiwan
Just got mine a couple days ago. I'm loving everything about it. The reviews on BestBuy are mainly complaining about the RAM. 16gb total but 1 is soldered to the motherboard and the other one is not soldered and can be replaced. So I think it has a max of 40gb total RAM. Good luck finding RAM for it now though! I will be upgrading the other empty M.2 slot, so thanks for the link. I'll def. use it! Awesome review BTW!
@@kevch7249 It doesn't overheat. But it does get hot and the fans do ramp up. But the GPU does not overheat and throttle down. At least mine does not. But like the reviewer said, it does tend to run hot and loud. I still think it is a good price considering what horse power it is rocking, I think a similar laptop from Dell would be about 400 more.
Absolutely the best review of this gorgeous machine. Thanks for the advice on the fan noise. Quiteness is really something that I value in a laptop as I have had my fair share of loud fans before. Luckily, I am in a position where I can wait a bit before upgrading. If the 2023 Iteration with new GPUs can deliver playable frames at quiet mode, I'm going for it no hesitation.
Nice!! I would be curious what would happen if you removed one stick of ram and just gamed on the soldered 8GB stick. Since each DDR5 stick runs as dual channel independently, I wonder if it would perform the same as like 4+4GB of DDR4 in dual channel. Would be much better to test though if 16GB was soldered to compare it against 8+8 in DDR4, but yeah.
The older m16 (which died after a windows update ((2 of them i might add))), would yield about 8 hours of battery life. A couple things: Dropbox can't be running - Huge draw. So when in battery I disable it. Windows Search must be disabled - No matter the laptop this has been an issue. Brightness at a decent level (doesn't have to be that dim) and the laptop would consume around 15mw when doing normal stuff. BatteryBar Pro was a good program to monitor consumption. I had to run a few Windows Performance Analyzer logs to figure out the culprit. One time the issue was a Nvidia driver that would consume 30-50mw of power.
Great down to earth review with useful information. Currently in the market for a gaming laptop and this was on my shortlist. Fan noise perhaps a deal breaker though. When you refer to no G-Sync option, does that also apply to an external monitor?
Really waiting for the Ryzen version of M16 2022 cause battery life matters to me a lot. Can you get 10hrs of TH-cam playtime now in lower resolution, and lower refresh rate?
I bought m16 2 days ago and yes hardware is top notch the problem is their shitty updates ......my bech mark was dope out of the box but when I updated it the pc just dumbed the Performance....I might return it soon
I didn't do benchmarks out of the box, but only after I've installed Windows and Nvidia driver updates. The GPU is just not boosting over 100W properly, even in purely GPU oriented benchmarks like Heaven and Time Spy. Do you have the same problem?
@@andrevoo93 Updated it to the latest drivers and all ....it was still heating while it was idle , I don't know the reason may be it isn't meant to be used in Indian climate but if it wasn't asus shouldn't have provided it in India ...I don't know what the problem is, it's in replacement process now ...let me get a new one and I'll get back to you.
Hi Sean, m16 in my area, right now, only has i7-12700H+RTX3060 version. I'm having a hard time in choosing in between G14 and M16. There're 2 things that I want to know: 1)Some Chinese consumer report that M16's display will show some weird pattern which looks like moiré pattern when it's hot(maybe above 60 or 70 °C). Does yours have the same issue? 2)I just want to play some esports titles on my laptop, use Office and watch videos, could you test the fan noise in these scenarios? Thank you for this wonderful video!
Hey Sean, first off, AMAZING review!! super calm, natural, and honest review!! loved it!! I have a question. Can it run completely silent on easy tasks? like watching videos, and doing some Indesign layouts for example? For now, I'm running an m1 Macbook air and I love it for its power and silence since it has no fan. But in the long run, I want to switch to a windows machine... But I'm super allergic to fan noise, so I need something powerful, but also with the option to run super quiet and most important with a constant level of noise. SO NOT the random ramping up and stopping fan thing which a lot of Win machines do... Long story short :D can this machine run silently on lighter tasks? Thank you!
hey AKBERT, I just got mine last weekend, and I used it as my daily work machine. General purpose like watching video and using MS office won't be a problem, the fan acoustics is lower than 30 dBA with discrete GPU enabled( optimised mode on MUX should be more power saving/quiet). But keep in mind that it would always go loud if you turn on the performance mode playing 3A games. And if you play something light weighted, turn silent mode can bring you joy and peace( I played genshin impact in silent mode and the fan noise is acceptable)
@@lhc6340 wow Amazing 🥰 thank you a lot for the reply! I think that will be my next machine! I’m super excited about this device. Again thank you a lot for your reply that helps a lot. Next step is saving up some €€€ 😅. Have a great one!
@@akbert6984 In my case ,if you need to connect your external monitor or projector, there's a issue that Type-C display port is working but HDMI sometimes doesn't respond while Optimised MUX mode enabled. Switch to discrete GPU only could solve this tiny issue.
@@lhc6340 hi i would like to ask you about the battery life that this laptop has, you said that you already using it on light load like office, and watching videos. How long the battery life when under light load? Is it about 10 hours?
Thanks for the review. Can you stream on twitch at higher resolution & fps while playing a game above 60 fps? I wonder how it handles both streaming & gaming at the same time.
The Strix Scar has 4 fans and better airflow.... that's why it's SO MUCH quieter while still cooling better. There's a reason for a slightly thicker case. Oh, and that extra 25W on the card and no throttling on turbo.
The CPU seems to drop to 2.2ghz while benching, that can't be right? Have you noticed this? Also, you said the fans were screaming with RDR2 but it showed the CPU at around 65c? Why would the fans need to be screaming at that temp?
Good video I wanted to ask you since you had the Asus M16 and the HP OMEN 16, of the two laptops which do you think is better, and in quality of the two which is better, the Asus looks solid but the HP OMEN the keyboard part is aluminum, from the HP OMEN I like the amd.
Great review. I was thinking about exchanging my Alienware m15 r5 (Ryzen 9 5900HX, RTX 3070) for this machine for only $100 more. Would you say the upgrade is worth it? Thank you!
Hello Sir...Those are some amazing temps for a laptop 12the Gen CPU....How did you achieve it?Like,Did you undervolt or Room temp is too low?Plz let us know...I am thinking to buy the same Zephyrus.
I just picked up this laptop for myself and am experiencing cpu temps of upper 90 C (up to 100 C) when gaming, even after manually setting the fans to max out at 100% once 70 C is hit. Ive been keeping it propped up and its been about 75 F (24 C) in my house while gaming. Is this normal for this laptop to be running this hot? Im trying to make sure it is performing as intended before the return window expires. Any help is appreciated!!!
I wouldn’t be surprised if something is weird with ASUS’ software still it’s early. The whole broken manual mode makes me think they (hopefully) be updating the bios and/or drivers, so that could change. You have to be in turbo to get 120w on the GPU on this though, as of now.
Its standard onthe intel laptops and some and to show quad channel since they run quad 32 bit instead of dual 64 bit channels . its part of the low power spec stuff
Are you still getting 120W dynamic boost with the newest updates? Mine almost never boosts past 100W even in Heaven or Time Spy benchmark. I've barely hit 10k graphics score in Time Spy only once. I've tried both turbo and manual mode with limited CPU wattage.
How sturdy is the chassis? Is it all metal or has some plastic parts? I’ve read somewhere that the bottom panel is plastic, is this true? Thanks in advance :)
It feels solid, it’s hard to say exactly which parts are metal because of the soft finish but I believe the lid and top of the deck are magnesium alloy, but the bottom panel is indeed plastic.
Why would you advertise PCie 3 SSD for a upgrade ? This laptop has PCie 4 capabilities and comes with a 1TB PCie 4. I installed a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro PCie 4 and its blazing fast.
For game storage I personally would still do PCIe 3 because of the price. If there’s anything you really need 4 speeds for, you could install it to the boot drive. It’s nice to have the option of using 4.0 as a secondary drive though, so if you want the best of the best go ahead 👍
@@TechWithSean That's exactly what I did was make the 1TB Samsung PCie 4 SSD my boot drive in slot 1 and put the stock 1TB Micron PCie 4 SSD in slot 2. Best Buy had the Samsung 980 Pro PCie on sale for $145 and IMO it was well worth the extra $45. Now I will say as for me upgrading the DDR5 memory that's not happening until the price drops considerably. I tried finding some for a laptop and nobody seems to have DDR5. I really enjoyed your review keep up the good work.
Love this review. I purchase the M15 you reviewed and love it... however my eyes are getting old and wondering what monitor specs you would recommend with the 2070 max-q? Thanks again for the content!
Either a 24” 1080p or 27” 1440p IPS monitor with g-sync. You’ll want to use a usb-c to DisplayPort cable because the HDMI on the M15 goes through the integrated graphics.
That’s dynamic boost I beleive - it’s pulling unneeded CPU wattage to bump the GPU up to 120w. If you do CPU only benchmarks it goes way higher. It got 13000+ on the time spy cpu score.
I got one of these 6 months ago and it ran just like it did in this video up until the last couple weeks. CPU temp is still fine but my GPU shoots up to 87 degrees Celsius as soon as I load any game. Doesn’t matter the resolution or graphics quality, just instantly 87c. I can not figure out why and it’s driving me crazy. I have cleaned it 3-4 times I have disabled turbo on cpu to see if that helps temps, I have even replaced the gpu fan to see if that fixed it and no. Nothing I do helps at all. My gpu rarely hits 1000 megahertz bc it’s throttling so bad. I have no clue what the problem is. Only thing I haven’t tried is repasting because I don’t want to expose the liquid metal on the cpu, that stuff scares me. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.
Hello. I have the excat same problem as you. I would like to know if you were able fix the problem? If the answer is yes, I would like to know what process you followed to fix it? . Thank you
@@nergalgreedes5763 sorry for the late reply but I repasted the cpu and gpu and that fixed the issue. Seems like the paste that the laptop ships with is poor quality or poorly applied. But yeah if you had that same problem that’s what fixed it for me.
Would anyone* recommend the 2021 M16 as a top 3 mid-range laptop at all? Had lesser specs, but still very similar. (And it's on sale right now at Best Buy -- trying to make a decision 😆). tyia!
if you don't need a larger screen on the go, get the G14. More portable, quiet, more battery life and in my opinion more beautiful. Had the same struggle as you, but I still bought my M16 (i9,3070ti,32GB) yesterday. I will sacrifice some noise and battery life for a larger screen for my creator tasks.
g14 is plauged with running hot as fuck i got 2 of them before giving up and going with this 22 m16. Funny story the fan on max is exactly the same db at the m16 yet nobody is complaining about it.
3 weeks later I got another g14 but the 6800s version and just adjusted settings to my liking and deal with it. Amazing machine for the money I got an open box for 1600 (300 off) magically.
@@TechWithSean thanks for your feedback but doesn't Lenovo laptop heats up quickly Which infact slows down everything. Speaking from experience with a Lenovo Ideapad s340
How about audio speaker is it good enough for 6 Speakers ? Can it comparable for Macbook ? Because most of Gaming Laptop very bad at speaker audio I'm really curious about this !
I would say its pretty close I have a 2017 MacBook pro 13in and the only thing I could say is that there's not as much thump (bass). One of the reasons could be because MacBooks lay flat on the table but the M16 when open it lifts the computer up fo air flow so that could be a reason for not as much thump in the bass. Other than that I was surprised about how good it sounds.
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Hi Sean! I've watched a lot of reviews for this laptop (most watched youtubers included) and this is BY FAR the best man, thanks 👍... Nicely done...
Yes fan noise and heat are the Achilles heel of these laptops. I've got a 2021 Legion 5 with 3070, and I set a frame rate cap in the games to give the chip a bit of breathing room, and prop it upside down like a tent when connected to my screen. On the plus side, one of the games I like is Flight Simulator so it kind of blends into the background of the jet noises 😅.
Seriously, my Rog strix runs like a jet fan.
How is the fan sound/heat outside of gaming? Aside from light gaming, I will mostly be using this for office work/plc/low level 2d cad. Might cancel my order if it's as bad as everyone says, dont want any of that within the office
@@itchynose6980 It's very quiet while browsing the internet and using battery saver mode - the fans generally stay off but will run on a slow speed while watching a video. The fans run frequently in balanced mode, but I find battery saver quick enough for general tasks and it makes a big difference to the run time.
I don't use CAD, so I can only guess, but imagine it would get the fans going a fair bit. It's only really noisy when under a constant load, especially with the discrete GPU enabled, but engaging vsync to cap the framerate helps quite a lot.
1.
Just “raise the bottom” let more air into the machine and you will found cpu&gpu each them reduce 10~15°C or in high usage will have more efficacy
2.
You shouldn’t be use “laptop cooler” , cuz that effectiveness actually just like you put two bottle caps under laptop to raise it.
But the cooler still use your limited power and it will let cpu&gpu become more hungry.
Unless it has an “independent power supply”.
There also very many ways let your experience better , like
“gamer most of the time should limit cpu’s PL1&PL2 and offset voltage”
“discrete graphics card overclock”.
“Replace the thermal paste and clean the fan dust”.
Sorry my bad English,hope it's not too hard to read.
Just want help you gus.
From Taiwan
Just got mine a couple days ago. I'm loving everything about it. The reviews on BestBuy are mainly complaining about the RAM. 16gb total but 1 is soldered to the motherboard and the other one is not soldered and can be replaced. So I think it has a max of 40gb total RAM. Good luck finding RAM for it now though! I will be upgrading the other empty M.2 slot, so thanks for the link. I'll def. use it! Awesome review BTW!
yup that's what I found from the Best Buy reviews too. Just about the ram.
@@shhhquiet Also stuck pixel and noticeable backlight bleed on an over $2,000 laptop...
@@mrjoshuaco No, not really.
Hi, is there an issue with the overheating when playing games? I was looking at the Bestbuy reviews and that is on thing I really worry about
@@kevch7249 It doesn't overheat. But it does get hot and the fans do ramp up. But the GPU does not overheat and throttle down. At least mine does not. But like the reviewer said, it does tend to run hot and loud. I still think it is a good price considering what horse power it is rocking, I think a similar laptop from Dell would be about 400 more.
Absolutely the best review of this gorgeous machine. Thanks for the advice on the fan noise. Quiteness is really something that I value in a laptop as I have had my fair share of loud fans before. Luckily, I am in a position where I can wait a bit before upgrading. If the 2023 Iteration with new GPUs can deliver playable frames at quiet mode, I'm going for it no hesitation.
Unlikely to be of any better efficiency according to leaks, so I wouldn't bet on fan noise being quieter next year
A good review of this laptop was much awaited.. Thanks
Hell yah! Always super kewl to see a new review from Sean! Been a little while man. Thanks!!
Picked this up a few days ago and love it. Glad someone finally did a video on it thank you!
Where did you find it I'm having a hard time finding kine...
how's the fan noise so far ( after one year from buying it )
Finally someone who moves the center icons on windows 11 to the left like it is on windows 10.
Nice!! I would be curious what would happen if you removed one stick of ram and just gamed on the soldered 8GB stick. Since each DDR5 stick runs as dual channel independently, I wonder if it would perform the same as like 4+4GB of DDR4 in dual channel.
Would be much better to test though if 16GB was soldered to compare it against 8+8 in DDR4, but yeah.
I'm getting mine a next week. I wish I would have found this video beforehand. Good video.
How is the laptop?
@rabieulrahmanibnualbi2946 great althought it's mostly a work pc now
Amazing review. Thank you very much. Very detailed and great pros and cons. Just subscribed! :D
Hey Sean! Great review, did they ever fix the fan curves?
I need the versus between the 2022 G15 and the M16!
this
The older m16 (which died after a windows update ((2 of them i might add))), would yield about 8 hours of battery life. A couple things:
Dropbox can't be running - Huge draw. So when in battery I disable it.
Windows Search must be disabled - No matter the laptop this has been an issue.
Brightness at a decent level (doesn't have to be that dim) and the laptop would consume around 15mw when doing normal stuff.
BatteryBar Pro was a good program to monitor consumption. I had to run a few Windows Performance Analyzer logs to figure out the culprit. One time the issue was a Nvidia driver that would consume 30-50mw of power.
That "69 FPS... Nice!" was enough to thumbs up and SUBBED! Oh, Thanks for the detailed review as well!
Great review! Thanks for this. Will definitely be picking it up.
I wish I've watched your review before getting the M16. Godddd, the fan noise absolutely drive me crazy.
Thanks for the review! I have a 2021 G14 and was thinking about upgrading to one of the larger models, but I think I’ll wait for the AMD model….
Great down to earth review with useful information. Currently in the market for a gaming laptop and this was on my shortlist. Fan noise perhaps a deal breaker though. When you refer to no G-Sync option, does that also apply to an external monitor?
According to Reddit the fans do kick in while using the laptop with the include GPU.
Some undervolting helps 👍
I would recommend getting a 6800m + 5900x rog advantage edition those can be found for like 1500$~ which is alot cheaper than this.
Really waiting for the Ryzen version of M16 2022
cause battery life matters to me a lot.
Can you get 10hrs of TH-cam playtime now in lower resolution, and lower refresh rate?
You won't be getting a Ryzen version of the M16, it's just not a thing.
@@Emolokz Yeah I also realized that. Thanks man.
M16 is Intel
& G15 is AMD
Great review! Exactly what I was looking for.
I bought m16 2 days ago and yes hardware is top notch the problem is their shitty updates ......my bech mark was dope out of the box but when I updated it the pc just dumbed the Performance....I might return it soon
I didn't do benchmarks out of the box, but only after I've installed Windows and Nvidia driver updates. The GPU is just not boosting over 100W properly, even in purely GPU oriented benchmarks like Heaven and Time Spy. Do you have the same problem?
@@andrevoo93 Updated it to the latest drivers and all ....it was still heating while it was idle , I don't know the reason may be it isn't meant to be used in Indian climate but if it wasn't asus shouldn't have provided it in India ...I don't know what the problem is, it's in replacement process now ...let me get a new one and I'll get back to you.
@@shokiyapratik let us hope that Your replacement unit will be working as intended :)
Please, add timestamps to not make everyone cluelessly look back and forth for the info they need.
I'm saving money to get this laptop. Hopefully, I will be able to get it by the end of April. I love this gaming laptop.
Hi Sean, m16 in my area, right now, only has i7-12700H+RTX3060 version. I'm having a hard time in choosing in between G14 and M16. There're 2 things that I want to know: 1)Some Chinese consumer report that M16's display will show some weird pattern which looks like moiré pattern when it's hot(maybe above 60 or 70 °C). Does yours have the same issue? 2)I just want to play some esports titles on my laptop, use Office and watch videos, could you test the fan noise in these scenarios? Thank you for this wonderful video!
love that background music
Great review! What was the actual weight? I’ve been looking forward to your review since you commented on Reddit!
Hey Sean, first off, AMAZING review!! super calm, natural, and honest review!! loved it!!
I have a question. Can it run completely silent on easy tasks? like watching videos, and doing some Indesign layouts for example? For now, I'm running an m1 Macbook air and I love it for its power and silence since it has no fan. But in the long run, I want to switch to a windows machine... But I'm super allergic to fan noise, so I need something powerful, but also with the option to run super quiet and most important with a constant level of noise. SO NOT the random ramping up and stopping fan thing which a lot of Win machines do... Long story short :D can this machine run silently on lighter tasks? Thank you!
hey AKBERT, I just got mine last weekend, and I used it as my daily work machine. General purpose like watching video and using MS office won't be a problem, the fan acoustics is lower than 30 dBA with discrete GPU enabled( optimised mode on MUX should be more power saving/quiet). But keep in mind that it would always go loud if you turn on the performance mode playing 3A games. And if you play something light weighted, turn silent mode can bring you joy and peace( I played genshin impact in silent mode and the fan noise is acceptable)
@@lhc6340 wow Amazing 🥰 thank you a lot for the reply! I think that will be my next machine! I’m super excited about this device. Again thank you a lot for your reply that helps a lot. Next step is saving up some €€€ 😅. Have a great one!
@@akbert6984 In my case ,if you need to connect your external monitor or projector, there's a issue that Type-C display port is working but HDMI sometimes doesn't respond while Optimised MUX mode enabled. Switch to discrete GPU only could solve this tiny issue.
@@lhc6340 hi i would like to ask you about the battery life that this laptop has, you said that you already using it on light load like office, and watching videos. How long the battery life when under light load? Is it about 10 hours?
@@grisdymahardikana8372 nahh 6 hour max
Adding more RAM helps so much with fps
Nice review! Thank you!
Thanks for the vid!
Thanks for the review. Can you stream on twitch at higher resolution & fps while playing a game above 60 fps? I wonder how it handles both streaming & gaming at the same time.
Great review, man. Thanks.
great review the tv in the background was kinda distracting though just my opinion
Great review, thank you. Any movement on whether the manual mode fix has seen the light of day?
Nice review!! I'm going to buy this for a client, I wish I could see the ports in the video
buy it for a client? What does that mean if you dont mind me asking? Also same ports as 2021 model, identical in fact
How much is battery life for normal use?
Yeah, wouldve liked to get at least a subjective rating, even better if some webbrowsing or video playback test would have been tested
Yeah i would like to know about it to, especially when light load like web browsing, utube and do some word.
It has mux switch so battery should be good with normal tweaks
The Strix Scar has 4 fans and better airflow.... that's why it's SO MUCH quieter while still cooling better. There's a reason for a slightly thicker case. Oh, and that extra 25W on the card and no throttling on turbo.
Hey man thanks for the great review.
I'm considering picking it up today open box for $1000, seems worth it
Im choosing between this and the MSI Stealth GS66 on Best Buy. Which one would you recommend?
The Asus M16.
The CPU seems to drop to 2.2ghz while benching, that can't be right? Have you noticed this? Also, you said the fans were screaming with RDR2 but it showed the CPU at around 65c? Why would the fans need to be screaming at that temp?
Good video I wanted to ask you since you had the Asus M16 and the HP OMEN 16, of the two laptops which do you think is better, and in quality of the two which is better, the Asus looks solid but the HP OMEN the keyboard part is aluminum, from the HP OMEN I like the amd.
Great work ,thanks!
Great review. I was thinking about exchanging my Alienware m15 r5 (Ryzen 9 5900HX, RTX 3070) for this machine for only $100 more. Would you say the upgrade is worth it? Thank you!
I wonder if the fan curve software will be patched. If so this would be a lovely option
Hello Sir...Those are some amazing temps for a laptop 12the Gen CPU....How did you achieve it?Like,Did you undervolt or Room temp is too low?Plz let us know...I am thinking to buy the same Zephyrus.
I just picked up this laptop for myself and am experiencing cpu temps of upper 90 C (up to 100 C) when gaming, even after manually setting the fans to max out at 100% once 70 C is hit. Ive been keeping it propped up and its been about 75 F (24 C) in my house while gaming. Is this normal for this laptop to be running this hot? Im trying to make sure it is performing as intended before the return window expires. Any help is appreciated!!!
some people told me the fan noises are huge and screen get heating so maybe destroy the screen .
What do you think about it ?
great review!
Hi could you test the heat on games like rdr2 elden ring after few hours of gameplay
Something is wrong with ur unit, the cpu clock seems to not go above 3ghz even once, whereas in my other laptop it stays at turbo clock always
I wouldn’t be surprised if something is weird with ASUS’ software still it’s early. The whole broken manual mode makes me think they (hopefully) be updating the bios and/or drivers, so that could change. You have to be in turbo to get 120w on the GPU on this though, as of now.
The Time Spy score is great for such a thin laptop!
Backlight bleeding is very annoying in my unit too, considering to return it
Great review! I love it 😋
Man, you're the best
I was wondering how is the battery life on this machine
any disk benchmarks? i think the drive comes installed in a pcie 3.0 slot instead of the gen 4. and i was truly expecting that both of them were 4.0
Its standard onthe intel laptops and some and to show quad channel since they run quad 32 bit instead of dual 64 bit channels . its part of the low power spec stuff
Are you still getting 120W dynamic boost with the newest updates? Mine almost never boosts past 100W even in Heaven or Time Spy benchmark. I've barely hit 10k graphics score in Time Spy only once. I've tried both turbo and manual mode with limited CPU wattage.
DDR5 has two sub channels so windows detects a single stick as dual channel.
How sturdy is the chassis? Is it all metal or has some plastic parts?
I’ve read somewhere that the bottom panel is plastic, is this true?
Thanks in advance :)
It feels solid, it’s hard to say exactly which parts are metal because of the soft finish but I believe the lid and top of the deck are magnesium alloy, but the bottom panel is indeed plastic.
What is the Expected Price for this one ?
where to buy
How are your temps so low for the cpu? I manually did my own fan curve and it still runs 80-90c
Have you tried to undervolt the CPU? It would be great to see the temps comparison
There was no undervolting in the BIOS and it doesn’t seem to be unlocked for undervolting via software either, sadly.
@@TechWithSean you can under-volt i will check bios
@@Smiley-zm1rp Any luck Undervolting 2022 m16 CPU?
I just got this laptop. but for some reason, the headphones don't work. does anyone encounter this?
Do you have any plans to review the g14 2022 when it releases?
nice review Sean! Made me not buy the laptop since i hate the fan noise :(
Hello
Please guide me
I bought zephyrs m16
To transfer the laptop image to my monitor
Which port is the best option to use?
Do you know anything about the GU603ZX version of the M16?
Rotation speed has to be reduced to reduce fan sound which threaten CPU & GPU.
What do you mean "threaten CPU and GPU"?
RDR 2 05:31
Cyberpunk 2077 07:01
If somebody looking for them too
Did you mention the price?
Put the fans on turbo and bang on the headphones and boom!
Thats what I've been doing. 😂
Why would you advertise PCie 3 SSD for a upgrade ? This laptop has PCie 4 capabilities and comes with a 1TB PCie 4. I installed a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro PCie 4 and its blazing fast.
For game storage I personally would still do PCIe 3 because of the price. If there’s anything you really need 4 speeds for, you could install it to the boot drive. It’s nice to have the option of using 4.0 as a secondary drive though, so if you want the best of the best go ahead 👍
@@TechWithSean That's exactly what I did was make the 1TB Samsung PCie 4 SSD my boot drive in slot 1 and put the stock 1TB Micron PCie 4 SSD in slot 2. Best Buy had the Samsung 980 Pro PCie on sale for $145 and IMO it was well worth the extra $45. Now I will say as for me upgrading the DDR5 memory that's not happening until the price drops considerably. I tried finding some for a laptop and nobody seems to have DDR5. I really enjoyed your review keep up the good work.
Can you review the battery life indepth and in all modes please??
Love this review. I purchase the M15 you reviewed and love it... however my eyes are getting old and wondering what monitor specs you would recommend with the 2070 max-q? Thanks again for the content!
Either a 24” 1080p or 27” 1440p IPS monitor with g-sync. You’ll want to use a usb-c to DisplayPort cable because the HDMI on the M15 goes through the integrated graphics.
@@TechWithSean Thank you.. what about thunderport to display port? Would a 32 inch be to big? Looking at the viewsonic xg320q. Thanks again.
CPU clock speeds are too low in the benchmarks, something is off
That’s dynamic boost I beleive - it’s pulling unneeded CPU wattage to bump the GPU up to 120w. If you do CPU only benchmarks it goes way higher. It got 13000+ on the time spy cpu score.
Hello sir lovely video, what's the thickness of this laptop
their is a weird sound in the backround while you were talking
I got one of these 6 months ago and it ran just like it did in this video up until the last couple weeks. CPU temp is still fine but my GPU shoots up to 87 degrees Celsius as soon as I load any game. Doesn’t matter the resolution or graphics quality, just instantly 87c. I can not figure out why and it’s driving me crazy. I have cleaned it 3-4 times I have disabled turbo on cpu to see if that helps temps, I have even replaced the gpu fan to see if that fixed it and no. Nothing I do helps at all. My gpu rarely hits 1000 megahertz bc it’s throttling so bad. I have no clue what the problem is. Only thing I haven’t tried is repasting because I don’t want to expose the liquid metal on the cpu, that stuff scares me. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.
Hello. I have the excat same problem as you. I would like to know if you were able fix the problem? If the answer is yes, I would like to know what process you followed to fix it? . Thank you
bro my CPU hits 100c when playing roblox if i don’t disable turbo mode
@@nergalgreedes5763 sorry for the late reply but I repasted the cpu and gpu and that fixed the issue. Seems like the paste that the laptop ships with is poor quality or poorly applied. But yeah if you had that same problem that’s what fixed it for me.
Would anyone* recommend the 2021 M16 as a top 3 mid-range laptop at all? Had lesser specs, but still very similar. (And it's on sale right now at Best Buy -- trying to make a decision 😆). tyia!
I’m on the fence between this and the G14(2022) with the 6900/6800 combo or whatever it is lol.
if you don't need a larger screen on the go, get the G14. More portable, quiet, more battery life and in my opinion more beautiful. Had the same struggle as you, but I still bought my M16 (i9,3070ti,32GB) yesterday. I will sacrifice some noise and battery life for a larger screen for my creator tasks.
g14 is plauged with running hot as fuck i got 2 of them before giving up and going with this 22 m16. Funny story the fan on max is exactly the same db at the m16 yet nobody is complaining about it.
I think people expect a 14” to be hot and loud but 16”-17” laptops are usually a bit quieter and typically run cooler.
3 weeks later I got another g14 but the 6800s version and just adjusted settings to my liking and deal with it. Amazing machine for the money I got an open box for 1600 (300 off) magically.
Holy shit my 6700s gets the same FPS in Forza. Crazy
What's the speed of the stock Micron SSD? Thanks
Any updates about fans and manual mode?
All Asus laptops love to make fan noises. 😂
so what ram should i get to upgrade my 16 gigs. A 32gig stick?
This one or Advantage edition with amd 6800m ?
is the duo 16 better with the NVIDIA® GeForce
RTX™ 3080 Ti
Laptop GPU
AMD
Ryzen™ 9 6000 Series
Processor
Max
165W TGP
with Dynamic Boost
9% average
MUX Switch
gaming performance uplift
Up to
4TB PCIe® 4.0
SSD in RAID 0
Up to
64GB DDR5
4800MHz RAM
so is the duo better or the none duo?
The Duo 16 is WAY more expensive than the M16
@@Emolokz yeah its 17K
@@YBbetterRati0 wait, what, $17K???
@@Emolokz yep 17k for the duo 16
@@YBbetterRati0 no freaking way, how. Or in what funny money
Has anyone upgraded the RAM on this? Any issues? How did it play with the soldered RAM?
Can you recommend a cheaper laptop for game development, 3d design
Look for a 2021 Lenovo Legion 5 Pro that is on sale, it still has a high resolution screen which will be nice for working in 3D apps
@@TechWithSean thanks for your feedback but doesn't Lenovo laptop heats up quickly Which infact slows down everything. Speaking from experience with a Lenovo Ideapad s340
Whats battery life?
YES PLEASE! G15 3070 21 V.S M16 22 3070TI PLEASE!!
holy, asus really equiping m16 with F16's jet engine fans, like 6400RPM!? dayummmm
How about audio speaker is it good enough for 6 Speakers ? Can it comparable for Macbook ? Because most of Gaming Laptop very bad at speaker audio I'm really curious about this !
Not as good as 16” MacBook, but far better than most windows laptops.
@@TechWithSean Thank you so much then I think it would be enough for me :)
I would say its pretty close I have a 2017 MacBook pro 13in and the only thing I could say is that there's not as much thump (bass). One of the reasons could be because MacBooks lay flat on the table but the M16 when open it lifts the computer up fo air flow so that could be a reason for not as much thump in the bass. Other than that I was surprised about how good it sounds.
Kinda dumb how you complain about fan noise during a stressful benchmark test. Those are not realistic scenarios when you're just gaming.
Where do you buy it at?