So if I understood it right, every single Asus gaming laptop have easily measurable stutters? That's insanity. And I thought about buying Asus RoG Strix laptop, because for some reason marketing made me believe they're the best gaming laptops out there.

FWIW, I'm using an X13 for some standard gaming, but mostly VR and it performs as advertised for about a year and half now. I'd have sent it back immediately if it stuttered every 30 sec with cracking sound.

I won't defend Asus, they have a crowd of skeletons in the closet and need to pay more attention to feedback, I'm just saying there will be a set of use cases were issues won't be plagging the experience.