ASUS - TUF DASH 15.6" Gaming Laptop - Intel 11th Gen i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 - 512GB SSD - Eclipse Gray

I've owned several Asus ROG laptops in the past, they were amazing. This was my first from the Asus TUF lineup, and I've got to say that for the price, I'm impressed. I've owned this for almost two years now and it's running just as strong as it was on day one. Starting with the exterior: It is quite simple, but tasteful. With clean lines, metal lid, minimalistic color scheme, and that overall high quality feel, it reminds me a of a Razor Blade or Macbook. I'm Very Impressed with the exterior. Moving on the the Features: Overall, I'm not super impressed with the features on this. The Battery fairly decent and still holds a good charge, this doesn't have a webcam, the keyboard is backlit, however, It's only green, No RGB. I love that it has a USB-C Thunderbolt 4 port, very convenient seeing as I use USB-C for my headset receiver. (See Photos for port layout) Last but not lease, Performance: This can run the majority of new games (BF 2042, Diablo IV, MW2) on medium settings at around 60 fps. I personally aim for 60fps when I play games. For me, that's the balance of FPS to quality that I like. After several hours of prolonged play this thing does get HOT and will have a great reduction in performance. It's annoying, but understandable as its only a laptop. When this happens I just take a break for 10-20 minutes to let it cool back down. On that note, the fan is very loud, but if you are like me and use a headset most of the time, it's not noticeable. All in all, love this thing. Would definitely recommend a TUF series laptop to anybody looking for a solid mid range gaming laptop.

This was one of the few laptops that I could find that has a 3060 with a decent TDP for around $1000 that doesn't compromise on much. Pros: It runs pretty much everything at decent frame rates without easing back graphics settings. (usually) It's thin and light for a gaming laptop It feels solid even though it is plastic Dedicated button for cycling through power settings (silent, performance, turbo) The thermals are good under full load when the fans are max speed, but during light loads, silent mode is enough to keep thermals in check. The Asus utility allows you to set the level of charge you want to stop charging your battery at, and it even works when the laptop is powered off while plugged in. (60%, 80%, 100%). This is to save the battery from wear if you typically use your laptop plugged in. Battery life is okay when in silent mode at light load, you might get 6 or 8 house out of it. Don't expect much more than a few hours of medium load gaming in battery. You could kill it in under 2 hours at max load. Thunderbolt 4 WiFi6 The IPS screen is pretty decent for this price point. Colors are okay and brightness is enough for most environments. Keyboard is backlit Speakers are decent (the best laptop speakers I've ever had, but I've had some terrible laptops) Storage is quick (500GB NVMe SSD) and if you need more capacity, there is one more M.2 slot free for a storage drive. You'll need an M.2 NVMe SSD in 2280. (2280 is the physical size - 22mm x 80mm) Cons: No webcam No number pad The keyboard isn't RGB 16GB RAM is a bit on the low side and 8GB of that is soldered. To upgrade, the 8GB stick has to be removed. I personally opted to get a 32GB stick (around $80) but even a 16GB stick would keep you from running out in most situations. (Single stick DDR4 3200MHz SODIMM is the kind you'll want - the capacity is up to you - the price difference is $50 vs $80 between 16GB and 32GB respectively) Overall, this is a great laptop for the price; great specs for the price and decent upgradeability. However, I did buy it almost a year after it launched. It is a good buy now, but definitely do some research; there may be something better out there now in terms of bang for the buck. If your research has brought you here, and you are leaning towards this one, I would hope this review pushes you over that edge.

I've been working on this laptop daily for almost a month now, so far temps have been great, it's really quiet, and it can run apex really smooth for when i want to do a little gaming on the side. Feels really well built. I upgraded the memory which was a bit weird because one 8gb was swappable and the other 8 is soldered somewhere to the board so i have 24gb now. It boots really fast. Has no problem with my 60 or more chrome tabs that I'm constantly cycling through for work and connects to my Dell thunderbolt dock perfectly so i only need the one cable to run three monitors, ethernet, mouse, keyboard and a few USB devices. I like the placement of the track pad being farther to the right because i have large hands and my palm sometimes touches the track pad when I'm playing games with wasd and throws my aim off with my other two laptops. No camera which I'm not sure how i feel about cause everyone is doing virtual meetings these days but all in all I'm extremely satisfied with how much work it can get done quickly and makes the battery last hours! The cpu could be a tad better but paired with the 3060 it's a great combo. At a decent price it surprised me that it feels like a premium laptop with all the right features

Shipping was a nightmare. I had to hunt it down as it was left on the "porch" unsigned for but I won't blame the laptop on that. Screen isn't as bad as I've read but maybe I'm lucky. Plays ACV very nicely 30+ hours clocked, and other triple A games RDR2 etc. She runs a little hot but a cooling pad is easy enough. No Webcam, don't need it I have a phone. No disc drive, got to make cuts somewhere. Over all build... well I don't know about "tuf" but it looks durable but not enough for me to test it lol. I didn't get my free game with it because I went to cancel the order and naturally they cancel the free game instead of the laptop. I never thought I would buy a gaming laptop from best buy but I did because you can't really find much out there for this price and power. Yes the highlighted keys are a eye sore but as I said best bang for buck.

Overall I am very satisfied with this laptop. I’ve had mostly Sony VAIO and Dell laptops before. I’ve never looked at a laptop as the main house computer, this was what I intended to do with this one: Replacing my main Dell Studio desktop at home. I’m not a PC gamer but before our work issued us nice business laptops, I tried to do a 2 monitor set up with my Dell Studio Core2Quad. The Bios was too old and an Nvidia GPU didn’t pair with it correctly. I knew it was time for a new desktop with a GPU, no way around it. This was March / April 2020. I waited a long time. All articles 1.5-2 years old stated that laptops aren’t par with desktops right now as you cannot change parts on them, like you can with desktops. Although this ASUS Tuf Dash doesn’t have a camera, before Telework, I’ve used my web cam once in my entire life, so it’s not that big of a deal. I decided to give this one a try. I wasn’t necessarily looking for an ASUS brand laptop, but it seems to be the best bang for the buck. I do wish it has 1TB HDD though. I received this on the 10th of December. And boy is this computer fast or what. I do not know the specs but the screen isn’t as crisp as an older MacBook Pro with Retina display. Definitely not a deal breaker for me. Battery life is phenomenal for browsing web. I was on it more than an hour it seemed it only depleted about 7-8%. It’s about 7 hours or so if I had to guess. I did okay Roblox today, without the charger it lasted 2.5-3 hours and that game did make the laptop a bit warm also. Last week I tried connecting it to my Dell dock (Dell WB19TB) to try out dual monitors, it connected but it froze up and put the this laptop to sleep and didn’t wake up no matter what I did, it had a black screen with a cursor. Next day it had bunch of updates from Windows and Asus. I know I should t pair with that dock again, I almost got ready to give it a bad review. This laptop is more than anything 95% of the people will need. I was looking at some full resolution family pics, which freeze up my Dell i7 - 7th Gen Laptop, this guy handled it amazingly. I do use this for some light photography work as well. I have to say lots of people complaining about the arrow keys on the right being crowded, is so true but the keyboard it self: they keys are spread out nicely and makes it easy to type fast. I am disappointed about Best Buy though, I wont give Asus Tuf Dash a negative because of their screw up. Please see image below this was a Best But Excellent Geek Squad Certified Open Box, condition which had bunch of grease marks/ hand prints on it (it’s an $1100+ tax pc, clean it up). 2nd issue was that it has a screw missing on the bottom, which makes me wonder what was opened up and what was replaced. I do have till the 15th or next month to return it. I will monitor it. The condition with screws falling out should be Open Box satisfactory or just excellent or something, the not high test tier of Open Box.

Bought this as my first gaming laptop. I needed a one which would be compatible with Oculus Quest 2 (I am yet to try on it as I dont have Link cable). The build is good, colors look average as compared to my old laptop - Dell Inspiron 13, fast enough to hold heavy software applications I have, sound quality is average, good battery (without gaming). I am working professional & need webcam as must requirement. As this laptop dont have it, I have to carry webcam as extra accessory. I feel non-glare screen on it makes color quality less bright. Also this laptop is a magnet for the fingerprints which might look very embarrassing if you use it in front of team/class. This laptop also dont have fingerprint scanner which is now a days common in new generation laptops.

love my purchase, use it for more less 2 years and always fast and always great!

The battery life is amazing. It even charges really quickly. The graphics during gameplay is pretty amazing as well. Highly recommended for gaming. :)