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Hello everyone, today I'm unboxing a second-hand laptop I bought from a used platform, the Asus TUF Gaming FA506.

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Unboxing#

I bought this laptop for 3600 yuan on a second-hand platform.

Let's take a look at the power adapter. It's a 20V-9A power supply with a total power of 180W. It's quite thin and made by Delta Electronics.

The manufacturing date of the whole machine is September 2020, and the input is 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, an RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port, an HDMI port, two USB 3.0 ports, a Type-C port, and a headphone/microphone combo jack.

I made a mistake and didn't carefully look at the screen before disassembling it. Don't make the same mistake as me, or you'll have a disaster.

There are screws of different lengths, and it's very easy to slide open the snap fasteners around the edges. I forgot about the screws under the warranty sticker (once you tear it off, the warranty is void).

After disassembling it, I removed the bottom shell. If you don't want to become an old customer of the repair shop, it's best to unplug the battery cable first and discharge it.

Let's take a look at the memory. It's a Micron DDR4 8GB single-sided module, a total of two modules.

There is something covering the hard drive, so I won't remove it. It's a Western Digital SN530, a very classic Western Digital style.

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

I bought a LightSpeed Basic 1TB NVMe drive during the 618 shopping festival. I'll test it later.

I inserted the M.2 SSD, tightened the screws, connected the battery cable, and closed the shell, then tightened the screws.

The seller provided Windows 10 as the operating system, but I reinstalled Windows 11. After installing the necessary drivers and software, I conducted some tests.

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

During the reinstallation, I discovered another problem with this laptop.

The screen has backlight bleeding and pressure marks.

I contacted the seller, and they agreed to compensate me 80 yuan because replacing the screen would cost around 200 yuan.

In the end, I paid 3520 yuan. I'm not sure if it's worth it. After using it for a week, I only notice the screen has a blueish-gray tint in certain scenes, but I don't notice any lines on the screen.

Basic Testing#

Non-professional, subjective evaluation for reference only.

CPU-Z#

Let's start with CPU-Z. The 4800H scored:

• Multi-thread: 5205 points
• Single-thread: 505 points

For comparison, my desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 scored:

• Multi-thread: 2946 points
• Single-thread: 361 points

CrystalDiskInfo#

We can see that this SN530 has only been powered on for about 600 hours. I don't know how the previous owner managed to damage the screen and cause backlight bleeding. Other parameters seem normal.

ASSSDBenchmark#

The Western Digital SN530 has a sequential read speed of 2160MB/s and a write speed of 1787MB/s. The LightSpeed Basic NVMe drive's speeds will be tested later.

CrystalDiskMark#

Tested in NVMe SSD mode.
Under SEQ1M Q8T1, the SN530 achieved a read speed of 2481MB/s and a write speed of 1807MB/s. Please note that these results were obtained after using the computer for a week and are for reference only.

HDTune#

Western Digital SN530:
After repeated testing, the write speed dropped to 459Mb/s when writing 5GB of data, and the read speed started at 2000Mb/s, jumped to 2200Mb/s, dropped to around 160GB, and then went back up to 2000Mb/s.

LightSpeed Basic NVMe 1TB (no cache):
The write speed started dropping at 130GB, reaching a minimum of 200Mb/s and averaging around 500Mb/s. The read speed started at 1500Mb/s, increased to 1620Mb/s at 67GB, and then reached 1700Mb/s at around 168GB.

CINEBENCH R23#

Multi-core (Multi Core): 10118 pts
Single-core (Single Core): 1184 pts
MP Ratio: 8.54x

During a single CPU stress test, the power consumption averaged between 80-90W, with a peak of 119W.
During a single GPU stress test, the power consumption averaged between 75-90W, with a peak of 81.6W.
During a dual stress test (CPU and GPU), the CPU power consumption averaged between 40-60W, with a peak of 90W, and the GPU power consumption averaged between 75-90W, with a peak of 80W.

3DMark#

This software is paid, and I used it to benchmark my previous GTX 1060 graphics card. The scores are from previous videos, but I rarely use it now, and my Steam account is also inactive.

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

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

Gaming Tests#

All games were tested using the latest version as of June 9, 2022, with Armoury Crate enabled in performance mode.

Windows 11 - 21H2 OS version: 22000.708
NVIDIA graphics driver version: 511.69

Conclusion#

This is a personal subjective summary and mainly evaluates this laptop, not new products in general.

Cons#

• Screen has backlight bleeding and pressure marks
• Short battery life, only lasts for about an hour in performance mode and a little over an hour in power-saving mode
• Slightly better performance compared to my previous desktop computer, but not significantly better
• Other than the top cover and screen, the build quality is average
• Fan noise is noticeable

Pros#

• The screen is an IPS panel without ghosting (I won't buy a VA panel next time)
• Decent expandability
• Good screen quality
• The keyboard is suitable for daily use, but I would switch it for gaming
• The top cover has a nice matte texture that I like

I also installed OpenWrt on this old laptop to use it as a software router. I used my compiled firmware v21.10.10 and booted OpenWrt using Ventoy to run some benchmarks.

• OpenWrt CPUMark: 351,121.027029

• openssl aes-256-gcm

• openssl aes-128-gcm

• openssl chacha20-poly1305

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