ASUS TUF Gaming A17 (FA706, 2021)
ASUS TUF Gaming A17 (FA706, 2021) - Specs
- HDD/SSD
- up to 16000GB SSD
- M.2 Slot
- 2x 2280 M.2 NVMe See photo
- RAM
- up to 64GB
- OS
- Windows 11 Home, Windows 11, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 11 Pro, No OS
- Battery
- 90Wh, 4-cell , 90Wh, 4-cell, 48Wh, 3-cell
- Body material
- Plastic / Polycarbonate
- Dimensions
- 399 x 268 x 22.1 ~ 24.8 mm (15.71" x 10.55" x 0.87")
- Weight
- 2.60 kg (5.7 lbs)
- Ports and connectivity
- 3x USB Type-A
- 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
- 1x USB Type-C
- 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps)
- HDMI
- 2.0b
- Card reader
- Wi-Fi
- 802.11ax
- Bluetooth
- 5.2
- Audio jack
- 3.5mm Combo Jack
- Features
- Fingerprint reader
- Web camera
- HD
- Backlit keyboard
- Microphone
- Array Microphone with AI Noise Cancelling
- Speakers
- 2x 2W, DTS: X Ultra
- Optical drive
- Security Lock slot
- Kensington Lock
All ASUS TUF Gaming A17 (FA706, 2021) configurations
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Office Work
Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.
Design and Gaming
This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.
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CPU performance
Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the ASUS TUF Gaming A17 (FA706, 2021) series.
Results are from the Cinebench R23 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)
GPU performance
Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the ASUS TUF Gaming A17 (FA706, 2021) series.
The results are from 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics). Higher is better.
ASUS TUF Gaming A17 (FA706, 2021) in-depth review
In 2021 ASUS decides that it needs to reintroduce the laptop, which arguably changed the budget gaming market - the TUF A17 (FA706). Instead of making any significant visual changes, and rebrand it, they just slapped 2021 at the name and called it a day.However, this is only a part of the story. Building on the Ryzen 4000H success, they now employ the latest and greatest from both AMD and NVIDIA (weird, right?), with the Ryzen 5000H processors, based on the Zen 3 architecture, and new RTX 3000 graphics cards.Well, there is a lot to be talked about but we have to praise them for being [...]
Pros
- Great price/performance ratio
- Good keyboard with decent travel, clicky feedback, and an RGB backlight
- Ryzen 5000H CPU + RTX 3000 combo
- There are two M.2 PCIe slots, and two RAM SODIMM slots in dual channel
- Great battery life for a gaming laptop
- 144Hz panel with relatively quick pixel response times (BOE NV173FHM-NX4 (BOE0995))
- No PWM (BOE NV173FHM-NX4 (BOE0995))
Cons
- Lacks an SD card reader and Thunderbolt support
- Warms up pretty quickly during gaming
- All-plastic design
- 50% sRGB coverage (BOE NV173FHM-NX4 (BOE0995))
Games you can play on this laptop series
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) |
VERY LOW |
NORMAL |
ULTRA |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 166 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 149 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 112 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Laptop, 95W) | 134 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 118 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 90 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
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