The FX 504 Gaming Laptop from ASUS ROG Series: A Review

When I first heard about the new gaming laptop from ASUS ROG series, I was excited to dive in and see how it would perform. The laptop features an NVIDIA GeForce 1050 Ti GPU, which is a decent option for many less demanding games. However, as I delved deeper into my testing, I discovered that the CPU power limit throttling was causing some issues.

Ultra and High Settings at Times

I found that running ultra and high settings on certain games resulted in stuttering, with dips in frame rates becoming more frequent. This was particularly noticeable in games like Watch Dogs: Legion and The Witcher 3, which are known for their demanding graphics requirements. Despite this, the laptop was still able to play these games at a decent frame rate, but it wasn't ideal.

Medium Settings Were More Consistent

On the other hand, running medium settings resulted in more consistent performance, with fewer dips in frame rates. This suggests that the 1050 Ti GPU is capable of delivering smooth gameplay at lower graphics settings. However, I still recommended opting for the 1060 if you want to play all modern games at 1080p 60fps with decent settings.

Benchmarking Results

To get a better understanding of the laptop's performance, I ran some benchmarking tests using Unigine Heaven Valley and Superposition. These tests showed that the 1050 Ti GPU was capable of delivering average frame rates above what it would have achieved at stock clock speeds. However, I did notice some stuttering during gameplay, particularly in games like Watch Dogs: Legion.

Overclocking Results

I also experimented with overclocking the 1050 Ti GPU using MSI Afterburner, but unfortunately, this didn't seem to make a significant difference in terms of performance. The average clock speeds increased by around 200 megahertz, but this didn't translate into more frames per second at the highest setting levels.

CPU Benchmark Results

Unfortunately, due to the CPU power limit throttling, I wasn't able to achieve the best possible results from my CPU benchmarks. Typically, most other laptops with similar specs have been able to achieve higher scores in these tests, but this laptop was unable to overcome the limitations of its CPU.

Storage Performance

I also ran some storage benchmarking tests using CrystalDiskMark, which showed that the 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD was capable of delivering excellent sequential read and write speeds. However, I couldn't find any information on the pricing for the 8750H model with the same specs as this review.

Pricing

The price of the FX 504 Gaming Laptop from ASUS ROG series is around $1,800 Australian dollars, which is a decent price point for a gaming laptop in its class. However, I was unable to find any information on the pricing for the 8750H model with similar specs and half the RAM.

Battery Life

The battery life of the FX 504 Gaming Laptop was surprisingly good considering the smaller battery size. This suggests that the laptop's power management system is efficient and able to conserve power when needed.

Build Quality

Finally, I was pleased with the build quality of the FX 504 Gaming Laptop, which features a plastic body and some metal accents. While it may not be as premium as some other gaming laptops on the market, it still feels solid and well-built.

Conclusion

Overall, while the FX 504 Gaming Laptop from ASUS ROG series has its limitations, particularly with regards to CPU power limit throttling, it's still a great option for those looking for a decent gaming laptop at an affordable price. With some tweaks to the power management system, this laptop could potentially deliver better performance and a more seamless user experience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe asou stuff FX 504 is more of a budget-friendly gaming laptop compared to many others I've featured on the channel recently so let's check it out and find out if it's one you should consider buying let's start with the specs of this unit there's an Intel i7 8750 H CPU here which has six cores and can turbo up to four point one gigahertz and single core workloads but it's also available with the 8300 H in my unit the 16 gig of ddr4 memory running at 2600 66 megahertz in single channel but the two slots can support up to 32 gig for storage there's a 256 gig SATA SSD in the single m2 slot but it also supports nvme storage while the single 2.5 inch drive bay is populated with a one terabyte 5400 rpm sshd for the graphics there's an Nvidia 1050 TI 4 gig although it's also available with the 1050 and this Powell is the 15.6 inch 1080p 60 Hertz a HPA panel but it's also available with a TN option and we'll see how this performs soon in the benchmarks for the network connectivity there's a Gigabit Ethernet port support for 802 211 AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth version 4.0 the lid and interior are both a brushed black plastic with this red pattern out towards the corners matching the red keyboard and logo on the lid although it seems to be available in a few different designs the dimensions of the laptop a 38.4 centimeters in width twenty six point two centimeters in depth and 2.5 centimeters in height so fairly average for a 15-inch laptop the weight is listed at 2.3 kilos on the SS website which is basically what mine weighed with the 120 watt power brick and cable for charging the total weight increases to two point eight kilos so still not too heavy as mentioned the screen is a 15.6 inch 60 Hertz 1080p a hva panel I found the viewing angles to be good images are still perfectly clear even on sharp angles it's an HPA panel and advertised as IPS level as it basically looks like IPS the screen doesn't get too bright at 100% brightness I measured it at 266 minutes perfectly fine endure slur I've also measured the current color gamut using the Spyder 5 probe and my results returned 63% of srgb 45% of NTSC and 47% of Adobe RGB so perfectly fine for gaming and about on par with other laptops in the same price range that I've tested but you might want to look elsewhere if you do work that requires color accuracy I've performed my usual backlight bleed test on the display which involves having the laptop show a black screen in a dark room to help emphasize any bleeding I then take a long exposure photo to display any bleed sorry this is a worst-case scenario test there's some minor imperfections that the camera was able to pick up however to my eyes I wasn't able to see anything even in a dark room it looked good to me but this will vary between laptops while moving the display there was a bit of flex the hinges are out on the far ends and there are a little small but overall it was fairly sturdy considering the plastic construction it can also be opened easily with one finger demonstrating a fairly even white distribution as the battery is up the front above the display in the centre is a 720p camera the camera's not grained quite blurry and grainy even with some decent lighting the microphone sounds alright however even though the fan is basically silent there's still some internal noise inside picked up the chiclet keyboard has red backlighting with three levels of brightness but the sides of red plastic so it looks red even with the lighting turned off the WASD Keys are also clearly marked out I really liked typing with the keyboard the spacing between the keys seemed good and there's one point eight millimeters of travel distance I feel like the arrow keys could have been a bit bigger instead of having the extra long right control key there the key presses felt a little clicky here's how they sound to try and give you an idea while pushing down hard on the keyboard there was only a little bit of flex no issues at all while actually typing there the touchpad uses precision drivers and overall worked quite well no issues there moving on to the i/o on the left there's the power input Gigabit Ethernet port HDMI 1.4 port one USB 2.0 type-a port two USB 3.0 type-a ports and a 3.5 millimeter audio combo Jack there's nothing going on over on the right other than a Kensington lock slot up towards the back the speakers have found so what's the front on either side of the laptop they sound alright for laptop speakers not really any bass but still mostly clear at higher volumes on the back there are a couple of air exhaust vents towards the corners and nothing at all on the front the status LEDs are found inside at the top of the base just below the screen along with what appears to be some air vents up on the black brushed plastic lid there's a red Asus logo with the mirrored finish in the center with these red patterns coming in from the corners which match the ones on the interior fingerprints show up fairly easily on the brushed finish and we're a little difficult to wipe away once dirt gets into the grooves underneath there's some rubber feet which do a good job of preventing the laptop from sliding around while in use as well as some air intakes towards the back the laptop can be opened up easily with a Phillips head screwdriver after removing the panel we get easy access to the Wi-Fi card to memory slots and the single m2 slot and 2.5 inch drive bay powering the laptop is a 3 cell 48 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching YouTube videos with the screen on half brightness keep on lighting off and background ups disabled I was able to use it for five thousand sixteen minutes a pretty good result the laptop was using the Intel integrated graphics in this test thanks to Nvidia Optimus while playing The Witcher 3 with medium settings an invidious battery boost set to 30fps the battery lasted for one hour and 13 minutes however it was averaging around 20 fps in this game so the battery didn't seem to be enough at this title less demanding games might go a bit better but ideally you'll what a play while plugged in overall the battery life was pretty decent considering the size of the battery additionally while gaming for a couple of hours for my thermal tests the battery was slowly discharging and was at 85% even though it was plugged in the whole time indicating that there wasn't enough power being provided from the 120 watt brick morale not shortly thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 18 degrees Celsius it's getting cold here as winter has just started so expect warmer temperatures in the warmer environment also remember that the CPU and GPU share heat pipes so a change in temperature of one component may affect the other at idle both the CPU and GPU will quite warm considering the fans were still audible while gaming with default fan speeds shown in dark blue the temperatures don't get too hot I was nowhere near thermal throttling when we max out the fans the temperatures improve a bit as shown in green and under vaulting the CPU with a minus 0.1 300 volt offset in yellow didn't really change anything the stress tests were done running both a to 64 and the heaven benchmark at the same time to make use of the CPU and GPU and again the temperatures aren't too high overall the temperatures seemed pretty good but I think this is a symptom of parliment throttling which is preventing us from reaching full performance which we can see in the average clock speeds keep in mind that the 8750 H CPU should be able to reach 3.9 gigahertz on all cores but I wasn't able to get this in any of my tests even with the minus 0.1 3o volt under multiplied as shown in the yellow and purple bars it does help a little but power limit throttling was still present during all tests initially I couldn't pin this resource loss down as there were no resources fully in use and no thermal throttling taking place I even tried reinstalling Windows fresh but no change the best explanation I have is the constant CPU power limit throttling that was taking place in Intel XTU it never went above 25 watt TDP even while under vaulted and changing the power settings didn't affect us at all the under vaulting did seem to help a bit with performance but the power limit throttling was still consistent I'm thinking it might be set in the BIOS or firmware I did look through the BIOS settings and there was nothing I could change and the latest 310 version was in use as mentioned earlier the battery was discharging slowly when gaming wall plugged in combined with the 120 watt power brick I'm thinking that just may not be enough power which would explain why there appears to be some kind of limit in place I'm not sure if this would be an issue with the 8380 model as that would in theory use less power with too less cause I did see a review on notebook check where they noted low temperatures with the 8300 h FX 504 setting at 2.3 gigahertz under stress test but they just noted that it was strange and didn't say if it was Parliament throttling but it sounds like the same symptoms I had here someone did leave a comment noting a 25 watt power limiter so I don't think it's just me these are the clock speeds I got while just running CPU only stress tests without any GPU load under volting helped a little but we're still pretty far off from the expected 3.9 gigahertz all core turbo speed if the 8750 H CPU due to the power limit throttling I was hoping it might not be an issue with a CPU only load but this was not the case it just seems to be arbitrarily limited to that 25 watt TDP as for the external temperatures of the laptop will actually be putting your hands at idle the body of the laptop is sitting in the high 30s so still cool but warmer than I expected but I guess not too surprising considering the warmer idle temperatures of the CPU and graphics ler while gaming the center of the keyboard rises up to around 50 degrees and it was fairly warm to the touch interestingly the sides including the WASD Keys were quite a lot cooler in comparison with the CPU and GPU stress test in stock fans the center is still in the low 50s and drops down into the high 40s with the fans maxed out as for the fan noise produced by the laptop I'll let you have a listen to some of these tests at idle the fan was just audible and while gaming with the default balanced fan profile it wasn't too loud either around the same level as the stress tasks running the fans with the overboost mode to Max them out increases the overall system noise a bit though although it wasn't much louder than most 1060 laptops I've tested with default fans I'll also note that there was a tiny bit of coil whine in my unit although once the fans kick in I couldn't notice it at all finally let's take a look at some benchmarks will first cover some real world gaming benchmarks followed by tests with various benchmarking tools all tests will run at 1080p with the latest Nvidia drivers and Windows updates to date installed with vsync disabled starting out with fortnight it played really well at medium or low settings I noticed a lot of dips even while just moving around any higher which is reflected by the 1% lows it's important to keep in mind that this game is hard to benchmark as frame rates will vary based on what's going on in game and what other players are doing / which was tested playing with the bots and the average frame rates are quite high but again the 1% lows do drop quite a lot I was experiencing some stuttering at all setting levels and this got much worse at the highest settings making it feel unplayable not too bad at lower settings low but not ideal csgo was going alright in terms of the averages in this test but as usual the 1% lows aren't great due to the smokes in the benchmark test pub G was tested using the replay feature a played all right on lower settings but as usual this game gives us pretty low 1% lows compared to the averages but of course take the results with a grain of salt as like for diet it will depend on what's going on in the game so the results can vary quite a lot I've tested Far Cry 5 with the built-in benchmark and the results aren't too great still playable at lowest settings their Assassin's Creed origins was also tested with the built-in benchmark and the results was similar with many average frame rates around 40 fps lesser dota 2 was tested using a failing intensive replay so this should be a worst case scenario realistically you'll probably get better results in this while actually playing and even in this intensive test the averages are looking pretty good for this game Rainbow six siege was tested with the built-in benchmark and the averages are above the refresh rate of the display even at Ultra settings and although the one and lows are a bit behind they're still quite high so the dips weren't too bad or noticeable testing battlefield 1 in the first campaign mission felt a little stutter II at Ultra and high settings at times but ran quite well at medium alone The Witcher 3 doesn't really need a high frame rate to play but it was quite stuttering at Ultra settings as shown by the lower 1% lows it played well enough that all of the setting levels there rise of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built-in benchmark and were able to average above the refresh rate of the display at the lowest setting levels Gerst recon is a resource intensive game and was again tested with the built-in benchmark you'll probably want to play this in low settings to get a good experience watchdogs to is another resource intensive game but is another that I personally think doesn't need a high frame rate to play despite this however the game was stuttering at all setting levels which is sort of reflected by the poor 1% lows for the most part it wasn't playable at any setting level Doom was tested using Vulcan and even in max settings we were averaging above the refresh rate of the display but again there was some stuttering during gameplay I've got a couple more games covered in the dedicated gaming benchmark video if you're interested now onto the benchmarking tools I've tested heaven valley and superposition from Unigine as well as fire strike time spy in VR mark from 3d mark just pause the video if you want a detailed look at these results the results were alright for 1050 Ti is still a decent option for many less demanding games although I still recommend the 1060 if you want to play all modern games at 1080p 60fps with decent settings it depends on what games you plan on playing and the settings you'll be using as mentioned in the benchmarks I did notice quite a bit of stuttering in a few of the games which seems to be due to the CPU power limit throttling I discussed earlier despite many average frame rates being above what the 1050 would give us the dips made some games like watchdogs do for instance really difficult to play as for overclocking the 8750 HCP you can't be overclocked but I was able to increase the GPU core clock of the 1050 Ti by 200 megahertz using MSI Afterburner and these are the average clock speeds from running the heaven bench markets stock and while overclocked for 30 minutes each with both CPU under vaulting and GPU overclocking applied we get a little boost in games we're getting a few extra frames per second at the highest setting levels in pub G but overall it didn't really seem to help much here and interestingly the results were consistently lower at lower settings I've just quickly got some cpu benchmarks here and due to the CPU Parliament throttling that was taking place we didn't get the best results typically most other laptops with the 87 58 that I've tested have been able to go above 1200 and Cinebench once under bolted but that just wasn't possible here in Crystal disk mark the 256 gig m to solder SSD was getting over 500 megabytes per second in sequential reads and around 480 megabytes per second and sequential writes but the single m dot 2 slot also supports nvme storage if you want to upgrade the one terabyte 5400 rpm sshd was going quite well where for 150 megabytes per second on the reads and around 130 megabytes per second on the writes as for the price here in Australia it comes in at around 1,800 Australian dollars in the u.s. I couldn't actually find the pricing for the 8750 H model with these exact specs with half the RAM it's available for 899 US dollars or instead with the 8300 H CPU for the same price so I'd guess it would be a little more than that I'll update the video description once I'm able to find it for sale somewhere so what did you guys think if the FX 504 gaming laptop from the asou stop series if it wasn't for the CPU pal them at throttling I'd be saying that this is a great gaming laptop for the price range but unfortunately that limitation does seem to affect many of the games tested not all of them as it depends on how many resources the game in question requires I'm not sure if this could be fixed in the future either sure they could probably change the power limit in an update but as we were discharging battery and the full load while plugged in with the limit in place it may not be feasible it seems like the limit exists for a reason otherwise the laptop had pretty good battery life considering the smaller battery size and had decent build quality for a plastic laptop let me know what you guys thought down in the comments and leave a like to let me know if you found the review useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this onethe asou stuff FX 504 is more of a budget-friendly gaming laptop compared to many others I've featured on the channel recently so let's check it out and find out if it's one you should consider buying let's start with the specs of this unit there's an Intel i7 8750 H CPU here which has six cores and can turbo up to four point one gigahertz and single core workloads but it's also available with the 8300 H in my unit the 16 gig of ddr4 memory running at 2600 66 megahertz in single channel but the two slots can support up to 32 gig for storage there's a 256 gig SATA SSD in the single m2 slot but it also supports nvme storage while the single 2.5 inch drive bay is populated with a one terabyte 5400 rpm sshd for the graphics there's an Nvidia 1050 TI 4 gig although it's also available with the 1050 and this Powell is the 15.6 inch 1080p 60 Hertz a HPA panel but it's also available with a TN option and we'll see how this performs soon in the benchmarks for the network connectivity there's a Gigabit Ethernet port support for 802 211 AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth version 4.0 the lid and interior are both a brushed black plastic with this red pattern out towards the corners matching the red keyboard and logo on the lid although it seems to be available in a few different designs the dimensions of the laptop a 38.4 centimeters in width twenty six point two centimeters in depth and 2.5 centimeters in height so fairly average for a 15-inch laptop the weight is listed at 2.3 kilos on the SS website which is basically what mine weighed with the 120 watt power brick and cable for charging the total weight increases to two point eight kilos so still not too heavy as mentioned the screen is a 15.6 inch 60 Hertz 1080p a hva panel I found the viewing angles to be good images are still perfectly clear even on sharp angles it's an HPA panel and advertised as IPS level as it basically looks like IPS the screen doesn't get too bright at 100% brightness I measured it at 266 minutes perfectly fine endure slur I've also measured the current color gamut using the Spyder 5 probe and my results returned 63% of srgb 45% of NTSC and 47% of Adobe RGB so perfectly fine for gaming and about on par with other laptops in the same price range that I've tested but you might want to look elsewhere if you do work that requires color accuracy I've performed my usual backlight bleed test on the display which involves having the laptop show a black screen in a dark room to help emphasize any bleeding I then take a long exposure photo to display any bleed sorry this is a worst-case scenario test there's some minor imperfections that the camera was able to pick up however to my eyes I wasn't able to see anything even in a dark room it looked good to me but this will vary between laptops while moving the display there was a bit of flex the hinges are out on the far ends and there are a little small but overall it was fairly sturdy considering the plastic construction it can also be opened easily with one finger demonstrating a fairly even white distribution as the battery is up the front above the display in the centre is a 720p camera the camera's not grained quite blurry and grainy even with some decent lighting the microphone sounds alright however even though the fan is basically silent there's still some internal noise inside picked up the chiclet keyboard has red backlighting with three levels of brightness but the sides of red plastic so it looks red even with the lighting turned off the WASD Keys are also clearly marked out I really liked typing with the keyboard the spacing between the keys seemed good and there's one point eight millimeters of travel distance I feel like the arrow keys could have been a bit bigger instead of having the extra long right control key there the key presses felt a little clicky here's how they sound to try and give you an idea while pushing down hard on the keyboard there was only a little bit of flex no issues at all while actually typing there the touchpad uses precision drivers and overall worked quite well no issues there moving on to the i/o on the left there's the power input Gigabit Ethernet port HDMI 1.4 port one USB 2.0 type-a port two USB 3.0 type-a ports and a 3.5 millimeter audio combo Jack there's nothing going on over on the right other than a Kensington lock slot up towards the back the speakers have found so what's the front on either side of the laptop they sound alright for laptop speakers not really any bass but still mostly clear at higher volumes on the back there are a couple of air exhaust vents towards the corners and nothing at all on the front the status LEDs are found inside at the top of the base just below the screen along with what appears to be some air vents up on the black brushed plastic lid there's a red Asus logo with the mirrored finish in the center with these red patterns coming in from the corners which match the ones on the interior fingerprints show up fairly easily on the brushed finish and we're a little difficult to wipe away once dirt gets into the grooves underneath there's some rubber feet which do a good job of preventing the laptop from sliding around while in use as well as some air intakes towards the back the laptop can be opened up easily with a Phillips head screwdriver after removing the panel we get easy access to the Wi-Fi card to memory slots and the single m2 slot and 2.5 inch drive bay powering the laptop is a 3 cell 48 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching YouTube videos with the screen on half brightness keep on lighting off and background ups disabled I was able to use it for five thousand sixteen minutes a pretty good result the laptop was using the Intel integrated graphics in this test thanks to Nvidia Optimus while playing The Witcher 3 with medium settings an invidious battery boost set to 30fps the battery lasted for one hour and 13 minutes however it was averaging around 20 fps in this game so the battery didn't seem to be enough at this title less demanding games might go a bit better but ideally you'll what a play while plugged in overall the battery life was pretty decent considering the size of the battery additionally while gaming for a couple of hours for my thermal tests the battery was slowly discharging and was at 85% even though it was plugged in the whole time indicating that there wasn't enough power being provided from the 120 watt brick morale not shortly thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 18 degrees Celsius it's getting cold here as winter has just started so expect warmer temperatures in the warmer environment also remember that the CPU and GPU share heat pipes so a change in temperature of one component may affect the other at idle both the CPU and GPU will quite warm considering the fans were still audible while gaming with default fan speeds shown in dark blue the temperatures don't get too hot I was nowhere near thermal throttling when we max out the fans the temperatures improve a bit as shown in green and under vaulting the CPU with a minus 0.1 300 volt offset in yellow didn't really change anything the stress tests were done running both a to 64 and the heaven benchmark at the same time to make use of the CPU and GPU and again the temperatures aren't too high overall the temperatures seemed pretty good but I think this is a symptom of parliment throttling which is preventing us from reaching full performance which we can see in the average clock speeds keep in mind that the 8750 H CPU should be able to reach 3.9 gigahertz on all cores but I wasn't able to get this in any of my tests even with the minus 0.1 3o volt under multiplied as shown in the yellow and purple bars it does help a little but power limit throttling was still present during all tests initially I couldn't pin this resource loss down as there were no resources fully in use and no thermal throttling taking place I even tried reinstalling Windows fresh but no change the best explanation I have is the constant CPU power limit throttling that was taking place in Intel XTU it never went above 25 watt TDP even while under vaulted and changing the power settings didn't affect us at all the under vaulting did seem to help a bit with performance but the power limit throttling was still consistent I'm thinking it might be set in the BIOS or firmware I did look through the BIOS settings and there was nothing I could change and the latest 310 version was in use as mentioned earlier the battery was discharging slowly when gaming wall plugged in combined with the 120 watt power brick I'm thinking that just may not be enough power which would explain why there appears to be some kind of limit in place I'm not sure if this would be an issue with the 8380 model as that would in theory use less power with too less cause I did see a review on notebook check where they noted low temperatures with the 8300 h FX 504 setting at 2.3 gigahertz under stress test but they just noted that it was strange and didn't say if it was Parliament throttling but it sounds like the same symptoms I had here someone did leave a comment noting a 25 watt power limiter so I don't think it's just me these are the clock speeds I got while just running CPU only stress tests without any GPU load under volting helped a little but we're still pretty far off from the expected 3.9 gigahertz all core turbo speed if the 8750 H CPU due to the power limit throttling I was hoping it might not be an issue with a CPU only load but this was not the case it just seems to be arbitrarily limited to that 25 watt TDP as for the external temperatures of the laptop will actually be putting your hands at idle the body of the laptop is sitting in the high 30s so still cool but warmer than I expected but I guess not too surprising considering the warmer idle temperatures of the CPU and graphics ler while gaming the center of the keyboard rises up to around 50 degrees and it was fairly warm to the touch interestingly the sides including the WASD Keys were quite a lot cooler in comparison with the CPU and GPU stress test in stock fans the center is still in the low 50s and drops down into the high 40s with the fans maxed out as for the fan noise produced by the laptop I'll let you have a listen to some of these tests at idle the fan was just audible and while gaming with the default balanced fan profile it wasn't too loud either around the same level as the stress tasks running the fans with the overboost mode to Max them out increases the overall system noise a bit though although it wasn't much louder than most 1060 laptops I've tested with default fans I'll also note that there was a tiny bit of coil whine in my unit although once the fans kick in I couldn't notice it at all finally let's take a look at some benchmarks will first cover some real world gaming benchmarks followed by tests with various benchmarking tools all tests will run at 1080p with the latest Nvidia drivers and Windows updates to date installed with vsync disabled starting out with fortnight it played really well at medium or low settings I noticed a lot of dips even while just moving around any higher which is reflected by the 1% lows it's important to keep in mind that this game is hard to benchmark as frame rates will vary based on what's going on in game and what other players are doing / which was tested playing with the bots and the average frame rates are quite high but again the 1% lows do drop quite a lot I was experiencing some stuttering at all setting levels and this got much worse at the highest settings making it feel unplayable not too bad at lower settings low but not ideal csgo was going alright in terms of the averages in this test but as usual the 1% lows aren't great due to the smokes in the benchmark test pub G was tested using the replay feature a played all right on lower settings but as usual this game gives us pretty low 1% lows compared to the averages but of course take the results with a grain of salt as like for diet it will depend on what's going on in the game so the results can vary quite a lot I've tested Far Cry 5 with the built-in benchmark and the results aren't too great still playable at lowest settings their Assassin's Creed origins was also tested with the built-in benchmark and the results was similar with many average frame rates around 40 fps lesser dota 2 was tested using a failing intensive replay so this should be a worst case scenario realistically you'll probably get better results in this while actually playing and even in this intensive test the averages are looking pretty good for this game Rainbow six siege was tested with the built-in benchmark and the averages are above the refresh rate of the display even at Ultra settings and although the one and lows are a bit behind they're still quite high so the dips weren't too bad or noticeable testing battlefield 1 in the first campaign mission felt a little stutter II at Ultra and high settings at times but ran quite well at medium alone The Witcher 3 doesn't really need a high frame rate to play but it was quite stuttering at Ultra settings as shown by the lower 1% lows it played well enough that all of the setting levels there rise of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built-in benchmark and were able to average above the refresh rate of the display at the lowest setting levels Gerst recon is a resource intensive game and was again tested with the built-in benchmark you'll probably want to play this in low settings to get a good experience watchdogs to is another resource intensive game but is another that I personally think doesn't need a high frame rate to play despite this however the game was stuttering at all setting levels which is sort of reflected by the poor 1% lows for the most part it wasn't playable at any setting level Doom was tested using Vulcan and even in max settings we were averaging above the refresh rate of the display but again there was some stuttering during gameplay I've got a couple more games covered in the dedicated gaming benchmark video if you're interested now onto the benchmarking tools I've tested heaven valley and superposition from Unigine as well as fire strike time spy in VR mark from 3d mark just pause the video if you want a detailed look at these results the results were alright for 1050 Ti is still a decent option for many less demanding games although I still recommend the 1060 if you want to play all modern games at 1080p 60fps with decent settings it depends on what games you plan on playing and the settings you'll be using as mentioned in the benchmarks I did notice quite a bit of stuttering in a few of the games which seems to be due to the CPU power limit throttling I discussed earlier despite many average frame rates being above what the 1050 would give us the dips made some games like watchdogs do for instance really difficult to play as for overclocking the 8750 HCP you can't be overclocked but I was able to increase the GPU core clock of the 1050 Ti by 200 megahertz using MSI Afterburner and these are the average clock speeds from running the heaven bench markets stock and while overclocked for 30 minutes each with both CPU under vaulting and GPU overclocking applied we get a little boost in games we're getting a few extra frames per second at the highest setting levels in pub G but overall it didn't really seem to help much here and interestingly the results were consistently lower at lower settings I've just quickly got some cpu benchmarks here and due to the CPU Parliament throttling that was taking place we didn't get the best results typically most other laptops with the 87 58 that I've tested have been able to go above 1200 and Cinebench once under bolted but that just wasn't possible here in Crystal disk mark the 256 gig m to solder SSD was getting over 500 megabytes per second in sequential reads and around 480 megabytes per second and sequential writes but the single m dot 2 slot also supports nvme storage if you want to upgrade the one terabyte 5400 rpm sshd was going quite well where for 150 megabytes per second on the reads and around 130 megabytes per second on the writes as for the price here in Australia it comes in at around 1,800 Australian dollars in the u.s. I couldn't actually find the pricing for the 8750 H model with these exact specs with half the RAM it's available for 899 US dollars or instead with the 8300 H CPU for the same price so I'd guess it would be a little more than that I'll update the video description once I'm able to find it for sale somewhere so what did you guys think if the FX 504 gaming laptop from the asou stop series if it wasn't for the CPU pal them at throttling I'd be saying that this is a great gaming laptop for the price range but unfortunately that limitation does seem to affect many of the games tested not all of them as it depends on how many resources the game in question requires I'm not sure if this could be fixed in the future either sure they could probably change the power limit in an update but as we were discharging battery and the full load while plugged in with the limit in place it may not be feasible it seems like the limit exists for a reason otherwise the laptop had pretty good battery life considering the smaller battery size and had decent build quality for a plastic laptop let me know what you guys thought down in the comments and leave a like to let me know if you found the review useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this one\n"