ASUS TUF (2019) Gaming Laptop, 15.6” 120Hz FHD IPS-Type, AMD Ryzen 7 R7-3750H, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 16GB DDR4, 256GB PCIe SSD + 1TB HDD, Gigabit Wi-Fi 5, RGB KB, Windows 10 Home, TUF505DU-EB74

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I would like to say, that this laptop for the price, its one of the best, mostly because in my country (Panama) this laptop would cost around like 2k dollars. Im going to compare this laptop with my old one (Acer Nitro 5 2017) Aside of better graphics and newer Intel, its pretty lightweight compare to the Nitro 5. A little to the downside is that it doesnt come with a lot of ports on the side (3 USB ports) (1 audio jack) (1 HDMI and Wlan port). All on the left side, right side does not have anything. The Nitro 5 has a C-USB port and a SD Card port. It doesnt heat that much, I played Apex and League of Legends and its pretty smooth. The gpu is Nvidia 1660 Ti. Apex settings in all high. Continuing my comparison with the Nitro 5, the Asus doesnt have a keyboard shortcut to pause, play next, play before, pause key for the music, a little bit awkward if youre playing and listening music and you want to go to the next song. Aside from that, its a pretty good laptop, it has a great design. I would recommend this laptop.

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Battery life: On light loads like browsing news sites on Edge or grabbing games on Steam, you might see around two hours on a full charge, and if thats a deal-breaker for you, youll want to re-evaluate your criteria for a laptop. The CPU and GPU in this laptop have been fantastic for my use case (Fusion 360, ZBrush, Blender, and all the games I care to throw at it), but the 48Wh battery in this means youll likely only want this if you only plan to have this plugged in most of the time, because that two hours I mentioned earlier is going to look a lot more like one hour or less when you start driving the CPU/GPU hard. Worth mentioning, btw, the battery is fairly easy to swap if you ever find the need after the warranty runs out. No way of knowing what kind of availability well see for replacements after this is EoLd, but if theyre available whenever that day comes, its just a matter of unplugging the battery, removing a couple retaining screws, and gently lifting it out. Unlike some devices, the battery in this laptop isnt held down with a giant mess of glue, so this has the potential to have a very long service life without being a pain to DIY repair. Gaming performance: Youll have to make sacrifices in most titles from the past few years to get this to hold 120FPS at 1080p, but those sacrifices are usually pretty minor (AA isnt that big a deal at this screen size), and if I cant hit 120, I have yet to find any game that didnt get some approximation of 60FPS with the settings maxed or some hard-to-notice sacrifices in quality. I am extremely satisfied with the oomph this thing brings. As a kinda average example, I was almost always seeing 120FPS in Destiny 2 before I just had to go in and screw things up by deviating from the auto settings. As for build quality, this thing is... well, kinda tough. Cant say Ive been tossing it around like a frisbee to really test it, but the screen is decently reinforced and has only a reasonable amount of flex, the hinges are solid and stay exactly where you tell them to stay, and the plastic used in the lower housing feels like either ABS or PA6. Im not about to put this under the knife to check for any fiber reinforcement, but I at least found it had a healthy amount of give to it when I opened it up to swap the HDD for an SSD. Itd probably handle an impact about as well as a laptop this size can. Noise: Odds are, unless youre doing light tasks or playing older games that the IGP can handle on its own, youre going to have fan noise. Some games, like World of Warcraft, are happy with a warm potato pushing pixels, so you can put the laptop in silent mode and actually enjoy silence. In situations where you have a high GPU load but nothing taxing the CPU, silent modes a little less silent due to the GPU having its own fan, but I still found it bearable. Balanced is where youll probably be most of the time, and while I can tell the machines running on the other side of the room, its not quite a jet engine. "Turbo" mode, at least until the hardware becomes questionably relevant, is more of a "hold my beer" mode, and is perfect for that jet turbine ambience, but a little dubious as a daily power mode. Thankfully, you can swap between all three of those using a function key. Ive also noticed that the power mode does have some influence over download speed on fast connections, but downloading a few gigs on silent mode still wasnt a terrible experience. RGB: Lastly, if you have this laptop or are about to have it, youll need to go into the device tab in Armoury Crate to change lighting settings on the keyboard. Just mentioning it here because I spent a dogs age trying to figure out why the Aura tab was only making my keyboard flash for a second before going back to rainbow puke mode. Btw, if rainbow pukes more your speed, its the default, and its quite vibrant, so youll be happy with that right out of the box. It does flicker a little between some color transitions, but it wasnt any worse than most of the other devices Ive seen with a color-cycle mode.

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I bought this laptop to game on the road and to edit my videos from anywhere in the house or country. This laptop is a beast. It play everything almost as good as my home setup. Lighting fast, graphics are pretty good thanks to the 1660ti The ryzen 7 5500h although only 4 cores still works anything your doing with ease. Only thing Im angry about is.... In the pictures it portrays that laptop to have gold keys. They are not. they are black. Its just aesthetics but still was hoping for the gold keys. They are rgb but cant get it to look like the picture. This is why only 4 stars.

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Pros: Great performance Sleek design Battery is average will last a good 3-4 hours playing a heavy games Easy to upgrade HDD and SSD Cons: Not true "RGB" keyboard its just red with brightness options on the keyboard Small hard drive, only 256GB which is kinda useless since nowadays they are dirt cheap and could easily be larger for an extra $40-$100 Just added a 1TB HDD and now its about on par with my desktop :)

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No issues so far, seems to runs smoothly and reasonably quiet. Battery life isnt great but its is meeting the my expectation which was fairly low. Only game I play is league of legends which runs great. Only con is the plastic feels fairly cheap, I wish it felt more solid.

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EDIT: Originally I left a stellar review for this thing, however, right after having it for about a week it started freaking out and I couldn’t justify keeping it for its $1,100 price tag, so I filed a return with Amazon and shipped it out yesterday. It was black screening randomly, games started running horribly, it was very odd and inconsistent. One day I’d play BF5 maxed out just fine, the next I’d struggle to play it on low. I personally think the culprit was the CPU, the mobile Ryzen series is about as powerful as a 7th or 8th gen mobile i5 which isn’t a power CPU at all. As for the thing black screening and crashing, no idea, wasn’t willing to keep it to find out when I paid what I did for it. For $1,100, you should really not buy this thing if you want a laptop that will just work.

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for 599, this laptop is a steal... No lag , no slowness and I havent even install 8GB additional ram yet...I only play racing games, so , it play F1 2018, Project cars 2 , Iracing with no problems at all and screams.... What else is amazing... that it doesnt get hot , just warm..... Great job Asus and AMD>...

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This laptop for the most part is what I was looking for. Pros: Free-sync, strong body, keyboard is good, great RAM speed. Cons: Vega support is not there or is hard to setup, Speakers are on the low end, APU will thermal throttle under max load. Its a wonderful laptop for the price and if you want the top of the line for AMD then this is your best choice. For me I do need more storage, I didnt find it hard to just buy my own Hard drives to upgrade because the originals were so cheap. I was a bit disappointed with the cooling for the APU, I did replace the thermal compound and the original was all dry... But over my 6 year old Laptop it destroys it out of the water and this laptop is 30% more powerful then my last desktop build and 3 times cheaper.

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I wanted to love this device. On paper, the specs are great and while I had it, it performed admirably. They just need to fix the thermals. While gaming, my machines CPU averaged 90 degrees Celsius which is way too hot in my opinion. The highest I saw was 98 in a few games. I ultimately worked with ASUS to try Bios updates, re-imaging the device (which led me to lose the TUF-themed armoury crate software and I couldnt get those tools back). Ultimately I ended up returning the device and am now looking at the Zephyrus G ga502 which has reported better thermals to prevent throttling and ultimately a machine burn-out. Hopefully your machine fares better because this thing was beautiful.

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The model TUF505DU-EB74 is way better than I expected , I dont think is fair for this model share reviews with the others models that are quite below standard compared to this one, this laptop hit the 5 star for sure, ryzen 7 3750H impressive almost as powerful as my desktop pc cpu i7 6700k, that is very very good for a laptop , and the gtx 1660ti as soon I read about it I knew would be prefect on laptop in price and power run all games ultra graphics. And for Asus I was really really happy that they didnt add any bullshit programs which they usually do , what a surprise when I turned on the laptop for first time and the only 2 app in the screen are recycle bin and Microsoft edge. Also 1 month free of McAfee not bad I guess. Overall super happy with this laptop!!

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