



To my disappointment, there was noticeable lag right off the bat in ESO. This was the only BSOD experience throughout all of the testing and installation completed successfully after a reboot. When installing ESO from Steam for the first time, the TUF Gaming F17 threw a blue screen at me. The first game I dug into was Elder Scrolls Online. The RTX 3050 Ti GPU operated at an average of 1,540 MHz, reaching 77 degrees Celsius (170 degrees Fahrenheit). The CPU ran at an average of 3.9 GHz and around 84 degrees Celsius (183 degrees Fahrenheit). The TUF Gaming F17 produced an average of 36.5 fps throughout all 15 runs.The first run started at 35 fps and, by the 15th run, it reported at 36 fps which is remarkably consistent. It's lighter than the Razer Blade Pro 17 (6.1 pounds, 0.8 inches thin) Alienware m17 R4 (6.6 pounds, 15.7 x 11.6 x 0.7~0.9 inches).Īt $300 off, the Asus TUF F17 Gaming is a solid buy if you want premium RTX 30 graphics without the premium price.To stress test the TUF Gaming F17, we ran the Metro Exodus benchmark using RTX settings for 15 consecutive runs, simulating about 30 minutes of gaming. With a weight of 5.7 pounds and 1.0 inches thin, the Asus TUF Gaming F17 is more portable than its 17-inch competitors. You can expect the laptop in this deal to be on par with the power of Intel's 11th Gen Intel CPU and GeForce RTX 30 series graphics. It performed well in real-world and overall performance tests, surpassing the category average for gaming laptops. Our Asus TUF Gaming F17 review unit had a Ryzen 7 4800H CPU and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU. It lasted an impressive 7 hours and 41 minutes on our Laptop Mag battery test of constant web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness. In our Asus TUF Gaming F17 review, we praise its strong performance and graphics as well as its comfortable keyboard.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU does all the heavy graphics lifting. It features a 17.3-inch (1920 x 1080) 144Hz display, 2.5-GHz Intel Core i5-11260H hexa-core CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. The Asus TUF Gaming F17 is one of the best gaming laptops around.
