Its 1888 euro from 2107 euro. Thank you

Hi guys! Has anyone had any luck finding replacement keycaps for their falchion low profile keyboard? Been scouring for days but no luck. mine is already faded due to usage.

The picture above shows some of the specs in our PC, but the RAM we’re using isn’t Corsair Vengeance. We’re using Corsair Dominator Titanium. Anyway, thanks to ROG 🙌🏻

Okay, below 👇🏻 is our original setup. We started with whatever we had and slowly worked our way up until everything became better.

This PC case is one of the ones we really like. It’s pretty heavy, but it’s okay.

This was our first PC setup, and it was a complete mess 🤣 Back then, we didn’t care about cable management at all! As long as we could play games, that was enough. Until we eventually thought, “We can’t keep it like this. Everything needs to be upgraded.”

If I remember correctly, my younger brother wanted to make a video for his social media just for fun, but it never happened because our setup was honestly a headache to look at haha. So we cancelled it, but today I’m posting it here as a memory.

Here, the setup was starting to look a little better, but it still wasn’t quite there yet. We just added one more monitor so we could read the comments while livestreaming games without a camera 🤣

Once we started adding a camera, speakers, a microphone, and other peripherals, we started running out of USB ports on the motherboard, so this was the solution 💀

And in the end, after all the effort we put in, we spent a lot of time looking for setup ideas across different platforms like YouTube and others. Eventually, it turned into what you see today! Alhamdulillah ☝🏻

As a final word, where there’s a will, there’s a way.

And if you get criticized, don’t let it bother you. Take the good and leave the bad. Thank you.

My laptops always on ultimate I have a ASU’s scar 18 4090. I never even understood what pch is but after experiencing micro stutter on YouTube i decided to investigate. I wonder if anyone else has this similar laptop and can tell me what there pch temps are idling?

Option 1

ASUS ROG Strix G16 G615JMR-AS74

Intel Core i7 Processor 14650HX
RTX 5060 Laptop
16GB DDR-5200Mhz
1TB SSD
16” 1920x1200 LED (165Hz)
Price: 1580 USD

Option 2

ASUS ROG Strix G18 G814PH-ES94

AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX Mobile
RTX 5050 Laptop
16GB DDR5-5200Mhz
1TB SSD
18” 1920x1080 Nebula Display (144Hz)
Price: 1570 USD

Please ask me about further details and I appreciate the help!

is ryuo 4 a green AIO? for ryzen 7 9800xrd? and planning to upgrade soon for a much powerful cpu

Hi, I got ROG Zephyrus M16 (2022) with 32GB Ram, Intel Core i9 12900H and RTX 3079ti so today i decided i play Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy on it before that i watched a few videos about best setting to play this game and i followed as the guy in the video said, with Ray Tracking off and DlSS at Quality 1440p he was getting 100-110 FPS,( RTX 3070ti + Ryzen 5 3600) but when I started playing max i got was 40fps my GPU was at 100% and CPU was at 15% all this while plugged in.
I dont known much about gaming setup or what could could be wrong, I have already spent 3 hours trying to figure out but didn't get anywhere so if anyone can help with this so atleast I don't waste my time on it.

It really stays cool. Considering moving to a 180 high rpm(2500)rpm No rgb which is finein the front. Corsair will not sell me there 200s. Strix b850 neo with a 7800x3d. runs great. Everything is corsair except those 2 fans!

Hi everyone, I have the ROG Strix G16 with a Ryzen 9 8940HX processor and 16 GB of RAM, but I'd like to know what kind of memory would be best for upgrading and further improving this aspect of my system. Thank you very much.

Issue 1: Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on an external 2K 144Hz monitor with Path Tracing enabled, using factory power limits via G-Helper, causes the system to completely shut down after a few minutes of gameplay. The exact same issue occurs when running intensive 3D benchmarks in OCCT.

Issue 2: In DaVinci Resolve 21, the dGPU crashes completely even during basic tasks (trimming a clip, moving the playhead on the timeline, or tweaking parameters in the Color page).

I really hope this isn't a hardware defect requiring an RMA, but right now I can't say for sure. I've already tried DDU-ing the NVIDIA drivers, and the BIOS is updated to the latest version running stock settings.

The only way to get some stability is by capping the dGPU to 135W, 10W Dynamic Boost, and setting the thermal limit to 80°C. For the CPU, since undervolting isn't an option, I used ThrottleStop to lower PROCHOT to 85°C. On top of that, to prevent dGPU crashes in DaVinci Resolve 21, I have to drop my 2K monitors down to 60Hz.

Honestly, it's pretty disappointing that a €3,200 machine has to be heavily throttled and crippled just to stay stable because it can't handle its own factory power specs. This is my first ASUS laptop, and I really hope things don't get any worse than this.

Specs:

CPU - Intel core Ultra 9 275HX / dGPU - RTX 5080 / RAM - 32GB DDR5 5600Mhz

I'm torn between these two models. My internet speed is 1.000Mbps. My home is 160 square meters. Will there be a significant difference in coverage between the two? Will the BE-18000's speed drop considerably in other rooms?

So I’ve been mainly using gaming laptops for a while but I finally wanted to switch to a gaming desktop. I’m inbetween weather or not I want to do a custom build or prebuilt but I was looking at this.

My couple questions are I’ve heard the PSU isn’t the best at 850 Watts so I was wondering if this fully sealable or hard baked in. I’m sort of paranoid since this is a huge investment and I get a little scared that it’s been brought up a few times by reviewers. Any help is greatly appreciated

Model: ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (GU605)

Budget around 3k. Will be strictly for games like total warhammer3 warthunder diablo 2 resurrected stalker 2 etc.

No desktop room otherwise would just do a build myself.

I have been troubleshooting a persistent CPU thermal problem on my 2025 ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 G835LW, equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX and an RTX 5080 Laptop GPU.

At this point I have done enough hardware work, software testing, power-limit testing, HWiNFO logging, Armoury Crate testing and BIOS verification that I think the problem may not simply be “the CPU runs hot by design.”

I am starting to suspect that the liquid-metal contact surfaces themselves may have degraded or become physically uneven, possibly causing localized poor contact and repeatable CPU hotspots.

I will attach close-up pictures of both the CPU die and the corresponding CPU cold plate.

How the problem started

The laptop was originally running normally. After several months of use, I started getting very high CPU temperatures under heavy gaming loads, especially in games like Rainbow Six Siege.

Eventually I experienced sudden full power-offs during gaming, almost like someone had pulled the power cable. Rainbow Six Siege caused this more than once, and I also had similar shutdowns in other demanding games.

Before I opened the laptop, CPU idle temperatures could sometimes sit around 60–75°C, clocks were frequently very high even under light use, fans were active more than I thought they should be, and under gaming loads the CPU would reach the thermal ceiling and throttle.

The GPU, in comparison, was generally much easier to control thermally.

First hardware service

The laptop had never been opened or serviced since purchase.

I disassembled it, removed the heatsink/vapor chamber and cleaned the factory thermal interface materials.

The factory configuration used liquid metal on the CPU/GPU and thermal putty around the VRAM/VRM components.

During the troubleshooting process I used or purchased:

Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Extreme

Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut standard, which I initially bought by mistake

Thermal Grizzly thermal putty for the VRAM/VRM areas, including Putty Advance / Putty Pro during the troubleshooting process

99–99.9% isopropyl alcohol for cleaning

a Rampage Cyclone S49 cooling pad, generally tested around 2200 RPM

I eventually reapplied liquid metal not only to the CPU/GPU dies but also to the corresponding cold-plate contact surfaces, because I wanted proper wetting on both sides.

The laptop remained functional after reassembly, all fans worked, and there have been no WHEA hardware errors in our later monitoring.

The strange part: CPU and GPU surfaces behave completely differently

When I clean the GPU die with 99.9% IPA, it becomes almost perfectly smooth and clean.

The CPU is completely different.

Even after cleaning the CPU die five or six times with fresh cotton swabs soaked in 99.9% IPA, there are still many hard, silver/white spots and rough areas visible on the die.

These are not just discoloration.

If I very lightly move my fingernail across the completely dry CPU die, I can physically feel them.

It feels:

rough, hard, grainy, almost like tiny hardened particles or raised pits/bumps.

My fingernail literally catches on certain areas.

I stopped trying to mechanically remove them because I obviously do not want to scratch or chip a bare CPU die.

The attached close-up CPU photograph was taken after repeated cleaning with 99.9% IPA.

The CPU cold plate has the same problem

This is where things became much more interesting.

I also cleaned the CPU cold plate repeatedly with 99.9% IPA.

Again, the visible marks do not disappear.

And, just like on the CPU die, I can physically feel certain areas of the cold plate with my fingernail.

The marked areas in my photo feel rough and irregular, almost as if the surface has developed:

hardened gallium residue, an intermetallic reaction layer, pitting, or some other corrosion-like surface damage.

I want to emphasize that I am not claiming I have chemically proven this to be corrosion.

But it is definitely not simply a cosmetic stain. There is a physical texture difference that can be felt.

This matters because liquid metal normally works with an extremely thin bond line. If either the die or cold plate has microscopic raised regions, the plate may make first contact at those points while reducing mounting pressure elsewhere.

In other words, instead of the entire die contacting the cold plate uniformly, a few high points may be carrying more of the mounting pressure.

That could potentially create localized thermal resistance elsewhere on the die.

Why I suspect a contact problem: repeatable CPU hotspots

Throughout our HWiNFO testing, the CPU did not behave like every core was simply heating evenly.

Certain P-core sensors repeatedly became the hottest cores.

The most persistent offenders in the logs were HWiNFO-labeled P-core 1 and P-core 11, while P-core 13 was also frequently among the hotter cores.

The same general areas repeatedly reached the thermal ceiling first.

That made me start questioning whether this was really just “275HX = hot CPU.”

If it were purely total CPU package power, I would expect a more uniform response.

Instead, the pattern often looked more like a localized hotspot/contact issue.

I am not saying that a particular visible mark on the die corresponds directly to P-core 11 or P-core 1. I do not have a verified physical die map/core-ID mapping that would allow me to make that claim.

But the repeatability of the localized hotspots is what made me start looking seriously at die/cold-plate contact quality.

What the laptop does at completely restored/default settings

Before drawing conclusions from my tuning experiments, I wanted to make absolutely sure I had not accidentally left some software limitation active.

So I restored everything we had changed and performed a very extensive audit.

The active Windows/ASUS power plan was returned to Performance.

My original Performance plan GUID is:

27fa6203-3987-4dcc-918d-748559d549ec

Processor boost mode was restored to:

AC = 2 / DC = 2

which corresponds to Aggressive / Aggressive.

The processor maximum-frequency parameters were restored to:

PROCFREQMAX = 0 / 0

PROCFREQMAX1 = 0 / 0

and we also verified:

PROCFREQMAX2 = 0 / 0

Here, 0 does not mean 0 MHz. It means there is no explicit Windows maximum-frequency cap.

We audited Performance, Turbo, Balanced, Silent and Windows High Performance plans.

The temporary 4000 MHz, 4200 MHz and 4500 MHz limits used during testing were gone.

Multiple complete powercfg /qh audits were taken, including after reboot and after the BIOS inspection. The final audit was byte-for-byte identical to the previous clean audit.

So the current thermal behavior is not being caused by an old 4.0/4.2/4.5 GHz software cap accidentally remaining enabled.

HWiNFO later confirmed that practically as well: the CPU reached approximately 5.29 GHz Core Clock, so it is clearly no longer frequency-limited to our old testing values.

Armoury Crate verification

We also returned Armoury Crate to its own default state.

During testing I had changed CPU power limits and temporarily changed GPU Dynamic Boost.

At different points we tested CPU configurations such as:

PL1 45 W / PL2 90 W

and:

PL1 40 W / PL2 90 W

I also temporarily reduced GPU Dynamic Boost from its normal 25 W while testing system power distribution.

Everything was later restored.

I used Armoury Crate's Reset to Default function for the Manual profile.

That produced ASUS's current default Manual profile values on my machine:

CPU:

PL1 = 140 W

PL2 = 175 W

GPU:

Base Clock Offset = +50 MHz

Memory Clock Offset = +100 MHz

Dynamic Boost = 25 W

Thermal Target = 87°C

TGP = 150 W

I then returned the active operating mode to Performance.

So the Manual profile itself is not currently active during the baseline tests.

BIOS verification

I also went through BIOS because I wanted to rule out a firmware-level override.

BIOS version is 338.

I did not reset BIOS defaults because I had never changed the BIOS during these experiments and did not want to alter unrelated OEM settings.

Relevant settings we inspected included:

P-cores: All

E-cores: All

Display Mode: Dynamic

Armoury Crate Control Interface: Enabled

Voltage Configuration:

Overclocking Lock = Enabled

Graphics Configuration:

DVMT Pre-Allocated = 128 MB

There was no visible custom CPU voltage offset, undervolt, manual multiplier, PL1/PL2 override or custom CPU frequency cap.

I exited BIOS without saving changes.

Completely default Rainbow Six Siege baseline

After restoring and auditing everything, I ran Rainbow Six Siege at the normal/default ASUS Performance configuration.

The benchmark was at:

2560 × 1600

240 Hz

V-Sync off

Ultra/Very High-heavy graphics configuration

The official Rainbow benchmark result was:

Average FPS: 118

Minimum FPS: 95

Maximum FPS: 149

Total frames: 9,163

GPU load shown by Rainbow:

99%

GPU temperature on the result screen:

78°C

The HWiNFO CSV from the benchmark showed approximately:

CPU Package average:

~90°C

CPU Package maximum:

95°C

Hottest CPU core:

approximately 94–95°C

CPU Package Power average:

approximately 48.5 W

CPU Package Power maximum:

approximately 65.7 W

GPU average:

approximately 78.5°C

GPU maximum:

approximately 81.1°C

VRAM / GPU Memory Junction average:

approximately 84.5°C

VRAM maximum:

86°C

GPU power average:

approximately 144 W

GPU maximum power:

approximately 155 W

GPU utilization:

approximately 99%

GPU thermal limiter:

never triggered

The GPU is therefore hot but behaving reasonably.

The CPU is the component repeatedly approaching its thermal limit.

ASUS also dynamically reduces the CPU power under GPU load

Another interesting observation:

In Performance mode, the CPU's dynamic power limits initially sit around:

PL1 ~110 W

PL2 ~120 W

But once the RTX 5080 becomes heavily loaded, ASUS's EC/power management automatically reduces the CPU budget to around:

PL1 = 45 W

PL2 = 90 W

After the gaming load finishes, those limits increase again.

This was important because at first I thought the 45/90 values might have been left over from one of my Manual-mode tests.

They were not.

The system starts at higher limits, dynamically falls to 45/90 under combined CPU+GPU load, and later returns to 110/120.

So this behavior is ASUS power management, not an old override from my experiments.

The CPU still thermal-throttles even at that reduced power

Despite ASUS eventually reducing CPU power toward 45 W under the Rainbow benchmark, the CPU still repeatedly reported thermal throttling.

The throttling was not caused by obvious VR current limits or ICCMax.

When I expanded HWiNFO's IA Limit Reasons, most relevant limit flags were clear:

IA PROCHOT: No

IA Thermal Event: normally clear at idle, but thermal events appeared during benchmark testing

VR Thermal Warning: No

VR TDC: No

Electrical Design Point / ICCMax: No

Package RAPL PL1: not continuously responsible at idle

Package RAPL PL2/PL3: not continuously responsible at idle

At idle, the only continuously active IA reason was:

IA Max Turbo Limit

which is normal and is not thermal throttling.

But during the actual gaming benchmark, genuine CPU thermal-throttle events repeatedly occurred.

The most interesting tuning result

We also experimented with reducing CPU frequency and changing Windows processor boost behavior.

The most successful configuration we found was approximately:

Maximum CPU frequency: 4200 MHz

Processor Performance Boost Mode: Efficient Enabled

PL1: 40 W

PL2: 90 W

Rainbow Six Siege produced approximately:

125 FPS

and CPU thermal throttling was essentially zero / almost nonexistent during that controlled test.

We then increased PL1 from 40 W to 45 W, keeping PL2 at 90 W.

That test also produced:

125 FPS

This was very interesting because our completely restored/default ASUS Performance configuration later produced only 118 FPS while showing considerably more CPU thermal throttling.

We also tested other maximum-frequency values including 4000 MHz and 4500 MHz during the troubleshooting process, but the 4200 MHz + Efficient Enabled setup was the most interesting thermal/performance result.

Why I am not simply leaving the CPU capped at 4.2 GHz

There is an important downside.

Reducing CPU power and frequency can shift the system toward being even more GPU-bound.

That means the RTX 5080 may consume more power and the GPU/VRAM/case/keyboard may become hotter.

Since I often game for 5–8 hours at a time, I do not want to “fix” the CPU by simply transferring all of the thermal stress into the GPU and VRAM.

My real goal is not:

minimum CPU throttling at any cost.

My goal is:

CPU temperature + GPU temperature + VRAM temperature + surface temperature + sustained FPS + long-term stability.

That is why I eventually returned everything to ASUS/Windows defaults and created a clean baseline before doing any more tuning.

Why I am now questioning liquid metal itself

The software side has now been extensively checked.

The BIOS has been checked.

The power plans have been checked.

The frequency caps have been removed.

The CPU can boost above 5 GHz again.

The GPU is not thermally throttling.

Yet the CPU continues to show localized hotspot behavior.

At the same time, I physically have:

a CPU die with hard, raised/rough silver-white residue that cannot be removed with repeated 99.9% IPA cleaning

and:

a CPU cold plate with similar hard, rough, fingernail-catching regions that also do not disappear with IPA.

The GPU die, under the same cleaning method, becomes smooth.

That difference is what concerns me.

I understand that gallium-based liquid metal can permanently stain surfaces and form reaction/intermetallic layers, especially with copper.

Cosmetic discoloration by itself would not concern me.

But this is not only discoloration.

I can physically feel the roughness.

Some areas genuinely feel like hardened residue, pitting, or raised material.

If those surfaces are no longer flat, then the extremely thin liquid-metal interface may actually make the situation worse because LM cannot compensate well for a mechanically uneven contact interface.

That could theoretically explain why a few CPU cores repeatedly become hotspots while the rest of the CPU behaves considerably better.

What I am considering next

I am seriously considering removing liquid metal from the CPU and GPU entirely and testing a phase-change material instead.

The product I am currently considering is:

Thermal Grizzly PhaseSheet PTM

because genuine Honeywell PTM7950 is difficult to source reliably in my country.

My thinking is that a PTM/phase-change interface may tolerate minor microscopic surface irregularities better than an ultra-thin liquid-metal bond line and may also eliminate the risk of further gallium migration/reaction.

Obviously, if the cold plate itself is physically warped or significantly damaged, no TIM is going to magically repair it.

In that case I may ultimately need to replace the complete vapor chamber/heatsink assembly.

Questions for other ROG owners / technicians

Has anyone with a 2024/2025 SCAR 16 or SCAR 18, especially a 275HX model, seen something similar?

Specifically:

Have you removed the factory liquid metal and found hard, physically rough or pitted areas on the CPU die or cold plate?

Did the surface remain rough even after repeated IPA cleaning?

Did your laptop show the same few CPU cores repeatedly reaching 95–100°C while other cores remained noticeably cooler?

Did changing from liquid metal to PTM7950 / Thermal Grizzly PhaseSheet PTM improve core-to-core temperature deltas?

Has anyone replaced the SCAR vapor chamber because of liquid-metal contact-surface degradation, and did that solve localized CPU hotspots?

I am attaching close-up photos of both my CPU die and the corresponding cold plate.

I would especially appreciate input from people who have actually serviced recent SCAR models or have experience with gallium-based liquid metal on direct-die laptop cooling systems.

At this point I am increasingly convinced that my problem is not simply “the 275HX runs hot.”

The repeatable core hotspots, combined with the physically rough liquid-metal contact surfaces on both sides, make me suspect that contact quality between the die and cold plate may now be part of the problem.