The general public perception of a gaming laptop is still closely related to high prices. Meanwhile, the affordable gaming laptops often come without the premium features as well as the looks of a proper gaming laptop. Since 2017, ASUS has tried to break that perception. The TUF Gaming line has become the mainstay of the Taiwanese laptop manufacturer, which brings premium features in its gaming laptops at affordable prices.

The latest series of TUF Gaming is FX505DY. It’s fair to say that this laptop is a close relative of ASUS ROG Strix GL504 since they share a visibly similar shape. Even some of the premium features in GL504 are being adopted by TUF Gaming FX505DY. One more thing that makes TUF Gaming FX505DY is such a fascinating option, it’s one of the gaming laptops endowed with AMD Ryzen 3000 series processor that has powerful processing performance, yet blessed with an affordable price.

Thin and Robust Design

If you’ve been paying attention to the designs of the previous TUF Gaming series, we guarantee that you’ll be surprised to see TUF Gaming FX505DY. This gaming laptop comes with a thinner body than the previous ones. Not only that, but the design has also changed a lot with a more geometrical body with fewer curves. That design emphasizes that TUF Gaming FX505DY is a gaming laptop that is supposed to have a more geometrical design.

TUF Gaming FX505DY is designed with a modern look, yet at the same time, it still reflects the gaming nuance. The frame of the screen comes with a hexagonal design that displays a sturdy feel. Aside from it, there is also an ‘X’ design on the back of the screen. All of them are complemented with brushed or sand-blasted finishing and comes in Gunmetal Grey and Black.

Moving on to the screen, ASUS also brings the exclusive NanoEdge Display technology in this gaming laptop. This technology often brought into ASUS premium laptops, one of which is ZenBook. With NanoEdge Display, TUF Gaming FX505DY has a screen that comes with an ultra-thin bezel, only 6.5mm. With the thin bezel, TUF Gaming FX505DY appears much thinner.

TUF Gaming FX505DY also comes with an IPS-level paneled screen with an sRGB color gamut of up to 100%. Coupled with the wide viewing angle support, the TUF Gaming FX505DY screen is able to deliver the visual quality with consistent contrast and color sharpness. This will certainly make your gaming experience much more immersive, especially in games that have a vast and detailed environment.

ASUS didn’t stop there with its innovations, TUF Gaming FX505DY became the first gaming laptop to receive the MIL-STD-810G military standard certificate. It means, that this gaming laptop has an ultra-sturdy body. It even has passed various extreme tests, such as vibration and pressure tests, temperature tests, humidity tests, to solar radiation tests. The military standard certification received by TUF Gaming FX505DY also ensures its long life expectancy.

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Just Like Playing on a Desktop PC

It seems like the engineers in ASUS want TUF Gaming FX505DY users to have maximal gaming experience. Understandably, the most ideal reference to make a comparison for this is a gaming desktop PC. For that reason, many innovations were made in order to bring the desktop PC feel into the TUF Gaming FX505DY users, one of them can be seen from the keyboard.

The keyboard on the TUF Gaming FX505DY comes with a special mechanism called HyperStrike Technology. Using that technology, the TUF Gaming FX505DY keyboard has much higher accuracy, both for typing or playing games. That’s because the distance between the keys and the keyboard layout has been optimized, therefore, the users are able to recognize the keys’ positions naturally.

Inspired by desktop PCs keyboards, the keyboard on TUF Gaming FX505DY has a comfortable 1.8mm key travel. This laptop also has a wider spacebar and distinguished WASD keys in order to comply with gamers’ needs.

In order to give a gaming touch, ASUS has also brought RGB backlight in several variants of the TUF Gaming FX505DY, one of them is TUF Gaming FX505DYxxx. Certainly, the RGB backlight has been supported by the AURA RGB feature so that the display and colors are adjustable.

Stay Cool When Running Games

As mentioned earlier in this article, ASUS has brought some premium features in TUF Gaming FX505DY, one of which is Hypercool Technology. This special cooling feature is also used in ROG Strix GL504 and what we love about this cooling system is the presence of the Anti-Dust Cooling technology. With this technology, you won’t have piles of dust in your TUF Gaming FX505DY cooling system, therefore, your laptop’s performance will be maintained.

Premium Audio

In video games, the sound is one of the most vital factors. A great sound reproduction will give the players the ability to feel the in-game environments. On the contrary, the gaming experience can be terrible if the sound isn’t properly produced, for example, unable to reproduce the sound of shots in precise directions. To tackle that, ASUS uses DTS Audio technology in TUF Gaming FX505DY.

The audio technology used in TUF Gaming FX505DY is DTS Headphone: X which able to bring theatrical sound quality using the 7.1 Virtual Surround Sound feature, even when you’re using a headset. DTS Headphone: X has also been optimized for various usage scenarios and has three audio profiles, namely Sport, Game, and Movies. If you’re not satisfied yet, that technology also offers an audiophile-grade equalizer so you can freely determine the audio settings.

Complete Connectivity

ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DY already uses a Wi-Fi module with the latest technology, Intel 802.11ac Wave 2. The Wi-Fi module is one of the fastest right now and has a data transfer speed of up to 1.7Gbps or about 12 times faster than the Wi-Fi module 802.11.b/g/n. In addition, ASUS also brings Bluetooth 5.0 as an extra connectivity option.

For those of you who prefer to use the cable for the sake of more stable connectivity, TUF Gaming FX505DY also still has an ethernet port on the side of its body. Aside from the ethernet port, there are also 3 USB Type-A ports, two of which are USB 3.0. Moreover, there is also an HDMI port and a COMBO Audio Jack 3.5mm. Uniquely, all those ports are placed on the left side, so that it will not interfere with you when you’re using a mouse.

Awesome Performance

Of course, as a gaming laptop, TUF Gaming FX505DY comes with specialized gaming specifications. The laptop that we’ve been testing out is the TUF Gaming FX505DYG variant that uses Ryzen 5 3550H processor. The AMD’s high-performance mobile processor comes with a 4 cores 8 threads configurations with the processing speed of up to 3.7GHz.

Due to the high number of cores and threads, TUF Gaming FX505DY is also very reliable for multitasking. Gamers are now able to play games while live streaming, thanks to the fast performing processor. Graphics chip or GPU also has a significant role, having the facts that games require a high graphics processing performance. In TUF Gaming FX505DYG, the GPU being used is Radeon RX560, which is an entry-level gaming graphics chip. However, its performance can’t be underestimated.

The combination of Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon RX560 is capable of producing good performance in running various AAA games. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, for example. That game is able to run with an average framerate of 68 fps. Other AAA game, Rise of The Tomb Raider, is also capable of running at an average of 39 fps.

The fast performance of TUF Gaming FX505DY is also reflected in numerous synthetic tests. Using the 3DMark benchmark software, this laptop is able to perform at a relatively high score in its class. With a price tag of around 10 million IDR, TUF Gaming FX505DY is able to produce the following benchmark scores.

One of the excellence of TUF Gaming FX505DY is that it uses SSD as its media storage. The SSD used is M.2 PCIe SSD that has a superior speed compared to HDDs. The use of SSD not only makes Windows 10 runs faster and smoother but also makes the loading time in games much shorter.

The storage in TUF Gaming FX505DY can also be upgraded by adding HDD or SSD with the SATA interface. With these additional storage facilities, the users of this laptop can store even more data. Simply install a new HDD or SSD that can be used immediately.

Long-lasting Battery

For a long time, the battery is one of the weaknesses of gaming laptops. Due to the high demand for power supply to run a game smoothly, gaming laptops usually sacrifice their battery life since they have to focus on performance. This makes most of the gaming laptops can not last for more than 3 hours even for standard use.

But, it’s a different case for TUF Gaming FX505DY. Surprisingly, this gaming laptop boasts better battery durability than other gaming laptops. Tested using PCMark 10 Battery Test in Modern Office mode, TUF Gaming FX505DY survived for more than5 hours.

Verdict

ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DY is one of the most attractive mainstream gaming laptops nowadays. With a price tag of around 10 million IDR, you can have a powerful laptop with a durable battery. Aside from it, the durability of TUF Gaming FX505DY which marked with the military standard certification as well as the premium features it boasts make it an even more tempting gaming laptop to have.

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