Customer Ratings & Reviews

Not the prettiest laptop but no one else I know even now has a laptop as fast as mine. It's a real rtx card and a real Intel 13 series. Still good in 2023 for most games. The keyboard took a bit to get used to but it's a good keyboard overall. Just wish the trackpad was more centered and has buttons but I can't gripe about that. The display is amazing, very good framerate and a nice matte finish. The battery is the Achilles heel of this laptop, but honestly, it's a tank. You won't be taking this to the park for 6 hours. It's more like a desktop that you can use anywhere in the house. There's nothing better than the freedom of being able to use your computer at your desk, bed, kitchen, and then game on the same one without having to do the "file shuffle." And yes, it has SD card support.

I have been using the laptop for about a week and in short I do recommend this laptop, specially when comparing the price to other laptops with similar specs, it’s great for productivity and gaming, and the cons that I found can be solved through updates or might not bother you at all. Pros: It’s sturdy, you can customize profiles and fan speeds, powerful CPU and GPU for productivity and gaming. Cons: Battery life, camera position, connected HDMI and USBs stick out, need a T6H torx screwdriver to open, had issues with audio, video and BSoD before applying all available Windows 11 and driver updates. If you’re interested in the details keep reading. Laptop Built: It feels sturdy, the only part with some flex is the area around the panel logo. Comfortable keyboard and touchpad. The camera is at the bottom so your fingers may get in the way, and the angle is bad. Connected USB or HDMI don’t go all in and stick out of the connection port, everything works fine but there can be some wiggle. Gigabyte Control Center: The software has different (customizable) profiles that adjust hardware settings, which is useful and convenient. You can monitor CPU and GPU utilization and temperatures, and current fan speed. Productivity Task: On the creator profile Cinebench R23 single core score was 1739 and 13049 for multi core, the turbo profile yielded higher scores. Compiling UE5 source code (and doing nothing else) took about 1 hour 25 minutes, for reference another laptop that had an i7-9750H and same RAM took 3 hours 45 minutes. For rendering I use blender, the classroom scene took 45 seconds using the CPU and 31 seconds using the GPU. Gaming: Tested on high settings using the control center’s gaming profile and got the average fps at both 1080p (laptop’s display) and 1440p (external display). In Cyberpunk I used the game’s benchmark, 1080p got 85 fps and 117 fps with DLSS; 1440p got 55 fps and 92 fps with DLSS. For Witcher 3 I visited different areas in the game, 118 fps at 1080p and 100 fps at 1440p. For Control I played the game’s start, 1080p got 107 fps and 130 fps with DLSS; at 1440p it got 73 fps and 110 fps with DLSS. Temperatures: The room temperature is around 23C. When iddle CPU temps are around 30C, when multitasking it goes to 47C. Gaming on ultra settings average temps were 85C for CPU and 75C for GPU, both ±5C. At the highest temps the WASD area of the keyboard felt warm at most, but the area around the enter key felt hot. Battery Life: I recorded the time it took to go from 100% to 10% on different profiles. While only streaming movies on power saving mode the battery lasted 4 hours 30 minutes. On creator mode and multitasking battery lasted around 2 hours. For gaming, Witcher 3 on medium settings, 1 hour 25 minutes.

For the price, this is a beast of a midrange laptop. I can play the latest version of Cyber Punk 2077 on RTX Ultimate settings at an average of 70fps. To increase battery life you will definitely need to adjust the power settings and disable the keyboard LCD. Things to note: The display refresh rate on this model is 144Hz. If you're a streamer, you're going to need a USB hub. The GoXLR is a little quirky; sound from web browsers goes in and out, especially when watching YouTube. The keys feel nice and clicky and have a good bit of travel. Single PC streaming from this laptop is pretty much flawless, but it's worth mentioning that the fans get really loud when so you'll want noise reduction effects on your mic. My only issue is with the Gigabyte Control Center. Do not update it. As soon as I updated it, the Fusion RGB tab was limited to 7 colors and only a static effect. You can create a custom color profile but you can't delete it. I just bothering to use the GCC. Other than that, I highly recommend this laptop if it fits your budget.

Lap top was for my son for x-mas great product for the price. Only negative was power cord broke within a few months. Fairly expensive replacement 90-$100. Other then that fast computing great graphics.

I have used the laptop for 10 months. It’s pretty good. beautiful RGB lights and performance. The speed is fast. Maybe it’s not a good brand for laptop like rog or others. But it’s cheap.

Great speed, runs multiple VR titles, performs smoothly & with minimum issues. Would highly recommend as a budget friendly gaming laptop that’ll give quality gaming & overall experience.

I have had this laptop for about a year now and I have had zero issues. Definitely will recommend, wonderful gaming laptop

I really like this laptop and it is by far the most powerful laptop I've ever owned. It is light weight, sleek, powerful and just overall fun to use. That said, it's not perfect. While being powerful and having a lot under the hood, it does get warm and you can tell when you look under the laptop that this thing is all about allowing maximum airflow to help with cooling. So to keep this organized, lets talk positives. The PROs: It is a great looking machine - aesthetically it is gorgeous. It is a powerful computer - with an i7 12700H AND RTX 3070, it rivals desktop gaming computers and is portable and has a keyboard and mouse! The monitor is 144hz and vibrant - great for work and gaming. Upgradability is an option - while there are special screw types to open the laptop, once inside, you can upgrade the ram or add more storage easily. Lots of cooling - this laptop implements some serious cooling inside to compete with the heat it can produce. The CONs: The heat - it's science, the more powerful the computer components, the more power they tend to use which produces more heat - that makes things hot and this laptop can push the heat so be aware while gaming! The gigabyte software is improving, but not quite "the best"... updating using the Gigabyte control panel is an issue when it sometimes just closes (I'm assuming crashes while installing an update) And now for the one BIG ISSUE I have with this laptop... Sleep Mode/Hibernate - This might just be an issue with my laptop, but this is almost a deal breaker for me recommending this laptop and why I can only give it a 3 out of 5 and it has to do with Shutting Down/ Sleep Mode of this laptop. I just reformatted to see if it would help, but almost every night when I close the lid to my laptop to go to sleep, I wake up to it taking a long time to boot up again and almost every time it's evident the laptop shut down. This should NOT happen when going into SLEEP mode. Google Chrome will ask me if I want to RESTORE my session because my computer didn't shut down properly. The only issues I've had with this laptop are ALL related to this Sleep mode problem and I'm not sure what's causing it. If it's Windows 11 or if there is an issue with my laptop itself but it's why while I REALLY like this laptop, I can't recommend it if this issue is typical. If it's not, and it's just mine, then that stinks, but it's a good laptop. Just frustrating for me.

Wonderful laptop! Great performance, decently quiet fans, a plethora of features (big fan of Aorus features - like easily setting a custom boot animation). Can run all the games I want with good frames a high graphics.

Very lightweight and well priced powerful gaming laptop

It looks and feels great, maybe not a super high-end quality, but it feels like that, the screen is perfect, but the best quality is its performance, I'm using it for programming not for gaming and I can run many programs without any problem. The only downside is the battery life, it lasts around 3 hours depending on what you are doing and configurations. Even thought, great deal! I'm happy with it.

It's alright, i mean for the price there's no better sure the screen isnt more than 144hz but all titles in high ultra are going to be below that so yeah would recommend

I have been in the IT industry for over 20 years and have worked on many business class laptops and just started getting into PC gaming, since this is my first encounter with a “gaming” laptop I’m very impressed. Best price to performance ratio you will find in a gaming laptop. For $1,049, where can you find a 12 Gen i7 CPU with a RTX 3070 graphics card? You might find refurbed laptops and used laptops but not brand new for this value. I upgraded to Win 11 Pro, 32 GB of RAM and added a 2 TB drive.. I spent a total of $1,355 (including taxes) and now have a BEAST of a gaming laptop that is 100% mobile. Most gaming laptop with my upgraded specs would sell for over $2,000. PROS: Very powerful. Can run many CPU and graphic intense games and apps. Gorgeous display considering it is only 1980x1080 @ 144 Mhz. Easily upgradable even if you are not a tech person. Very good cooling system. Great variety and quantity of ports to plug in monitors, TV’s, SD cards etc. CONS: Very poor web camera. Battery drains quickly if not plugged into an AC outlet while gaming.

All around, this is the ideal laptop for me. In my opinion, this has got to be the best budget laptop with a 3070 inside. Performance is great. Games and also other apps are running smoothly. Only issues I’ve noticed: 1) there are no lights to indicate if your capslock, numlock is activated. 2) the fans are really loud when you change the performance to high. 3) turning on the laptop seems like it takes a lot longer than your traditional laptops with ssd. But these are some issues I can live with. Especially since this laptop was cheaper than your average 3070 laptop. And for those reasons I’ll be giving it 5-stars.

No mux chip. So you're missing out on some features. But a 20 thread CPU, a 3070 room for more storage? The cooling on this model is above average and even has an SD card slot! Biggest gripe is the power plug is on the right hand side. Other than that this laptop is a solid deal with very few compromises. And a company that understands cooling.

I bought this laptop a few months ago when it was $1,099 and I got to say, the price-to-performance ratio was excellent. You really got what you pay for, plus more! But this laptop is not perfect and I will explain a couple of my gripes below if you decided to buy one: 1. The build quality is ok but could be better. It's an all plastic chassis. Honestly, I expect the keyboard deck to be at least made of metal as most gaming laptop of this caliber are equipped with those. Maybe Gigabyte decided to make this move as to make the price competitive. And also, expect the RGB settings on the keyboard to be very basic as it has very little customization on the Gigabyte Control Center software (only static, 3-zone RGB) 2. It has no mux switch so you need to use an external monitor to get the maximum performance. You will most likely to hit the 130w max TGP of the 3070 GPU on this setup than using the internal screen. The difference is about 5-10 fps in most games that I've played. I suggest to get a 1440p external display as this is the sweet spot for this Nvidia GPU. 3. Updating the bios WILL NOT increase the performance of this laptop. The laptop has some minor throttling issues if you decided to update the bios. Luckily, we can revert to an older version of the bios if we want to. FB05 was the bios that came with my laptop and I immediately notice the speed decrease when I updated it to the most recent FB0C bios. Reverted back to my previous bios and now it's now back on running at full performance. Aside from my concerns, so far, I'm pretty happy with my purchase and I don't regret buying this gaming beast!

I bought the Asus TUF F15 then this came on sale for $100 more so I exchanged it with it and I'm so glad I did. The performance is better on every benchmark even with same GPU inside both laptops. While the speed is great the battery goes really fast unless you go on power saving modes. The RAM here is DD4 but the performance still great and sound is awesome. The display is good with great colors (for this price). It lacks any windows hello features. Build quality is good (plastic). Could be better of course but it will be pricier.

This laptop is a great value! It play the games i want to play on the go, it is light, and most importantly, it is affordable.

I saw the negative reviews and wondered if I made a bad purchase. After a week, I can't be happier with my decision to keep it. Look, it's a gaming laptop so battery is going to suck. Intel 12th gen is not nearly as optimized as an AMD 6000 series CPU, but I prefer the Thunderbolt 4 of the Intel. It doesn't have a Mux switch, but with a 3070 (130w TDP), you're going to have better performance than a 3060 with Mux in the same price range ($1,049). 80+ FPS with Cyberpunk at max settings. Reports of battery drain while plugged in and going full tilt is a bit exaggerated. I generally only game for 2 hours max at a time, and the battery is at 95%. Sure it drains, but for the performance the heat management is great; just make sure it's lifted 1 inch off the surface for max cooling. DDR4 vs DDR5: unless you're doing intensive productivity like high level Photoshop for work, you'll barely notice it. Plus you'll be saving money not getting the latest gen. I'm upgrading it to 32g with Black Friday deals, as well as adding a 2T gen 4 Samsung PCIe m.2 with the money I saved. I'm still playing around with the settings for my Quest 2 in Skyrim and Elite Dangerous VR, but it's been great so far even before optimizing the settings. tl;dr : For $1,049, this is a STEAL. Powerful CPU/GPU, great heat management, good upgradability of RAM and storage. 10/10 would recommend at this price point.

I’ve had this almost exactly a year to the day and is still as fast and reliable as day one. I use it to game and edit 4k in Adobe suite. Runs all programs flawlessly. Lots of bang for the buck. All issues with bios are fixed. Battery life is weak, but considering the hardware it’s to be expected.