ASUS TUF FX505DT Gaming Laptop- 15.6", 120Hz Full HD, AMD Ryzen 5 R5-3550H Processor, GeForce GTX 1650 Graphics, 8GB DDR4, 256GB PCIe SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 10 64-bit - FX505DT-AH51

I bought this 6 years ago and it's still going strong and working perfectly I can play any game like GTA 5 etc it really is TUF because I had it in my backpack and it fell out of a moving golf cart onto the asphalt right on it's corner like 4 months after I bought it and it has never caused any issue even 6 years later. Everything functions exactly as it did from day one, all the LEDs under the keyboard still work and light up, all the keys and buttons function the same as day one. I did upgrade the storage to Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB and the RAM to 32GB. For about 4 years I used it exclusively until I built a gaming PC at home now I just use the laptop when I travel which is a lot because i'm a trucker so i'm always going from hotels to my truck and staying in different places and it does everything I need it to, it's fast and has different graphic presets that you can select based on watching movies, playing rpg/fps games, reading etc. First and only laptop i've ever owned but I have to say I have never in my life have a PC last this long before, my desktops usually last 4-5 years but this laptop has survived drops without any problem so if I ever sell it for an upgrade such as larger screen or improved graphic ASUS Rog it will look and perform like new even being over half a decade old while still running almost every game with great graphics.

First of all, the 120Hz display makes a world of difference. After 5 years of 120Hz desktop displays, 60Hz displays look stuttery and slow. Once you get used to it, theres no going back, and now you can get one in a budget gaming laptop??? The screens great, apart from mediocrity colour reproduction, but a laptop isnt just a screen, what drives the screen is just as important. The gtx1650 and ryzen 5 CPU do an adequet job of driving most modern games into the 90-100fps region at medium settings 1080p. Even though the gtx1650 isnt the most powerful gpu, its enough to see the benifits of 60+ fps gaming in most games, even if some settings may need to be turned down. I would choose 120Hz screen and medium graphics over 60Hz and high graphics anyday; perhaps laptop screens are too small to really notice graphical improvements from medium-high settings. The model I purchased only has 8GB of ram in single channel. I highly recommend upgrading it to dual channel for improved gaming perfromance- ryzen CPUs love their memeory bandwidth. Boots times and snappiness are noticeably better than my old non-NVME SSD laptop. In other words the included NVME SSD is plenty fast and really appreciated at this budget price point. I also added a extra 500GB SSD. Its alot cheaper to add your own extra storage than buying an upgraded everything laptop ($75 vs $300-400) Everything else is as it should be for a budget gaming laptop- usable keyboard, poor battery life (3-4 hours) average laptop speakers and a mediocre trackpad. Overall I am very pleased with the laptop, it does what its supposed to do: play videos games. In fact it does it fairly well with a 120Hz screen, and at a budget price point at that! The battery life is bad, the screen doesn't have popping colours like a 2 thousand dollar macbook and its not superlight, but thats not why I bought it, I have an ipad for word processing , watching videos and emails. If you want a solid gaming laptop at an amazing price I cannot recommend anything else- the 120hz screen really is a rarity at this price point.

This laptop arrived on my doorstep on February 9th, 2020 and had no issues out of the box. I plugged it into my monitor, plugged a keyboard and mouse in, and downloaded the Resident Evil 2 remake. This laptop will run the game on high settings, however the fans will be very loud and the CPU will be working very hard. I just want to mention this as a sort of rough benchmark, though we'll get into more specifics in just a minute. First, let's look at the pro's and con's of this laptop. Now, just to get a subjective opinion out of the way, I do not take my laptop out of the house very often. That being said, there's no reason why I wouldn't. It weighs roughly 5 pounds which doesn't really seem too heavy to me, but obviously you be your own judge. Pro's: * Has played everything I've thrown at it * Apparently can run Linux (I run Linux, you can run whatever you want) * The keyboard is I believe a chiclet keyboard, but honestly it's one of the best feeling chiclet keyboards I've used in recent memory * The screen has a solid 120 hertz refresh rate and some pretty decent viewing angles for the price. I will say that there are some bright spots, which might bug some people, but I don't mind them so much. * Build quality is something I look for in all of my laptops, and this one was obviously no exception. The body is all plastic, but it's a solid feeling plastic that's kind of rigid and doesn't flex much but also doesn't feel brittle. * The hinge is actually also very sturdy. I did not think this would be the case, and worried about the amount of closing/opening it would have to endure. After a few months, I'm happy to report that it feels no different than when I first bought it. Again, only 2 months at this point, but I've had more expensive laptops break in less time. I'll call it a positive. Con's: * Look, the touchpad just sucks. If you plan on using this touchpad for any kind of serious work, just get a mouse. It's finicky, often deciding that I have a ghost finger touching in the opposite place as my finger, or that the three clicks I just did were all right clicks. Frankly, it's kind of a headache, but I mean a mouse is better anyway. * The battery life is pretty mediocre for a normal, business class laptop and downright abysmal when you're gaming. Think 2 hours of Resident Evil before you have to think about how much progress you're going to lose in the next 15-20 minutes. Leave it plugged in for intense gaming, surfing the web and watching youtube will get you about 4-5 hours, depending on your settings. * This laptop only comes with the 256gb nvme flash memory. This is great as a boot drive and pretty much nothing else. It does not come with a hard drive by traditional standards, and the space provided is not enough for any kind of gaming library. You'll likely want to get a 1tb hard drive or SSD, that should hold most of your stuff. Or get a different size, I'm not your mom. * I/O is not great. All of the ports on this laptop are on the left hand side of the laptop, meaning that there are not very many of them, and yet they still feel kind of cramped. In total, there are three usb ports (1 of which is USB 2.0, the other two are USB 3.0) an HDMI port, an Ethernet port, the charging port, and a headphone jack. There is no card reader, no thunderbolt, no USB-c. On the other side of the laptop you'll find a kensington lock, for all of your kensington purposes. I just kind of feel like they could have put in a card reader and maybe another USB or HDMI on the other side, but it doesn't bug me too much. * Finally, and this is more a gripe about the current state of windows as a whole, but this laptop does come with a fair amount of bloatware. I randomly find things like Bejewelled or Fruit Ninja and their lookalikes downloaded on my boot drive. Thank Linus for Linux, yikes. Now something that I do want to address, this CPU (Ryzen 5 R5-3550h with Vega 8 IGPU) is not the toughest CPU out there. It's comparable to some of the low end i5's that Intel has been putting out, but it does only have a base clock speed of 2.1 GHZ and a boosted clock speed of 3.7 GHZ. This means that the CPU does sometimes get very hot for what seems like lower quality games, but the reality is that those games may be more CPU intensive. A good example I found was Terraria. It runs fine, but not when I was doing five other things in the background. Just some food for thought, it hasn't really impacted my feeling about this laptop, but you should know what you're getting before you get it. Finally, I want to mention the Armoury Crate program that is shipped with ROG and TUF laptops from Asus. I personally really like the interface, and it's one of few thing's I'll miss when I switch to Linux. It really does give you all of the real time performance info you need, as well as allowing you to control certain effects for your keyboard or what GPU will be used. You can also buy devices that link to your laptop and use the same RGB effects (For all you REAL gamers out there.) To sum this whole thing up, I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't really expecting the build quality to be great, I wasn't expecting a really good keyboard, and I wasn't really expecting to be able to throw Linux on here. Lots of good surprises, not many bad ones. The touchpad sucks, but this IS still a budget laptop. I would and have recommended this laptop to friends and family alike, and am excited to see how long I can run modern titles with this lovely machine. I don't want to say "Get this NOW!!!!" or anything, but I did a lot of shopping and found nothing better for the price, so take that how you want to. Thanks for reading! If you've made it this far, have a great rest of your day! Update 10/20/2020: Everything that I previously said has remained the same. Keyboard is great, still handles all of my games, and I've grown my library quite a bit since then. I really don't have much more to add to my previous review, I just felt it was good to update this review and let anyone know that the laptop has not disappointed thus far. I do have mine in more of a second screen, desktop configuration, But the ventilation had been fantastic even when I had it on my bed playing some low resource games. All in all, I can comfortably recommend this laptop to others after over 6 months.

Fantastic laptop at this price range.... - 15" 120 hz display - most other laptop selling at $200 more doesn't have this. - Gtx1650 runs most games well enougH - You will do well to add on some additional ssd and ddr4 ram at a minimum investment

I use it for gaming. Good purchase!

Excelente equipo, tiene un excelente desempeño para el precio que estás pagando y por la tarjeta gráfica que tiene ufff, es una excelente opción sí no quieres invertir demasiado dinero, tiene muy buen material de construcción, se siente muy solido, para trabajo cotidiano no hace ruido, me gusta que el segundo ventilador que es para la GPU también funciona para refrigerar la CPU, así que si solo la usas para trabajar en cosas cotidianas estará excelentemente refrigerada. En cuanto a juegos, los que he probado y me corren a 60 fps son, halo reach, fortnite, gears 5, metro exodus y todos en gráficas altas. Lo único que no me gustó fue el touchpad, ya que se siente muy flojo, no se si sea normal ya que en reviews que vi comentan lo mismo, igual no tengo problema con eso porque uso mouse, pero de ahí en más todo excelente. ACTUALIZACIÓN 10/03/2020 En algunas ocasiones el equipo se empezó a congelar y a dar pantallazos azules, pero se solucionó actualizando el bios a la version 310 ACTUALIZACION 16/04/2020 Hace una semana he empezado a escuchar que el ventilador del lado izquierdo hace un ruido un poco molesto si levanto el equipo a unos 45 grados, como si estuviera rozando con la superficie de la tapa de abajo, me puede confirmar alguien si también le pasa?

Of all the ASUS TUF models in this price range I think this one is the best value. Fast SSD (you can add another), good video card and fairly powerful processor. Set up is easy and there is very minimal bloatware on this machine. Plays most modern games at med 1920x1080 settings at decent frame rates. Some downsides : All ports are on the left side. No SD card reader. Screen portion of case seems weak and flexes. Build quality isn't bad but just doesn't feel as "TUF" as I would have expected. For less than $1000 CDN it's acceptable. Backlit keys are nice. Full RGB colours but only one at a time.

Dije que a los seis meses daría mi opinión pero han pasado 8 y la verdad es que no me quejo. El único dolor de cabeza que a veces da es que se me desconecta el WiFi de la nada pero no pasa seguido y más allá nada de problemas, sólo uno que otro detalle pero son cuestión de Windows y no de algún componente. Las bocinas no sé como pero quiero pensar que gracias a alguna actualización ahora suenan muy bien, mucho más claro y algo más fuerte que en el inicio. Mi tecla C está perdiendo el color y es la única, no sé porque pero noto que es en la parte de adentro de la tecla, como que se "cayó" la pintura, fuera de eso nada. Resiste bien el polvo de la vida diaria y el hogar, ya que donde la utilizo es un lugar con ventanas amplias y a orilla de calle, así que noto el polvo pero trato de limpiarla diario. La pantalla aunque tiene leve rayones no se notan y ayuda mucho el hecho de que es de terminado mate. Por cierto, la tasa de refresco de 120hz es simplemente hermoso, no creo que vuelva a una laptop normal después experimentar y disfrutar día a día esta característica. Los ventiladores son buenos y espero que cumplan con la característica de evitar el polvo, claro no al cien pero sí en gran medida. Tengo planeado mejorar a 16 de ram pero no lo he hecho porque no he tenido ningún problema. He corrido The Witcher y GTA V sin broncas, también las versiones nuevas de AOE y un NFS algo viejito (Hot Pursuit) y todos son perfectamente disfrutables, claro que con The Witcher no se logra 1080 y 120fps pero si es muy respetable y perfectamente jugable. El teclado es muy bueno, preciso y se siente muy duradero, la iluminación me gustó mucho y la uso en su ciclo de colores para que haga "match" con el mouse Logitech que tengo configurado de la misma manera. El procesador no me ha dado ningún problema, los puertos aunque a veces los dejo con algo de polvo los limpio regularmente así que ninguno ha dejado de funcionar, creo que es algo muy fundamental a tener en cuenta para el correcto funcionamiento de éstos. La carga me dura aproximadamente 4 horas con un uso decente y vaya que es totalmente silenciosa. Cuando se conecta se activa el modo rendimiento pero una que otra vez (depende de lo que estés haciendo) se activan los ventiladores. Reproduciendo vídeo 4K definitivamente están activados pero no molestan, no me ha tocado problemas tampoco usando Photoshop CC ni Lightroom así que creo que para los que usan Corel o algún otro programa demandante no sufrirán de lag o algo más. La uso diario con esta situación de clases en línea y el micrófono me da buenos resultados, mis alumnos me escuchan y ven claramente, aunque queda a deber la webcam porque como siempre son algo mediocres en las laptops, pero al menos en el audio no hay quejas. Por los 15 mil pesos que pagué estoy totalmente satisfecho y siento que me va a durar mínimo de dos a tres años ya que trato de cuidarla y limpiarla. El SSD por cierto es muy rápido y aunque "sólo" es de 256 la verdad es que se agradece. Con un DD externo tienes la vida resuelta si es que requieres de más almacenamiento, o bien sustituyes el que ya trae por uno de mayor capacidad. En pocas palabras no me arrepiento de haber vendido mi Macbook Pro 2016 ya que gané muchas cosas positivas, aunque esta es muchísimo más gruesa y pesada creo que está totalmente justificada por todo lo que trae y brinda. Además noté que no se calienta tanto como otras laptops que he tenido así que definitivamente fue una muy buena compra. Y por cierto, el teclado que no trae la Ñ la verdad ni en cuenta, obviamente lo notas pero se configura Windows en español y asunto arreglado, es tal cual siempre hemos tenido nuestros teclados en México, quizás cuesta al principio pero después de un par de días vas a escribir las palabras con ñ y acentos de manera normal y sin ver ni una sola tecla.