5.0 out of 5 stars

Gigabyte Auros 15P KD for Content Creation

This laptop contains everything as advertised in the product description. My version does contain an Intel I7 11th Gen 8-core processor, NVidia 3060 6GB video card and Thunderbolt. I use the creator video drivers and they work well with the applications I use.I can’t say much on how the OS as shipped was since I clean-installed Windows 11 Home on a WD Black 1TB drive and upgraded memory to 32GB. I used Crucial Scanner to find compatible memory and purchased 32GB (model CT2K16G4SFRA32) from Amazon.The laptop has enough USB connections for most users and Thunderbolt. I utilize the HDMI and run off an external monitor while at home. It works as designed and expected. This system runs Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer smooth and fast, similar to the desktop that I am replacing this laptop with.There are no issues with the laptop screen such as light bleed or any dead pixels. The keyboard types well for a general use while traveling but I use a wireless keyboard and mouse while at home.Updates are easy to to check via the Gigabyte Control Center.That is pretty much it. I really like this laptop and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for an affordable content creator laptop.

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4.0 out of 5 stars

No MUX

I wanted so badly to give this 5 stars but it has no MUX switch! I don’t know how you miss something so important on your flagship laptop when your lower end models have it, but it’s a huge oversight by Gigabyte.I love the feel of the mechanical keyboard, the RGB is nice and bright, although it seems to constantly change back to the default RGB profile causing you to have to go back into the app to change it back to what you had it set to. But overall the keyboard is just an absolute pleasure to type with and game on. My End key wasn’t quite seated all the way in, but one firm press and it was good to go. The keyboard isn’t overly loud like don’t mechanical keyboards, but it’s by far my favorite part of this laptop.The 3080 in it is actually very capable even though it’s only 105w when boosted. I’ve not run into any issues with any games I’ve played and since it’s only a 1080p display you’ll always be above 60fps in any game where fps matters, and with it being a lower watt GPU that definitely attributes to this laptop always feeling as cool as it does.The case feels very nice and sturdy. I’m a truck driver and it feels extremely durable in such an environment. It doesn’t get hot at all really, but the fans are rather loud under load. Not an issue for me as if I’m playing something that taxes the system that hard, I’m using a headset anyway. But the feel and texture of this metal they used on the case feels fantastic to me and just makes it feel like a more upscale laptop.The battery life is, well, it’s a gaming laptop. You won’t be using this thing on battery power except in a pinch. But if you do find yourself needing to, there is a battery saver mode that I’ve gotten 3 easy hours out of watching movies on a flight, but if you’re planning on gaming on battery power for whatever reason, there are better options. That’s not what this device is suited toThe screen quality is good. Not great but good. Colors are decent, and there’s several different color temp profiles so you can customize it somewhat, and you can calibrate it if needed but mine was fine out of the box. The big issue with the screen is the response time. At higher refresh rates you will see some ghosting I’ve noticed, as is the price you pay with an IPS monitor. It’s not bad, but coming from my previous laptop is definitely noticeable and something to keep in mind. I’ve not noticed any backlight bleed which is really impressive for an IPS monitor.Overall, for the price I paid, ($2149) it’s a fantastic value for the money, except for that ONE THING… No MUX switch. An absolutely inexcusable oversight in 2022 on a flagship gaming laptop, and the one thing holding it back from a 5 star rating.

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3.0 out of 5 stars

Good hardware bogged down by bloatware and design issues

Review for GIGABYTE AORUS 15P XD.Let’s look at the cons:1. Connecting to ViewSonic ELITE XG270QC 27 Monitor over DP 1.4 cable is a pain. Many a times, when the laptop wakes from sleep, it does not recognize the monitor. Sometimes this happens even when the laptop is awake. Sometimes it does not detect the GPU once it has been woken up. The only solution seems to be is to restart. I tried updating all the drivers to no avail. It also does not help that there are no LED lights on the laptop showing that it is awake. There are times when everything is black and I get a display on the laptop screen only when I disconnect the DP cable.2. BIOS startup time impacted by bloatware (~9 sec)Tried disabling all startup item. BIOS settings has minimal options. None of them improve the boot time. There is a Dragon network app that does not show up in the Task manager startup apps but still starts up anyway.3. Other minor issuesKeyboard/mouse input does not wake the laptop from sleep. Not a problem by itself but combined with Con#1 it is hard to tell what state the laptop is in(Off or Sleep). Power brick is pretty big. Toggling HDR in Windows resets the desktop layout and window positions (this may not be a laptop issue though). Speakers are just okay with barely any bass even though its supposed to be DTS X Ultra. Voice is sharp but music is barely manageable but I don’t use laptop speakers primarily so not a major issue for me. Keyboard backlight gets reset on restart.Pros:1. Decent hardwareRTX 3070 8GB 130W is pretty good for most recent games. Might not be ideal for 4K gamers out there but supports upto 1440p with High settings fine for most games. 16 GB ram is not up to the mark but can easily be upgraded. 240Hz screen is ultra-smooth to look at. Coming from 60Hz screens, this is a significant upgrade and can’t be stressed enough.2. Cooling seems to be goodHaven’t noticed any stutters while pushing the laptop to its limit and it does not get hot.3. Sleek buildLooks and feels good. Matte finish of the screen is a big plus.This is a great laptop on paper but some issues really trip it up. If you don’t run into any issues it has the potential to be much better.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great for dual boot Windows & Ubuntu

I have owned this device for about 3 months, so I think it’s about time I can give a solid review. I purposely bought this PC with the intentions for using it for a workstation. Being a software engineer, I thought the specifications this PC provided was more than capable for every day tasks I had in mind. With the ease of upgrading this laptop, I was able to add a second SSD to contain Ubuntu 20.04 and expand my memory to 64GB DDR4 @3200mhz. My experience since then has been amazing. The computer is very fast, it’s not a 12th gen Intel CPU by all means, but this is mainly used for development and I was worried that Ubuntu would not properly handle the big.little cores 12th gen had. But still 8-core/16-threads with a 3060 and 64GB DDR4 makes it very easy to run multiple VMs and containers. As for gaming, I still have Windows 11 purposely for gaming on the go if I am on any business travel. The experience is extremely smooth for a laptop even though I downgrade the overall quality a bit, it’s just hitting as close as 240fps is what really matters to me. The screen is super gorgeous and that 240hz IPS display definitely feels like home. I highly encourage everyone to look at the Aorus options for gaming laptops or even as Ubuntu workstations (as well as other Linux distros). I hope this review helped and y’all have just as much of a great experience as myself.

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1.0 out of 5 stars

Blue screen of death

I had been wanting to buy a gaming laptop for over a decade and finally committed, what it let down it was.My first impressions were that the laptop was heavy and that the fans were very loud considering all I was doing was browsing the web. This is my first gaming laptop though so for all I know that is the norm.I started off by running all available Windows updates then tried playing an older game “Metro Exodus”. Within the first few minutes of playing I got the Blue Screen Of Death error and the system restarted. I figured the best step would be to update all of the drivers. The Gigabyte Control Center had options for driver updates but every time I would try to run an update the control center would freeze and shut down. The control center also does not open 75% of the time so I have to continue to click it until it would open. I ended up going straight to the Gigabyte website for driver updates and installed them that way.I tried again playing “Metro Exodus” but couldn’t play for more than a few minutes without it going to the Blue Screen Of Death. I tried playing a few older and newer games with the same results. I then gave up for the day and tried to watch Netflix. After about 30 minutes the screen flashed black and the windows taskbar disappeared. The only thing working was Chrome. I couldn’t even get CTRL+ALT+DEL to work so I had to force restart the laptop.After trying every troubleshooting step I could think of over two days I decided to try and return the laptop for a replacement. When selecting replacement amazon shows an alert “Something went wrong. Please select another return method.” and only gives me the option to return for a refund. The price of the laptop jumped from $1,299 to $1,599 so if I do return for a refund there is no way I’m paying $300 extra for a replacement. I tried calling Amazon’s customer support to see if they could issue a replacement that way but was unable to understand the technician unfortunately (very nice guy though) and from what I gathered all they could do is forward me to Gigabytes manufacturers warranty.One other issue I had was the two times I did use the laptop on battery, within 30 minutes the battery would be down to 60% and this was while on energy saver mode and simply surfing the web.In the end I just selected return for a refund and am stuck at square one without a laptop.A quick note about the laptop itself. Overall I did like the laptop and could have seen it working for me if it didn’t have all the issues listed above. It definitely seemed more than capable of handling any game I would throw at it judging by the few minutes that the games would run. This is the reason I was hoping for a replacement rather than a refund but who knows if the replacement would have had all the same issues.

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3.0 out of 5 stars

no es silencioso

el equipo no es silencioso, y tengo problemas para conseguir los drivers de video.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Amazing Power and Cool Temps!

This product is everything I wanted. Fast Screen, amazing specs, low price, the whole package. I was coming from a 1660 Ti Laptop a few years old, and I can tell this laptop is just another beast. The cooling on the laptop is pretty top notch, keeps CPU and GPU temps way down. One slight dislike is the AORUS Control Center software, its okay, not great, but not terrible. There lacks some ability to manually control certain aspects, and the AI part likes to switch modes pretty frequently. There also lacks some customization in the RGB keyboard. Other than the software dislikes, the rest of the laptop is fantastic. Great hinge design with minimal screen shake and plenty of I/O to be able to plug any accessory into it. I mainly use it to play games, and it just demolishes every title I throw at it. First time Gigabyte and AORUS buyer, will be back for more to come!

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4.0 out of 5 stars

No XMP Support

You get what you pay for. It’s got the latest 11th gen Intel and 30 series Nvidia, so no slouch in 1080/1440 gaming. THUNDERBOLT 4 means you can add some awesome and useful external hubs or EGPUs (you could theoretically just upgrade your graphics card next year instead of buying a whole new PC).My only gripe with this “gamer” laptop is that it doesn’t come with XMP support. You can’t turn it on and it isn’t enabled by default. So any RAM you buy could end up running at a much slower speed than advertised. My 3200 RAM with tight timings ended up with 2666 loose timings due to no XMP. If they had included XMP, this laptop would be perfect within its’ current price range ($1600).

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Amazing deal

This laptop is a powerhouse, the screen is amazing too. The 240 hz is more than anyone could ask for, there is real value here. The keyboard is really bright.I just wish the software wasn’t so buggy, the device didn’t work out of the box with all the special hardware and I had to manually reinstall all the drivers

3.0 out of 5 stars

GRAPHICS CARD

First, the laptop has problems with the graphics card, because if you are not connected to the power it completely reboots and you get the blue screen as seen in the photos. On the other hand, you are just editing a text or watching a video and the fans are always in gaming mode, they never go down to normal or quiet mode.I haven’t found the solution for this problem yet.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great Laptop

This one has one the highest performing 3060 in the market right now.Performs on par with most 3070 laptops due to it being 115w vs some 90w 3070’s out there.Arous Control Center is a mess and the AI features are annoying as hell.It detects Visual Studio as a high performance tasks and revs the fans up 200% ridiculous.Everytime you launch a game it goes into gaming mode and shifts your keyboard to rainbow puke.Give yourself some time to set it up correctly or disable it entirely.After some tweaking i was able to set control center to my liking.Battery life is great considering its a high performance machine.

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3.0 out of 5 stars

Overheats

Great laptop. my only gripe is it overheats when you run games on NVIDIA Geforce Experience recommended settings on some games. So if you buy this and plan on running graphic settings you’d expect from a 3080 buy a decent cooling stand.

1.0 out of 5 stars

multiple broken keys, awful customer service

The computer sounds great on paper, but unfortunately has so many problems. I bought this laptop 8 months ago in August 2022. The left arrow key broke within 2 months, the 1 on the numpad sometimes works. I called customer service, to which they replied it was not covered under warranty as it was physical damage. I told them it was a warranty issue, as it broke under normal use. They said well okay if that’s true send it in and we’ll look at it, and gave me a 4 week quote for repair and return. I bought the laptop for work and couldn’t be without it for 4 weeks, so I said I’d take the loss and just keep it without an arrow key. Another 4 months passed and the F key fell off of the keyboard. I went to go make another claim and apparently the computer is out of warranty already? Bought it in August, but it shows it started in March and it now being April a year later means the 1 year warranty is over. Will never be buying any sort of Gigabyte/Aorus brand again.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Awesome laptop

I usually don’t ever write reviews for products, and I’m writing this review literal months later. Trust me you need this laptop. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about their laptop fans heating up, and keep in mind I am a software developer/3D modeler. I’ve never experienced this before, sometimes the fans may get pretty loud, but outside of that amazing PC, feels high quality.

1.0 out of 5 stars

unclear cause of BSD

I bought it to replace my 6 years old laptop. I was really happy when I first got it and I used it to play games like darksoulIII and Battlefield V with my friends. It worked very well. However, I encountered Blue screen death for the first time at the end of December. At that time, I thought it was only the issue of that one single software, because it worked so well for everything else. That is how I lost my chance of return.As my friends get busy and I started to play some other games, I notice the issue is not limited to that one software. I encountered blue screen for tons of other games. Since then, I had spent a month running all kinds of testing softwares to test its CPU, RAM, GPU. I scanned the system files, scanned the disk. I updated my drivers and BIOS. I bought an additional cooling fan to reduce its heat. I reinstall the system. I brought it to a nearby laptop fixing store for examination. I tried everything I can think of, yet no problem can be located and issue has still not been solved yet. I am really tired and exhausted.I am not even sure I can get a warranty or not as I lost my receipt. Really Sad and Mad at this moment. And tired.

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3.0 out of 5 stars

Don’t buy open box, it was returned for a reason.

I got open box and ended up returning after blue screen happened to me twice. Also I had GPU crush few times playing Bannerlord (not the beefiest game). It was getting hot really quick even tho sticker on front said something cool about advanced cooling system ????????Overall bad experience but I like to believe I got defected product. Maybe it actually sucks but I’m not in position to judge brand new product.

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Great Laptop with the worst software.

I’ll make this simple:Likes:Screen – very niceBattery life – very nicePerformance – very niceTemps -very very niceDislikes:Gigabyte software is like a child actor in any life or death sceneSpeakers are meh8/10 would buy again

11 people found this helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars

faulty product, great for gaming.

Bought this laptop on Oct. 3 2021, and got stuck in the bios Oct. 23, 2021. For the short amount of time that it was working, it was amazing and played all games at max flawlessly. The battery life is inconsistent to what is in the detail description. Battery life without gaming, and just web browsing/watching a movie was about 2-3 hours MAX. If gaming, it will probably last 30-45 mins MAX.

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1.0 out of 5 stars

First got the wrong laptop, then got a defective one

I really wanted to like this laptop because of the hardware, but I no longer trust gigabyte. At this price point, I would never expect to first receive the wrong item, a much cheaper laptop, and then have it replaced for a correct but defective model.Once I got things installed and restarted for the first time, the 15P XD would freeze within seconds after logging in. No Blue screen or error message, just a complete and irreversible freeze. The last time I remember this happening was in the early 2000s on an old Dell desktop. I factory reset the laptop multiple times using multiple recovery methods, and the problem persisted. Wasted 12 hours of my life. “XD” in the name is appropriate because this laptop is a joke.I blame gigabyte and not amazon because gigabyte was shipping directly to their distribution center. Also, their software/hardware is suspect for the cause of the issue. Amazon was helpful in processing the returns. I’m still waiting for my refund, though.

5.0 out of 5 stars

beautiful laptop

I have used it for almost 1 month, it has worked very well for games, design and occasionally I have used it for mining.Although I have seen complaints about the control software it has, personally it has worked very well for me.It has a very good screen, and the overall design of the laptop is quite elegant.

1.0 out of 5 stars

No lo recomiendo como equipo gamer

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La tuve durante un 1 año y 9 meses y me hizo gastar tanta plata como para comprar un CPU o una laptop nueva, ya al año y medio se le quemó Flex y pantalla con el calor que genera y eso que siempre la tenía fresca y con fancooler. Además se le borro el driver de la gráfica y la termino de dejar un funcional, ahora solo quedó como un equipo de trabajo sencillo. Les recomendaría con total honestidad que busquen en otro lado. Para mí fue una decepción y un dolor de cabeza todo lo que me hizo gastar para tratar de que funcionará bien.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great Gaming Laptop

Bought it half a year ago, one of the best purchase ever. Fast, great screen, nice speakers, good enough for gaming, on the lite side, highly recommend.

4.0 out of 5 stars

Great Product, worth the money runs like a dream.

Great Product, worth the money runs like a dream.

5.0 out of 5 stars

FAST

I feel this laptop was well worth the money, very fast and runs every game maxed out at at least 100fps or more.Build quality is top notch. Only con I can really think of with this laptop while using it for a few weeks is the speakers kinda suck and could have been better.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Very high specs with a corresponding price

This laptop is a beast when it comes to specs and running regular and VR games. If you are not a gamer this is not your preferred choice.One con though – it is pretty loud/noisy when using a heave app or game. If you have gamer’s headphones you won’t hear it anyway.

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