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Hello everyone, today I'm unboxing a laptop I got from a second-hand platform, the ASUS TUF FA506.

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Unboxing#

I got this laptop for 3600 at the seafood market;

Let's take a look at the power adapter, 20V-9A, a total of 180W, quite thin, manufactured by Delta Electronics.

The whole machine was manufactured in September 2020, input 20V-9A;

On the right side, there is a USB 2.0 port and an exhaust vent.

On the left side, there is a DC power port, RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI, two USB 3.0 ports, a Type-C port, and a headphone/microphone combo jack.

I made the mistake of not carefully checking the screen before disassembling, please don't follow my example, it could lead to trouble.

There should be three different lengths of screws, and it's very easy to slide open the clips around the edge. I forgot there were screws under the warranty sticker (tearing it off voids the warranty).

After disassembling, I removed the case; if you don't want to become a customer of the old repair shop, it's best to disconnect the battery cable first to discharge it.

Let's take a look at the memory, Micron DDR4 8G single-sided, there are two in total.

The hard drive has something on it, I won't reveal this layer, it's a Western Digital SN530, a very classic Western Digital style;

Under the SN530 is the 8822ce wireless network card, which supports the 802.11ac, also known as Wi-Fi 5 standard;

I bought a Guangwei Basic 1T NVME storage drive during the 618 sale, I'll test it later.

The M.2 hard drive is inserted at an angle, screw it in tightly, then reconnect the battery cable, put the case back on, and screw it in.

The seller provided a Windows 10 system, pre-installed with Entertainment Master, I just took a quick look to confirm, then reinstalled the system.

I installed Windows 11, updated the drivers, and then installed the necessary software for testing.

First, let's take a look at the configuration.

During the reinstallation, I discovered another issue with this laptop;

The screen has backlight bleeding; that is, pressure marks.

I contacted the seller, who was willing to compensate me 80.

Because replacing a screen costs about 200.

I actually got it for 3520, not sure if it's worth it. After a week of use, aside from the gray-blue scenes being easily noticeable, I wouldn't pay attention to the screen, and the line would still be visible.

Basic Testing#

Non-professional, subjective evaluation for reference only.

CPU-Z#

Let's run CPU-Z first, the 4800H scored;

• Multi-threaded 5205 points, single-threaded 505 points.

The comparison object is my desktop AMD Ryzen 5 1600;

• Multi-threaded 2946 points, single-threaded 361 points.

CrystalDiskInfo#

You can see that this SN 530 has only been powered on for about 600 hours; I don't know how the previous owner used it to cause such pressure marks on the A side and screen.
Other parameters are quite normal.

ASSSD Benchmark#

Western Digital SN530 sequential read 2160MB/s, write 1787MB/s.
Guangwei Basic NVME sequential read MB/s, write MB/s.

CrystalDiskMark#

Using NVME SSD mode.
SEQ1M Q8T1 measured read 2481MB/s write 1807MB/s.
Since this is a supplementary test, the data is for reference only after the computer has been used for a week.

HDTune#

Western Digital SN 530.
After repeated testing, writing 5G, the speed dropped to 459Mb/s on a single line.
Reading starts at 2000Mb/s, jumps to 2200Mb/s, then drops to around 2000Mb/s at 160G, and then goes back up to 2200Mb/s.

Guangwei Basic NVME 1T standard version (no cache solution).
Writing 130G starts to drop speed, lowest 200Mb/s, average about 500Mb/s.
Reading starts at 1500Mb/s, speeds up to 1620Mb/s at 67G, then to 1700Mb/s at 168G.

CINEBENCH R23#

Multi-core: 10118 pts.
Single-core: 1184 pts.
MP Ratio 8.54x.

Single CPU burn average: 80-90w, maximum: 119w.
Single GPU burn average: 75-90w, maximum: 81.6w.

Dual burn CPU average: 40-60w, maximum: 90w.
GPU average 75-90w, maximum: 80w.

3DMark#

This software is paid; I used to buy it for running scores with a 1060, which was used in previous videos, but later found it rarely used and my Steam account is also useless.

TimeSpy v1.2
Time Spy Score: 5804 points.
Graphics Score: 5551 points.
CPU Score: 7827 points.

Fire Strike v1.1
Fire Strike Score: 13595 points.
Graphics Score: 14927 points.
Physics Score: 20177 points.
Combined Score: 6299 points.

Game Testing#

All games used version 2022-06-09, with Armoury Crate installed and enhanced mode enabled.

Windows 11 - 21H2 Operating System Version: 22000.708.
NVIDIA Graphics Driver Version: 511.69.

Conclusion#

Personal subjective summary, mainly evaluating this laptop and not new products.

Cons#

• Screen has pressure marks and backlight bleeding.
• Battery life is short, only one hour in performance mode, a little over an hour in power-saving mode.
• Only slightly better than the original desktop computer.
• Aside from the A side and screen, other areas are not great.
• Fan noise is quite loud.

Pros#

• The screen is IPS with no ghosting (won't buy VA next time).
• Reasonable expandability.
• Screen quality is decent.
• Keyboard is adequate for daily use, but not for gaming.
• The A side is nice; I really like this matte texture.

For fun, everyone says to install OpenWrt on an old laptop as a soft router and bypass gateway, using the firmware I compiled v21.10.10 to boot the OpenWrt system for benchmarking.

• OpenWrt CPUMark: 351121.027029

• openssl aes-256-gcm

• openssl aes-128-gcm

• openssl chacha20-poly1305

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