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ASUS TUF A15: 15.6" FHD 144Hz, Ryzen 5 7535HS, RTX 4060, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD

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Staples has ASUS TUF Gaming A15 Gaming Laptop (FA507NV-EH53) on sale for $679.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member ShamboB for sharing this deal.

Specs (source):
  • AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS 6-core, 12-threads (3.3Ghz Base / 4.6GHz Boost) Processor
  • 15.6" FHD 250-nits 45% NTSC IPS-level Anti-Glare 144Hz Matte Display
  • 16GB DDR5-4800 RAM Memory
  • 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive Storage
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
  • Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax 2x2 MU-MIMO + Bluetooth 5.3
  • 720p HD Camera
  • Chiclet Backlit Keyboard 1-Zone RGB
  • Ports:
    • 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
    • 1x USB-C 4 (support for DisplayPort, 40Gbps)
    • 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2
    • 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1
    • 1x RJ45 Ethernet
    • 1x Headphone / microphone combo jack (3.5mm)
  • Windows 11
  • 90Wh Li-ion 4-Cell Battery w/ 240W AC Power Adapter
  • 13.94 x 9.88 x 0.98" (4.85 lbs)
Warranty: 1-Year Limited Parts & Labor

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Update: This popular deal is still available.

Staples has ASUS TUF Gaming A15 Gaming Laptop (FA507NV-EH53) on sale for $679.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member ShamboB for sharing this deal.

Specs (source):
  • AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS 6-core, 12-threads (3.3Ghz Base / 4.6GHz Boost) Processor
  • 15.6" FHD 250-nits 45% NTSC IPS-level Anti-Glare 144Hz Matte Display
  • 16GB DDR5-4800 RAM Memory
  • 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive Storage
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
  • Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax 2x2 MU-MIMO + Bluetooth 5.3
  • 720p HD Camera
  • Chiclet Backlit Keyboard 1-Zone RGB
  • Ports:
    • 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
    • 1x USB-C 4 (support for DisplayPort, 40Gbps)
    • 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2
    • 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1
    • 1x RJ45 Ethernet
    • 1x Headphone / microphone combo jack (3.5mm)
  • Windows 11
  • 90Wh Li-ion 4-Cell Battery w/ 240W AC Power Adapter
  • 13.94 x 9.88 x 0.98" (4.85 lbs)
Warranty: 1-Year Limited Parts & Labor

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Written by StrawMan86 | Staff
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The display specs listed in the deal post are wrong once again, apparently the deal editor just copied it over from the previous frontpage post which was also wrong. The screen in this laptop has 100%sRGB coverage, which is roughly similar to 72%NTSC.
Copying over my comment from the previous iteration of this deal:

This is the best deal on a midrange gaming laptop there's been in a little while, though this laptop does have a couple caveats. The cpu is mediocre, but it has a full power mobile rtx 4060 (the current value nvidia sweetspot), and a decent screen (though with poor brightness). The chassis is decent, and 16gb of ddr5 is acceptable for this price point. Having only a 512gb ssd is a bit of a bummer, but realistically you generally want to upgrade your laptops ssd anyways (and this laptop has two m.2 slots).

The primary downside to this laptop is the cpu, the 7535HS is a 6-core cpu using the one and a half generation old zen3+ architecture (basically zen3 cores with an improved memory controller and additional pcie capabilities). It has the rather weak rdna2 based 660m for an igpu. In terms of raw cpu performance, expect it to perform slightly better than the old 6600hs. It will be meaningfully slower than the newer generation zen4 and 5 cpus in higher end laptops. Having 6 cores may also start becoming a bottleneck in a couple of years, but it's generally sufficient for midrange gaming currently. Likewise, while the zen3+ cores aren't terribly powerful by modern standards, the mobile rtx 4060 isn't powerful enough for the cpu to be a major bottleneck in most games.

The mobile rtx 4060 is the current value sweetspot, it's the cheapest nvidia mobile gpu that has 8gb of vram (the absolute bare minimum for modern 1080p gaming). The 4060 in this laptop is the full power 140w variant, though keep in mind performance scaling heavily drops off past 100w. While the mobile rtx 4070 is around 20% faster, the 8gb of vram remains the primary constraint, and it's nowhere near worth the price premium. The next step up, the mobile rtx 4080, is enormously faster and has 12gb of vram, but you'll pay at least twice as much for even a refurbished 4080 laptop. The brand new mobile rtx 5000 series laptops aren't worth the enormous price premiums, blackwell is basically a refresh of ada lovelace without any major improvements, and you'd need to purchase a mobile rtx 5070ti or higher to get more than 8gb of vram. Multi frame generation is also utterly pointless if your monitor is below 180hz refresh rate (and 4x mode isn't viable without at least 240hz refresh rate). Amd competitors in this price range are rare, and at 1080p supporting dlss rather than only fsr is a major advantage. I would've previously said nvidia's drivers are also a meaningful advantage, but nvidia's drivers since the 50 series launch have been garbage. If you get this laptop, update to game ready driver version 566.36, which is the most recent actually stable driver. There have been deals of the asus tuf a16 with the rx 7700s instead at a relatively similar price in the past, but that laptop hasn't been in this price range for a little while to the best of my knowledge.

The screen on this laptop has very good specs for a laptop of this price in all metrics except brightness. The brightness is only 250 nits which is the bare minimum, if you primarily use your laptops in bright environments or outside this is a major downside. Otherwise, the screen is 1080p (standard at this price, and you wouldn't want higher resolution with the 4060), 144hz refresh rate (decent for midrange gaming), 100%srgb gamut coverage (good for this price point), supports G-Sync (very unusual at this price), and has a MUX Switch + Advanced Optimus. If this screen was 300nit+ it'd be incredible at under $700, but with a brightness of 250nits it's still pretty good. Worth noting is the sample notebookcheck tested was 270nit, so the screen may be slightly brighter than advertised.

This laptop has a rather large 90whr battery which is very good for the price. While the zen3+ cpu isn't exceptionally efficient, I'd still expect fairly good battery life for a gaming laptop.

This laptop comes with 16gb (2x8gb) of ddr5 4800 in a dual channel configuration (16gb is decent for the price), this cpu doesn't support ddr5 faster than 4800mt/s. There are two user accessible ram slots, officially supporting up to 32gb ddr5 4800 (64gb likely possible). There are two user accessible m.2 slots, one of which is occupied by the 512gb gen 4 ssd.

The array of ports is quite decent, there's no thunderbolt (obviously), but it has hdmi 2.1 frl, 1x usb3.2 supporting power delivery and displayport output (with gsync, 10gbps)), a usb4 port (40gbps), 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports (5gbps), and a RJ45 LAN port. The wifi is only gen 6, which is slightly disappointing but ultimately not terribly consequential. The keyboard is backlit.
This laptop is fairly heavy at 2.20 Kg (4.85 lbs).

Overall, if the mediocre cpu and low screen brightness aren't dealbreakers for you, this is a rather good deal. It's also worth keeping in mind there's currently lots of uncertainty regarding how tariffs will affect pricing, so if you need a laptop now it may be prudent not to wait.
I got this exact laptop from Staples and was able to go to the full 64GB (2x 32GB) RAM crucial brand. Working great. Plays basically all games at 1080p perfectly, I keep everything to 60fps or 30fps (console gamer) to keep temperatures and noise to a decent level. Installed an SK Hynix P41 2TB replacing the stock drive. WIFI card is replaceable and is located under the nvme drive. It is a big of a pain to open but be patient as to not damage the laptop - watch some videos first. Installed g-helper to tweak temps and performance. Paired it with a bluetooth mouse and an Xbox One X bluetooth controller. Typed this reply on it. Wonderful laptop! I am loving it!

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EagerCheetah4647
5d ago
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Best 4060 laptop price I've ever seen, even if screen quality isn't very good.
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Quote from panzerwings :
Not yet, the stock wifi/bluetooth card works well enough for my use. I opened it up and checked the location of the wifi card while I was replacing the nvme ssd. Maybe in the future I can upgrade it to a Wifi 7 module that's compatible with AMD chipset.
How do you replace the drive without a Windows CD?
4d ago
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shifty1981
4d ago
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Got one in Braintree MA. They had others in stock. I'll be using it with external monitors and may get more RAM if needed. Great price!
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Quote from rajamahal :
Decent deal, but could be better. The slightly better 7735hs + 1tb version is out there and would be great deal at this price point. We got a $720 microcenter open box last fall of that version for reference.
Not really fair to compare Microcenter deals for a large subset of the population who does not live near one.
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panzerwings
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Quote from shifty1981 :
How do you replace the drive without a Windows CD?
You can either clone your drive with Macrium Reflect Free (free for personal use https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/...ition.html) using an nvme to usb adapter (they are around $10 on amazon), or if you don't have one, use the empty nvme slot on the laptop. When cloning, use the option to copy all partitions and expand to the new drive.

Or create a Windows 11 dvd/usb via the official Microsoft Create Windows Installation Media (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../windows11). This is a clean install and the Windows 11 Home license is embedded within the chipset of your laptop so Windows will automatically apply it with a fresh install. You will need to download the drivers from Asus. I would recommend cloning but either way will work.

Either way requires some technical know-how but if it's a new laptop, there's really no data loss even if you mess up somehow. You can always reinstall fresh Windows 11 Home from Microsoft and download drivers from Asus.
Last edited by panzerwings June 1, 2025 at 08:41 AM.
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Shows available again for me today.
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How does Ross compare to a desktop R5600 and 4060 RTX?

Found this at a similar price

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Damn this is a solid deal, but doesn't tick enough boxes for me.

I prefer the A14 with the Ryzen 9 HX 370, 32Gb, and 2.5k screen. It's basically only sold by 1 retailer now and is $1600. Going to have to bite the bullet as there's literally nothing else at 14" with 32Gb under $2K, etc.
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Quote from rajamahal :
Decent deal, but could be better. The slightly better 7735hs + 1tb version is out there and would be great deal at this price point. We got a $720 microcenter open box last fall of that version for reference.
I got FA617XT-CS94 for $550! Was not even used. Opened up and asus extended my warranty free for 2 years upon activation
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I got FA617XT-CS94 for $550! Was not even used. Opened up and asus extended my warranty free for 2 years upon activation
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Showed back in stock so I ordered one. It's been several hours and I haven't received a confirmation email, and the order number is not pulling up as valid on the Staples website. Any thoughts?
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Quote from Ricochet48 :
Damn this is a solid deal, but doesn't tick enough boxes for me. I prefer the A14 with the Ryzen 9 HX 370, 32Gb, and 2.5k screen. It's basically only sold by 1 retailer now and is $1600. Going to have to bite the bullet as there's literally nothing else at 14" with 32Gb under $2K, etc.
I got the A14 8845HS RTX 4060 last year for $1400. It's a great machine. Very small but plays everything I throw at it. Highly recommended.
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Quote from mageus2 :
I got the A14 8845HS RTX 4060 last year for $1400. It's a great machine. Very small but plays everything I throw at it. Highly recommended.
Yup I need the 14 inch to fit in my personal item carry on (basic economy flights are cheap!). I fly back and forth a lot from Chicago to south Florida and this will just be docked in Florida (to use my 47" wide monitor). In Chicago I have a nice desktop with three 27"s as well, so it will only be used here at an occasional coffee shop.

As I don't play many games these days the 4060 should be plenty for DOTA & WC3R. I cared much more about the 32gb of ram as my work computer is 16gb and I find it limiting even just doing daily spreadsheet work, etc.
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Good for video editing / streaming?

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Quote from BeigeRoad455 :
The display specs listed in the deal post are wrong once again, apparently the deal editor just copied it over from the previous frontpage post which was also wrong. The screen in this laptop has 100%sRGB coverage, which is roughly similar to 72%NTSC.Copying over my comment from the previous iteration of this deal:This is the best deal on a midrange gaming laptop there's been in a little while, though this laptop does have a couple caveats. The cpu is mediocre, but it has a full power mobile rtx 4060 (the current value nvidia sweetspot), and a decent screen (though with poor brightness). The chassis is decent, and 16gb of ddr5 is acceptable for this price point. Having only a 512gb ssd is a bit of a bummer, but realistically you generally want to upgrade your laptops ssd anyways (and this laptop has two m.2 slots).The primary downside to this laptop is the cpu, the 7535HS is a 6-core cpu using the one and a half generation old zen3+ architecture (basically zen3 cores with an improved memory controller and additional pcie capabilities). It has the rather weak rdna2 based 660m for an igpu. In terms of raw cpu performance, expect it to perform slightly better than the old 6600hs. It will be meaningfully slower than the newer generation zen4 and 5 cpus in higher end laptops. Having 6 cores may also start becoming a bottleneck in a couple of years, but it's generally sufficient for midrange gaming currently. Likewise, while the zen3+ cores aren't terribly powerful by modern standards, the mobile rtx 4060 isn't powerful enough for the cpu to be a major bottleneck in most games.The mobile rtx 4060 is the current value sweetspot, it's the cheapest nvidia mobile gpu that has 8gb of vram (the absolute bare minimum for modern 1080p gaming). The 4060 in this laptop is the full power 140w variant, though keep in mind performance scaling heavily drops off past 100w. While the mobile rtx 4070 is around 20% faster, the 8gb of vram remains the primary constraint, and it's nowhere near worth the price premium. The next step up, the mobile rtx 4080, is enormously faster and has 12gb of vram, but you'll pay at least twice as much for even a refurbished 4080 laptop. The brand new mobile rtx 5000 series laptops aren't worth the enormous price premiums, blackwell is basically a refresh of ada lovelace without any major improvements, and you'd need to purchase a mobile rtx 5070ti or higher to get more than 8gb of vram. Multi frame generation is also utterly pointless if your monitor is below 180hz refresh rate (and 4x mode isn't viable without at least 240hz refresh rate). Amd competitors in this price range are rare, and at 1080p supporting dlss rather than only fsr is a major advantage. I would've previously said nvidia's drivers are also a meaningful advantage, but nvidia's drivers since the 50 series launch have been garbage. If you get this laptop, update to game ready driver version 566.36, which is the most recent actually stable driver. There have been deals of the asus tuf a16 with the rx 7700s instead at a relatively similar price in the past, but that laptop hasn't been in this price range for a little while to the best of my knowledge.The screen on this laptop has very good specs for a laptop of this price in all metrics except brightness. The brightness is only 250 nits which is the bare minimum, if you primarily use your laptops in bright environments or outside this is a major downside. Otherwise, the screen is 1080p (standard at this price, and you wouldn't want higher resolution with the 4060), 144hz refresh rate (decent for midrange gaming), 100%srgb gamut coverage (good for this price point), supports G-Sync (very unusual at this price), and has a MUX Switch + Advanced Optimus. If this screen was 300nit+ it'd be incredible at under $700, but with a brightness of 250nits it's still pretty good. Worth noting is the sample notebookcheck tested was 270nit, so the screen may be slightly brighter than advertised.This laptop has a rather large 90whr battery which is very good for the price. While the zen3+ cpu isn't exceptionally efficient, I'd still expect fairly good battery life for a gaming laptop.This laptop comes with 16gb (2x8gb) of ddr5 4800 in a dual channel configuration (16gb is decent for the price), this cpu doesn't support ddr5 faster than 4800mt/s. There are two user accessible ram slots, officially supporting up to 32gb ddr5 4800 (64gb likely possible). There are two user accessible m.2 slots, one of which is occupied by the 512gb gen 4 ssd.The array of ports is quite decent, there's no thunderbolt (obviously), but it has hdmi 2.1 frl, 1x usb3.2 supporting power delivery and displayport output (with gsync, 10gbps)), a usb4 port (40gbps), 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports (5gbps), and a RJ45 LAN port. The wifi is only gen 6, which is slightly disappointing but ultimately not terribly consequential. The keyboard is backlit.This laptop is fairly heavy at 2.20 Kg (4.85 lbs).Overall, if the mediocre cpu and low screen brightness aren't dealbreakers for you, this is a rather good deal. It's also worth keeping in mind there's currently lots of uncertainty regarding how tariffs will affect pricing, so if you need a laptop now it may be prudent not to wait.
VRAM is important but it's not everything. Rarely there are 2 identical desktop GPUs where only difference is the VRAM, with # of cores, shaders, memory interface, TMUs, ROPs, cache all the same. The best example would be RTX 4060 Ti in both 8GB and 16GB variants. The 16GB RTX 4060 Ti was 20% faster than the 8GB RTX 4060Ti in Last of Us Part 1 on 4K Ultra settings, yet on average it was <5% faster in 4K in most games. FHD and 1440 frame rates were nearly the same.

RTX 4060 mobile is much weaker than desktop RTX 4060 Ti, so the difference between a hypothetical 16 GB RTX 4060 mobile and 8GB RTX 4060 mobile for gaming would be small. VRAM would matter more for things like CAD, LLM, mining or Raw photo editing.
https://www.techspot.com/review/2...0-ti-16gb/
https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...b-review/6

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