 Hey guys, Thundee here. First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who wished me well. I recently had a very bad spray on my ankle. So content has been a bit slow in making, I'm recovering. I was almost done with this video, so I just wanted to just go ahead and finish it up. But thank you again, and thank you for watching on the channel. Today I'm taking a look at the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. This is one very interesting, lovely laptop. There are a couple of things that make me really like what this laptop brings to the table, and whether it's the best 14 inch gaming laptop that you'll find out there on the market has to be seen, but we'll talk about that in this video. But it's a fun laptop. So let's start off with just the design and hardware. Because as you look at it compared to last year's version of the G14, this device is just slimmer. It takes up less of a footprint and also has a much more sleeker design. Although I will say though, I do like the animatrix on the G14 from 2023 compared to this year with the stripe on the front, which has some custom ability to it, but we'll talk about that later. As I mentioned, it's slimmer, it's thinner, and when you open it up, you've got this gorgeous layout with the display, the keyboard, speakers, trackpad, all that fun stuff there. Now let's start off with the display. This is an OLED display with 100% RGB color accuracy. It is gorgeous. Whatever you have on this display looks absolutely sharp and vivid. Whether you're just looking at say a wallpaper, like the Asus wallpaper on here, which is really nice, the color accuracy really pops out. Or whether you're gaming, that's the other thing about the color actually I love about this display. Really stands out for the games you want to play anything from Street Fighter, which is super colorful in there to something like Shadow of the Tomb Raider where you can't have to sneak about and you've got a mixture of colors and also some dull palettes as well. Really stands out. I love the way and plus the viewing angles. Whatever angle you're playing at, you get some really great colors and texts are pretty crisp as well. So the display is stunning. Then you move down to the base layer here where you have this nice flushed out keyboard. I love the fact that they've kept the keys to the very top for your volume, might muke and of course the Asus button. I wish there was a dedicated mute button but it's just kind of reducing the volume. There's a power button. There is no fingerprint sensor but it does have Windows Hello facial recognition which works really well. So you have that. Keyboard is nice, but I also like the fact that we do have speakers on the side grill. Really nice and solid, giving us some very good sound which honestly we just have to take a listen to. This is some of that gameplay off-limit. Move! Attack it! Go all out, Ken! Speakers are good. They are very, very nice and they do a really good job. Now of course you can see the logos there. This is the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS chipset with the Radeon 7080M integrated graphics plus an Nvidia RTX 4070. This is a studio edition because it's kind of sensitive to someone who's doing a lot of editing and work combined together. Really solid specs in here. Now I also have up to 32GB of RAM and I have a terabyte of storage. So what do you expect from a device like this? Nice specs all in all and we'll get some of the performance levels there. Now the trackpad I really like, it's super smooth, very responsive. One of the best trackpads I've used on a Windows laptop or actually precise any laptop, Windows or Mac. They've done a really good job here. I think ASUS really steps up the game with how they make things work. Now in terms of ports, you have a plethora of ports. On the left-hand side, there's a proprietary DCN power port. There's a full HDMI, especially with this thin height as well. And then you've got a USB type-C for the gigabits, USB-A at 20 gigabits, headphone or mic jack. And then on the right-hand side, we have another USB type-A, micro SD card slot and another type-C display port, 10 gigs. So a lot of the ports you need here, no thunderbolt, because of course AMD is just not really part of that. But the cool thing is this thing looks really nice design-wise. You hold it up like this, you can see how good it looks. And it's such a refreshing laptop to hold. I love all those little fact that they're very thin bezels at the very top of this thing all around. Now, performance. What about performance? What do we have? So we've seen some very interesting things in terms of performance with this device. So let's look at benchmarks. So starting with our Cinebench R24, Cinebench 2024 scores. We're looking at multi-core scores where it comes in at 851, which is fourth on this list here, which is still pretty good. And then when we go to our single-core scores, we're looking at 100, also pretty solid overall. As you can see the chipsets that are ahead of it there. And then a GPU score of 10,735. So solid performance there with the R24 score. So Giga Bench 6-core, we're looking at our OpenCL scores at 111,237, while we have of course, our single-core scores at 2,234 and the multi-core scores at 11,990. Again, for the people who love benchmarks and scores, that's what you have there. But when we go over to 3DMark and run some tests there to see what games are compatible, before we get into gameplay, here we see some interesting scores here. For 1440p gameplay, the lowest was at GTA5 with 65 plus frames per second. And it kind of goes up from there. And then when we go over and see each game, you can see how well it performs steadily. You know, we've got Battlefield 5, we also have games like Apex as well, showing the scores there. And then the scores get higher when you run at 1080p. So again, great performance on this. But what about just actual gameplay? Well, how about you guys just enjoy some of that gameplay and see the scores to yourself and then we'll come back and talk. The address is in a kind house for my games to know the site that's sorry for them. What's the damn justice in it? Very good gameplay performance. I have to say that I really enjoyed using this laptop to game. The one game I really wanted to play was Helldiver 2. For whatever reason, I could not get into the servers any time I went to record. So sorry about that guys. I couldn't include the bar. Try including the next video. Now, performance wise, this laptop will get you there for any of the games you want to play. Especially with the 4070 GPU, you're getting great performance all around. When it comes to temperatures, the maximum temperature I've recorded here was about 110 degrees, playing cyberpunk 2077. That's the most amount in terms of temperatures I got there. So temperature performance, I think has been pretty solid. My only gripe with temperatures is that the laptop does stay professionally warm all the time. In use, whether it ain't on daily use or just gaming, it stays warm. Gaming's quite understandable. That will happen. It will stay, it will kind of heat up. But when you're using it just on a day to day, typing on the laptop, it just gets warm for whatever reason. Now, So Asus has its own software called Armour Create, which you find across Asus desktop PCs, laptops, great pieces of software. And you've got a lot of things you can do. You've got things to customize the lighting behind here, where you can customize the slash lighting for a couple of things. Breathing modes and things like that. Customizing your audio, also GPU power savings as well. To go to ultimate, performance optimized to get the best out of the laptop. So Armour Create's a great software. You guys know that and it runs really well. Now opening it up, this laptop is pretty easy and straightforward. If you have a screwdriver toolkit, you can open this up quite well. The one thing you'll notice is that the RAM is sold onto the system. So whatever RAM you buy, and that's what you're getting, which is a big bummer. You can go ahead and swap out the SSD, but the RAM is sold into the system. So that's something I'm not a big fan of. As well as the charging port. The DC charging port is proprietary with the charger. That charger is not too big, so it's nice. You can charge this with a PD charging via USB Type-C. So that is an option for you. And you're gonna be asking me about battery life. So while gaming, it's plugged in. That's how I played all the games here. But while using this laptop on a regular basis, I got about 12 hours of battery life roughly on the laptop for use, which is pretty good. Again, my one gripe was that it kind of just felt warm. I'm holding it now. It feels a little bit warm. That's it. It doesn't get hot, but it just feels warm, which is, you know, it's interesting. That being said, the fan is at the bottom and it kind of blows it back here. So you get that as well. Anyway, how do I frame this laptop? Do I like it? Yes, I love it. The G14, when it comes to gaming, really stands out. That OLED display is gorgeous. It makes the gaming experience just look better, feel better. And again, the viewing angles are great. The performance from the chipset is also very good, which means I can enjoy the games as much as I want to. I really wish the temperatures were a bit better in terms of just the static temperatures, or sorry, stationary temperatures. And I wish I could also customize around the way I would like to. But besides that, I think this is a laptop a lot of people like. I know this isn't your typical review because I feel kind of bummed out right now because of my leg. But hopefully you enjoyed this video and watch more videos like this. Let me know what other laptops you'd like to see, something like the G16 with the Intel 15155H chipset, or something else from another company. Leave your thoughts down below. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe. And if you want to pick this up, use my link in the bio. And this is Thundie E saying thank you and always enjoy your entertainment.