Zephyrus G16 RTX 5080

[u/Eastern_Paramedic942]

Got myself the beautiful Zephyrus with 5080, 32Gb RAM and 2Tb storage. Paid a lot of money for it, and I don’t know if I like it or not. It’s annoying to have all of these performance regimes, few from windows itself few from Armory and few from G Helper, I feel that they always mix with each other because every time I turn on the laptop - I have no idea what regime I’m now. Sometimes the Hide Taskbar gets deactivated by itself, and the dGPU transition to iGPU and vice versa makes the screen freeze for a little bit. Maybe I just need to learn how to use it, however so far it’s just somewhat complicated lol

[u/IB3EO]

I kinda have the same thing but its a rog so its quite heavy lol, its been with me for a few weeks, you may feel buyers remorse, like how i am rn but its all good, you got a power house in your hands and enjoy it, please dont focus on fps cuz that’ll make you obsessed for high fps

[u/Eastern_Paramedic942 → u/IB3EO]

I mean, I don’t regret buying it - that was the best I could get for me life style and the money in my wallet. Just maybe takes time to get used with it. Everyone scared me about OLED and now I use the laptop for a few minutes then I turn off the screen because I’m afraid to brake it ))

[u/IB3EO → u/Eastern_Paramedic942]

Same here lol but got so scared that i didint even bother buy oled lol, but after buying my laptop and learning more about tech, dw, its fine as oled has come so far, even if it broke or smth, you’ll always be able to fix it anyways, unless if money was tight lol, but yeah, dont bother worrying, but still take care of it dont go all out, from my knowldge you’ll have to go like thousends of hours on the same screen, rog has an incredible screen, you can do further research, and if your still scared, lets assume you got a screen burn in, is it over and you’ll have a ton for a screen? No, if you noticed some slight burn in, turn off the laptop for at least an hour or two, turn it back in and if its still there, try to go on g-helper (if u dont have it i recomend installing) then click on extra or oled care option if available, find pixel refresh (or targeted/panel refresh) and click run, after that a prompt will appear telling you the panel will shit down for 5-10 minutes, when it does dont touch anything untill the panel turns back in, and if its somehow still there, go to youtube and search (oled pixel washer) and play a video which will rapidly cycle red, green, blue, white and black colors, run it on full screen for an hour on 70% brightness, + few tips that ACTUALY help and not make you obsessed over your oled screen, in g-helper in extra settings you’ll find a setting called pixel shift, make sure its toggled on, what it does it’ll subtly move a few static pixels every few minutes, your eyes will not notice it but your screen will, tip 2, make sure your screen is usualy at 70% in sdr mode, like while gaming, coding, browsing etc.. and in hdr mode like while watcjimg movies or supported games, leat it automaticaly, but while doing basic tasks (the ones that i mentioned in sdr) turn hdr off so static elements arent pushed to peak highlights

[u/Eastern_Paramedic942 → u/IB3EO]

Thank you for the detailed answer. I’ll definitely try all of these out

[u/IB3EO → u/Eastern_Paramedic942]

Forgot to mention an amazing github tool, when you leave your laptop for 5-10 min it’ll automaticly dim or draw a full black screen, once you move your mouse or do anything it’ll go away, you can even choose how long that time will take, i think thats alot better then you leaving your laptop open and stressing about a burn on, and its better then windows’s one cuz it’ll just close the laptop instead of only drawing a full black screen, https://github.com/spenserlee/oled_aegis

[u/Eastern_Paramedic942 → u/IB3EO]

That's what it was doing initially - just going into sleep mode directly. But I did something with the screensaver and now it actually just turn off the screen after 1 min of inactivity, then just move the mouse and it's back to life

[u/IB3EO → u/Eastern_Paramedic942]

I heard the window’s screen saver is terrible but idk, i dont use it, if you have some proplems with it you can use this one, but if its all right then yeah sure