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How does the Ryzen 7 4800H + GeForce 1660 Ti pair work in a large caste?

05/01/2020. 08:00 | for Sityi | Hardware and Gadgets

Anyway, what came from ASUS? Just not a new TUF? To this day, the FX505DU is a great design that I have been able to wholeheartedly recommend to everyone so far (and according to our forum, there have been a few that have listened to me and used it with great satisfaction) and now here is the successor that I got in this case. It has the following interior: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H, 32 GB of RAM, GeForce 1660 Ti, 120 Hz Full HD display, 512 GB SSD. So there are not many changes, the processor has increased a generation, but what is enough for that in practice?

Asus TUF Gaming A17 (FA706I) Laptop Test: great body, great enjoyment?

Before we get to that, let’s go around the “little one” for a moment! Nice piece, I’m not saying, and I’m pleased to welcome the fact that the RGB light organ seems to be on the decline. I’m not saying you can do this with good taste, as we’ve seen examples in the past (ROG Strix G suddenly jumps), but the world of Decotora seems to be over. Of course, the design shows that we are not dealing with anything: the cover in a militaristic style (for example, fake screws in the closed corners) lets your environment know that this machine is really tough (it is difficult, its pronunciation is very similar to TUF).

Asus TUF Gaming A17 (FA706I) Laptop Test: great body, great enjoyment?

Thanks to the centimeters gained by “arrogance”, the keyboard received a numerical part so that the size of the keys remained normal and the design remained reasonable. The touchpad brings the mandatory, no more than an inch, but at least it supports gestures with multiple fingers. Apparently, this structure was designed for right-handers, as there is only one strand of USB port on the right waiting for the rat; Everything else has been placed to the left so that our mouse is not as disturbed as possible by any outstanding USB boot. And it seems like the sung sound system on the new Zephyrus has also been given to TUF (or something like that), because audio technology sounds audibly better here than the average sound of a laptop case.

Asus TUF Gaming A17 (FA706I) Laptop Test: great body, great enjoyment?

And then come the numbers! As usual with ASUS machines, Time Spy ran twice: in balanced and turbo mode. This is a decent result, indeed! Gaming benchmarks also bring what you expect – basically, the GPU still largely determines how fast it runs. New to the Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 benchmark: I included it in the test group because it shows very well how CPU and GPU load develops during measurement. I know we can see something similar in Ashes of the Singularity and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but I think the charge changes can be seen here more clearly. And you can really see how boring the CPU is as you fully push the GPU cretin framework. While starting a game isn’t necessarily the wisest thing I can see, the Snowdrop engine loads the machine in the same way as today’s most popular engines and games based on it. Let’s look at the multis addresses: during monitoring, the machine ran at around 120-140 fps; The multis Battlefield V test, on the other hand, was already more interesting: the CPU started at 4.1 GHz and then rose to a height of 3.5-3.6 GHz while working in cooling to 85 ° C.

Asus TUF Gaming A17 (FA706I) Laptop Test: great body, great enjoyment?

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I like that with AMD, the cheaper alternatives are also starting to appear in the laptop offering, not just in the self-assembling (DIY) desktop PC segment. ASUS TUF machines are beginning to show that Intel also has to deal with AMD on the mobile front as they hold up well during games; This TUF machine is also a great proof of this, and based on the price of previous ryzen models, there is a reason why. the blues to worry about. Specifically, though, this model didn’t fully win my liking (compared to the previously tested FX505DU): Although I basically don’t have much of an objection because it actually came in, I feel like 32GB of RAM is too much (up to 16GB is enough), and Of course, the CPU-GPU pairing is also not the luckiest: I think it would be much more balanced with Ryzen 5 or GeForce 2060. And of course I would be very curious about the same mobile Radeon now. 🙂 ■

Comments (1)

gregmerch

gregmerch 05/01/2020. 11:43
The slightly revamped design looks good, and the hardware upgrade fits Asus’ “discount” brand anyway. Next to the 1660 Ti, the new and fairly muscular Ryzen 4000 proci is a big exaggeration, but if you added a 2060 (rumored to normally have a turbocharger this year), I think this lineup would be much more percussive. 32GB of RAM is starting to become common, though 16 (and even a minimum of 8) is plentiful enough: on the desktop front, most of the new motherboards are already ready to support 128GB of memory. For now, this is not reasonable, although it is also true that my desktops have had 16 GB of RAM for many years (in the DDR3 era). (To whom I sold them, they are still used today, unchanged, with 1080p displays, no splashing, hilarious, although they don’t have today’s 3rd and 4th generation Intel i7 processors. I’m writing this just because 16GB of RAM is enough for everything today, regardless of the clock, especially in the multi-channel division). So this machine looks good, although I would rather see it as a fixed fanatic Intel fan with an i7-10750H and 2060 😉 Anyway, as I wrote in the second review of the Zenbook Pro Duo review, the Future has started, which in this case appears on the strongest hardware. It would be premature to comment on the 2020 flats, but the recovery looks promising. However, I still maintain that it is highly questionable whether the storm has now quickly run out (this is exactly what happens if you look at the stores) thus far, compared to series that have only lived for a few months, can the current ones give a big jump?

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