ASUS TUF Gaming F15, 15.6-inch (39.62 cms) FHD 144Hz, Intel Core i7-12700H 12th Gen, 4GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, Gaming Laptop (16GB/1TB SSD/Windows 11/90WHrs Battery/Gray/2.20…

Only in 1/2 hour of gaming it reaches 92° with cooling pad

If you haven’t already been impressed by the mind-blowing specifications that the Asus Tuf Gaming F15 2023 model brings with it, i e, i7-12700H, RTX 4060 with a 140W TDP, 100% sRGB 144Hz screen and pretty decent cooling system, you will definitely be shocked to see it actually perform.

Cinebench r32 scores: multi-core-18432(it depends on other factors but let’s go with this)
Single core- 1738

Reaches 95°C-96°C under max load in an ambient room temperature of 28°C to 32°C. But thanks to the cooling system, you can see the temperatures drop to normal temps which are around 40°C to 48°C. Keyoards feel amazing and touch and feel of the trackpad is also nice, i quite enjoyed it, but i use a wireless keyboard and a Redragon m810, so that’s the best i can tell you base upon the three days i used the laaptop without any other accessories. Webcam is, good enough. I honestly have no use for it so i just stuck a privacy shutter on it. Ok, the lights, keyboard lights up, single zone rgb lighting and has Aura Sync, very useful for Diwali and other celebrations imo, and, customisable too. Gpu performs very well, good fps consistently and i actually do have to try it out more. Did a Blende Benchmark and got about 3178.14 or so score, which is, honestly good enough for anything a student of 3D animation like me could need, i mean we’ll have to get a desktop towards the final year for portfolio projects anyway… And you get a 240W charger in the box. So, all in all, this is gotta be the best laptop for price to performance this year. If you have the budget, then go higher, but if you’re like me who has a cap of about 1 Lakh and a little wiggle room up, then this is hands down the best thing available. And you can upgrade the ssd and ram later, and maybe replace the thermal paste with liquid metal, it’ll definitely improve thermals.

 At this price, this is really a good deal for the performance this laptop has to offer.
Boot time is around 30-35 seconds. Don’t know why, but seems bit higher to me. Also the last BIOS time is around 10-12 seconds.
BIOS settings has GUI (of course :D) for customizations like selecting the number of P & E cores to enable/disable. Unable to recall others atm.
The CPU performance is as one would expect from 12700H. You’re never out of performance with 14 cores (20, considering hyperthreading on P-cores). But get ready for higher level of fan noise for intensive tasks. Not that annoying but still. A laptop stand is recommended.
What I like is Armoury crate has various options to tweak according to the needs for both CPU as well as GPU.
Also, with My ASUS app there’s an option for battery care which limits charging to 80% (cannot change this), which I personally like.
Fans can indeed get little louder in performance mode itself. Happens when I play some games. With turbo mode, they’re just as louder as they can get. The temperature reaches around 70-85 degrees even in older titles. For some reason, Armoury crate’s power plan is being overridden by Windows when I play games.
The display is okayish, not too good, but not that bad either. Good thing is 144Hz and G-Sync support. Take a note that max brightness is only 250 nits. So if you’re planning to use it outdoors under a sunny day, it just might not be enough.
Touchpad is great, scrolling is smooth, no lag whatsoever. Gets visible smudges though.
WD’s SN740 nvme is exceptional with 5000 MB/s and 4000 MB/s sequential read and write speeds respectively.
Camera is quite awful. But, just enough for meetings and casual video calls I guess. Would recommend external ones though.
Microphone is worst. External ones are highly recommended.
Keyboard is decent enough. Number keys are bit squeezed. Feels little smaller than the ones I am used to in laptops. Customizable RGB lights (along with brightness, 0% to turn them off) with Armoury crate. Remember that only one color will be used for whole keyboard. Its not multi-zone. WASD keys are transparent.
Speakers are decently loud. I use external ones so, can’t say much about them, but from what I have heard until now, I would say it’s not that bad, but would definitely prefer them little louder if I were to only use laptop’s speakers. Its not a deal breaker though.
For expansion, it supports upto 32 GB DDR4 RAM and 2TB SSD.
It comes with bigger size plug (like the ones found in refrigerator, geysers, etc.), so a converter would be required to plug it into normal sockets. Makes sense, since the charger has to handle upto 240W of power. Input: 100-240V, 3.5A AC and Output: 20V, 10-12A DC.
Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with this purchase. It’s been well over 15 days since I am using this laptop. Register the laptop on Asus’ website once you receive it for warranty claims and other stuff.

The system is overall really good, but heats up real fast.