ASUS - 17.3" Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti - 512GB Solid State Drive - Black

I purchased this laptop for the black Friday door buster at 899.99. Let me just say that my review is at a different benchmark then most of these hardcore enthusiasts commenting. I was looking to purchase an entry gaming laptop under 1,000 dollars that had mid range specs to get back into playing blizzard games for their new expansions, like WoW Shadowlands and Diabo 4. Since opening this laptop, it has not let me down for this purpose. Huge screen, awesome LED keyboard and LED lights under the keyboard. No problem setting it up or downloading my games which are running flawlessly. I had already researched it was 60hz before purchasing but that was its only downside for all the rest of this laptops hardware which is tops at this price point. If this laptop goes on sale again for $899 and your looking to get a solid entry gaming laptop for a great price get this one. You won't be disappointed.

I bought this because of the black Friday deal Best Buy had going on. It was by far the best deal on the market for that time. I planned to open up the laptop and take a peak inside, so I did just that. Although some of you would probably like photo's or specs on that, I did not remove any of the static shielding, but I am assuming the SSD and the Memory Modules were generic in order to make the price what it was, including the display. I also ran a check on a popular laptop cooler because some are worried about the size of this machine. Inside: -Same chassis / heat piping that is seen in the higher priced models -Dual fan configuration at each heat pipe -2 8GB RAM modules, suspected being Hynix -1 PCie 500GB SSD, suspected being generic -1 2.5 slot - Similar configuration and layout that you see in the higher end models with 2060's and up as far as the mobo and PCB *I did not pull off the heat pipes and examine the MOSFETS but I am going to assume it's a quality ASUS build* Overall Impression: Quality build. Solid construction, plastic materials but feels great! The laptop opens up without holding the base and the general feel of the device exudes a quality build. Gaining access to the MOBO was simple and easy, although you should do your best to remember the bolt pattern. The specs are as advertised. It is rocking a 1660Ti and a and everything else that was advertised. I did not get a glimpse of the video memory but when loading Rocket League I did see it accessing the video memory. Was unable to confirm if it was actually running 6GB or not. Gaming: I have not had a chance to test this out yet, but I am assuming that it will run everything at a minimum of 60FPS in 1080P. I'll have to report back my findings there, but I did buy this for music production and light gaming. Although the display is 60HZ I'm not too bothered because the deal was great and there are plenty of 144+hz displays for this build available on the market for replacement / upgrades in the future. Also the laptop came with a clean copy of Windows. There was no bloatware to be found. Tree New Bee Cooler: (or equivalent) It fits! The open slots on the back plate allow this cooler to help cool the core components. There were no air slots in the middle of the back plate so a cooler with a central fan would not make much sense. *SEE PICS* Final conclusion: Great for the Black Friday price! For the current price, I would likely build my own tower with better core components. THIS THING WILL BE EASY TO UPGRADE! *Including the display* Hope this helps!

This thing ticks every single box for what I was looking for, except for the 144hz panel. Honestly that really is not a big deal for me, since I don't plan on gaming on this much. Still it is a bit of a buzzkill seeing games running at higher FPS than can be displayed. For my usage as a productivity machine for editing, and GIS work though this thing is a absolute beast. Barely breaks a sweat under loads that would explode my old computer. Love the giant screen with the small bezels, love the feel of the keyboard, love the Asus control panel, love the 512 GB hard drive. Overall I am very satisfied with this for the $900 BF price. If it was an option to pay a bit more for the 144hz I would have, but really I won't need it for my use. It's honestly probably better to put the money you saved towards a high refresh external monitor.

I bought this mostly because I wanted a be ready laptop, the 60hz screen works for me. It runs destiny 2 just fine. The 2x8 ram is fast and the 512gb NVMe is good enough to get you started and has an open 2.5” slot. Also I like that it’s 17.3” makes it easier to see at a distance.With the aura utility you can set the keyboard as a solid color and have the light bar do all the fading effects. I’d buy it again.

This is a blazing fast machine from the point of view of a non hardcore gamer. I love GTX1660Ti, tested Battlefield V, Wolfenstein : Youngblood, Ace Combat 7, all ran perfectly well. The keyboard is quite comfortable and RGB lighting is great. Boots up in 5 seconds flat thanks to SSD. Coming to the screen, it is certainly not as terrible as it has been painted, brightness should have been 300 nits at least as opposed to 250 nits, but it's not a problem indoors, 60 Hz is not bad either, but more would've been merrier. ARMOURY CRATE and AURA come in handy for tweaking CPU, fan etc. The look and feel are certainly desirable.

It’s good pc I bought this on Black Friday spl it’s good fast and supper lovely. If this pc on sale again I would buy one for my brother

as for every new computer it boots up super fast. graphics are good I've been a Asus customer for over 5 years. My First PC was Asus rog20j I think. but over all there are a great computer. I've been a BestBuy customer, purchasing from them a very long time.

On paper, everything seems good. I saw this deal on Reddit and the only concern was the screen. But really, that was just the refresh rate. Now that I’ve booted it up and attempted to update everything to run a benchmark test against my prior laptop, this thing sinks before it even left the harbor. After getting to the desktop, I could barley read the on screen text. All text looked as if scan lines were breaking things apart and maybe an update would clear things up. After updating, this changed in no way. I first noticed the ghosting and assumed some driver was messed up, so I updated everything and installed the latest Nvidia drivers, but it changed nothing. It looked so bad, I knew I wouldn’t be downloading anything to play on here, but grabbed user benchmark to run anyway. And that also tanked, benchmark suggesting that the graphics card is performing way below expectations. Being at best a work station, but no longer what I want or need.