Asus Laptops Paste


Asus is an awful company to buy a laptop from. Not only do they refuse to acknowledge design flaws in their own laptops, but they go as far as saying those defects are for the "best experience for gamers."

Take, for instance, the latest Asus controversy. Asus's latest Ryzen-powered notebooks seem to run quite hot, especially considering that they weren't running above thermal design power. Hardware Unboxed, a popular YouTube channel, did a deep-dive into the TUF A15's poor thermal performance. Their findings were that the laptop performed much better with the back panel off, suggesting that the design was flawed. The bottom vents restricted airflow into the fans just like on Asus G15, practically suffocating the laptop and putting unnecessary load/wear on the fans. Asus responds, saying they were wrong. Skip forward a few days and HWUnboxed released this video. If PR damage control makes you cringe, stop reading.

In essence, ASUS claims in the video that purposely not cooling the power delivery components is somehow improving the experience gamers will have with their ASUS product. When HWUnboxed found that cutting holes in the bottom panel improved thermal performance, ASUS simply responded in a similar way: hotter temps were apparently better for gaming, and also that they had selected the "most ideal" design for temperatures on the device. The difference was minimal, and ultimately the issues could've largely been resolved by just designing the laptop correctly in the first place. Tons of ASUS laptops have these same issues, and as a result don't recommend ASUS products to anyone.


Model naming breakdown

G U 5 0 2 L U

Symbol What it means What it means here
G Segment Gaming laptop
U Category Ultra-slim
5 Display size 15.6"
0 ? ?
2 ? ?
L Platform Comet Lake H
U GPU SKU GTX 1660 Ti

Platform

Letter Platform Codename
Intel® Core™ 1st gen Nehalem
Intel® Core™ 2nd gen Sandy Bridge
Intel® Core™ 3rd gen Ivy Bridge
J Intel® Core™ 4th gen Haswell
Intel® Core™ 5th gen Broadwell
Intel® Core™ 6th gen SkyLake
V Intel® Core™ 7th gen Kaby Lake
U Intel® Core™ 7th gen ULV Kaby Lake R
F Intel® Core™ 8th gen ULV Whiskey Lake
G Intel® Core™ 9th & 8th gen Coffee Lake
F Intel® Core™ 10th gen ULV Comet Lake U
L Intel® Core™ 10th gen Comet Lake
J Intel® Core™ 10th gen Ice Lake
E Intel® Core™ 11th gen ULV Tiger Lake U
P Intel® Core™ 11th gen Tiger Lake
Z AMD® Ryzen™ 1st gen Raven / Zeppelin
D AMD® Ryzen™ 2nd gen Picasso
I AMD® Ryzen™ 3rd gen Renoir
Q AMD® Ryzen™ 4th gen Cezanne

GPU SKU

A = Integrated GPU

Symbol NVidia Ampere Turing Pascal Maxwell AMD Radeon
F MX130
N MX150
J MX230
L MX250
Q MX350
D 1050
Y RX 560X
E RTX 3050 Ti 1050 Ti
H 1650 1080 SLI
I 1650 Ti 1080
U 1660 Ti RX 460
C 3050 RX 580
V 2060
W 2070
WR 2070 Refresh
WS 2070 Super
X 2080
XR 2080 Refresh
XS 2080 Super
M 3060 Quadro 3000 1060
R 3070
S 3080 1070

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Pub: 24 Oct 2020 11:06 UTC
Edit: 06 Mar 2021 11:24 UTC
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