ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop, 15.6” 120Hz FHD IPS-Type, AMD Ryzen 7 3750H, GeForce RTX 2060, 16GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe SSD, Gigabit Wi-Fi 5, Windows 10 Home, FX505DV-ES74

Great overall package in a laptop!
Alright, so I just wanted to write a review for this product, because I don’t think there any other one. First things first – I LOVE this computer. To put it blatantly, it gets the job done, and it does it well! To those who might expect a laptop that will be able to play every game currently avaliable at 120, you’ll be dissapointed. To put it into perspective, I can play Modern Warfare 2019 at 60 FPS on high settings with ray tracing. For Cold War, I can play it at 40-50 on high settings without ray tracing (As of writing this on 11/27/2020, the game only being out for little more than a week, that’s probably subject to change) But just about any game before that, you can expect modest to great results depending on which game. My only 2 complaints about it, is the battery life, and storage space. Since it is a laptop, it can get pretty hard to try and cram as much battery life into it without sacrificing space for other components. But, that isn’t the case with this one. You almost ALWAYS have to have it plugged in when doing anything on it. I can get about 4-5 hours of just regular usage (like browsing and watching YouTube, typing word documents, ect) But if you want to play a game on this, you HAVE TO play it plugged in. It doesn’t inconvenience me personally, but I know for other people it might be a different story. Second complaint is how little 512GB SSD feels when you actually use it. For example, for just about any AAA game, expect to use up about 100-200GB of space – PER GAME. So either you are going to have to only have about 2-3 AAA games all at once, or only have 1-2 AAA games, and some other indie games. Other than that, this is a SOLID package. This is my first computer I’ve ever owned, and safe to say this is a great starting point for those who want to get introduced into gaming on a computer, without dropping 2000-3000 on a PC, moniter, mouse and keyboard, ect.TLDR: It gets the job done well enough. 4-5 hours of regular usage, HAVE TO leave it plugged in to game without it dying on you quickly. You have about 490Gb of usuable space, not counting the fact that it’s an SSD, which means you have to leave a portion of it unused for it to be efficient. Other than that, great introduction into PC gaming world without having to spend life’s savings on a killer PC.

Insane deal
I bought this laptop for my girlfriend because she just started her college classes and she needed something to use for school and light gaming. She plays fall guys right now and some call of duty and let me tell you the rtx 2060 in there is awesome. I personally bought the acer predator helios 300 it has a better processor (intel) and it’s the same price, 999, at least at the time of buying it. This laptop is insane for things besides editing though, the processor is a beast. I would definitely buy this laptop if you’re thinking about it. If it’s less than 1200 dollars.

Great budget gaming laptop
Have been using as my main gaming computer for awhile now, installed my own ram and a firecuda.

You can’t beat the price of this laptop for its specs. It’s been able to handle pretty much whatever I’ve thrown at it. Speakers sound good with great volume range and monitor is what you’d expect.This is an IPS monitor so expect to see the IPS glow – this is a limitation of the technology and can NEVER be prevented. Know the difference between that and a backlight bleed. The glow is slightly visible in a dark environment/black screen on the corners of the screen. A backlight bleed is a manufacturing defect and will be much more visible and localized to one area of the screen.The unit I received did not have a backlight bleed. I suspect one of the reviewers just received a faulty unit.Some things to be aware of:No USB-C, ports are all on left side with hdmi, 1 usb 2.0 and 2 usb 3.0Use the included Armoury crate software to change fan/cpu profiles. Silent is good for general day to day tasks. Laptop fans are very quiet in this mode. Performance is for more intensive applications like video editing. Fans would be audible but I’ve found the house average compared to other laptops under heavy load.Finally Turbo Mode – don’t put it in this mode unless you think you really need it. Your cpu state will be boosted and fans sound like a jet engineDO NOT close the laptop lid when under heavy load (for example, if you have an external monitor attached). Although you can put in windows to prevent sleeping, ASUS’ firmware has an override to sleep if it’s under heavy load/high temps. They did this because there’s a vent that’s being blocked when lid is closed.The trade-off of the vent design though is that the keyboard area remains comfortably cool under load and the battery area stays at pretty much room temperature.Battery life is a bit short due to the smaller pack they’ve chosenz but you can’t really expect much from a gaming laptop. If you use this plugged in most days, go into my Asus app and change the battery setting to only charge up to 60 percent. This will save your battery in the long run.Lighting is not customizable per key, and the tweaks you can do are very limited. Aura is not compatible with the keyboard.

First things first. I was a little hesitant to order this, as it was not in stock, and every time I checked, the “In Stock” date was different. When I ordered this July 4th for example, its in stock was Aug 5. I decided for the price and the components in the laptop, it was worth the wait. I woke up July 12th and the laptop was at my place, so don’t be too scared off by the “In Stock” date, it was only 8 days from order to delivery for me (and I ordered late at night, so I would only consider this to be 7 days).The system came exactly as expected. No unexpected changes to the hardware. Setup was quick, maybe about 10 minutes and I was ready to start using it. I installed Steam and Battlenet right away so that I could test some games. The keyboard and trackpad work well, it does throw me off that the track pad right and left buttons aren’t raised or even separated from the trackpad, so without looking sometimes I click when I dont want to, or dont click when i want to. By default there is no scroll on the side of the track pad which I was looking for, but I have to play with the settings still.EDIT: There is 1 discrepancy that I identified during testing. The RAM clock speed is NOT 2666 Mhz as the description says. I noticed it was running at 2400 Mhz, and opening the case and taking the chip information and going to the vendor documentation, the RAM i have is definitely 2400 Mhz (not 2666 running slower, which I first thought it might have been)Very little bloatware which is nice on a laptop. The Asus app is somewhat useful so I may leave it for now.Noise wise, it definitely isn’t quiet when playing Modern Warfare, but I expect that from a gaming laptop with a higher end graphics card. There is a lot of heat to get out, and I understand that thats going to make some noise.I’ll update this review after I have some time to play some games, however I did install COD Modern Warfare and play a level and it was gorgeous and ran very smoothly at high settings. The first level loaded very slowly, but after I quit and allowed the game to install its shaders, I tried the embassy level and it loaded in 11 seconds, which is maybe a little faster than my desktop.Ray Tracing wasn’t enabled during my first playthrough, but I will adjust the settings after I update the drivers.Update: I played a few hours of Call Of Duty Modern Warfare with Ray Tracing enabled, and high-Max video settings. The FPS averaged 60, with spikes around 80, and lows around 45. Very impressed, and it looked gorgeous! The laptop definitely was putting out a ton of heat, and the fans were very loud. The loudness doesn’t bother me as mentioned, but it could bug others.The ASUS app allows you to select from 4 profiles and displays the strengths and weaknesses of each. For example setting it to the Turbo profile, indicates that noise will be high (as well as performance). When playing lower end games, the fan doesn’t kick up nearly as much, and when browsing internet/streaming videos, the fan was nearly silent.I’ll keep updating as I use this laptop. The RAM is only a single stick, and there is room for a 2.5″ SATA HD/SSD, so I bought another stick of RAM (16 gigs), and a 2.5″ SSD that arrives today. I know there is debate about single channel/dual channel memory performance increases, however with the VEGA integrated graphics processor sharing RAM with the system, I wanted to ensure I had extra (note the system switches to the 2060, when playing games)