I've had mine (Strix G18, i9-13980hx, 4080) since Feb 2023, and i've experienced maybe two blue screens at most, i'm still on Bios .317 and stopped updating because - others keep having software, display, performance, thermal (reportedly) issues after updating. Also for some reason, at some point this year, my notebook ceased to be able restart properly when initiated by a program (such as auto-rebooting after an installation), with windows update it's hit & miss (when it happens I have to hard shutdown and then manually reboot, which thankfully has worked so far).
Within a couple weeks of purchase, this notebook has exhibited an issue where the audio will very very noticeably glitch/hang/stutter (think an electrical grinding noise) at random intervals when playing a game or watching a video, it's most prominent when playing a game, and can vary from very breifly to up to a full-second of time. The last year+ of trying various 'fixes' to resolve it has yielded zero results, and since I managed to get a unit with no dead pixels, from the start I refused to even contact Asus to send it in for troubleshooting (out of worry they would not handle the unit with care or 'find' damage that would've invalidated the warranty, as even at that point their spotty track record regarding warranty repairs and RMAs was well known, and has been further exposed by certain tech reviewers). - With this gen 13 & 14 fiasco now I wonder if my notebooks audio issue is a result of excessive voltage and/or oxidation. Which leads to...
Asus needs to, at minimum, start providing change notes with their Bios updates (I believe mentioned this here on this forum before to no avail). Initially users were asking Asus to remove Bios updates via Windows Update, I remember a few posts (myself included) specifically calling for Asus to make them 'Optional', as in, NOT auto-installed via Windows Update, and ONLY prompted through the MyAsus app, or the drivers page. Then at some point late last year or early this year Asus started labeling Bios updates as either 'Optional' or 'Critical' (this is shown on the driver/bios support page). Which is appreciated but it seems like Asus completely misinterpreted what users were asking for, as Windows Update STILL attempts to auto-install Bios updates, and without change notes the 'Optional' & 'Critical' label on the Bios support page is almost all but useless. Why are all but one 'Optional'? Why is the most recent (as of May 2024) Bios .328 'Critical'? I have Zero expectation that Asus will address either of those concerns, which is disheartening since at this point its 'Critical' for users to know what Bios changes are being made that can potentially/possibly lead to knowing if their notebooks will be able to reliably function in the future.
On another note does anyone know exactly how much (on these notebooks) voltage is being supplied to the Cpu by the regulator? The way these notebook mobo/Bios are designed does not allow the reporting of that metric, and even in HWINFO vcore is absent (the author of that program confirms as such and is unable to do anything about it since it's a oem/vendor-side design/choice).
