This right here is the ASUS TUF gaming
FX504 otherwise known in other markets
as the FX80GE and it is a laptop that I
bought because of the spec and sadly
it's not as good as it seems in fact
spoiler alert here this is not a laptop
you want to actually buy so the specs on
paper seem really good an i7 the 8750 H
that's the latest 8th generation 6 cores
12 threads 8 gigabytes of double data
rate for DRAM I don't we ain't gigabyte
nvme SSD it has wireless AC a one
terabyte hard drive and the Nvidia 1050
Ti GPU with 4 gigabytes of RAM but sadly
it turned out to be a case of on paper
it looks great but in reality it's not
so let's find out why we get to screen
options with this particular model here
so you can either get a fast 120 hertz
TN panel with poor vertical viewing
angles or an IPS panel which is the one
I have here
so the brightness isn't really that
great it tops out at 212 lux ideally I
like to see over 250 it is matte coated
so it's great for glare you're not gonna
see a lot of glare and things with those
glossy panels that you do see but have a
look at the Adobe RGB coverage so you
can see right here that it's only 48
percent and 64% of s RGB so this is not
a screen for professionals getting
access to the internals isn't difficult
you just have to remove 11 screws and
then pry off the red case the SSD is
upgradable it's a high next one right
here and then the wireless card as well
if you're not happy with the one they've
gone with then this can also be replaced
and RAM upgrades are very easy you don't
need to pull out and swap around the
motherboard same goes for that 2.5 inch
drive very easy to replace this with a
larger one if you're not happy 1
terabyte or put in a faster SATA 3 SSD
the battery pack is rather small 48 watt
hours only it's not the smallest for
this kind of hardware MSI have only 41
on one of their particular models that
I'll probably be reviewing later on so
this is only good for about 2 and a half
hours of gaming or around 4 to 5 hours
as expected for a gaming laptop you're
not gonna get the best battery life and
it's definitely not the case here now
this is what I do not recommend this
laptop here they're cooling on it just
isn't sufficient enough and as I snow
this this is why they restrict with the
bios with the power limits
it'll chop down to near 25 watts once it
starts to get a little hot because they
know the cooling is not gonna do a
sufficient enough job unless you use
that fan over booster mode which results
in fair noise of up to 55 decibels then
you get the 45 watts so they're going to
use the one copper transfer heat pipe
here now that is connected to both the
CPU and GPU and then this tiny little
auxilary one which would just pan past
but I'll go back and show you that now
other manufacturers like MSI Dell HP ASA
they're using normally three four even
five copper transfer heat pipes with the
same exact spec now one of the things I
do like about this laptop here is the
keyboard so only they in a miracle
keyboard is really crammed and the rest
is quite spacious I like what they've
done with the space bar the power button
as well is separated away from the
keyboard typing on it as good it's firm
and I'd even rate it as being better
than the likes of the MSI SteelSeries
keyboards the backlight behind these
keys it's individual its birch as you
can see here it's just in red there's no
RGB on this one and you have three
different settings the palm rest is made
out of this textured plastic and as a
result it doesn't tend to show the
fingerprints and smudges as bad as other
laptops some of the worse that I have
seen er MSI's GL 62 in the 63 series
they smudge up so easy but not really
the case here you do get a little bit of
it though now this touchpad is one of
the better ones for a gaming laptop it
is using Windows precision drivers now I
have noticed that sometimes right in the
middle here that the touch sensitivity
and accuracy isn't quite there but
overall it is an above-average touch pad
I've used here for a gaming laptop there
Zeus logo along the top is in black so
it doesn't really stand out that much
just below it on the top of the keyboard
here you'll see an intake vent there's
also intakes around and actually through
the
then the status LEDs here that when you
close the lid you can actually still see
them because of that cutout on the
bottom of it the lid also continues with
that brushed plastic look that almost
looks like a brushed alloy but it isn't
there is a little bit of flex on the lid
but overall not too bad bill quality I
am impressed with this one and it
definitely stands up to what the name
suggests as a tough laptop it seems a
little bit tougher than normal so good
plastics on this then on the rear we got
to exit vents so this is where all the
hot air is going to be coming out I
prefer this design I don't like side
vented ones that tend to heat up your
hands or your mouse hand slim pickings
when it comes to our port selection so a
3.5 millimeter headphone jack we got 2
USB 3 ports USB 2 and then HDMI 1.4 a
sadly now this to me should be HDMI to I
know that the Nvidia 1050 Ti is not
really capable at all at driving games
in 4k but it's still nice to be able to
run your desktop 4k and 60 Hertz also
get Ethernet there which is a gigabit
port and then the ldcm for charging and
on the right a Kensington lock slot so
it is missing an SD card reader it
should have mini display out I believe
as well and even a Thunderbolt 3 port
would be nice so they really cheaped out
a little bit here as zeus with this
considering what the competition is
offering so the power brick is
relatively large and this is as expected
for a gaming laptop it's a hundred and
twenty watts and it will charge that 48
watt hour battery in just over 1 hour
and 30 minutes either side of the laptop
you will find these side firing speakers
the loudness is okay maxes out about 80
decibels but what it is lacking in is
bass because it doesn't have a little
sub underneath which i feel they could
have added but i'll give you a sample of
those speakers now
all right so let's take a look now at
the performance this is Cinebench r15
which is a good little test here of the
core i7 8750 h so right now I have it on
what is the balanced fan profile now
these fan profiles are actually linked
as well to this thermal limits we have
so the TDP the TDP is 45 watts on this
particular CPU but what keeps happening
with this one as you'll see right here
when you have a look at this graph here
in Intel XT you then we actually end up
limiting itself right back here it did
it - you can see when we get power limit
throttling it will limit itself down to
2.2 gigahertz or 2.5 stuck at 25 watts
as the the power limit which is right
here okay 45 is the stock but it's
linked to the fan probably file so this
is a problem you keep running into
whatever you do it starts to either
power limits rot all and if you put it
in the overboost mode which I will do
now so function f5 into the fan of every
SMO the fans get even louder this is the
only way you can get maximum performance
then this is what happens you can see
it's been triggering right here a lot of
thermal throttling so it will peak at
about 98 degrees but it doesn't go over
that at least that's one good thing but
the fan is up to 55 decibels it's just
getting far too loud there so we repeat
tests here like Cinebench
then you're able to get slightly higher
scores but eventually it will go back to
the 25 watts power limit because as you
snow there's a problem with this laptop
even after the bias updates the cooling
is not good enough so they have to cap
the power limits throttling down that
CPU which is really disappointing so
what you are paying for you are not
getting now if you under volt something
we shouldn't really have to do so if you
under volt then you're able to get very
good Cinebench scores out of this
particular CPU you can see right here
and I mean that's an amazing score that
is really good considering that this is
a laptop so that is not bad at all now I
do have some other complaints with the
hardware so they've card even further
corners here so not just the cooling
with a cop
heat-transfer pipes the SSD alright
it's an nvme SSD you get reasonable read
speeds okay that's good but look at the
write speeds they're quite low other
manufacturers MSI HP Dell they are going
with faster drives so really they could
have gone better with this another real
disappointment is the wireless card so
the wireless card is a real tech 88 21 C
II and this thing here not really that
fast
about 180 megabits per second only is
the maximum speeds you will get out of
it so that's not good at all I'll show
you right here so this is just a typical
Wireless test I'm able to get double
this on my mean up bug Pro so it's
really not good I even show you an
example of steam downloading so only
fourteen point seven minutes per second
I can get up to 39 35 on other laptops
so not a good card there at all here's
the Geekbench full score this is with an
under volts you get a really impressive
multi-core score here for this type of
hardware I mean this is crazy it's a
really good score but the single core
score considering a maximum turbo of our
4.1 not actually that good there so it
doesn't really want to hold that full
point one two about again this is a Zeus
crippling the CPU a little bit because
of the insufficient cooling so that is
really not good at all to see now
general performance I will not actually
go over this because this CPU handles
everything fine everything you can throw
it at multitasking like crazy 4k
streaming websites Chrome all that
perfect there's no need for me to really
touch that fire strike if you haven't
seen my first video the unboxing video
get to score of around our 7000 which
isn't bad and yet another issue cropped
up so every time I've done a reboot I've
tried messing with drivers so the camera
does seem to work but to give you a
sample of the webcam here do a recording
I keep getting this so it keeps having
this error and then it just crashes
right out on me so that isn't good to
see I'm not sure what's behind there but
this is a Windows problem
not really a problem of the laptop my
feel now a 4k sadly because this isn't
HDMI to spec testing it out of call
that's gonna just camp out at 30 Hertz
so you won't be gaming at 4k not with
the 1050 Ti but it would be nice to run
desktop of course at 60 Hertz at least
at 4k okay so just how does it gain this
after all is a gaming laptop and I'm
happy to report here the gaming
performance is very decent from the 1050
tee I highly recommend going for the
1050 tee I don't go for the 1050 I feel
especially with the 2 gigabytes of RAM
because it's not as fast this one's a
good about 30% faster than that model
does GPU so all the titles out there
that I did test if you haven't seen my
gaming review that was recorded in 60
frames per second so it's a lot more
smoother you can see just how these
games do run that they're all good the
titles at 1080p you don't need to lower
the resolution the only thing you might
have to lower on some of the more
demanding games like which the three you
can see now for example is perhaps set
that sitting on medium or low and lower
down some of those more demanding visual
settings to get a more smoother
framerate and experience but overall
gaming on this laptop is good yes the
temperatures get a little bit high and
yes you do hear that fan it's gonna be
continually on and relatively loud
around about 50 decibels up to 55 so I
wanted to point out and focus more on
the fan noise so at the moment I'm not
really doing something super strenuous
take a look at the CPU load you can see
where I'm a mouse cursor is at the
moment it's about 1920 4% temperatures
look at reaching 88 degrees two more
throttling I'm in the balanced mode as
well with the fans and the fan noise is
ridiculous
for what I'm doing it's just too loud
I'll give you a sample of it right now
but if you don't like fan noise then you
definitely don't want to buy this laptop
but here's that fan noise
so internal temp GPU maxes out about 76
degrees the CPU I have shown you getting
up to 89 degrees but where it does get
warm is just her around the keyboard
here does get quite a hot to the touch
I've seen it get up to 48 degrees this
is after one hour of game you can see
it's just touching now almost 49 degrees
Celsius there so getting quite hot there
and this is on the cooler booster well
the overboost mode the palm rest is
always good so the primers do you can
see here around 26 degrees so that's
that's good you're not going to get
sweetie hot palms using this it's just
around the keyboard which concerns me a
little with those temperatures which
continually start to slowly creep up the
longer you game on this so there we go
as you gather from the start of this
video that this is not a laptop to get
and I'm really disappointed in a Zeus
with this one they've just cut so many
corners
did they not even test this laptop I
don't understand this they know there's
a problem with it because look at what
they're doing when it comes to the power
limits they're throttling it back
they're forcing the user to use the
overboost fan mode which puts it in the
maximum rpms to try and keep it as cool
as possible but even then it will
thermal throttle and you have to do some
crazy under vaulting on this to get the
kind of performance that you're paying
for that you expect to get the wireless
AC is also disappointing it's quite slow
they've got a reasonably slow drive for
the nvme s SSD there so the academy's on
the SSD the wireless card a battery
capacity 48 watt hours is not huge now
gaming laptops don't normally have good
battery life so I can't really complain
too much about that compared to the
competition but you only get about five
hours maximum it is still disappointing
now gaming performance let's go over the
cons sorry the pros the pros here gaming
performance okay it is actually decent
you get a lot of fan noise but when you
put a nervous mode the performance is
good once you apply the bias updates
that fix the GPU stuttering so well
after a bad start when I first got this
but luckily doing those updates has
improved things there but thermal ways
the fan noise it's really annoying it
does get hot around the keyboard but I
do like that keyboard the keyboard is
very nice to type on and I will go
fires to say they're better than the
SteelSeries keyboards on the MSI laptops
that i have reviewed in this channel
that it's just very nice to type on good
travel you even get them numerical
keypad or others don't they mess and
skip there but normal gaming laptops we
do have it so a little crush then good
touchpad as well is good overall the
build quality is good not an amazing
screen but it is acceptable for a gaming
laptop now most people won't be doing
professional editing color work and
things like that on a screen like this
especially not what the 48 Adobe rating
there that's not great a 48% coverage
very poor but overall it's just the
thermals of a big major factor here so
we've got some nice Hardware in here
we've got the 8th generation i7 very good
CPU but just in sufficient cooling
basically just there one connected
thermal transfer pipe with half an
additional smaller pipe on it to aid the
cooling of the CPU and that is just
really not good enough and that is why I
can now cannot just recommend this at
all this laptop has frustrated me I have
massive amounts of buyer's remorse I
will be selling this and I will be
buying something with better calling so
please do check out the competition
check out msi HP Dell all of those guys
they have I feel better 1050 Ti gaming
laptops thank you so much for watching
this review and I hope you avoided and
this one here and I helped out