ASUS TUF FX505DV 15.6" FHD 120Hz Thin Bezel Gaming Laptop (AMD R7-3750H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB, 512GB PCI-e SSD, 16GB RAM, Windows 10)

I'll try and give the best review possible: (Model with r7 and rtx 2060) First of all, the pros..... -120hz screen is smooth as hell. -rtx 2060 is more than enough to run games on high 120fps at 1080p. -CPU does NOT bottleneck the GPU, I thought it would. -The laptop is actually decent feeling and looks good. Better than the pictures on amazon. It's an all plastic build, but smooth feeling and with material that doesn't leave fingerprints. -At £889 on black friday, it's a steal. Like I wasn't able to find parts (with the same specs) for a full pc and monitor for that cheap. -it's thinner than it looks, might depend on the person. -keyboard is backlit but no per key or zone lighting. Otherwise the keys are responsive and I have no problems writing long essays on it. Cons- -colour accuracy is decent for watching videos on youtube. Great for gaming but not if you want to do colour accurate work. (dell might have something better for you). -Heavy, on your lap, you feel the weight. But I take it to uni every day and it's quite portable. -5 hours of normal non gaming battery life. -doesn't have an SD card reader. No USB 3 port as well. Also, all the ports are on the left and none on the right or back. -the speakers are down firing and lack clarity although it gets really loud, like really loud. -Fans are not audible when doing non gaming tasks, but defenitely loud when gaming. Overall, the pros hugely outweigh the cons for me, so I decided to buy it.

'Asus - In search of functional' After seeing a great deal on this laptop I thought I was on for a winner. I was very wrong. The screen is great. Feels brilliant build quality. The speakers are awesome. I like the keyboard. That's where the pros finish... The first day I used the laptop it was freezing, blue screening and he touch pad is horrible and jumpy. The laptop even booted to bios once as it didn't think there was a drive installed! The first game I used was minecraft and I was only getting 25fps, there were glitchy textures and it was lag spiking horribly. According to the game, it wasn't running off the gpu, it was running off the Vega graphics on the cpu. I tried changing this in nvidia control and performance settings but to no avail. I haven't had a chance to run it on high end games but I've had enough, £900 should get you an easy to use, optimised, powerful laptop. As other reviews have suggested, I think software and compatibility issues ruin this laptop. If you're after a laptop you can use easily and play games hassle free i'd recommend you stay away from this one. Maybe I just got a dodgy one but reading similar reviews, I think they're all pretty much the same. Its currently being reset and I am returning it this afternoon. Annoyed and dissapointed. *edit* I've returned the laptop now and I went into Currys Pc World to test some similar laptops - none of them froze as much and they all felt far smoother and user friendly.

To get the negatives out of the way : feels a bit plastic, no USB C, all the ports on one side which is a sign of cost cutting. On the positive, the performance is superb, of the games I've played on it so far Doom whips along, Elite dangerous merrily rocks along at ultra settings. The plastic build may feel cheap but is obviously hard wearing, I'm relaxed at cost cutting here rather than anything related to gaming performance. I was conscious of reviews pointing to the Razen being the weak link but equally when plugged in (as this needs to be) doesn't throttle so badly. The Tuf Armour Crate software is well laid out and accessible, again if there are concerns over the CPU that can be prioritised here Finally at this price point I can find no fault with this computer at all. With an RTX2060 for under £1000 is aggressive pricing. This makes this computer superb value and I am well pleased with it

Decent specs for the money and a good little machine. The 2060 gpu works will and gives solid frame rates, but when in turbo mode sounds like a jet plane taking off. Keyboard decent but the touch pad buttons are also touch sensitive, so whilst this enlarges the touch pad area it means the cursor can be inadvertently moved when trying to click if you are not precise. Battery life terrible if gaming which is to be expected with a gpu of this nature. Not so bad in Windows when it uses the onboard gpu instead. It’s a bit stingy on the port front too, three usb, network, hdmi and headphone jack and that’s your lot. All are located on the left hand side. The 500gb M.2 SSD isnt the fastest but can be upgraded, and there is a spare slot to install an additional 2.5” drive. Overall I’m pretty happy.

This has run every game I've thrown at it usually ultra settings quite competently. There is a obvious cpu bottleneck though, as cpu is maxed out while gpu averages around 70% usage. Another thing to watch out for is the overheating, as I've seen cpu temperatures get up to 95 degrees celsius, so additional cooling (like a cooling pad) is needed. Battery tends to last 2hrs doing non-gaming stuff, but can last 4-5hrs when brightness is 0% and battery saver mode is on. Overall, a great gaming laptop for £935 as long as you watch out for overheating.

I looked at laptops for months before deciding on a replacement for my old second hand HP, I play games and I use Office a lot, I wanted a good quality screen, good battery life and enough horsepower to allow me to play the latest games, currently Generation Zero, great concept, beta quality game (even now). On paper this laptop is a beast RTX2060 6GB, 512GB PCIe card with a spare 2.5" bay that I stuck a 1TB drive in, all good. The build quality is good, the backlit keyboard gets annoying, the screen is sharp, but give it something to work on and the fan noise gets really loud, I have read other reviews that calls this heat throttling, it can't deliver its full performance because it gets too hot, well great I didn't sign up for that. I does run games OK but I end up using headphones to hide the noise. The speakers are good quality and the volume control is sufficient. Windows 10 has been crashy with driver issues, I regularly update everything but I think there's probably some clash between the on-board AMD graphics and the RTX which has its own drivers. Biggest gripe is battery life, after 2 hours working on a word document it was struggling and the endless ASUS memory resident programs probably don't help. The paper specs on this laptop promise a lot, the real thing falls quite a bit short. Is it worth it? well I don't expect a new laptop to crash once a week and I don't like the way it gets very noisy when its asked to work is that really the best engineering solution for a £1K laptop? But it looks nice and I can forgive it after an hours gaming, but value for money? 3 stars.

I bought this laptop in November 2019. I wanted to wait a while before writing a review. I do play mainly Destiny 2 and it runs perfectly at high quality. The battery is what it is, i do not complain, neither about the noise it does in performance or turbo fan speed (something you can solve using headphones). I love it. I use this laptop also for editing and the PCI display may not give you the best colours but it does the job, and I'm satisfied. I bought a secondary fan just to avoid any sort of overheating risk. It shouldn't happens but you never know. So far everything is good! This is my first gaming laptop and before i chose it i had to read alot about laptops. It's never easy spending big amount of money, especially online where you cannot test the product. It has made me a bit anxious, at the very beginning. Thanks to the reviews of this community I made the right decision. Edit 9 Dec, 2020: i advise to everybody who are gonna buy this laptop to buy extension for your warranty, as i did, luckily. I had to send my laptop to repair service after two weeks the normal 1y warranty would have expired. Issue related to thermal module.

This is literally such a waste of money. From the get-go this laptop has been unable to play even basic games or run simple programmes (such as steam). We tried trouble shooting over and over again and kept giving up out of frustration. I wish I had contacted amazon sooner and I am not at a point where I don't even want to sell it on because I feel bad selling such a piece of garbage to someone else. I would rather just go and smash it with a hammer to at least get a bit of satisfaction from it after all of the stress and aggro it has caused. Its been a complete waste of a lot of money and I cant tell you just how frustrating it is because on paper when you look at the specs, this laptop should be brilliant. Unfortunately for us, it is utterly useless and nothing but a massive headache and smaller bank balance.