I picked up what appears to be an ASUS ROG Strix G G731 G731GT-H7235R so I have something to use while at work for $250. I was going through the drivers and noticed my display adapter in Device Manager came up as "Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630." Now this screams at me it's onboard graphics which makes me wonder what happened to the GPU this laptop is supposed to be running which according to the specs it should be running an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5 for its GPU. There are other things missing from it like 8 GB of RAM and a 1 TB HDD which assuming the previous owner didn't do any IT work, and the previous owner didn't seem to have any clue how to do such work let alone what sort of environment computer equipment should be in but I digress.
Furthermore the label on the back suggests a similar but different model but searches on the internet take me to the same page regardless so I'm wondering the following:
1. Is it possible that this laptop was cannibalized? There doesn't seem to be any indication the GPU can be removed but I have not opened it up yet to investigate it myself.
2. Am I dealing with the genuine article and the label is just horribly misprinted or did I possibly get duped about what I bought?
3. Excluding the missing RAM and 1 TB HDD, could it just be that the GPU is there but it doesn't have the right driver so it's assuming a generic drive even though NVIDIA Experience doesn't seem to detect the GPU?
I got screenshots I can send your way if you want to look more into it so shoot me a DM on Discord. BrianCore#1988.