The 18-inch gamer with great mini LED and an RTX 5090 Laptop - Asus Strix SCAR 18 G835LX review

[Redaktion]

Asus has updated its gaming flagship Strix SCAR 18 with the Core Ultra 9 275HX, GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop and an outstanding mini LED display at 240 Hz. In addition, access to the device's components has been made much easier and there are plenty of lighting elements.

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[Chrissk]

Are you sure that the laptop does not have PCIe 5.0 support? The manufacturer's description says: "SSD slots both offering full support for PCIe Gen 5". So is it true or not?

A big surprise is that the screen is worse than last year's, especially surprising is the lower brightness and lack of "true black" in SDR (maybe firmware or software errors?).

[Benji]

Oof. Let's hope the smaller screen with the same battery on the 16 inch version improves the battery life. I'd really like to get the 16 inch version of this for the screen, assuming it remains solid in Performance, but I'd really like to see at least slightly better battery life. Guess we're waiting for the XMG and the zephyrus tests for now.

I'd go for the zephyrus or the blade in a heartbeat if they had a numpad...

[Dan6]

I hope they'll make Zephyrus 18. Until then - Blade 18 is my choice, too bad that it doesn't have 2k miniLED this year.

[Worgarthe]

too bad that it doesn't have 2k miniLED this year.

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[Simon Miles]

Hello,
I have pre ordered this exact model and hopefully receive it in a few weeks

Please can someone give me some advice regarding the 2tb ssd configuration in Rad 0
I wanted to add a 2nd ssd (Crucial T500 2TB) I wasn't aware that this model had 2x 1tb ssds as a posed to one 2tb,Hence i wanted to and Crucial T500 2TB socould active 4tb of storage.
Anyway.....

Will it still be possible to add a 2nd ssd with out losing the internal storage the laptop comes with?
Do the ssds have to be the same brand and size with configured in RAD 0
Will I need to start messing around with bios settings to get this working.

Basically I just want to add the new 2tb ssd to to create 3tb of storage and sell one of the ssds that come with thus model.

Apologies as I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to this.
Appreciate you time
Regards
Simon.

[Donald000]

Hello 👋
First of all, you make the best reviews out there. It's amazing how detailed and thoroughly you test these devices.

I'm missing something here though ☺️
Can you upload the Prime95 result? With and without Furmark?

I'm comparing this device to MSI Titan 2025 and Lenovo Legion Pro 7 2025. You've covered the Legion perfectly in your review. I would love to be able to compare thermals in a Prime95 test.

When is the article on the Titan coming?

Keep up the great work 👍 and remember you've got a really supportive community out here 🙏

[alexlex88]

Rog Strix SCAR 18 2025 HDR settings


I own a 2025 18 Rog Strix SCAR.

I followed the instruction from this article How to Optimize HDR on Laptops with the ROG Nebula HDR Display but in the Windows HDR Calibration app I keep getting 700 as the maximum brightness, the logo then disappears. The HDR Brightness slider is at 50, as advised in the article, while the general Brightness setting is at 100 (full). I should be getting around 1200-1300, not 700, if I understand the display's hardware capabilities correctly.

HDR is enabled, the HDR TrueColor preset is active in the Armory. What am I doing wrong?


When tested in games (RDR2) for example - the logo also caps at 700.

Fix?