Asus TUF Gaming Laptop FX505: High-end performer with robust build quality

Asus TUF FX505: Highend performer with robust build quality The new TUF FX505 takes care of your everyday office blues and works extra hours to take care of your gaming needs but compromises on certain factors to meet the pricing.

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» Asus has been trying to bridge the gap between

hardcore gaming laptops and enterprise notebooks meant for corporate use.

Recently, the Taiwanese manufacturer came up with the TUF series; a range of affordable machines meant for entry-level gaming enthusiasts. While the first iteration of this series, the TUF FX504 was fairly impressive, the FX505 walks an extra mile to raise the bar even higher. .

While there's hardly any compromise in terms of inner components and build quality, does the laptop fulfil every gamer's desire? This is what we tried to find out.

In terms of design and build quality, the Asus FX505 is compact with a bezel only 6.5 mm thick. The screen to body ratio is impressive but the laptop screen felt a bit flimsy. A bit of thumb pressure made the screen wobble.

However, Asus claims that the laptop meets a few US military grade reliability standards and the flimsy nature of the screen is made to survive accidental drops. While my carelessness led to quite a few falls, the laptop did survive with just minor scratches.

As far as performance is concerned, the FX505 is a great performer but with minor flaws. The test laptop I got had a GTX1060 graphics card, 16GB RAM, six-core Intel Core i7-8750H processor, 128GB PCIe NVME M.2 SSD and 1TB HDD mated to a brilliant 144Hz screen that made games like 'The Rise of Tomb Raider' and 'Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor' look lively.

The PCIe SSDs is a serial expansion bus standard that flashes the data directly on the server motherboard. The point-to-point architecture lowers latency and boosts data transfer rates provides better performance other SSDs. While these innards enhance the performance, the heat management issue crops up after a few hours of extensive use. The fans become noisy in overboost mode, while the balanced mode fails to balance out the heat.

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