Some starting info: My unit is the 2020 model with the R9 4900 HS, RTX 2060 max-q, 32 Gb of Ram (yes 16gb soldered and a stick of 16 gb removable) and 1 tb of storage.

I'm pretty confident with PC internals so I have been trying to repaste my 2020 g14 for a while and this week it went well enought. Finally managed to get 2 screws that Asus stripped when changing my fans a few years ago (and the screws were unreasonably stuck in there due to heating and cooling repetition) and repasted it.

Used Arctic MX-4 if anyone is curious.

CPU temps are much better (i now get Cinebench Scores in line with original reviews: ~10500 in CBR23 where as before i would struggle to get 9000). When first starting Cinebench the CPU now shoots to 65 watts and by the end of the benchmark stays at around 50 watts sustained (before it started at 50w and stayed sustained at under 30w, possible closer to 20w).

GPU temps still suck. I can get the GPU to stay under control at 50 watts but anything above seems impossible without trottling (even when limiting the CPU to something like 15 watts to get some thermal headroom for the GPU!). I think there is a defect with my unit's motherboard screws that is causing bad contact/uneven pressure with the gpu die, so even with new and much better thermal paste the temperatures are still bad. Thankfully due to the overclock (stable at 140 core and 500 on memory) it actually gets the same performance as a non overclocked 2060 max-q at 65 watts (~5500 graphics points in timespy)

There also seems to have been some degradation of my GPU (possibly from overclocking?) Since it never goes above 60 watts now no matter what i do to it (apart from ocasional spikes as high as 73w), when 65 watts is the limit. Barely makes a difference but worth noting.

Either way the cooling system of the original Zephyrus g14 is terrible. Even brand new I would be surprised if it could handle more than 80 watts of combined CPU GPU wattage in games without trottling unless you have fans at ridiculous speeds.

If you think: Nah its not that bad. Consider that my fans are cleaned monthly by me and I always use my laptop elevated from the desk on a cooling pad. It seems basically impossible to game on this laptop with it resting normally on a desk.

Anyway enought trashing on it because this thing is quite resilient and still an exceptional laptop. It's still my main computer and it runs games well enought (DLSS saves me). The R9 4900HS is still great for productivity and keeps the windows experience super snappy together with the (admitidly mediocre) NVME ssd that came with this model.

I also overclocked my RAM to 3600 mhz and it's stable. The latency on the ram originally is pretty terrible (CAS 20 at 3200 Mhz) and now is even worse (CAS 26 at 3600 Mhz.) but nevertheless the performance still improved marginally from the overclock mainly because the Infinity fabric clock automatically adjusted to match the RAM clock (they are both running at 1800 MT/s). I do not recommend anyone do this as 1. it will void your warranty and 2. almost bricked my laptop two times today: I set the ram speed a tiny bit too high and it wouldn't boot at all (not even into BIOS) until I reset the CMOS battery.

It's not worth it if you are as experienced as me. If you are more experienced with Ryzen timings you can probably get some combination of 3600 Mhz with tight timings that will actually increase performance noticeably but alas that is not me and if you are even a little bit unsure don't do it.