ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 2022: What Reddit Really Thinks

Why not use that money to buy a desktop? The 2022 G14 isn't top of the heap but you're likely going to only get incremental gains from something newer. Gaming laptops will always be a compromise as they have to keep power levels reasonable enough to maintain portability. $4k will buy you something like a 7800x with 4080ti or 4090. Without the power and cooling limitations that come with portability, it will run circles around the same price laptop. Keep the G14 for gaming on the go.

Please pay the extra $100. The 2022 model has so many quality of life improvements, and it's just a better overall laptop. Performance is better too, but the changes they made to the actual usability of the device were massive. Way larger trackpad, now has a webcam and Windows Hello IR Facial Recognition, 16:10 screen with significantly better response times and much brighter, USB-4 support, along with a Micro SD slot, RGB Keyboard, along with a better overall keyboard.

I have this laptop and I'm in uni right now. Its great, and it handles whatever games and tasks I throw at it, but I bought this 2 years ago, and I'll be looking to upgrade in maybe another year or two if I get a good deal on the 5070ti model. When you can get a 4060 model for near $1000, paying 600-700 for a model 3 years old is absolutely not worth it.

Be aware that a few people got cancelled when buying these. In terms of performance they're very close and personally the $300 savings is worth it. The real downsides is loss of nvidia features, AMD drivers, some cpu efficiency and speed, and 120 vs 165hz. Other than that it's a very good option and deal. You get 1tb of storage and are saving $300 for minimal performance loss. As of right now this is the best 14" deal imo.

Bought the G14 (2022) in May 2023. I don't hate it but I do have a few minor issues with it: stutter bug (rare), booting up to black screen after transportation (rare), Bluetooth periodically disconnecting (rare), USB port not recognizing USB (rare). All these issues are fixed 9 out of 10 times with a restart. The stutter bug occurs once in a while but rare enough where I can still record and stream with no issues. I have done no upgrades on the laptop, LM and wifi card are working fine.

Great device. Bought it August 2022, manufacturer date April 2022. Has its limitations but I did setup mine long time ago and I have no issues with it. W11 Pro from the beginning. Replaced LM with PTM7950 and K5-Pro about a year ago. Swapped original 1TB to 4TB Lexar NM790 about 8 months ago (cloned) and that is all. Did clean the fans only once when replacing LM.

With that kind of cash and a love for mobility you can't do much better than a 2023 G14 with 4080/4090. If mobility and/or battery life is less of a priority a maxed-out Blade 16 or Legion 9i are worth a look.

Another 2022 user checking in, Baltic States in Europe, studying in university. Upgraded to AX210, 2TB 990 Pro, upgraded RAM to 64GB total. Besides minor driver issues with the latest update (only in Factorio though), been a very solid laptop that gets me through 6 hours of lectures at university with 20-30% battery to spare and then solid 60fps in Cyberpunk at 1440p back home. Hoping for it to survive for another 2.5 years and finish bachelor's with it!

If your 2022 G14 isn't enough, a newer laptop won't be enough, because the gains are not that big. 2024 version is in fact slower than the 2023 version and both will not have much gains over the 2022 version. I suggest you buy a desktop with 7800x3d and a strong gpu.

Counter review: I love it and have fantastic battery life.

It's still a capable gaming laptop but be aware that it runs hot. Raw power, the 6800s probably outperforms the 4060 by a tiny margin, but the DLSS and frame generation on the 4000 GPUs puts it over the AMD chips. Having the 6700s variant and recently trying the 4070, I'd say save just a little bit more for when the 4060 goes on sale for $999.

I'm extremely happy with mine. I have the 6700s version, replaced the liquid metal with PTM7950, installed ghelper, added more RAM and replaced the NVME with a 4TB drive. I have been with this laptop to over 5000 Km altitude in the Atacama desert and spent many weeks with it by the tropic beaches of panama. It's travelled the world with me as my photo/video editing workhorse with some decent gaming to boot. I have not had any issues with it.

I've had g14 2022 6700s for 15 months, and it's only gotten better. But that's easy since the start was rough because of Win11 unstability and Armory Crate. I was ready to return the laptop to the shop. Awesome hardware and good gaming, but the software was a disaster with unreliable sleep mode, sudden heat issues, screen going black, sudden reboots, wifi barely worked. But while daily getting help from this subreddit I found GHelper and it completely transformed the experience.

The only NO is if you use certain rendering and 3D modeling software that uses CUDA cores from NVIDIA, if that's not the case, go ahead. With the exception of Solidworks, that software works much better on AMD GPUs.

I bought it in November 2023 for games and studying for university and with g helper managed to keep battery health 97.5%. When gaming it needs to be kept in a cooling pad with fans because it gets too hot and it needed to reinstall windows because Bluetooth didn't work properly. One time while changing gpu mode via g helper, the graphics card disconnected and now rarely it shows up like a removable device. Otherwise it is a great machine and I hope it keeps working for many years to come.

I think its been a great device for me, personally. Even nearly 2 years later, it still has good enough battery life to last me the whole day, with enough power to run the few games I need it for. It doesn't feel slow or laggy, it still does exactly what I need it to do. Screen is vivid, keyboard and trackpad are still nice.

I play Warhammer III on the 6800S version with great performance with high presets at 1920x1200, which is frankly plenty for a 14 inch screen. Even just on balanced CPU and standard GPU presets in G-Helper I get 65 FPS in the battle benchmark and 53 FPS in the mirrors of madness benchmark.

With new AMD drivers including AFMF, the 6800s rips apart any game I throw at it. Disabling CPU boost has absolutely zero impact on games and everyday performance, but drops temps by at least 20 degrees across the board. Using gHelper on a fresh install, and tweaking wattage on silent/eco, I'm getting 10 hours of battery life. The screen continues to be gorgeous.

I have that exact model 402rk. For $699 that's a STEAL. I paid 1400$ brand new, and this thing can still handle everything I toss at it. If I could pay 699 I'd do it in a heartbeat. It supports up to 4tb SSD. 40gb RAM upgradable from 16gb. And it can handle gaming on ultra settings as long as you can keep the temperature down.

Aug 2022 bought… no mods as well as no regrets. Love it to the death best purchase of my life.

My 2022 plays AAA games at 1440p 120hz mid to high settings across the board. What more do you need from a laptop?

Loving mine and the wifi has been surprisingly rock solid. I even bought a spare Intel wifi chip in anticipation of needing to swap but that never needed to happen. I downloaded the entirety of Diablo 4 using hotel wifi over the course of 4 days and it never disconnected once (approximately 84gb).

I agree that it's not great, but for me the reasons are a little different. At home, I use it propped up with an extra USB fan under it and almost exclusively in dGPU mode connected to a TV. When away from home, it's also propped up. I have a dedicated desktop at home that I usually use, so I seldom use the G14. I'd only recommend buying one if it's on sale.

I'm assuming it's the model w/ the ryzen 9 6900hs & rx6700s? It was a fine laptop for gaming, college, and photo editing for about a year until the motherboard died. From what I gather, that year model has liquid metal that can leak onto the motherboard and short it out. Tragic too because I traded my perfectly working 2021 model with the rtx 3060 for it.

Love it and hate it. Its great, powerful, light, fun to use, etc etc. but it also gets (sometimes) painfully hot, 3 of the keys on my keyboard no longer work/work rarely, and it sometimes stutters. Its a win and a lose for me.

2022 owner here mine works great. My only complaints are some bottom plate cracks, I think you can avoid it by loosening a bit the screws, the screen color profile and weird issues with mouse when using my usb-c charger. I replaced the Liquid Metal with thermal paste and I'm happy with it.

I have had it since January 2023, really love the device, solid machine, never lets me down. The screen is great (1080p 144hz), and the same are the speakers and the glass touchpad. Battery life is really good, even if its health dropped fast to 93%, like, in the first 3 months of use, but never gone down than that.

I'm not a huge fan of this laptop. I bought it in Europe for 1600€ on sale. No USB-C passthrough, which means that I have to leave the laptop plugged into the big power brick at all times and USB-C docks with integrated charging capability became useless for me. I am especially frustrated because no review mentioned that there is no passthrough.

2022 model here. I love it but I hate it at the same time. The BSOD is sadly quite common for me. The AMD version warms up very quickly when I'm playing, which is supposed to be normal, but I feel like it's not. I love this laptop, because the games are running well even with ultra graphics settings, but I would never buy ROG again.

Got mine in April 2022. Its been a great machine all around. If you're primarily using it for school work you'll be 100% solid. I upgraded to 24gb but left the WiFi card and SSD stock. Pushing the CPU and GPU is where I feel a lot of people in the subreddit start experiencing issues with the G14 as the application of liquid metal has been spotty.

I was using mine in 2025 until it randomly stopped turning on - I didn't drop it or spill anything on it. The liquid metal in the CPU/GPU has a tendency to flow with time and it's possible that the laptop just dies. It was more than perfectly fine for the games that I like to play. But it won't run modern, unoptimized games at super high settings.

I have this model, bought new a few months after it came out. For 90% of the time, it works perfectly. The other 10, not so much. The most important thing is heat management. It gets hot, and it is especially noticeable as the machine is small. Mine got so hot that the glue holding the rubber feet melted, so the feet detached. The bottom part of the chassis is made of poor quality plastic, it creaks, cracks and breaks easily, especially around the screw holes.

I have the same model with ryzen 7, I have almost played all the games on it though I capped fps to 30 so as to not overheat. The panel gets extremely hot over keyboard area. I use g-helper to put fans on extreme in that case. Just know it has amd graphics card and if you ever want to use CUDA for simulation or machine/deep learning, it fails behind. I still love mine and won't replace it with anything.

I got it for 394$ and its totally worth it, I play marvel rivals on 2k low settings it manages 90-120 fps. GoW Ragnarok @1080p with good fps. Warzone runs really great too 120-150 fps @1080p medium.

Got the g14 2022 6700s with 6900hs october 2023 when i started uni and I've still been using it no issues, good screen solid 8h battery life i charge till 80% only, can game as well i play valorant easily 200fps, no issues with it so far, would have preferred an oled screen or touchscreen as now i use tablet for notes but otherwise perfect for my use case.

Na don't buy it I have the same model, the ish has the BSOD. I had to buy a replacement laptop instead and the G14 isn't a cheap product. I got an Alienware m16 to replace it.

idk what it is but after like a year of ignoring whatever issues the laptop had it's all gone away. Given I had to install and delete a bunch of shit trying to figure out wtf was wrong with it but.. now it's great.

I have the 2022, been working just fine. Don't see a need to upgrade anytime soon. I personally am saddened the newer models don't have the hinge design.

At 100 USD if it works when you receive it and it can reliably reboot 3 times before you finalize the deal it's a decent machine for the price. Otherwise I've had too many reliability issues with the 2022 to say it's worth buying.

Don't! Just don't. This laptop because of the AMD gpu has given me more troubles I could have asked for. I am a CS major though. As long as it is games then it will be fine ig. But I have been dealing with BSOD errors since a year ago (most likely caused by dual boot). So if you use windows only then it might work for you.

Yeah I have the 2022 model still with the 6800s. Absolutely love it to be fair. Battery is starting to go now though.

Dunno about the price but the laptop is great. If you are sensible about the settings you chose or you play Esports then no problem.

Same exact model, shit the bed two weeks ago. I have since ordered the '25 g16. Haven't learned my lesson. I ran this thing hard though.

Still rocking the first release of this laptop and I've no complaints. Well one complaint, I wish there was a way to clean dust out of the fans easier.