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expiredtDames | Staff posted Aug 1, 2023 9:22 PM
ASUS TUF Laptop: 15.6" 1080p 144Hz, i7-12700H, RTX 4070, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD,
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Best Buy via eBay has ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop (FX507ZI-F15.I74070) on sale for $1,149.99. Shipping is free.
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Best Buy also has ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop (FX507ZI-F15.I74070) on sale for $1,149.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for finding this deal.
Specs:
- 15.6" (1920 x 1080) FHD 144Hz IPS Display
- Intel i7-12700H 14-cores, 20-threads (3.5GHz Base / 4.7GHz Boost) Processor
- 16GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM RAM (Max Capacity: 32GB)
- 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Graphics (140W)
- Wi-Fi 6(802.11ax) (Dual band) 2*2 + Bluetooth 5.2
- 1-Zone RGB Backlit Chiclet Keyboard
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C support DisplayPort / power delivery / G-SYNC
- 1x RJ45 LAN port
- 1x Thunderbolt 4 support DisplayPort
- 90WHrs Battery
- ~4.85 lbs
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- Our research indicates that this offer is $200 lower (15% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $1349.99.
- About this product:
- 1-year warranty
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Best Buy via eBay has ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop (FX507ZI-F15.I74070) on sale for $1,149.99. Shipping is free.
Best Buy also has ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop (FX507ZI-F15.I74070) on sale for $1,149.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for finding this deal.
Specs:
Best Buy also has ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop (FX507ZI-F15.I74070) on sale for $1,149.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for finding this deal.
Specs:
- 15.6" (1920 x 1080) FHD 144Hz IPS Display
- Intel i7-12700H 14-cores, 20-threads (3.5GHz Base / 4.7GHz Boost) Processor
- 16GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM RAM (Max Capacity: 32GB)
- 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Graphics (140W)
- Wi-Fi 6(802.11ax) (Dual band) 2*2 + Bluetooth 5.2
- 1-Zone RGB Backlit Chiclet Keyboard
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C support DisplayPort / power delivery / G-SYNC
- 1x RJ45 LAN port
- 1x Thunderbolt 4 support DisplayPort
- 90WHrs Battery
- ~4.85 lbs
Editor's Notes
Written by SaltyOne | Staff- Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.
- About this deal:
- Our research indicates that this offer is $200 lower (15% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $1349.99.
- About this product:
- 1-year warranty
- See the forum thread for additional discussion of this deal.
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Apparently some units ship with a single 16GB. Mine came with double 8GB ram sticks. So I had to purchase double 16GB ram sticks for 32GB RAM.
Also for anyone who might be interested, To be honest the brightness on this laptop is plenty indoors and at night you have to dim it down cause it's too bright.
My rating on this laptop is 9/10 and it's as good as it gets for this price compared to other laptops costing almost double!
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https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=64714
Best buy listing doesn't say anything about gpu power at all.
from Ebay:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 8GB GDDR6 with ROG Boost at 80W (105W with Dynamic Boost 2.0) for an ultrafast GPU to fuel your games.
- Armory Crate/MyAsus: A lot of control is done via the proprietary Armory Crate software - RGB, fan modes, etc. Not the end of the world, but I'm tired of proprietary gamer software. Ditto for MyAsus, which is the 'vendor software update tool/sanity checker'. It seems no better or worse than MSI Dragon Center or Lenovo's... whatever they call it.
- 12th Gen 'Alder Lake' [wikipedia.org]: The actual differences are not major - 13th Gen 'Raptor Lake' [wikipedia.org] only gets a small performance uplift from having a bit more L2/L3 cache and faster DDR5 memory, and a tiny bit more power efficiency. The chipset gets a few more PCI-E lanes and USB connections, but again, not major. The only TINY concern in my head is that 12th gen will go 'End Of Servicing' slightly sooner; as a point of comparison, 6th gen was introduced in 2015 and went EOS Sept. 2022. 12th gen was introduced Nov. 2021 and 13th gen Oct. 2022, so it might lose security patch support sooner.
- RAM: On top of using DDR4 RAM, the max RAM is listed as 32GB. I've seen reports that it might be able to handle 64GB, and Intel ARK lists that the CPU can handle 64GB [intel.com], but I wouldn't absolutely count on it. Only matters if you are doing certain RAM-intensive tasks, like VMs.
- Windows 11: You are stuck with Windows 11. Do not try to downgrade a 12th/13th gen Intel CPU to Windows 10, as Win10 can't tell the difference between the P-cores and E-cores. If you do, some apps might get shunted to the much slower E-cores when P-cores are available, and I would assume battery life would suffer as well.
- VRAM: The 4070 Laptop Edition [notebookcheck.net] is pretty fast - while not as fast as a desktop 4070, the only current mobile GPUs that can beat it are a 4080 or 4090. Howver, the 4070 only has 8GB VRAM. As a result, you may have some issues on new/poorly optimized games. This is still far better than most low-to-mid-range gaming laptops, and any reasonably optimized game should work for years to come.
It's reaching. I'm sure there are other personal preference things - at 25mm it's not the very thinnest gaming laptop, some people may want a bigger or smaller screen - but by and large, it checks every box for me.I'm very close to pulling the trigger on it - I was very excited about the Framework 16, but looking at the actual performance comparison, it's hard to spend over 2x as much on a slower laptop.
edit: I'll pulling the trigger as we speak
He asked for downsides; I tried to come up with the biggest downsides I could. These are the worst things - other than the aforementioned screen - that I could come up with. In fact, after this I pulled the trigger. I've also snagged 2x 32GB sticks of low-latency RAM (TEAMGROUP T-Force Zeus DDR4 32GB 3200MHz CL16 [amazon.com]) and I'm really hoping I can hit 64GB on this machine.
To be honest, my experience with Windows 11 is very limited. I have one machine with it, but it's an SFF machine that I primarily picked up as a small Linux box. About half of the major Windows releases have been contentious (7->8, XP->Vista, and 98SE->Me to name a few), and while usually I've been in the 'upgrade now' camp, this time... I haven't.
To me, Windows 11 didn't bring anything impressive to the table. There's not a fundamental shift in driver architecture, which made many of the prior releases a big deal. WSL2 was made available on Windows 10, so I'm not missing out on that. Windows Subsytem for Android is cool, but Win 10 Phone Link makes it somewhat redundant. DirectStorage looks really interesting for gaming, and may be the 'fix' for modern, poorly optimized games that are written for console first, where they don't have to worry about 'double-copying' assets (SSD->system RAM->Video RAM), but very few games have implemented it so far.
Meanwhile, it took away or locked down a few things. I don't care about the taskbar on the side or top, but at initial release it was forced to the center. It seems to be much more aggressive about offering 'featured' apps in the start menu, and will nag much more when Edge is not your default browser. The Settings UI is still split between Control Panel and the Settings app, but with some things moving each update, the inconsistency is annoying. There are also fun bugs - at one point Windows telemetry bugs prevented local apps, like Notepad, from being able to open.
Some of these things I can clean up with tools like O&O ShutUp10++ [oo-software.com], and some are the growing pains of OS rewrites: you simplify the code, aim for minimum viable products, and add features back later. I'm not horribly against it, but I didn't see enough to switch in a hurry. There are people who are far more against Windows 11 than I am.
But, best bang for buck out there for sure.
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I've been very happy with the performance of this machine and don't think you can go wrong for the money. There will always be a better deal that comes along at some point but I doubt something better than this will come along before Black Friday at the earliest and it wasn't worth waiting until then for me anyways. I highly recommend it.
- Armory Crate/MyAsus: A lot of control is done via the proprietary Armory Crate software - RGB, fan modes, etc. Not the end of the world, but I'm tired of proprietary gamer software. Ditto for MyAsus, which is the 'vendor software update tool/sanity checker'. It seems no better or worse than MSI Dragon Center or Lenovo's... whatever they call it.
- 12th Gen 'Alder Lake' [wikipedia.org]: The actual differences are not major - 13th Gen 'Raptor Lake' [wikipedia.org] only gets a small performance uplift from having a bit more L2/L3 cache and faster DDR5 memory, and a tiny bit more power efficiency. The chipset gets a few more PCI-E lanes and USB connections, but again, not major. The only TINY concern in my head is that 12th gen will go 'End Of Servicing' slightly sooner; as a point of comparison, 6th gen was introduced in 2015 and went EOS Sept. 2022. 12th gen was introduced Nov. 2021 and 13th gen Oct. 2022, so it might lose security patch support sooner.
- RAM: On top of using DDR4 RAM, the max RAM is listed as 32GB. I've seen reports that it might be able to handle 64GB, and Intel ARK lists that the CPU can handle 64GB [intel.com], but I wouldn't absolutely count on it. Only matters if you are doing certain RAM-intensive tasks, like VMs.
- Windows 11: You are stuck with Windows 11. Do not try to downgrade a 12th/13th gen Intel CPU to Windows 10, as Win10 can't tell the difference between the P-cores and E-cores. If you do, some apps might get shunted to the much slower E-cores when P-cores are available, and I would assume battery life would suffer as well.
- VRAM: The 4070 Laptop Edition [notebookcheck.net] is pretty fast - while not as fast as a desktop 4070, the only current mobile GPUs that can beat it are a 4080 or 4090. Howver, the 4070 only has 8GB VRAM. As a result, you may have some issues on new/poorly optimized games. This is still far better than most low-to-mid-range gaming laptops, and any reasonably optimized game should work for years to come.
It's reaching. I'm sure there are other personal preference things - at 25mm it's not the very thinnest gaming laptop, some people may want a bigger or smaller screen - but by and large, it checks every box for me.I'm very close to pulling the trigger on it - I was very excited about the Framework 16, but looking at the actual performance comparison, it's hard to spend over 2x as much on a slower laptop.
To me, Windows 11 didn't bring anything impressive to the table. There's not a fundamental shift in driver architecture, which made many of the prior releases a big deal. WSL2 was made available on Windows 10, so I'm not missing out on that. Windows Subsytem for Android is cool, but Win 10 Phone Link makes it somewhat redundant. DirectStorage looks really interesting for gaming, and may be the 'fix' for modern, poorly optimized games that are written for console first, where they don't have to worry about 'double-copying' assets (SSD->system RAM->Video RAM), but very few games have implemented it so far.
Meanwhile, it took away or locked down a few things. I don't care about the taskbar on the side or top, but at initial release it was forced to the center. It seems to be much more aggressive about offering 'featured' apps in the start menu, and will nag much more when Edge is not your default browser. The Settings UI is still split between Control Panel and the Settings app, but with some things moving each update, the inconsistency is annoying. There are also fun bugs - at one point Windows telemetry bugs prevented local apps, like Notepad, from being able to open.
Some of these things I can clean up with tools like O&O ShutUp10++ [oo-software.com], and some are the growing pains of OS rewrites: you simplify the code, aim for minimum viable products, and add features back later. I'm not horribly against it, but I didn't see enough to switch in a hurry. There are people who are far more against Windows 11 than I am.
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