ASUS is known for the quality of its PC components, so its graphics cards and motherboards have demonstrated an indisputable level of quality. However, there is one area in which, under its Republic of Gamers brand, the Taiwanese company leaves much to be desired. We are talking about your laptops and especially your pre-built computers. Are ASUS RoG products too expensive?
No matter how prestigious the brand that makes them, if you see a complete tower computer, already pre-built and, therefore, sold as a complete computer, then run away from it. Not only because it’s a product that will cost you a lot more than if you built it yourself picking out the parts, but also because it’s a way to get rid of parts that don’t have could not sell and to be able to place them in a single package. In addition, at full price, taking advantage of the good reputation that the brand has acquired in the sale of components separately.
Why ASUS RoG PCs are overrated
We must start from the fact that an overvalued product is due to the fact that it is either excessively loved or sold above what it should be worth. This is the case of the pre-built and whatever brand we are talking about, but in this case it is more than clear that the ASUS RoG are at a price higher than the quality they offer.
We must not forget that we are dealing with a rather generic manufacturer as far as components for classic computers are concerned. However, lately and taking advantage of bad decisions from its direct competition, they have made ASUS fall into the trap of raising the price of its products above what the market can accept. In a shark pool where multiple companies offer almost the same product, offering less for more can be fatal.
a clear example
As we told you before, the problem with prebuilts is that they eat everything the manufacturer can’t sell. Take for example the ASUS ROG Strix GT15 G15, a PC whose specifications are:
- 3.6 GHz Intel Core i7-12700KF processor.
- Intel B660 chipset, but the motherboard is not specified.
- 64 GB of DDR4 RAM 4 modules of 16 GB at 2667 MHz each.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 80 10GB graphics card.
- 1TB SATA hard drive.
- 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
- 750W 80 Plus Gold power supply.
The computer sells for almost $3,000, a price that may seem justified at first glance, but it’s a matter of analyzing the components and realizing that it is nothing more than a means of clean up inventory that otherwise could not be deleted.
Is the price of this computer fair?
From this information, we took the various components to see how much they would cost us.
- An ASUS ROG Strix motherboard costs $256.60.
- The graphics card is a 10 GB RTX 3080 which is currently discontinued and therefore included in the tower to eliminate inventory. However, ASUS itself sells a graphics card with similar specs and under the TUF brand for $1,192.15 today. In this aspect, it is within the average price of the said card.
- We do not recommend it because for this price there are better solutions like the RTX 3090 Ti, the RX 7900 or for a little more the RTX 4080. This is one of the problems when buying a computer pre- built, you end up paying for the components that nobody wants to buy.
- A power supply of the same brand and specifications can be found for $136 at the time of writing this article. However, nothing assures us that this is the case.
- There are other options that for us give us more reliability and better quality, such as the Corsair RM750x with the same power and certification, but for $128.90.
- The manufacturer also manufactures SSDs, and like the rest of ASUS RoG products, they are also overpriced. The same 1TB drive the computer sells is as the ROG Strix SQ7 for $195.
conclusion
In general, one can obtain an equivalent computer and with parts with a better price/performance ratio by making a personal selection of parts. What’s more, we are sure that if we find all the ASUS RoG parts separately and assemble them, we will realize that the manufacturer, for the simple favor of having assembled the box with obsolete components, will not have not add 200$ or 300$ more to the price.
That is to say, ASUS got on, who knows what, and started charging fees on its products to carry its logo and branding. They are not those of Cupertino and the PC market is not as naive as said market. Moreover, a good part of the overpricing of their products is for this reason. Then they don’t sell them and end up adding components to their overpriced desktop PCs.
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