Asus ROG Strix SCAR 17 X3D Specifications & Photos
| System Model | ASUS G733PYV |
| Processor Model | AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D |
| Processor Family | AMD Ryzen 7000 Series |
| Boost Frequency | 5.4GHz |
| Base Frequency | 2.3GHz |
| Physical Cores | 16 |
| Logical Processor | 32 |
| Processor TDP | 55W |
| Battery | 90WHrs, 4S1P, 4-cell Li-ion |
| Memory | 32GB DDR5-4800 (2x 16GB), Max Capacity 64GB |
| Storage | 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Performance SSD |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU ROG Boost: 2090MHz at 175W (2040MHz Boost Clock+50MHz OC, 150W+25W Dynamic Boost) |
| Framebuffer Size | 16GB |
| Display Panel | 17.3-inch, QHD (2560×1440), IPS, G-Sync |
| Maximum Refresh Rate | 240Hz |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) (Triple band) 2*2 + Bluetooth® 5.3 Wireless Card |
| Operating System | Windows 11 Pro |
| Audio |
Smart Amp Technology
Dolby Atmos
AI noise-canceling technology
Hi-Res certification
Built-in array microphone
2-speaker system with Smart Amplifier Technology
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| I/O Ports |
1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C support DisplayPort™ / power delivery / G-SYNC
1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C support DisplayPort™ / G-SYNC
1x 2.5G LAN port
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| Keyboard |
Backlit Chiclet Keyboard Per-Key RGB
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| Camera | 720P camera |
| Power Supply | 330W AC Adapter, Output: 20V DC, 16.5A, 330W, Input: 100~240C AC 50/60Hz universal |
| Device Lighting | Aura Sync Light Bar |
| Dimensions (W x D x H) | 39.5 x 28.2 x 2.34 ~ 2.83 cm (15.55″ x 11.10″ x 0.92″ ~ 1.11″) |
| Weight | 3.00 Kg (6.61 lbs) |
| Cooling (CPU/ GPU) | Vapor chamber design & liquid metal compound |
The ASUS laptop, which for the moment will be the only one to use AMD’s flagship mobile CPU, is fully featured, with the only exception being the small SSD, in my test system at least. I checked the product’s official page and found it normally comes with a 2TB NVMe disk. The cost of this laptop will be over 3500 dollars.
The laptop arrived in a relatively small box.
Some photos of the super expensive laptop. I wish I could keep it a bit more till Starfield is released!
The laptop’s power adaptor. Its power model is A22-330P1A, and it can deliver up to 330W.
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2) Turd of LDC-IPS. What a crap with 1000 – 1200:1 contrast and the usual LCD flaws. Even more crap because it has a AG-coating (matte) which further pulls image quality down the toilet (especially the contrast, which attributes to image quality the most). No one seriously needs 240 Hz either. 4K-UHD, at least W-Oled (better QD-Oled) 120 Hz is expected for 3500 bucks.
1500 bucks, 17 inch business notebooks get W-OLED with 4K-UHD resolution.
You didn’t even mentioned this once. You can put whatever future RTX 20090 in it – the image quality still is very low, because the last link in the chain, the display (what we perceive), is low image-quality garbage.
3) AMD is milking customers with their Ryzen processors too, this Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. The chiplet-design is negatively affecting performance, power draw and thus efficiency. Noticeably with one chiplet, even more here 2 chiplets here. Intel’s new mobile processors are already very close in terms of efficiency to this one here (despite not having stacked cache).
It’s only meant for AMD to get higher product margins. They could went for the superior but costlier monolithic design, as seen with the upcoming “12 core Strix Point”.
But why give customers better products if can get higher product margin?!
3) Typical Asus overpriced-tax. Such price yet such underwhelming build. Why make the chasis so thin in height and the cooling so bad? I don’t say it has to be a 7 kg desktop-replacement, but this 3 kg is a joke! No one smart will use this for serious 200 – 300 watts gaming on battery; it lasts maybe 30 minutes. This is meant to be plugged in, and here weight is no problem at all. So make it 4 kg and beef up the cooling.
75 ° average and almost 90 ° Celsius peak for the processor is bad.
38 dB while gaming at native resolution is very loud, given the laptop is directly in front of the user.
The provided noise audio sounds very loud. Whats the point of this, if the user can’t focus on the game, being distraced by noise?
For 3.5k it should have the best thermals and builds.
I’m saying this pretty blunt and full of critique, because that’s what it is; can’t wrap this customer-milking and your partly dishonest test in pretty words. This laptop has to cost 2 – 2.4k bucks at most.
Inflation or whatever recession is no excuse here.
I’m disappointed. Please remove whatever award asap.
You shouldn’t buckle before these companies, just because they provide free review samples. They should buckle before you testers.
I sincerely hope you do it better next time (and change it now), because that’s what you and this website deserve!
Cheers