ASUS - TUF Gaming 15.6" Laptop - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti - 256GB SSD - Black

What you need to know and how to upgrade: Only lacks in memory dept IMO Some say screen lacks but looks great to me. Not 144hz but who cares. I-5 10th gen seems fine. I upgraded the Ram with Hyper-X (by Kingston) to 32G CL16(LoweR CL# the better) 2666mhz DDR4 “Sodimm” which means smaller size for lap top. I didn’t have to adjust my bios. (16g would be good too) I upgraded the storage by adding a 1-TB m.2 NVME SSD Samsung 970 Evo-Plus 2280(physical size). All I had to do was allocate it by watching a 2-min YouTube video. Both memory upgrades cost me $300 together. $600 for the machine on Black Friday so $900 and I still have space for 2.5 data SSD or HDD, I believe it can take either. It edits video great (like 60+ gig videos) and I can’t wait to download games to it! Just got the steam app today. This is my first gaming laptop and I had to do hours of research just to find the perfect upgrades I listed above. Hope it helps someone. Have a good day!

Purchased on sale for $599.99. Asus makes the best laptops and are the king of motherboards. This laptop is built very well. Keys hug your fingertips. Quick tip. If you want to change the color of the background keys you have to hob to the Microsoft store and download Asus Tuf Aura. Then you can pick any color you want your back-lit keyboard to be.

Very good budget laptop and probably around the high tier. It is worth buying it when on sale. You get good components and works very well in many tasks. It has upgraded ram, hdd and ssd for when you want extra speed or storage. Screen quality however is a disappointment. If I bought it for $800 instead of $600, I would return it. Screen is dark and hard to see at times and that just ruins the whole experience. I expect a bright screen with at least 75hz for $800.

Definitely recommend capping your games to 30fps and going to the 3D image as well as well and setting it to Performance in the Nvidia control panel. It's a clever trick to keep this laptop cooler because it doesn't have the best Cooling. Another issue is that the battery is not the best. Other than that I have had one of the best experiences over. Thankful that Best Buy had this in stock. You can definitely upgrade the space by adding a Samsung SSD drive as well as a nvme SSD stick. It only has 256 gigabytes but you can had enough space to make one terabyte. Pretty powerful machine for Just 4gb vram. It's definitely mobile device. But it is worth the price. If you guys are looking to buying this as I said previously Beware of the battery in the cooling. And take my tips on capping your games to 30 FPS in the Nvidia control panel. I know smoother frame rates better but not overheating the GPU with high frame rates makes the system last a lot longer. For all I know I could be over exaggerating with a cooling and it could have one of the best Cooling solutions ever but my personal opinion is recommendation cap your frame rates.

Purchased this as a Black Friday deal. I needed to replace my 10 year old laptop for school. This machine is a better deal than your standard school laptop. I don't plan on running games but it can handle some games. I purchased a mouse and external hard drive. I love the custom color keyboard. The laptop came with some kind of dongle that I have no idea what it is for as there were no instructions. So far I've been very happy with this purchase and the machine is much faster than my older laptop. It connects to my TV via the HDMI cord (not included). The built-in webcam is satisfactory but I also purchased a HD webcam and USB microphone which I will use for podcasting.

Really like this new laptop and it is very fast. Thanks

Great laptop for the price. I purchased it as a gift for my gf’s kid and the little guy could not be any happier. Solid build, decent battery life for gaming laptop ( I have shut off turbo boost on battery and getting around 6 hours of life watching movies/browsing internet). IPS screen has decent colors and viewing angles. After some OS optimizations I got 60fps in WH2 at 1929x1080 with temp around 70c (turbo boost off), pic with settings attached. My older ASUS ROG with 1060 and 7700hq gets 90fps with same settings and was double the price, but on battery runs for 2.5 hours of watching movies/browsing web. All in all very satisfied with the purchase and would recommend.

Its a beast. A power machine with with great performance. When I started GTA 5, this laptop just won my heart. It can run everything efficiently. Keyboard lighting is completely customizable. Display, keyboard, touchpad, design everything is amazing. Got it for $599. ASUS makes reliable products and this is one among them. Highly satisfied.