ASUS ROG Strix G15 Gaming Desktop PC, Intel Core i7-12700F, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, Windows 11 Home, G15CF-AB766

Most of want I want to say has already been said in a review of this rig by Peter Backman.I built servers and gaming rigs for decades up until the last 5 years or so and I haven’t been keeping up with the latest hardware, nor did I have time to re-educate myself before Steam’s end-of-support hit my current gaming rig Jan 1st. So I purchased this machine and I am surprised that I have had zero buyer’s remorse.The machine came with Win 11 home, the trial versions of MS Office 365, Asus Software and that was about it. Not really any bloatware. I have since only installed a different web browser, Steam, and the games that I purchased through Steam. No weirdness or glitchiness to anything. I will occasionally notice the fan speed increasing when the machine is rendering hard. But I can run all my games at the highest settings with no sense of stutter, tearing or visual artifacts.My old machine - which was awesome 7 years ago - had trouble rendering some scenes in Borderlands 3 smoothly and I had to turn down some of the graphics. The same scenes on this machine with all the settings turned to the max render instantly and over 105fps. ALL the games I play feel much better on this machine.Any embarrassment I originally had for not building a machine from scratch has been far outweighed by the performance of this PC.

I got it on prime day sale so super great value for the dollar. I only got the 16 gb RAM version (note some of the specs say it is 12gb of RAM but actually it is now 16 GB it seems for the smallest version).Some people say it has been running loud, and that may be the case for theirs, they may have bum fans or are pushing it hard for upper tier gaming. For me, I'm probably only running it mid-upper tier gaming reqs and it barely even makes a sound then. Otherwise it is nearly silent, the barest hint of a whisper from my fans just running daily ez loads. However, when it boots up it runs the fans full blast for a second before they go down to normal speed and if they're running full blast then they are a bit loud.Mine runs at good heat, no overheating problems so far. Only thing I'm not a huge fan of is that it doesn't come with another copy of windows 11 on a stick or something, but you can make a recovery drive yourself on a 32gb+ removable drive/thumbdrive. Other than that it comes with a bit of windows bloatware so I take that off, but otherwise great machine so far. I haven't used the tech support, and it comes with only tiny amounts of instructions, but I gave them 5stars for tech support as I haven't had to use it. The instructions manual is tiny, like 4 pages, I would prefer more documentation but you can make your own documenting your parts nowadays pretty ez. A few things about setting it up are that it has a "turn the power supply off/on" button that is different than the main on/off button that will control the power supply itself supplying or not supplying power. So that is handy but you need to know what it is or you might think it won't turn on when you just had the power supply turned off to begin with. Also, the main power button is on the front panel a bit hard to tell where it is (they show it in the manual but a bit hard to see anyway). Finally, you need to plug your monitor/HD TV connection into the ports on the graphics card rather than the main ports for displaying on the back (this is standard for computers with graphics cards but may help newbies and I had forgotten it myself).It comes with a mouse (not a great one but it works) and keyboard (not bad not great). But no monitor, so you need your own. And no internet cables I don't think either.Overall I like it but I think I will want 32GB of ram (I will pull the 2x 8GB chips it came with and replace with a 16 x 2 pair, or just add a 32 + one of the 8 already in it).Also it comes in a pretty large box that itself is inside a gigantic shipping package, not that heavy though overall.

To get right into the (small) problem, is that the cpu will run hot with the current CPU fan, and you will need to find case fans for this as well(as the tiny one in the back won't do too much for the cpu.) Also I had a little trouble with running the back fan(Worked on startup, but stopped when windows starts), however, after installing AI Suite 3 and updating all the other stuff, it started to work.Other than that, I love the PC! Runs Overwatch 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and so on very well!If you can't upgrade the fans just yet, I'd suggest downloading AI Suite 3(For asus/rog) and using the auto tuner. (Also taking off the glass panel, it's a small case, so it'll be toasty)

**Update 1 year and 5 months after purchase the GPU fan started making a grinding noise and now the fan may or may not turn on. Assurion wants me to ship the product back which is an entirely unrealistic expectation. Just send me the part to swap out. So the warranty was a waste. I'll just buy a new gpu cooler and do it myselfOverall the system is great but as others have noted, it's loud. As I'm typing this, the CPU temps are bouncing between 71 and 81 C and the fans keep kicking on and all I'm doing is browsing Amazon. I haven't seen it go above 88C when gaming with Ultra settings so whatever they did, it's not reaching throttling temps but the one fan is LOUD! Weird because they promote it as super quiet,I'll be ordering a liquid cooler asap

I had bought a computer with an RTX 4090 and it was worth around $4,000.00, the perf was good but the price was high. I returned it and ordered this one with an RTX 4080 for almost half the price, and the perf is comparable. My monitor is 4K/60fps and I can run NFS Unbound and AC Mirage at stable, smooth 4K/60fps, the perf is amazing. Real good value for the money.Very silent compared to other machines.The only con is that the case is a bit large and also the memory is only 3.2GHz, they should have gone with speedier mem, but the processor is top notch.Overall highly recommended.