ASUS - TUF DASH 15.6" Gaming Laptop - Intel 11th Gen i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 1TB M.2 PCIEG3 SSD - Eclipse Gray

Very nice laptop for price and comparison. Only regret is that it gets hot fast so I would recommend getting a cooking pad. Do not use this for mining as GPU reaches a threshold that cuts monitor off as PSU cannot handle it. Mines came with the TAB key partially off and it becomes annoying having to press it back in as one of the white connectors under the key is broken OOB. Overall the 3070 coupled with the i7 gen 11 is nice however if you could get an i9 I would recommend. I also purchased a G502 Lightspeed Mouse to compliment it considering you save a lot with a price point of $1500 or less….Highly recommend if you can find an open box one at your local Best Buy for $1199 you won’t beat this performance with any other like this….The main key to this device is scalability in upgrading, performance, and price.

Very nice performing laptop for the price can run most games at 4k just under 60fps and has easy performance management with ARMOURY Crate app. Modern and slim design makes it nice as a discreet desktop at home combined with a monitor or as a powerhouse on the go that fits in a small laptop backpack. 240 hz on laptop screen is beautiful especially with ray tracing the 1080p max resolution on laptop screen does not matter.

Bought as an open box excellent condition, $1300+tax was a steal for this laptop! Laptop appeared as if it was brand new. As someone who travels frequently to visit family/friends having something light and portable that can still play any game at or close to max with good frames is awesome! Paired it with an iets gt300 laptop cooler I have it mining etherium all day when not gaming. 49.7mh/s stable all day never over 58c core temp! If you're like me and want something portable for games that can also mine crypto this is an amazing buy! I wouldn't buy if you're only intention is to mine crypto. Will take about a year or more to roi.

Works perfectly ! I’m able to run all games at ultra and epic settings no issues . Keep in mind it has 4 cores. Can be upgraded to 40gb of ram. One of the 8 gb can not be removed but the other one can be changed out to 16 or 32gb. Have not upgraded yet but havnt needed to yet . Wouldn’t use this for streaming but it’s the perfect gaming laptop no issues at all. Works best plugged in. Use with a laptop cooling pad.

Asus makes really great laptops, and they make some pretty awesome gaming laptops as well. But this , right here, is something else. It's a gaming notebook. This thing is super slim. Attractive is an understatement. The form factor is the of their ROG Zephyrus gaming laptops of recent, but it's under an inch thick. And for real, this thing is packing some serious power for its size. The specs read off like a desktop system. With the NVYDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and an 11 Gen INTEL CORE i7. Two very new pieces of CPU & GPU on the market. The 15.6 inch full HD screen is plenty bright and crisp for my liking. And I use headphones, so I hardly even hear the fan when playing the more graphic intense titles. And as that stands, this system can run what you want to run with nary a sweat. You may need to adjust things to get games like Call Of Duty to run smoothly at a decent frame rate. As far as ports, you're getting 3 USB A ports, 1 Full HDMI port, a Thunderbolt port, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, port for the standard power supply and even a USB C port, for charging and/or accessories. I personally use mine for my webcam since this unit doesn't come with one on board. I guess that's one of the things they saved on to make it so small and affordable. Some people may tell you that they aren't crazy about the teal as a back-lit keyboard choice(and no other option), but as for me, I happen to think that's one of the things that give that extra flare. Again, for what you'll be paying, you're getting amazing mid to high range unit in the form of a notebook. But you won't be doing much video editing with this one without some additional accessories. No camera, but small bezels. Bottom firing 2.5 watt speakers, but most gamers use headphones. No ten-key, but it's also a gaming rig 1st. No SD or Micro SD card slot, so you'll need to go USB card reader route or flash drive. That's also fine, because you're paying pennies for a monster.16 gigs or RAM( expandable) 1 TB of SSD memory and it's designed to easily upgrade with the ability to remove the bottom panel with only a flathead screwdriver. At under 5lbs, and under an inch thick, this little beast can go wherever the game takes you. I chose the rating, because of the obvious absences, but rest assured, I'm definitely recommending this to everyone that doesn't plan on doing much more than gaming and pretty minimal computing tasks. Basically as long as you're doing any video editing, you'll get hecka' mileage out of this notebook. The Asus Tuf Dash F15 is ready for liftoff baby!

ASUS TUF F15 Review Initial setup went quick. There's not a much of anything inside the box outside of a few pamphlets and the Charger/Power Cord. The system boots quite quick due to the NVME Drive which makes everything snappy. I will likely consider installing a secondary drive though. There were some updates that had to process and some BIOS/Firmware updates for the Notebook itself. Some reviews on this I had noticed that a couple encountered issues where the Notebook was bricked and rendered useless, I did not experience this. I don't know the scenario of the users experience with this problem nor if the unit was connected to external power. Most won't allow a BIOS/Firmware update if it's not plugged in. I didn't test this as I'm adamant of keeping something like this connected to external power for something as critical as a BIOS or even minor/major Windows update. So far the notebook has been running well. That said, it runs fast, but the fans are noisy. Idling on the desktop you can hear a whine coming from them. When a load is applied via an update or a program installing it get's quite a bit louder. Given I typically use a headset, it's a non-issue for me, but when I don't have my headset on it's very noticable and invasive. It actually hurts my ears a little given the very high frequency of the whine. One thing I noticed off the bat was the display. It wasn't very responsive and I could tell it wasn't running at the native refresh rate. Checking the display settings reveals from the factory it's defaulted to 60hz. You have to manually change it from the Advanced Display Settings Monitor tab to the 240Hz setting. Once done, you can then change it to 240hz in the Display Settings and then it's a night and day difference. Performance, to test this I ran a couple game benchmarks. The first test I ran was Borderlands 3's Benchmark. I tested it at the 1080p on 3 different visual presets. High, Ultra and the Bad@ss preset. Of the Averages, High obviously had the best at 85 FPS. Ultra it 73 FPS and the highest Bad@ss it averaged 58 FPS. I'll be honest that this was underwhelming. The 3070 in this particular model is definitely a cut down variant compared with the other mobile variant's. I also assumed that the performance in particular would be higher than an older previous generation GPU even though it's a mobile version. To give some perspective, the Desktop I built last year with a Ryzen 3800X, 32GB RAM, EVGA 2080 FTW3 Ultra (not a super or Ti) I tested the game out on it and at 1080p on the same presets I got over 85 FPS on the highest setting and anything below I averaged over 90-110 FPS. I tested at 3440x1440p and I was still able to get over 60 FPS on the highest. I'm a bit thrown though in regards to temps and noise levels. Unless mine has an issue, Running anything 3D intesive the system's fans ramp up quickly and are quite load, enough to the point where I can hear them through some Closed back headphones. The temps are quite high as well. Using HWMonitor I was seeing CPU temps as high as 87C and 75C on the GPU. From some other reviews I had seen, most were not seeing temps this high. It could be that my unit may have an issue. The 2nd Game I tested briefly was Cyberpunk 2077. The game defaulted the settings to RTX Ultra with DLSS set to Auto. I will say that the game appeared to run smoother than the 2080 in my PC. This could be due to the better Tensor/RTX cores in the 3070. Temps while testing were a little higher. The peak on the CPU was 90C, though the GPU was 73C. The FPS seemed to hover around 45 on the default settings. I think it possible there may be a Hardware issue with the unit. I've reached out to ASUS to see what advice they can offer. I also tested out Forza Horizon 4. I did so connected up to my TV in my Living room to play it at 4k as anything short of this you're really robbing yourself of fidelity with this title. 1080p on the laptop display did return an average 94 with Ultra Preset. It had defaulted to Dynamic but I set it over to Ultra with no issue. On the TV at 4k however, I could not get the game to run at anything over 48 FPS. I don't know if this is do to throttling of the CPU and GPU, but even dropping to high, the performance in the graphs was identical. Dynamic High and Ultra also made no difference. The game does appear to run smoothish, I noticed a little hitching here and there. I also ran some older benchmarks too. Unigene Heaven and Valley. Using the Performance Preset in ASUS Armory Crate my average in Valley at 1080p Extreme Detail and 4x AA was at 122 for an average. Changing the preset to Turbo my average was only 120.6. This is a bit surprising. From what I could see in HWMonitor CPU only topped out at 84C in both runs and the GPU was surprisingly only hitting 69C which is a fair bit lower than in Cyberpunk and Borderlands. Heaven, the averages were lower but I expect this as it despite Valley being a newer benchmark it was not as intensive. The averages clocked in right around 108 FPS at 67C. Testing using Performance and the average was 96.4. The slower performance in Valley looks like it was due to the CPU getting throttled as its temps hit 91C. Quite a bit higher than in Performance. Tessellation was enabled as well. Just for a comparison, my Desktop at 1080p with the same settings for Valley scored 155.9 average. Heaven was 135.6. So on average going from these numbers, the TUF is roughly 20% slower than my desktop. Admittedly, this is impressive given the TUF only draws 200W compared to my Desktop drawing roughly 480W. The last benchmark I ran was Superposition. I tested with both Armory Crate presets. 1080p Extreme score was 5075. Turbo was 5249, so a decent extra boost. My Desktop clocked in at a score of 6683, just over 27% faster. Bear in mind that simply changing your power plan to best performance will not change the Armory Crates performance. It was sitting at Performance preset even at Best/High Performance in Windows power options. It seems that Performance will lock the GPU to 80W. Changing this to Turbo will allow the CPU to clock higher and will allow the GPU to run at 85W. Overall it's great laptop but it has some quirks. Again some of these could be due to my unit as others are reporting higher FPS in identical games, nearly 20%, and others were showing temps significantly lower than mine, up to 30C while gaming. Pro's. - 1TB NVME and it's fast. Looks to be sourced from Hynix. - 16GB RAM, plenty of it for multitasking and gaming. - 11th Gen i7, plenty of oomf for your gaming and productivity. Both the RAM and the NVME's can be upgraded. There's 2 Gen3 M.2 slots so you can always add another NVME drive. - Display is colorful and has that crazy 240hz refresh rate which is very welcome for competitive gaming. - It's got a type C port that's PD rated plus two more USB 3 Type A ports. Backlit keyboard, and it can get fairly bright. - It's got a gigabit ethernet port. Something nice to see since so many are shucking these now. - Weight. For what you're getting in such a small package, I'm genuinely surprised this is only just over 4lbs. Con's. - Noise, it gets very loud when under load. Armory reports that it's 40-50db, I don't have a way to test, but I'd reckon it's closer to 55+db. Heat, again this could be an issue with mine, but it gets well hot enough to cause the CPU and GPU to throttle. - HDMI port. This is only a 2.0 and it's controlled by the iGPU. So if you were hoping to get more refresh rate you will be disappointed. I was able to get it to output at 1080p120 on to my main ultrawide display but it stretched across the entire monitor so it looked awful, but it did register as 120hz. It would have been a lot better to source the HDMI to the RTX 3070 but I assume this was due to keep power usage in check. - Battery. Well this will be hit or miss depending on your workload. With the computer running on the Performance preset in Armory I got around 90 minutes run time while gaming. Idle on the desktop was only around 2 hours on the same preset. Setting it to silent, I was seeing around 2.5-3.5 hours with light usage like browsing the internet. I don't really expect much with a Gaming Laptop so this is more or less a like it or love it for most. - Power adapter location. This boggles my mind why it's in the dead center of the left side. I think it would have been better to place it towards the rear of the right or left side. I just find it gets in the way. Not really pro's/con's. - Keyboard and track pad are serviceable. You'll ideally want something external. I'm surprised that there's no RGB on the keyboard, it's merely a light white blue hue. It does as I mentioned above get fairly bright. I also find it odd there's no border lighting around the touchpad. It's generous in size, but it would still be nice. - Warranty is a standard 1 year which is fine. I put this here cause I'm not certain if this is normal procedure, but when I registered the unit with ASUS it provided me with a 1yr Warranty with ADP. I don't want to give out false hope with your purchase.

High speeds. Beautiful display. Simple to use. It is only really capable of gaming when in turbo mode (meaning the device has to be plugged into the wall for gaming) The display gets a 10 out of 10. The interchangeable sound equalizer that is built into the asus hardware is simple to navigate and a very cool feature. I would recommend this to someone who needs a portable gaming device, it is also a well rounded laptop for every day use.

I’ve been in the market for a new laptop for an easier lug-around (than the 17in HP) with two display ports. It was a battle in deciding what to get, whether I wanted to go for the beefy gaming laptops or stick with a mid-range. The ASUS TUF DASH F15 appeared to be in the mid-range. I figured, why not? The laptop is built to be sturdier than the average laptops, compact size, and has proved to me to be able to handle graphics in gaming (GTA 5, Fallout 4 (with some overwhelming mods that usually cause intense explosions that inevitably crash most systems :D happy to report it passed this test), Mass Effect Andromeda, Star Wars Squadrons) with accurate colors. The only downside that I’ve found so far is the fans and heat of the hardware. Fans tend to be loud while running most open world or intense games, so much so that it ends up taking over the sound quality. The hardware does tend to run pretty warm, even with the fans on turbo mode (options in the Armoury Crate). Fortunately, the WASD keys remain cool and most off the warmth stays near the center of the key board where those keys are not usually used except for toggling maps/inventory. The vents are positioned on the sides and rear of the keyboard, but most of the heat comes out the right side where I would keep an external mouse. It’s not a show stopper as I fell that this is a great choice overall. You’re going to want a headset while running games. Though when the fans are not overtaking the sound, the speakers provide a decent quality of surround sound. The speakers do not provide any bass. The keyboard is very comfortable and is backlit with three brightness levels. It is only one color and will not work with the AURA Creator effects, but it does have three basic effects for the pulse lighting in the keyboard of Static, Breathing, and Strobing. An added bonus is that the WASD keys (Up, left, down, right) are transparent and light up completely on the keyboard, makes it easier to find this important keys. Two display ports. Thunderbolt and HDMI port. My careers in finance and hobbies in photo editing have made me accustom to having 2/3 monitors, this feature was a must have for me. As most laptops, this doesn’t include a DVD/CD drive, but that is easily fixed with an external drive if you need one and in this day in age most software/games are digital downloads. The track-pad is smooth and responsive, though I usually never use a track-pad for anything more than basic browsing. With basic usage the battery lasted about 6/7 hours in one session with 30% to spare before I plugged it in to try how it gamed. So far I’m happy with this product.