Asus ROG Strix Scar III G731

I am very disappointed at Asus and third party sellers!! until now everyone advertising availability on different dates, MSI, Razor and Alienware have released their intel 9th generation gaming laptop for sale except Asus who is struggling to release the Scar 3 and doesn't even have a release date!!

Any one has any information when this will be available as I am planning to get it https://www.excaliberpc.com/700322/asus-rog-strix-scar-iii.html

 

I think ASUS is doing a staggered rollout this time around, focusing on the most popular/best selling ones first. Probably won't see that model for another month or so.

 

They haven’t announced when any model of the Strix Scar 3 is going on sale until now! Very frustrating I am considering MSI GE75

 

What I find frustrating about 2019's Strix Hero III/Scar III is the outrageous lack of G-Synch!
Especially considering that the first gen 2018 Strix Scar had G-Sync support... They dropped it with the Scar II/Hero II which was their main weakness.
So why are 2019's 9th gen intel coffee lake refresh and Turing models losing G-Sync when they use the same exact panels as the Zephyrus line-up, where's progress?!
We're talking about a gaming laptop series marketed for e-sports and starting at the 1700 USD price point when fitted with an 1660Ti yet can easily go up to 2300-2500 USD if fitted with an RTX 2070 and 240hz display plus vendor tune ups.
That makes Strix series a cruiserweight fighting between quality mainstream bracket and premium bracket depending on configuration.
The cheaper Strix G lacking G-Sync I can stomach, but the more premium Strix Hero III and Scar III I can't! And no not everyone is willing to buy a front shifted keyboard Zephyrus thin and light or that Mothership giant tablet just to get G-sync, some want a normal clamshell gaming laptop.
If the competition offers G-Sync in their standard laptops in the 1700-2500 USD price bracket people will flock to them instead of Asus RoG Strix. Fingers crossed for the Lenovo Legion June refresh with 9th gen intel CPU and Turing 1660ti keeping G-Sync!

 

no g-sync for internal screens, OK. but i still have g-sync when i have a freesync monitor connected to it.

 

Have they released the laptop yet.. what are they doing?

 

I'm guessing these will start showing up next month.

 

Bought MSI GE75 from HIDEvolution and waiting for them to build it and ship it for me, took the variant with RTX 2080; got tired waiting for Asus to gather up itself together and cope with releasing a minor laptop from them where all other manufacturers have already released 9th generation CPUs more than a month ago.

 

I have the G731GW (9750h + rtx 2070), the performance is bad, there's something wrong with the CPU it throttles heavily.

CSGO high settings -100 FPS, low settings - 160 fps. The display shows lots of tearing too.

I'm returning this one tommorow and buying a clevo with g-sync.

 

Guys,
Please tell me the following: what's the panel brand of yours G731 laptops??
AUO? LG? Something else?
I wanted to buy it also but now iam not sure lol
Thank a lot!!

 

Can you please check also if it's affected by some serious reverse ghosting issues or not?

 

I'm100% sure you have a single channel RAM.

Add another ram in order to have dual channel, that will solve your issue.

 

Guys,
Please tell me the following: what's the panel brand of yours G731 laptops??
AUO? LG? Something else?
I wanted to buy it also but now iam not sure lol
Thank a lot!!

 

AUO409D that's the G731GW display, Honestly it had terrible micro-stuttering in CSGO, returned it to seller

 

Been testing mine for a while, temperatures seem higher than the notebookcheck review: https://www.notebookcheck.net/An-LED-Light-Show-Asus-ROG-Strix-G-GL731GU-Laptop-Review.427419.0.html

Though I think their numbers are a tad suspect, they seem way too low. Mine just about stays under 90 most of the time with a -0.056v undervolt. GPU is completely fine though, stays around 77 degrees most if not all the time.

Not sure whether it is worth repasting or even sending back, I'm getting sick of sending computers for repair so I would probably leave it as it is since it isn't throttling.

 

Quite likely

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hi, can you share your msi afterburner profile folder? i want to compare the gpu frequencies with my 704gw

 

How are people enjoying this laptop? I am debating between this, a GE75, and a Clevo PB71

 

Did a lot of research before settling for this particular model.

Have now been running one of these for 5 months - the machine I got came with 32Gigs of RAM, fully pimped-out with 2 TB NVMe and 2 TB SSD (17", RTX-2070, core i7 9750h) 144 Hz 17" display.
It's been working wonderful, but I only do occasional gaming with it, mostly just demanding multimedia work and some computationally intensive tasks like neural networks and so on as well as running some VMs while working.

I can't find anything wrong with mine, everything works as advertised, no defects, build quality is very decent... I wouldn't try to compare it to a lightweight machine as far as fan speed when the RTX card kicks in for gaming, it's obviously not super-quiet or very portable. That being said, I did have to switch to a nimble and heavily optimized OS in order to get there and make it play nice.

The Windows 10 Pro it shipped with was full of crapware and unnecessary things that seemed to slow it down and were causing major latency issues as well as some glitches with audio which were unacceptable in the work I needed to use this for, so I decided to try and install a stripped-down Windows 10 Enterprise Edition LTSC image, once that was done it seems to have regained around 15% of processor cycles and things have been running very smooth. (policy editor on this image had disabled many services so - no Cortona, no telemetry, no MS store, no Edge browser, no Windows Defender, no Spectre mitigation) All drivers were automatically detected and worked upon install, and I've just been adding specific features as I need them. Wish I had the time to wait for the core i9 model with RTX2080 to ship but didn't have that luxury and quite honestly it's enough for my needs. I maintain a bootable backup of my OS disk, so no matter what happens to it all my settings could be transferred to another machine were this one to have a major issue.

Only downsides would be: don't expect much battery life, AC power brick is rather heavy, no Thunderbolt port.

The overall rating would be 8.75/10 - very satisfied... besides what I wrote above not sure what could be better. It's a dream machine for the price (under $3K) when I compare it to what I'd have to spend to get one of these new 16" Macbook Pro laptops in a similar configuration. The OS re-install was just part for the course, I usually end up running my own images instead of trusting the stock builds. Anyway, let's see how long the honeymoon lasts.

As always, ymmv - take my experience with a grain of salt as your needs may be different from mine.