ASUS FX504: Review

            This right here is the ASUS TUF gaming FX504 otherwise known in other markets as the FX80GE and it is a laptop that I bought because of the spec and sadly it's not as good as it seems in fact spoiler alert here this is not a laptop you want to actually buy so the specs on paper seem really good an i7 the 8750 H that's the latest 8th generation 6 cores 12 threads 8 gigabytes of double data rate for DRAM I don't we ain't gigabyte nvme SSD it has wireless AC a one terabyte hard drive and the Nvidia 1050 Ti GPU with 4 gigabytes of RAM but sadly it turned out to be a case of on paper it looks great but in reality it's not so let's find out why we get to screen options with this particular model here so you can either get a fast 120 hertz TN panel with poor vertical viewing angles or an IPS panel which is the one.

ASUS FX504: Review

            I have here so the brightness isn't really that great it tops out at 212 lux ideally I like to see over 250 it is matte coated so it's great for glare you're not gonna see a lot of glare and things with those glossy panels that you do see but have a look at the Adobe RGB coverage so you can see right here that it's only 48 percent and 64% of s RGB so this is not a screen for professionals getting access to the internals isn't difficult you just have to remove 11 screws and then pry off the red case the SSD is upgradable it's a high next one right here and then the wireless card as well if you're not happy with the one they've gone with then this can also be replaced and RAM upgrades are very easy you don't need to pull out and swap around the motherboard same goes for that 2.5 inch drive very easy to replace this with a larger one if you're not happy 1 terabyte or put in a faster SATA 3 SSD the battery pack is rather small 48 watt hours only it's not the smallest for this kind of hardware MSI have only 41 on one of their particular models that .
            I'll probably be reviewing later on so this is only good for about 2 and a half hours of gaming or around 4 to 5 hours as expected for a gaming laptop you're not gonna get the best battery life and it's definitely not the case here now this is what I do not recommend this laptop here they're cooling on it just isn't sufficient enough and as I snow this this is why they restrict with the bios with the power limits it'll chop down to near 25 watts once it starts to get a little hot because they know the cooling is not gonna do a sufficient enough job unless you use that fan over booster mode which results in fair noise of up to 55 decibels then you get the 45 watts so they're going to use the one copper transfer heat pipe here now that is connected to both the CPU and GPU and then this tiny little auxilary one which would just pan past but I'll go back and show you that now other manufacturers like MSI Dell HP ASA they're using normally three four even five copper transfer heat pipes with the same exact spec now one of the things I do like about this laptop here is the keyboard so only they in a miracle keyboard is really crammed and the rest is quite spacious I like what they've done with the space bar the power button as well is separated away from the keyboard typing on it as good it's firm.
            And I'd even rate it as being better than the likes of the MSI SteelSeries keyboards the backlight behind these keys it's individual its birch as you can see here it's just in red there's no RGB on this one and you have three different settings the palm rest is made out of this textured plastic and as a result it doesn't tend to show the fingerprints and smudges as bad as other laptops some of the worse that I have seen er MSI's GL 62 in the 63 series they smudge up so easy but not really the case here you do get a little bit of it though now this touchpad is one of the better ones for a gaming laptop it is using Windows precision drivers now I have noticed that sometimes right in the middle here that the touch sensitivity and accuracy isn't quite there but overall it is an above-average touch pad I've used here for a gaming laptop there Zeus logo along the top is in black so it doesn't really stand out that much just below it on the top of the keyboard here you'll see an intake vent there's also intakes around and actually through the then the status LEDs here that when you close the lid you can actually still see them because of that cutout on the bottom of it the lid also continues with that brushed plastic look that almost looks like a brushed alloy but it isn't there is a little bit of flex on the lid but overall not too bad bill quality I am impressed with this one and it definitely stands up to what the name suggests as a tough laptop it seems a little bit tougher than normal ...