PSA : Asus laptop [AMD version] air vent issue

[mk76]

So recently, a few youtube channels and people on Reddit have taken to repasting their Zephyrus G15 models and have stumbled upon something very peculiar. The fan cut-outs for airflow are blocked by black paper for seemingly no reason. Asus have failed to give adequate reasoning as to why those covers exist as removing them yields a universal improvement to the laptop. Thermals go down by 5-10*C on both CPU and GPU and clockspeeds go up.

Asus Caught Being Malicious - Zephyrus G15 has fan vents blocked by black paper. Reason Unknown

So recently, a few youtube channels and people on Reddit have taken to repasting their Zephyrus G15 models and have stumbled upon something very peculiar. The fan cut-outs for airflow are blocked by black paper for seemingly no reason. Asus have failed to give adequate reasoning as to why those c...

linustechtips.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/hzxqj7

Do research if you plan to purchase these models.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Wondering if the same is a possiblity with the ASUS TUF A15.

Will be upgrading the RAMs to 32GB in a few days, will be opening then.

 

[mk76]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/h7oxx9