ASUS TUF Gaming A17 A707’s IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, and a very good contrast ratio. However, it covers only half of the sRGB color space. On the bright side, the panel doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment and comes with a 144Hz refresh rate. This, of course, is a huge disadvantage to the 360Hz 1080p option in the ROG Strix.

Refresh Rate 144Hz Viewing Angle 85/85/85/85 Panel Tech ValueIPS-level Brightness 250 Contrast 960:1 NTSC % 45.00% SRGB % 62.50% Adobe % 47.34% Anti glare anti-glare display Adaptive-Sync technology FreeSync Pantone N/A Support Dolby Vision HDR No Terms and exclusions apply. Game catalog varies over time, by region, and by device. See xbox.com/gamepassand www.ea.com/eaplay/terms, for details. Xbox Cloud Gaming: Streaming limits apply. Requires compatible controller (soldseparately), supported device and Xbox Game Pass app; see system requirements. System requirements vary by game; performance scales with higher-end systems. Play over 100 high-quality games with friends on your PC, console, phone or tablet for one low monthly price.* With games added all the time, theres always something new to play. Modern gaming laptops use powerful, dedicated graphics chips for high performancebut most route those frames through the CPU's integrated graphics before reaching the display. This offers better battery life, but prevents your GPU from giving its absolute best performance. So we're bringing a MUX switch to all 2022 TUF laptops. For competitive games, you can switch to a direct GPU mode that reduces latency and boosts performance by an average of 5-10%. NVIDIA Max-Q is a suite of technologies powered by AI that optimize laptops to deliver high performance in thin form factors.Armoury Crate unifies system and lighting controls to put essential settings at your fingertips in a single utility. Its extensive customization options let you personalize aesthetic effects, fine-tune game profiles, and adjust audio settings to fit your preferences. With Scenario Profiles, you can define and custom preferences that automatically adjust performance and other settings when you launch your favorite apps and games. Take complete control of your experience and make it fully your own. The measured maximum brightness of 274 nits in the middle of the screen and 267 nits as an average for the whole area, with a maximum deviation of only 4%. The Correlated Color Temperature on a white screen is 6540K – matching the optimal for the sRGB standard of 6500K.

No matter your setup, the TUF Gaming A17 will keep you connected. A dedicated HDMI 2.0b port is supplemented by a USB Type-C with DisplayPort support. Fast and reliable WiFi 6 (802.11ax) ensures that youll be able to get online and be productive wherever compatible connections are available, or you can wire up directly with gigabit Ethernet on-board. In the illustration below you can see how the display performs from a uniformity perspective. In other words, the leakage of light from the light source. RJ45 LAN port 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C support DisplayPort™ / G-SYNC 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A" ASUS TUF Gaming A17 A707 is equipped with a Full HD 144Hz IPS panel, model number AUO B173HAN04.9. Its diagonal is 17.3″ (43.94 cm), and the resolution is 1920 х 1080 pixels. The screen ratio is 16:9, and we are looking at a pixel density of – 127 ppi, and a pitch of 0.2 х 0.2 mm. The screen turns into Retina when viewed at distance equal to or greater than 69cm (27″) (from this distance one’s eye stops differentiating the separate pixels, and it is normal for looking at a laptop). In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.The new chassis design is 4.5% smaller than the previous generation, without sacrificing the full-sized keyboard. TUF Models support TRRS mic/headphone headsets and TRS headphones. If you have a standalone microphone that uses a TRS connector (with only two lines on the plug), you will need a TRS to TRRS adapter. Jump right into the action with the TUF Gaming A17. Running Windows 11 out of the box with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H CPU and up to 16GB of blisteringly fast 4800MHz DDR5 RAM, your streaming and multitasking are handled with ease. Leverage the full gaming performance of the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU with a dedicated MUX Switch. When your game library gets full, an empty M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 4x4 SSD slot makes upgrading storage capacity a breeze. Moving to the keyboard, we see that the device has a different layout of the keyboard. It still comes with transparent WASD keys and a NumberPad section, but the Arrow buttons look different, and slightly bigger. Also, there is a set of volume control, mic mute, and Armoury Crate shortcuts, separated from the main part of the board. And instead of one large grill, only half of which was being used, the laptop now sports a cutout, that is exactly the same size as the opening. In addition, the keyboard is rather comfortable for typing, and not bad for gaming, either.

ASUS has one of the largest rosters of gaming devices on the market right now. And although it is dominated by the ROG series, we can’t overlook the importance of the TUF Gaming notebooks. Last year, the TUF Gaming A17 (FA706) was really promising thanks to its great performance, wide hardware configuration options, and low base price tag.

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A generous power capacity afforded by the 90Wh battery, paired with the exceptionally power-efficient AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor provides plentiful power to keep you up and running surfing the web and streaming your favourite content for hours on end. Further enhanced by fast charging technology, this machine can replenish a staggering 50% of its battery capacity in as little as 30 minutes. Jump right into the action with the ASUS TUF Gaming A17 Laptop (FA707RM-HX015W). From high-resolution media streaming to complex multitasking of heavy gaming and application loads, with the uncompromising support of an arsenal of class-leading hardware like the AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor and 16GB 4800MHz DDR5 RAM on user-optimised Windows 11, daily computing just levels up. Leverage the full gaming performance on offer with a supercharged GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU with a dedicated MUX Switch. When your collection of gaming titles looks to be reaching capacity, you can take advantage of the available M.2 NVMe SSD slot which makes upgrading your storage space and keeping up with new releases, as well as old-school favourites, a breeze. Our “Design and Gaming” profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma mode.

In addition, the laptop covers the MIL-STD-810H durability test sequence, which speaks of its structural qualities. The lid holds up well, and has almost no flex when twisted, which is fantastic. The same can be said about the base, although 17-inch laptops have an inherent weakness, due to their slightly larger footprint.When we turn the laptop upside down, we can spot probably the biggest design change. First, there are a lot of tiny feet that support the base. Additionally, the ventilation grill is significantly bigger than last year and has some pretty strategic openings. Probably even more impressive is that the laptop now has a total of four exhaust grills. As we mentioned, the TUF Gaming A17 FA707 offers some visual differences from its predecessor. Its metal lid now sports a logo, which looks sculpted, instead of the previous print. Generally, though, the dimensions are kept the same. It still weighs 2.60 kilos, while its profile sits between 22.9mm and 25.4mm. Speaking in numbers, we are talking about a jump from 95W to 140W, which will put a very big strain on the cooling, so we hope it has been updated as well. This won’t be the only change, though, because the body of the laptop is slightly different from last year’s unit. And the cream of the crop of changes is the inclusion of a MUX switch, which now lets the dedicated graphics pump those frames directly to the display, instead of having to rely on the integrated graphics to do so.