Ok so I'm on my third scar 4090 machine now after sending the other two back.
Couple of things to note:
This screen is buggy as hell, it's been exactly the same across the three machines.
A. One of the latest windows updates (ends in 65) breaks the screen completely. After installing this update max brightness of the screen is significantly lower. The only way to rectify this is to uninstall that specific update.
B. Brightness is buggy in general. After a fresh restart, it loads into windows and then when you click the bottom right hand corner of the taskbar the brightness pops in and your good.
But, what happens quite alot, if you close the lid and it puts it to sleep, when you reopen the lid the brightness is dim doesn't pop back in again, it remains dim until a restart is completed.
C. The auto switching between the igpu and dgpu is also buggy. For example on a steam game when opening it will switch to the dgpu on the fly, but, it doesnt seem to function when opening a game from the Ubisoft launcher. It stays going through the igpu to get to the dgpu.
These issues have been exactly the same across 3 brand new machines of this device. Clearly the screen in general is just buggy as hell. A shame really, as when it's working and it doesn't what it suppose to do, it's fantastic.
Other than that, it's a great system, it's powerful, it's relatively quiet when gaming on the performance mode, and generally what I've found is they undervolt nicely and are quite stable.
Just that screen. It's great when it's working, but my god the brightness control is buggy as hell.
Probably not going to be fixed I'd assume as Asus are all on the 2024 models now with use a different panel
