Zephyrus S17(GX703)

Hello s17 owners,

How are the speakers? Quality of the audio? And does the sound gets loud enough to "hide" the fan noises?

 

The sound is way better than at my Razer Pro or the Alienware X17 …

And to say it clear: I played two hours Age of Empires IV today, yesterday HUMANKIND, everything on max … CPU was 76 degree and GPU was 72 degree … and the machine was quiet …

So please: Use the machine for real work and gaming and not just with Benchmarks and things like that …

 

Thank you for the feedback Mythbuster. That is awesome to hear especially that it's better than Razer and the X17 and I was considering between the X17 vs S17 too!

The temps look great! Did you buy your S17 online? I was thinking of buying from either Xotipc or Hidevolution!

 

Sorry, I purchased in Germany from notebook.de … they can sell everything … so I got it with 6 TB SDD (3x2 TB) and 48 GB RAM …

I use the „silent mode“ which is still so fast that I can play everything I want to play … Temps are still fine (never more than 82 degree) and the machine is very silent … my Razer 17 Pro with 2080 MaxQ is louder … and also the X17 was way louder and the speakers were worse … I had the X17 for one week … than I purchased the Asus.

 

By any chances, does anyone use a ROG Headset like Delta with its Zephyrus ?

I would like some help with it.

 

hey all,

I'm looking into getting this laptop but I heard about the coil whine and weird fan speeds from others too, how are you faring?

 

Mine has coil whine, other don't.
The weird fan speed is only for silent mode where it kick in for 2s and off.

Get the laptop if you have the finance for it, its amazing, just be really careful of quality control when you receive yours, and be careful of any asus software updates (bios or armoury crate)

 

I plan on picking it up this weekend, super excited. If fans only pulse on silent mode I can deal w that but the coil whine could be a deal breaker for me. any chance you could take a video of the sound for us?

 

I have none coil whine ... and I know one other owner ... he had coil whine but it was gone after BIOS Update and the Asus Software ... so, I would go for it.

 

I'm meeting the guy to see the computer this saturday. perhaps you guys could give me a checklist of specific things to test/look out for before I cough up the $$$?

 

Mine is in RMA sorry i can't take Video

It's pretty standard but pay attention to the screen bleed, if you are at asus when buying it, try to do the bios update with them as we had 3-4 owners with bricked units. The coil whine appear from IDLE to heavy load for few seconds. Also check the temperature while using the laptop, CPU should not be above 88c and GPU around 80c for the best unit we had here on the forum.

In short we had RMA for bios bricked, screen bleed, bad thermals.
Enjoy the shopping!

 

thanks vincent! I'll definitely keep those things in mind.

 

Hey guys, after 2 months of waiting my S17 finally arrived and I started testing it. My first impression was extremely positive, never seen a more beautiful notebook. The design, the keyboard with the light effects, just perfect. And I have almost no screen bleed, almost perfect black, lucky me!

However, today I started testing the 3d-performance, and realized, that whenever I start a 3d-program, like 3dmark or furmark I get a very annoying coil whine, it almost sounds like a bee is trapped under the keyboard, so it must be the 3070...
Is there anything that can be done? I only updated the armory crate software but it didnt help...
This is a huge deal breaker for me, if this cant be resolved, I must return it, which would be very sad.
Does the 3060-version have coil whine too? I would even change my unit for the slower one if this fkn noise would dissapear.
pls help.

EDIT: Thats it, I send it back. Spent 6 hours today solving problems, if the next will have coil whine again, I am done with Asus. Disgusting...

 

coil whine is unavoidable especially with higher end hardware such as this. Coil whine cant be solved by anything but it doesnt damage your computer
You could try to undervolt or underclock the gpu but then you will be affecting performance one way or another

 

Yes, I saw that too. The only way to minimize it, was to cap the fps to 50, then it was hardly audible. But that is unacceptable.

EDIT: I did a mistake.

 

Hey mate, it's known that some S17 has coil whine, mine does it too with the 3080 but once again it's only from IDLE to load after in load it disappear.

You have two choice, send it to RMA and they will change the board and it takes more or less a months, or return it if you are in the 7 days! all the best

 

@vincent: well, my coilwhine was permanent. I started Furmark with very low resolution, so that the fans dont kick in, so that I can hear it. And after like 10min it was still there.
I ordered a new S17, cause I really fell in love with it. But if the next has it too, I am done with Asus and wait for 12th gen notebooks.
Wish me luck.

 

As annoying as coil whine is, unfortunately most high end components will have coil whine of some sort. Its a fact of life when the components have so much power running through them. Coil whine happens when the capacitors are charged up with electricity and vibrate at a high frequency, normally its at such a high frequency that we cant hear it but when some parts vibrate at lower frequencies it becomes audible and we can hear the hum or buzz

 

OK guys, ordered a new one. Coil whine is now a bit less. I think that the 3070 on my first unit was kinda broken, cause I was getting weird slowdowns in furmark: like 1800MHz, 1000MHz, 1800MHz / 100fps, 20fps, 100fps, 20fps... and so on... on reddit someone wrote, that its cause of silicon lottery and that the GPU cant handle the automatic overclocking in turbo mode.
Whatever...

I was testing now a few hours and I must say, I am very impressed now.
Insane cooling, in all benchmarks never above 80°C (Turbo mode)
Funfact: If u enable overcloking in BIOS u can undervolt below the -80mV, mine was stable @-95mV.
Additionaly u can lock a clockspeed, like 3,5GHz all cores, that wasnt possible before, u could only disable turbo with Throttlestop.

Some results:
Cinebench R20:
~5300 (with 8x 4,2GHz, 82W@-95mV)
~5850 (with 8x 4,6GhZ, 112W, yikes!)

Firestrike (standard): 24.123
Time Spy (standard): 10.925

Was a good buy

 

Guys, I just did all automatic windows updates and after restart my laptop wanted to do BIOS update, i clicked OK and now I am stuck in a loop, it cant finish the update and after restart its all over again in the BIOS menu, I cant get to Windows anymore.
Can anybody help?
Thx

 

You're doomed now, mate. Mine is stuck in a bootloop due to the BIOS update as well, just like many others who updated to the latest 311 BIOS - there are several posts doing rounds on reddit regarding this. Something is terribly wrong about the latest BIOS, and Asus seems to be ignoring their flagship product here.

 

This is so disgusting. I had so many notebooks since 2002. But this is the first time, where I am FORCED to update the BIOS and the update goes wrong and bricks it. I mean, how can this happen?? I was so furious yesterday... If this notebook wasnt so beautiful, silent and fast I would give it back and never buy Asus again. But the Zephyrus with 3070 is sold out in Germany, I got mine for a nice price, so I cant give it back and buy another one.
At least the woman @Asus support was friendly and told me, that this was unacceptable and apologized. Lets see how long it takes.

 

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ASUS 17.3" ROG Zephyrus S17 Laptop - 11th Gen Intel Core i9-11900H - 4K Ultra HD - GeForce RTX 3080 - Windows 10 Professional, Black | Costco

 

Which screen do you guys use while playing with your S17 ?

 

OK guys, got my repaired S17 back.
Everything seems fine, got the same 3D Mark score like before (~24.000)

But have bad news too: ASUS installed the new BIOS 311 and now I cant undervolt as hard anymore like with the old 309 BIOS.
With the last one I was stable @-90mV in cinebench etc., now with -80mV I already crashed 3 times in windows in idle, so I am now stable @-70mV. Not that bad but still weird, how can this be? Did anyone notice this too with the S17?

Additionally, after restart I see for half a sec a window open and close ("cmd.exe") (ASUS made a factory reset and installed a fresh Windows version) Does anyone know how I cant find out what this is or how I can prevent it? It is kinda tilting, seeing this after every fresh start... This hasnt happened before I sent it in...

@vincent: use the internal, but will play my main game LOL (League) on my external 24 inch screen cause of ULMB, but need a new cable first, cause the S17 doenst have a Mini DP -.-

 

Surprising. I also noticed the same, my undervolt even went below -100, and after some intermediate bios update, the undervolt wasn't stable anymore. Also I was earlier able to push the OC upto 4.8 ghz on all cores, but after the update it could only go upto 4.72 ghz or something due to current limit throttling (or VR current as per Throttlestop). Definitely something is fishy with these recent bios shenanigans.

 

@Mythbuster : I found a solution to this: Activate Manual Mode in AC. Then click on Windows Powermanagement and change the setting from "Turbo" to "Balanced". Now u are still in Manual Mode with ur Manual fans and TDP etc... but the CPU will go down to 1,3-1,5GHz in idle, HWInfo shows this.

 

Anyone else not being able to get the max Single Core boost? No matter what I do, all my cores always have the all-core-turbo.
Even with cinebench single core test, all my cores have same speed. Is this a bug or is this hard locked in BIOS or so?

I even tried lowering clocks in XTU (1 core Turbo was 3,5GHz, all other cores 3,0 GHz). No matter what I did, all cores were rock solid @3,0GHz, not one core boosted to the 3,5GHz...

 

Hi all, anyone of you know where i can find the mux switch on the 1440p/rtx 3080 laptop?

I have been looking around in asus armory and the bios but cant find it anywhere.

 

Uninstall geforce experience and mcafee. Problem solved.

 

Pretty sure this is all run through the Advanced Optimus part of the NVIDIA control panel.

 

That's weird in the below review it says it should get 7 hours of watching movies however if I watch a movie on mine I get like 2 hours maximum out of it.

Notebookcheck review

 

Does anyone of you know if ASUS added a MUX option for the 4K versions recently like Alienware did for the x17? Or is there just no "hardware" switch available on the S17 which could be enabled by a BIOS update?

 

You can see it in the NVIDIA control panel. Advanced optimus should be the default setting. You can set it to NVIDA GPU only mode if you like.

 

Just for your information. I recently had the chance to check out the 4K version of the GX703. The screen is very good and has no backlight bleeding... unfortunately the 4k versions is stuck with optimus mode. No chance to use the dedicated NVIDIA graphics card only with the internal screen...this is such a shame...

The peroformance of this good hardware was hold back due to Optimus so strongly that you can't recommend this device. Go with the QHD version if you have the chance... 4K is roughly 20% slower than the QHD version with advanced optimus and MUX. If you don't care about performance with the internal screen you can give it a chance of course.

 

Any more on this?
I too can't reach single core boost.
Have all cores on 4.8 two of them hit 4.9 but if I change SpeedShift in TPL in ThrottleStop to higher than 4.9 I get BSOD....no core has ever hit 5.4 wich is max overclock.

 

Any more on this?
I too can't reach single core boost.
Have all cores on 4.8 two of them hit 4.9 but if I change SpeedShift in TPL in ThrottleStop to higher than 4.9 I get BSOD....no core has ever hit 5.4 wich is max overclock.

 

Has anyone got this to work?
I can set the values up to 5.4 in FIVR, but if I change max SpeedShift in TPL to more than 4.9 the computer freezes or restarts

 

You most probably need to increase voltage. But please be VERY careful doing this. Start XTU and go +20mV. Then 5,0GHz should be stable. But for every day use, I would not recomend doing this.

 

After 1 week, I noticed a weird thing:

When Adv. Optimus is activated, i get micro stuttering in all games. (Temps are fine, games run smooth, only one hard stutter every 30sec or so)
When I click on (normal) Optimus (in Nvidia control panel) then the stuttering is gone. But then I dont have Gsync.

Stuttering is also gone, when I activate "dGPU only" in BIOS.

This problem was mentioned a few times in other forums as well.
Advanced Optimus seems to be bugged.

Anyone has a fix?

 

Ah ok, I see...havent tried overvolting yet.

But even if I have -60mV or if I have zero changes, the thing is I cant break the 130W limit....so I think if I overvolt to say +20mV I will only hit that 130W mark sooner and clocks wont go higher....
Any way to work around the 130W limit?

Or I might just stay happy with -60mV and 4.9 Ghz on a few cores and 4.8 on the rest...

 

Hi
Just got my S17 a week ago and I am still tuning it in for performance.
I have grasped that 5.4 GHz is nothing to bother with...but right now I am running all cores at 4.9...I can only see 3 cores hitting the 4.9 mark, the others are at 4.8

What settings are you guys using? Is there a backside to have all cores at 4.9? Will the GPU not be able to stay at 140W?
Most ppl seem to run at 4.2 on all cores...I simply cant find a sweet spot =)

 

Hey did you ever figure out the timespy only getting 9500? I got my system today and that’s why I’m getting

 

No its a bug from armoury crate and never got any way to solve it

 

Ok cool any ways to reset bios with black screen.

 

Try all modes in nVidia control panel: "Optimus", Advanced Optimus and "nvidia GPU only"
Try BIOS function "dGPU only" and run time spy.
Had this problem too, only had 9500 CPU points, but after some trying I get almost 11k with new drivers and "nvidia GPU only" mode.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/69793436

 

I had to sent mine back kinda sad about it but screen went black and never turned on again .


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Someone noticed huge FPS drops in Games? I‘m on Turbo Mode with -60mV Undervolt and dGPU only.

I can‘t really specify when this happens but after very smooth gameplay it seems to drop FPS from time to time. Temperatures on CPU and GPU are under 80C.

I‘m loosing my patience with this device because the Software seems to very buggy

 

Anyone noticed huge FPS drops in Games? I‘m on Turbo Mode with -60mV Undervolt and dGPU only.

I can‘t really specify when this happens but after very smooth gameplay it seems to drop FPS from time to time. Temperatures on CPU and GPU are under 80C.

I‘m loosing my patience with this device because the Software seems to very buggy

 

So here is what I found out regarding the FPS drops. I have used Furmark to test the GPU. And with this program I could reproduce the issue.

In performance mode everything is fine because GPU has no OC on memory. With Turbo mode the GPU gets 75Mhz on Core and 125Mhz on memory OC. When Turbo Mode was activated the Furmark test was stuttering instantly.

So I set both values to 0 (non OC on GPU) with MSI Afterburner and the issue is gone. Afterwards I was curios and OC on core is working well, but OC on GPU memory produced instant stuttering. Will keep an eye on this in real life games. Maybe this could be my solution.