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

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Unboxing#

I bought this laptop for 3600 at the seafood market;

Let's take a look at the power adapter, which is 20V-9A, a total of 180W, and it's 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 network port, HDMI, two USB 3.0 ports, one Type-C port, and a headphone/microphone combo jack.

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

There should be three different lengths of screws, and the clips around the edges can be easily slid open. 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 an old repair shop, it's best to disconnect the battery cable first and discharge it~

Let's take a look at the memory, which is Micron's DDR4 8G single-sided stick, with a total of two.

The hard drive has something covering it, so I won't reveal that layer. It's a WD SN530, a very classic WD style;

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

I bought a Guangwei Basic 1T NVME storage drive during the 618 sales, and I'll test it shortly.

The M.2 hard drive is inserted at an angle, screws tightened, then the battery cable is reconnected, and the case is put back on and screwed in.

The seller provided a Windows 10 system, pre-installed with an entertainment master, just to take a quick look and confirm, then I 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,

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

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#

We 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 screen.
Other parameters are quite normal.

ASSSD Benchmark#

WD 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 computer has been used for a week, data is for reference only.

HDTune#

Western Digital SN 530.
After repeated testing, writing 5G drops to 459Mb/s in a straight line.
Reading starts at 2000Mb/s, jumps to 2200Mb/s, then drops to around 160G, dropping 2000Mb/s and then back up to 2200Mb/s.

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

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 is from previous videos. Later, I found I rarely used it, 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 use the version from 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#

A personal subjective summary, mainly evaluating this laptop and not commenting on brand new products.

Cons#

• Screen has pressure marks and backlight bleeding.
• Battery life is short, only about an hour in performance mode, a little over an hour in power-saving mode.
• Only slightly stronger than the original desktop computer, just a little.
• Other than the A side and screen, the rest isn't great.
• Fan noise is quite loud.

Pros#

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

For fun, everyone says to install OpenWrt on an old laptop to use as a soft router and bypass gateway, using my compiled firmware 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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