ASUS TUF Dash 15 (2021) Ultra Slim Gaming Laptop, 15.6†144Hz FHD, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, Intel Core i7-11370H, 8GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Windows 10, Eclipse Grey Color, TUF516PE-AB73

Asus TUF Gaming laptops are known for their durability, performance, and affordability. The Asus TUF Flash 15 is one of the latest models in the TUF series, and it offers a range of benefits for users, particularly for students. Here are some of the benefits of buying an Asus TUF Flash 15: Pros: Performance: The Asus TUF Flash 15 is powered by a 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, making it a powerful machine that can handle most applications and multitasking needs. Durability: The Asus TUF Flash 15 has a tough and rugged build quality, making it resistant to accidental drops, spills, and other mishaps. This makes it an ideal choice for students who need a laptop that can withstand frequent travel and everyday use. Affordability: Compared to other high-performance laptops, the Asus TUF Flash 15 is relatively affordable, making it an attractive option for students who are on a budget. Graphics: The laptop comes with a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX3050 graphics card, which means that it can handle most graphics-intensive applications and even some casual gaming. Cons: Battery Life: The Asus TUF Flash 15 has a relatively short battery life, which is a common drawback of most gaming laptops. This means that users may need to carry a charger with them or stay close to a power source. Portability: With a weight of around 2.15 kg, this laptop is heavier than some other ultrabooks and may be less portable. Overall, the Asus TUF Flash 15 is a great laptop for students who need a durable, high-performance machine that can handle demanding applications and multitasking needs. While it may have some limitations, its strong points make it a solid choice for students who don't want to sacrifice on performance or build quality.

I tested this with a few games, all unmodded unless otherwise stated, and here are my results: Resident Evil 2 - runs fine on mid to high settings, does NOT run fine on max settings due to low VRAM Skyrim VR - runs fine on max settings, but I suspect that it will struggle with a lot of mods. Subnautica (MODDED) - runs fine in both flat screen and VR. Karnage Chronicles - runs fine Alien Isolation - runs fine on max settings Arizona Sunshine - runs fine on max settings Blade and Sorcery - runs fine on high settings, does NOT run fine on max settings Half Life: Alyx - runs fine on max settings CPU intensive programs that I've tested: FL Studio - runs fine Blender - run fine That should probably be enough to give you an idea of how well this thing performs. The fan does get a little loud, but I wear headphones, so it doesn't bother me. There is only 4GB of VRAM, which is not very much at all and seems to be the primary bottleneck on this system. I must admit, I was a bit disappointed that RE2 Remake wasn't able to run on max settings for this reason despite being a 4 year old game. I suppose it still looks good on mid to high settings, but I was expecting more from a 3000 series graphics card. Basically, it doesn't run games any better than my 1070ti did with 8GB of VRAM. Overall though, despite that minor gripe, I'm happy with it. It does what it's supposed to do.

I’ve been using the ASUS TUF Dash 15 and it’s been a solid experience so far. The laptop feels lightweight and easy to carry, but still powerful enough to handle games smoothly with the RTX 3050 Ti. The 144Hz screen makes gameplay look sharp, and everyday tasks run fast thanks to the SSD. The keyboard is comfortable, and Wi-Fi 6 keeps the connection stable. Overall, it’s a reliable machine that balances performance and portability really well.

So, my previous personal laptop was definitely outdated (circa 2015 Dell) and in need of replacement, even though it's not my primary PC and is more of a backup/something I can take on vacation with me. This time around I wanted something I could game on and/or act as a viable backup should something befall my desktop gaming rig. However, because this wouldn't be a daily driver or anything, I didn't feel the need to go all out, a moderate budget of $1000-$1500 was where I wanted to be. I wanted something with a relatively modern CPU, a decent discrete GPU, upgradable RAM, and upgradable storage. There were a few laptops that were in the running. But in the end the Asus TUF A15 won the day. Mainly on the strength of it checking most of the boxes and being on sale for $1200 USD when I bought it. At $1600+ this laptop isn't a great deal IMHO. It's downsides are hard to overlook at that price point. But at under $1300 things became a bit more palatable. The Good - The Ryzen 9 7940HS is fine laptop CPU. 8 cores/16 threads. It's usually comes in above the i7-13700H and below the i9-13900H in most benchmarks, but offers better battery life and considerably stronger iGPU. The Radeon 780M is powerful enough to run some older or less demanding games at 1080p decently. So you don't always have to use the discrete GPU when gaming. Which is a nice option to have. With that said, it does lose out in pure CPU grunt to the Intel HX's those are basically detuned desktop CPUs. But in terms of performance vs. efficiency , the 7940HS is hard to beat. It's similar in performance to a desktop Ryzen 5 7600X or desktop i5-12400 for context. - The RTX 4070 discrete GPU. This GPU is really more than you need for 1080p gaming, particularly with DLSS and Frame Gen. At 1080p In Cyberpunk with DLSS Quality and Frame Gen, and with Pyscho ray-tracing (but not path tracing) enabled and with most of the other settings at "high" Things are motoring along at 90-110 FPS on average, Same thing with Starfield (no ray tracing in that though). Gaming performance is more that satisfactory at 1080p, If you were running a 1440p display it would still probably be fine. The RTX 4070 mobile is somewhere between an RTX 3060 ti desktop and RTX 4060 desktop GPU in terms of performance, but it does seem to handle ray tracing with more grace and dignity than the Ampere cards and it has frame gen to fall back on as well. The only thing that gives me pause is the meager 8GB frame buffer. 8GB of VRAM is quickly becoming the baseline for newer games. A few years down the road, 8GB of VRAM might not cut anymore. - Upgradability. Laptops aren't known for vast amounts of customization. The Asus TUF A15 is about as good as you can reasonably expect. It has an open M.2 slot for another SSD, it's wifi card is easy to upgrade (more on that in a minute), and it has two slots for RAM, which is becoming rare in an era where soldering down the RAM is common. Access is easy enough, there are about a dozen screws keeping the bottom cover on, one of which is captive and two of which are different lengths, so if you're going to do some upgrades, keep track of which screws go where, if needed Asus has the whitepapers for this laptop on their website and it has breakdown of which screws go where. - Big battery. The battery is a very generous 90Wh. It's about as high a capacity as you can get in a 15.6 inch laptop. The battery life is very good by gaming laptop standards. As long as you're not using the discrete GPU, you can reasonably expect 7 hours on the low side to 9 hours on the high side of typical use. For gaming, as you might expect, battery life drops to around 3 to 4 hours depending on how hard you're pushing the discrete GPU. When running on battery the screen refresh rate drops to 60Hz by default, presumably to help with battery life. - The ports are generous. Being an AMD powered machine, Thunderbolt was going to be off the table. But good news! You get USB 4 on the A15, which can do most of the things that Thunderbolt can do. You get two USB A ports and two USB C ports (at least one of which is the USB 4), You also get an HDMI 2.1 port. It does support G-Sync over HDMI assuming the display you hook it up to is also G-Sync compliant. - Full keyboard. The A15's keyboard has a numberpad, not all laptops do. Now onto, the "meh" features of the TUF A15. These are the aspects of the laptop that aren't really good or terrible, but are areas where things could be better, but they're not that bad. - Build quality is fine for $1200, not really what you'd expect at the $1600+ price point though. - The RGB on the keyboard is a bit much at it's default setting - There's the usual amount of pre-installed shovel-ware. You probably won't have to resort to a clean Windows install, removing the various/dubious pre-installed dreck only took a few minutes, it wasn't bad as far these things go. - The trackpad sometimes acts up randomly where it will assume you're trying to select everything on the desktop as you move the mouse pointer. I updated the software/drivers for it, but it made no difference. What did work was taking a microfiber cloth, *slightly* dampening it then cleaning the trackpad (computer is off when you're doing this), then turn it back on and it works fine again. - The OEM SSD is a 1TB WD SN560 which I don't think was ever sold at retail. It is a Gen 4 NVMe drive, but it's not exactly one of the faster ones. I ran CrystalDisk and got ~5000 MB/s read and ~3300 MB/s write. Good enough, but likely an area where costs were cut. Real world performance is fine, the laptop boot up quite quickly. - You do get two 8GB SODIMMS standard for a total of 16GB of dual channel RAM. Unfortunately it's only DDR5-4800 which actually slower than what the motherboard/CPU can support. While it's nice to have dual channel RAM standard, the slower speed of the OEM RAM is a bit of a let down. This is probably another cost-saving measure. Now we're at the "things that should be better" part, these are omissions or features that should've been better from the start; - The screen. The screen on the TUF A15 is mediocre at best. At a $1200 price point, it's underwhelming, but acceptable. At a $1600+ price point, it's basically an insult. It's a 1080p screen which isn't exactly cutting edge stuff. It's got an entry level IPS panel, and it's not very bright. You're getting 250-300 nits here. It's fine for indoor use with the brightness turned up, outdoors on a sunny day, it's barely useable. Typically , if you're spending over $1500 on a laptop, it's going to have a 500+ nit screen that's much brighter than this. The color reproduction is again, very "mid". Basically, you're getting a display that would be at home on a $500-$800 laptop. At the $1200-ish price point, you can overlook it since you're getting a great CPU and GPU, but at $1600, you can get similar CPU/GPU combos with a much brighter, higher resolution screen. It's a bit of let down. But most reviews of this laptop do mention it. - The stock Wifi card. Again because you're using an AMD CPU/chipset, you're not getting an Intel wireless NIC. The stock MediaTek wifi card was inconsistent (at best) for me. I did some research on the issue and after various updates decided that an upgrade was needed. I ended up buying an Intel AX210 Wifi card and swapped out stock mediatek card. It was an easy job, the wifi antenna leads being a bit fiddly. Now the wifi performance is better and it's not dropping the wifi connection every 10 minutes anymore. I recommend this upgrade for anyone with this laptop. Here I'll list the upgrades I've done to my Asus TUF A15 - Changed the wifi card to an Intel AX210 - Upgraded the RAM from 2x 8GB DDR5 4800 to 2x 16GB DDR5 5600 (Crucial CT16G56C46S5) - Added a 2TB Crucial T500 in the extra M.2 slot. Overall with the upgrades, other than the lackluster screen there's not that much to complain about. I snagged the A15 for right at $1200 with the upgrades, I ended up under $1500. And to get something with comparable specs (but probably a better screen) I would be up around the $1600-$1800 range. So the value for money if you can pick it up for $1100-$1200 is very good., the specs are good, and at that price point the foibles can be overlooked/accepted. At $1500 and beyond, I don't think the value is there vs. other more premium laptops.

Acorde a las características, la compré para un sobrino y puede jugar de todo.

Es un equipo excelente para jugar en modo ultra ,pero algunos juegos muy exigentes como RE7 y RDR2,y juegos de mundo abierto solo alcanzan configuaciones medias para no perder FPS , para jugar en ultra a todo sin limites se necesita un GPU3090y quizas i9 pero si hay mucha diferencia de precios al dia de hoy como 40000 pesos mas o menos , su desempeño con emuladores es casi perfecto . Contrario a algunos comentarios los 8 gb de ram son mas que suficientes para la mayor parte de los juegos si optimizas y no haces multiples procesos a la vez , Mis unicas quejas hasta ahora son que la garantia que viene incluida para proteccion contra accidentes por 30 dias solo aplica en USA y Canada(muy injusto considerando que yo tambien soy humano y pague por ella ,deberia tener el mismo derecho que los ciudadanos de esas ciudades para usar ese beneficio considerando el costo del producto pero me siento discriminado por ello ,no se en que basa Asus que alguien de Mexico no tenga derecho a exigir lo que en teoria viene incluido) las politicas de devolucion del vendedor no son muy alentadoras tampoco por que no ofrece un 100 de devolucion a menos que el equipo se haya dañado en transito y este sin abrir , si lo devuelves abierto puede decidir el porcentaje que quiere devolverte , que no puedes jugar con la laptop cerrada y un monitor externo(tienes que dejarla abierta) por que las rejas de ventilacion estan en la parte superior del teclado y si no bloqueas el flujo de aire , y finalmente que en modo turbo el CPU aun con base enfriadora alcanza 93* C de temperatura (revisando en internet dice que el i7 puede operar hasta los 100* y no he tenido problemas de crashes ni nada por el estilo pero si es intimidante que se caliente tanto .Para conectar a un monitor externo hay que configurar por triplicado para que la imagen sea buena y no se distorsione o pierda FPS , se configura en la laptop primero(colores , graficos ,brillo etc) ,luego la resolucion de el monitor conectado a la laptop por hdmi desde el menu de configuracion (resolucion ,color ,frecuencia HZ)y finalmente solo en el monitor externo encontrar que configuracion funciona correctamente yo tuve que cambiar la de16.9 que venia por default por "solo por buqueda " y reajustar los colores en el menu de imagen . Fuera de eso es de lo mejor que hay en Amazon mx para gaming en 2022.

Excelente laptop, altamente recomendable para trabajos de diseño o jugar videojuegos

Estaba entre una lap o armar una PC, decidí la lap por lo practico y quedé encantado con ella. Muy padre tanto para jugar como para trabajar en proyectos personales. Muy recomendada.

Excelente equipo, el estilo gamer es genial, la duración de la bateria es muy buena y en general los productos Asus son los mejores y super rapidos. Un poco mal con windows 11 pero se cambio a windows 10 y todo mejoro un monton