ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 (G834, 2023) review – no game can challenge this beast

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To access this laptop’s internals, you need to undo a total of 11 Phillips-head screws. The one in the bottom right corner is captive and lifts the bottom panel so you can start the prying process from there.

Inside we find a 90Wh battery pack. Weirdly, to remove it, you first have to take out the system fan. It is held in place by two Phillips-head screws. Then, unplug the battery connector, and undo the four Phillips-head screws, which secure the battery to the chassis.

Here, you get two SODIMM slots, which fit 64GB of DDR5 RAM in total. Storage-wise, you get two M.2 PCIe x4 slots. They support Gen 4 SSDs and RAID mode.

The cooling comprises two heat pipes shared between the CPU and the GPU. There is one more for each of them. A fifth one manages the graphics memory, while a sixth one takes care of the VRMs. There are a total of five heat sinks, three of which are taking the entire space on the back of the device.

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Tommy

2 years ago

Apparently no average wallet can afford this beast either 😅

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kenod

1 year ago

obviosly written by asus itself, so not independent

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