The ASUS TUF Gaming A17 laptop is packed with an arsenal of hardware and software features to ensure excellent durability and super-powerful gaming performance.
AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS 16 GB SSD 512 GB 17.3" LED Full HD 144 Hz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 6 GB DLSS 3 Wi-Fi 6/Bluetooth 5.2 Windows 11 Home
The ASUS TUF Gaming A17 laptop is packed with an arsenal of hardware and software features to ensure excellent durability and super-powerful gaming performance. Equipped with a powerful AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS processor, 16GB of DDR5 memory, a 512GB PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 6GB graphics chip, the ASUS TUF Gaming A17-TUF707NU-HX007W laptop delivers excellent performance and fast operation.
TUF: The Ultimate Force
Armed with features to help it cope with any situation, the TUF Gaming A17 delivers top-flight performance for gaming, streaming and more. Its AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor will give you the power you need for all your activities. Combined with a dedicated GeForce RTX 4050 graphics chip, it's capable of delivering excellent performance on today's iconic games. What's more, the TUF Gaming A17 is equipped with an M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD to speed up loading times for many games and applications.
Backlit Gamer Keyboard
Get a keyboard similar to those found on gaming desktops, so you're more comfortable when you're gaming. The multi-colour backlighting, with a single active colour, lets you personalise its style. What's more, the highlighted ZQSD keys let you see your motion commands more quickly. Overstroke technology speeds up key response, while N-Key Rollover accurately registers every keystroke, even in the toughest battles. True to TUF DNA, the ultra-resistant keys each withstand more than 20 million keystrokes to improve the reliability of your keyboard and your accuracy in combat.
Efficient cooling
The TUF Gaming A17 is equipped with a complete cooling system capable of maintaining the PC's level of performance while remaining efficient over the long term. Heat pipes and radiators keep heat away from the main components and dissipate it quickly, even when you're on a real gaming marathon. The Arc Flow fans have 84 blades that vary in thickness at their base to move more air! The whole system operates silently, to minimise noise pollution.
IntegratedMUX switch, to switch to GPU Direct mode and reduce latency
512 GB M.2 PCIe SSD + 1 free M.2 PCIe slot
Wireless communication Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.2
Keyboard with RGB backlighting (only one active colour)
2 speakers with Dolby Atmos technology
High-performance cooling system
720p HD webcam
Windows 11 Home 64-bit
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Very powerful, perfectly recognised the ram bars and the nvme ssd installed before the first boot,
Very fast, booting up, launching applications, etc.
I bought this computer to replace an old Asus K93S, which was still functional, but so much slower and with little or no upgradability.
I'd put a small downer (0.25 points less) on the keyboard backlighting, which isn't the happiest in certain conditions, but I've still got to learn how to adapt it according to use.
Otherwise, all good, nothing to say.
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by MartinP
Posted on 20 Nov 2023
Product bought from LDLC on 7 Nov 2023
Number of reviews: 4Average rating: 8
Too expensive for its performance + lots of parameters that are difficult to change yourself
I'm really disappointed by my purchase of this PC to replace my previous one. For the price of this one, I really expected better.
It's slower than my old MSI PC from 2020, especially when I switch it on.
It's full of weird settings and completely useless pre-installed software that you have to deactivate or change one by one to use the machine properly. For example, when I use it for gaming, the PC detects that I'm playing and boosts the screen brightness. But if, while I'm playing, I press alt + tab to look at something else, the PC reduces the brightness with a delay. For all the games that require you to alt + tab regularly, you end up with a screen that flashes, decreasing and then boosting the brightness with a delay. It's very unpleasant, and this computer is full of little faults like this. Individually, these flaws aren't a big deal, but together they make for an experience that I don't like at all.
Another example: when I'm in a video chat on Google Meet, the people I'm talking to receive the sound of my voice, but also the internal sound of my computer that doesn't come through my microphone (for example, if I have music playing in the background, receive a notification or any other internal sound, people hear them too...). It was a struggle to find out where this weird setting was and change it. And it's like that for lots of things.
And finally, it runs on Windows 11, which I hadn't tested, but which is a nameless abomination.
All in all, I feel like I'm going backwards in terms of performance, I've spent too much on something that doesn't suit me very well, and I have even less control over my machine than before because of the horror that is Windows 11 and the multiple pre-installed programs. Really, really...
