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The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 SE is a gaming laptop that has a unique design. It has different textures on its surfaces, which makes it look rugged and stylish at the same time. ..
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE review: Design
The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 SE is a great gaming laptop that is perfect for those who love to play games. It has a sleek design and great performance. The included graphics card is powerful and will give you the best gaming experience.
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The touchpad is huge and has more than enough space for general use. In any case, a mouse is most likely to be plugged into one of the available USB ports for serious gaming. ASUS has made part of the keyboard translucent, revealing part of the interior. Although the keyboard is a pleasure to type on and there is a full Numpad layout for those who like to play EVE Online, it does not use mechanical switches.
The laptop has a fast storage that can hold up to an impressive 128GB of memory. It is also a great choice for people who like to work on their computer for hours at a time. The laptop is also very lightweight and easy to carry around with you.
The ASUS ROG Strix GL502VM-DB71 is a gaming laptop that comes with a lot of features and technologies that make it perfect for the gaming enthusiast. It has a DP, G-Sync, Thunderbolt 4 port, and two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 connectors. The speakers on the laptop are good quality and will not blow you away with their sound, but they are adequate for gaming purposes. The laptop is thin but heavy because of all the internal components.
Keyboard and touchpad
The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE keyboard has responsive keys, but they can be soft after each keystroke. However, after a while you get used to it and it doesn’t bother you. In the 10-finger fast typing test, we achieved a speed of 60 words per minute and an accuracy rate of 98.03%. This is roughly in line with the results we often get with gaming keyboards. ..
The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE touchpad provides a good user experience. The edges are well defined and the surface is excellent. We did not experience any problems when clicking or using different Windows 11 gestures. You can see our article on the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE review.
Display
The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE features a 17.3-inch WQHD display in 16:9 aspect ratio with a 240 Hz refresh rate. According to Asus, the display supports Dolby Vision HDR, a reaction time of 3 ms, and 100 percent DCI-P3 color gamut. Although the display of the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE is not as bright as that of the Asus ROG Flow X16, it is still one of the best displays for 17-inch gaming laptops we have ever seen.
The ROG Strix Scar 17’s display is flawless, from the color accuracy to the brightness level. The ROG Strix Scar 17’s display is suitable for gaming, content creation and consumption. Most recent games can be played on this device at a higher frame rate due to the hardware capabilities, taking advantage of the higher refresh rate screen. ..
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE review: Audio
The Scar’s audio quality is excellent. It has a full sound that you hardly hear in computers, it is loud and absolutely clear, and it reproduces music with depth and bass. We wished we had one when we were in college because of the RGB light show and strong bass performance. While listening to Chris Brown’s “Iffy,” the pounding bass was intensely reproduced and made our chair dance like we were trying to get a dance scholarship. When Brown starts dancing with the transformer in his video, we jumped out of our gaming chair and the Scar’s speaker system. ..
We began our listening experience with the Queen classic “Under Pressure,” with Freddie Mercury’s falsetto combined with David Bowie’s heavier, sometimes vibrant voice that always makes us happy. Using a variety of musical instruments-including piano, guitars, drums and finger snaps-Queen creates a timeless work of sonic art.
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Graphic and gaming
Our ROG Strix Scar 17 SE configuration features an Intel Core i9-12950HX processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080Ti graphics card. The graphics card has a maximum graphics power of 170 W and a boost clock of 1,590 MHz. These features ensure an excellent frame rate of 1080p at the native resolution of 2560 x 1440. With DLSS enabled, Control ran at a smooth 70 fps at the native 1440p resolution when we played with the quality preset and Ray Tracing set to high.
The laptop’s frame rate jumped to 87 fps once activated. The ROG Strix Scar 17 SE achieved 144 frames per second at 1080p and 91 frames per second at the native resolution of 1440 when we ran the Grand Theft Auto V benchmark at very high settings. Although competitive laptops use the same RTX 3080 Ti graphics card as the Strix Scar 17, the latter produced the most stunning results. The MSI Titan GT77 achieved 142 frames per second at 1080p, compared to 139 for the GE76 Raider and 129 for the Alienware x17 R2. ..
The ROG Strix Scar 17 SE achieved 125 frames per second (fps) at 1080p and 113 fps at 1440p while playing Far Cry New Dawn at “extreme” settings. The GE76 Raider took second place with 113 frames per second, followed by the Titan GT77 and the Alienware x17 R2 with 87 frames per second. The ROG Strix Scar 17 SE produced 61 fps at 1440p and 85 fps at 1080p in the Red Dead Redemption 2 benchmark (average settings). The Titan GT77 and the Strix Scar once again tied, with the GE76 Raider lagging just a few frames behind.
Performance
The Strix Scar 17 SE is a powerful laptop that incorporates a 16-core, 65-W i9-12950HX processor and a very fast 2 TB NVMe M.2 SSD. These features make the RTX 3080 Ti the fastest laptop GPU according to our test results. The Scar scored 13,822 in the 3DMark TimeSpy test, 29,616 in the FireStrike test and 8329 in the Port Royal ray-tracing test. ..
The i9-7900K demolishes many of the larger gaming PCs in Cinebench R5. The SSD achieved an outstanding read speed of 6990 MB, extending to games as well. The Strix Scar easily reached 100 frames per second even in ray-traced games such as Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and Shadow of the Tomb Raider at high settings.
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The battery life is not extraordinary, as you might expect with such high power: about 3 hours of light work and web browsing. You won’t get optimal performance if you play video games for less than an hour. This beast is made to spend most of its time attached to its power source.
Battery life
Our test group’s Acer Predator Triton (4:42) placed second for web browsing and 1:49 for gaming. The X17 came next, taking 4:31 for online browsing and 1:19 for games, while the M17 came in last, taking only 2:05 for web browsing. Keep in mind that gaming laptops generally have a short battery life because of their power-hungry specifications; if you plan to use one as a workstation, it is best to plug it in.
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE review: Heat
During the Metro Exodus stress test, we observed how hot the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 SE gets to the touch. The laptop reached 31.9 degrees Celsius between the G and H keys in the middle of the keyboard (89.42 degrees Fahrenheit). The adjacent floor, however, was significantly cooler. At 26.5 degrees Celsius, the touchpad remained cool (79.7 degrees Fahrenheit). At 57.8 degrees Celsius (136.04 degrees Fahrenheit), the bottom of the laptop was the hottest spot during the test, and HWInfo noted some thermal throttling of the CPU.
Configuration options
Our review model of the Dell Inspirion 15 7000 has an Intel Core i7-12700H processor, 8GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD drive, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, and a 17.3-inch 2560 x 1440-pixel display with 240 Hz refresh rate. It costs $2,499.
Conclusion
The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 SE is one of the most powerful notebooks for gaming. However, it does not have a webcam or any kind of biometric authentication. The speakers and battery life are not particularly good, nor is the mobility of the device. However, it has most of the elements that make up a solid, performance-oriented device. The gamer aesthetic and other aspects make it one of the most attractive laptops one can buy. One aspect that must be carefully considered is whether you want to play games, and that is the price of our review unit. There are other very good devices that may not be as processor heavy, but they make up for it in other areas. If your goal, however, is the fastest machine money can buy, then the Strix Scar 17 SE is the notebook to beat. ..
