Features:

  • Amd Ryzen 5 3550H Processor and AMD Radeon RX 560x 4GB GDDR5 for superior gaming performance and multitasking
  • 15.6” IPS level FHD display with 6.5mm narrow bezel for up to 77% screen-to-body ratio
  • Portable design with 1.02” thin profile and weight of only 4.85 lbs; Durable MIL-STD-810 military standard construction gaming laptop
  • Dual fans with anti-dust technology. Red Backlit keyboard rated for 20-million keystroke durability
  • 256GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD; 8GB DDR4 RAM. Battery- 48WHrs, 3S1P, 3-cell Li-ion
  • Gigabit wave 2 Wi-Fi up to 1.73Gbps with 2x2 802.11AC
Great Gaming Laptop Value

I've been testing this laptop out for a few days now, and overall it's been great. My usage for this is 70% regular computer work (business, light Photoshop, web browsing, etc.) and 30% gaming when I travel as I have a full size gaming rig at home. I bought the FX505DU, which has the 3750H and the 1660ti. I like the form factor and aesthetics of the device, it doesn't have much flex or "creakiness" to it, and it looks great sitting on a desk. The RGB keyboard is a great touch, but wouldn't allow me to change the color until I downloaded an extra piece of software. It cycles through all the colors by default. Other than that everything worked right out of the box and the performance has been very good. The 1660ti is a beast and has destroyed anything and everything I've thrown at it in 1080p. The 3750H cpu has been good as well, though as expected with Ryzen in some CPU intensive games it gets more than it can handle. Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a great example. I can play at ultra at 1080p with a locked 30FPS framerate, but if I attempt to get a steady 60fps on any settings, including the lowest, there's just too much going on and it can't do it, even with plenty of GPU headroom. Athens just melts it. Having said that Athens pushes my desktop 9900k, so I don't consider it a negative, just something to keep in mind if you're wanting 1080p60 on everything. The only other games I've tested so far are: The Witcher 3: Steady 60fps on ultra (had to dial back one setting, "foliage" to high, and no hairworks). Great experience. Doom 2016: All ultra locked 60 fps using less than 50% of the GPU and CPU. This title can play at 100fps, but it gets too choppy in some high intensity spots, so I lock it to 60 for a smoother experience. Thermals are great, GPU never exceeded 71c at 100% usage, no throttling that i was aware of. Make sure fans are on Turbo, which can be done with a touch of a button on the keyboard, which is awesome. The noise levels during normal usage are fairly quiet, and I appreciate that it has a silent fan setting that can dial things back in case you don't want to let everyone in the classroom or office know you're rocking a gaming rig. Noise levels during gaming were loud, but I've certainly heard much worse from other gaming laptops. I also appreciate that the top of the laptop doesn't get hot, even after prolonged gaming sessions, so you can rest your hands on the keyboard without discomfort. The screen is decent, nothing amazing, but perfectly serviceable, especially considering the price. The 120hz refresh rate is nice for regular usage, but in gaming I've found that the CPU can't get many games past 80-90fps before hitting it's limit, so I've been staying with a locked 60. Also be aware this screen doesn't have any type of adaptive refresh rate (Freesync/Gysnc) so make sure to use Vsync and a frame rate limiter if you want locked frame rates as very few newer games can hit the native 120. This model comes with 2 drives, an SSD and a mechanical hdd. I replaced the hdd with a Samsung Evo ssd, and it took about 5 minutes. The entire bottom comes off the machine after removing all the bottom screws and carefully popping the bottom panel off. I recommend using a plastic separator tool to avoid damage, the tabs were a bit too snug to pop off with just fingers. You also have access to the fans and ram in case you ever need to service and/or clean the dust out. Other than McAfee there isn't much bloatware and the preloaded Asus apps work fairly well. The keyboard and track pad are both comfy and work well. The track pad may turn some people off because it doesn't have separate left/right buttons, but it's large and responsive which is all that I look for. Overall I'm very satisfied with this laptop. It looks great, performs very well, especially considering the price, and feels very durable. My one criticism is the lack of adaptive refresh rate tech, but at this price point that's wishful thinking. Great laptop, definitely recommended.

My thoughts about this laptop

I would like to say, that this laptop for the price, it's one of the best, mostly because in my country (Panama) this laptop would cost around like 2k dollars. I'm going to compare this laptop with my old one (Acer Nitro 5 2017) Aside of better graphics and newer Intel, it's pretty lightweight compare to the Nitro 5. A little to the downside is that it doesn't 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 doesn't heat that much, I played Apex and League of Legends and it's pretty smooth. The gpu is Nvidia 1660 Ti. Apex settings in all high. Continuing my comparison with the Nitro 5, the Asus doesn't have a keyboard shortcut to pause, play next, play before, pause key for the music, a little bit awkward if you're playing and listening music and you want to go to the next song. Aside from that, it's a pretty good laptop, it has a great design. I would recommend this laptop.

One Amazing Gaming laptop for Price - Well Done Asus and AMD

for 599, this laptop is a steal... No lag , no slowness and I haven't 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>...

Best Gaming Laptop ever

The model TUF505DU-EB74 is way better than I expected , I don't 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 didn't 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!!

It can run Division 2 without issues, what more do you want?

The first thing I did was pick up another 8gb ram chip from Crucial to bring it up to 16gb and get the extra speed from dual ram. While the graphic settings are low, Division 2 plays without issues. Older games like Borderlands 2 cruise along at 70fps without problems. It's a low end gaming laptop, and it runs games fine. And even looks decent.

1660ti Beast

I bought the metallic 1660ti version and ive had it for a week so far, here is my thoughts: Pro's: 1. Noise: It stays pretty cool and quiet even in its loudest mode called turbo. Balanced is completely silent and still decently fast. 2. Display: Although small the display is pretty sharp and a nice 120hz. I do wish it had GSync but overall you cant get everything for this great of a price. 3. Speed: This thing is quite the monster, its fast with the 1660ti. Im quite impressed by it. Cons: 1. Silent mode: There is a mode called silent mode, In my opinion I think that mode is unusable. Its too slow for me. I bet it is good when you are trying to save battery life. 2. Now that leads into the next con, battery life. It seems it only lasts around 1 and a half hours even in balanced mode. Maybe im wrong about that but it seems very short. 3. Sleep mode: Sometimes when I close the laptop and try to open it back up the display doesnt start up again. I can still hear the error sound when I type but there is no display, seems like a small bug. I have to usually hard reboot to start it again. I contacted support and they seemed very responsive though. Hope it gets fixed.

Great laptop that won't break the bank!

So far so good! Purchased this laptop about a week ago and it got here a couple days ago. At first I was kind of unimpressed by It's performance as I'm used to a very hefty gaming laptop (A sager with 64GB RAM, 2x 1080's, etc) but I'm definitely warming up to this thing. For those of you who are wondering why I'm using this if I have that other laptop, It's because that laptop is almost hitting It's 3 years old mark and It's starting to have a lot of issues, so naturally I wanted to switch to a machine that doesn't have weird problems. I think I made a pretty good choice by picking this laptop up. First thing I was sort of irritated by was the fact that there's no way to actually exclusively use the Nvidia GPU, even with high performance mode in the Nvidia control panel and all battery saver settings off It's always going to use the APU and the GPU to run games, and if you're not used to that it can be a bit jarring. Basically instead of Battlefield 5 for example just running off the 1660 Ti and NOT using the APU, It's going to use both. As far as I know all laptops (intel and AMD) that have mobile chips are this way and I remember this is why I refused to purchase laptops with mobile series CPU's back in the day, because they couldn't really take full advantage of a dedicated graphics card. This technology however has appeared to have gotten a lot better than when I tried a laptop with a 800 series Nvidia GPU and Intel mobile CPU a few years ago. There isn't much hitching and stuttering when playing even the most graphically intense games, and I can say with confidence I like this thing as a gaming machine. It runs games and that's what matters. Performance is probably akin to a Xbox One or PS4, you're not getting the smoothest uninterrupted gaming experience, but the game runs well enough to where you can really immerse yourself and play on at very least medium settings in most games and ultra in even a few graphically intense titles while still achieving 40-60 fps. I don't really have anything bad to say about this laptop. There was some confusion in the beginning of me setting everything up, I talked to another person who bought the same laptop and they told me games seemed to run a little better when you install the AMD drivers and they were right! You can tweak settings and such for games and disable or enable FreeSync (which I recommend not messing with, I experienced very odd behavior when I disabled FreeSync, I recommend keeping it on if possible) to tweak your experience to your liking. But yeah, after I installed the AMD drivers games did appear to run a little bit smoother and overall I'm happy with the machine. As far as temps, expect to hit 85-90c (sometimes even a tad higher) while gaming. This laptop does run hot, but all laptops in this sort of price range with a mobile CPU and a dedicated graphics card are going to run pretty much right alongside the same temps if not hotter, especially the Intel ones, from what I've seen. Last thing, Windows (and even BIOS) updates are a BREEZE on this thing and extremely user friendly! I'm a power user but after clicking update on the windows update screen and walking away to grab a coffee, I came back to the laptop doing a BIOS UPDATE (YES A BIOS UPDATE!!!) and was actually very impressed that they'd gotten this far with technology to where you can literally update your BIOS automatically! This might scare some people, but all you need to do to ensure your laptop won't fry during a BIOS update is keep your power cord plugged in and, if you're really sketched out, unplug anything else that's plugged into your laptop. I didn't do anything special to mine as I didn't know it was going to be updating the BIOS and it still seemed to update and work fine. Other than that, Asus Armoury Crate and the other Asus utilities are very helpful. I recommend gaming in turbo mode, at least that's what I have been doing and that seems to be working fine. Keep in mind if you're buying this as a Minecraft player, like I did, It's not going to run as well as some of It's intel counterparts. AMD has always had slower single core speeds and Minecraft is a VERY single core performance based game, so you're not going to get the best buttery smooth gameplay like you would with an i5 or i7 on this machine but nonetheless, it runs pretty well. 10/10 laptop! Would buy again. Using it to record videos (Minecraft and other games) and video edit, works like a champ.

Amazing Gaming laptop

I'll be quick and to the point. This computer is not for those with little tinkering and software experience. You must properly update all drivers and remove any junk programs straight out of the box. Windows must be fully updated before installing the newest radeon software or otherwise the graphics card will crash causing a blue screen. Either way AMD warns of this happening on their site. Other than that this laptop is amazing for the money. SSD is very fast and the Ryzen 5 3550H plus RX560x combo is very snappy and loves to run games. Fans are noisy under Max load but what gaming laptop isn't? While unplugged you can set it on silent mode and the fans will literally turn off and be dead silent as long as you are doing casual browsing or utilizing simple programs like word. I would definitely recommend this to anyone that is looking for a budget option.

This has abysmal battery life, and I love it!

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 that's a deal-breaker for you, you'll 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 you'll 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 we'll see for replacements after this is EoL'd, but if they're available whenever that day comes, it's 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 isn't 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: You'll 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 isn't that big a deal at this screen size), and if I can't hit 120, I have yet to find any game that didn't 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. Can't say I've 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. I'm 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. It'd probably handle an impact about as well as a laptop this size can. Noise: Odds are, unless you're doing light tasks or playing older games that the IGP can handle on its own, you're 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 mode's a little less silent due to the GPU having its own fan, but I still found it bearable. Balanced is where you'll probably be most of the time, and while I can tell the machine's running on the other side of the room, it's 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. I've 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 wasn't a terrible experience. RGB: Lastly, if you have this laptop or are about to have it, you'll 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 dog's 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 puke's more your speed, it's the default, and it's quite vibrant, so you'll be happy with that right out of the box. It does flicker a little between some color transitions, but it wasn't any worse than most of the other devices I've seen with a color-cycle mode.

A wonderful budget gaming laptop!

Update!!!! AMD has a mobile app for Android/iOS that links and monitors your gaming PC laptop vitals with your phone as you play! AMD Link... check it out! Let me start with the research I have done. I purchased this laptop from research on the budget end of gaming laptops. A few reviewers thought this was the best value a gamer on a budget. Also from past experience, I wanted an AMD-powered gaming laptop. The unboxing surprised me in how lightweight the laptop was compared to my work laptop. Screen is bright and clear (1080p) and the mat screen finish keeps reflections and glare down to a minimum. The keys are brightly lit as shown in the pictures, the keys also are good quality and give a good tactile feedback when typing. The touchpad works very well which surprised me. Some touchpads give mediocre performance...ASUS did it right with this gaming laptop. The twin fans to keep it running cool are fairly quiet. When the fans go into high gear you can hear them but fan noise is not distracting. On the negative side, the battery does not last more than a couple hours under heavy game use. As a side note, it is very easy to open up the case to do repairs or upgrades. I unscrewed the eight screws holding the case together to add memory and upgrade to a 1TB SSD. Easy Peasy! I highly recommend going to the AMD website and install the software utility for the display for keeping all drivers and hardware up to date. the AMD Radeon software package has updated not just the software drivers in my laptop but also the BIOS for you geeks out there. Adrenaline 2019 will keep your AMD powered gaming experience at it's best. And AMD Link to monitor your gaming stats in real time. WhooHoo! To summarize, a great gaming laptop for under $1000 US dollars. The AMD processor with RX560 AMD graphics is a winner...just as reviewers from magazines and YouTube stated. If you want something better, spend $1400 to $2600 for a serious gaming laptop. Don't waste time reading performance charts and benchmarks as some Amazon reviews state...they should have spent more money. Anyway RPGs, 1st Person shooters... everything from Candy Crush to Crysis runs well. I am playing BioShock and Farcry this month. Die villainous scum!

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