Asus TUF Gaming T500 PC Review: Great for New PC Gamers

Because it’s so simple to construct a gaming desktop at house, firms making prebuilt machines want to supply both an incredible worth or one thing distinctive. That’s why the Asus TUF T500 is not technically a desktop PC, no less than within the basic sense. Instead, it leverages a smaller motherboard and laptop computer CPU, decreasing the general footprint however dropping the flexibility to improve or restore a few of the particular person components.

Most notably, the T500 is sporting a full-size desktop GPU, which is the largest figuring out issue relating to gaming efficiency, and likewise the half that will get changed essentially the most typically. That ought to give this desktop a for much longer lifetime than gaming laptops which can be similarly-equipped, no less than on paper. This model got here with an RTX 5060 Ti put in, a card that usually hits 60 to 90 frames per second at 1080p, an excellent match for a lounge console alternative.

I’m pleasantly stunned with the execution, and the T500 affords a strong worth and a novel improve path, with some anticipated compromises round cooling and ports. It’s a strong selection for the tech-averse or television-bound gamer trying to transfer from consoles to PC, however I believe extra savvy customers will nonetheless wish to construct their very own.

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The upside to Asus’s method is that the T500 is a comparatively compact machine, round six inches huge and twelve inches deep, or just a bit larger than two Xbox Series X consoles sitting facet by facet. With gaming handhelds more and more succesful even for newer titles, I think about the individuals who have room for a desktop and monitor, however solely simply barely, aren’t an enormous viewers. Asus particularly calls out faculty college students, however I’d suppose a gaming laptop computer would get you thru no less than 4 years, and you possibly can take it to class with you. At this measurement, it appears extra possible you’d discover one tucked into an leisure stand in a lounge or house theater.