The ALL AMD Gaming Laptop #Helpful Post

hey guys this is austin and welcome to

windy las vegas of course the natural

home of all of our laptop content today

i want to take a look at this the asou

stuff FX 505 so the top line for soos is

a little bit more of a budget gaming

line and at least when you look at this

on paper it is incredibly impressive for

$700 what you're getting here is an all

AMD laptop that means we have the latest

rising processors Radeon graphics and

the other basics are definitely checked

eight gigs of ram standard SSD decent

1080p displays when it comes to the

hardware it is very clear that it's who

spent their budget on the internals and

not on the chassis and that's not really

a bad thing it is all made out of

plastic and it feels reasonably sturdy

but it's basically exactly what you

expected this kind of price point the

keyboard is ok it's a little bit more

sure than I'd like although it does not

backlighting and the touchpad is ok it

is very very plasticky and sometimes the

mechanism gets a little bit crunchy but

again 500 bucks it's really not a big

deal the port selection is definitely

minimal so we have three USB ports two

of what your 3.0 but one of which really

is 2.0 as well as HDMI as well as

Ethernet now that's fine but would

definitely be nice to see something like

USB C onboard although I will give them

props then on top of a thern net you do

have a very decent Wi-Fi solution on

this guy the screen is decent so it's a

little bit dimmer than I'd like but

importantly it does have free sync

thanks to this being a full AMD laptop

now the only downside here is it only

runs between 40 to 60 Hertz

now I originally saw this laptop Andy

showed it to me with a 120 Hertz option

that sounds cool however this model only

has these 60 Hertz display however

freesync is definitely a good thing

especially at this kind of budget this

is the first laptop we've had in that

has the brand new second-generation rise

in mobile now this is not a major

advantage over the last generation it

does shrink it down to 12 nanometers

process some slight changes

realistically they're only promising

about a 7% performance increase now this

does sounds like a hurricane behind us

this is does take advantage of one of

the new eight series rising processors

which does bump the TDP from 15 to 35

watts now in theory that should help

performance especially on gaming however

when you run it through Geekbench you

won't see any kind of major difference

between previous rides and processors a

big reason for that this is only

outfitted with a single bit of slow akin

good byte ddr4 Ram really risings does

come alive when you give it very fast

dual channel memory which is definitely

part of the performance bottleneck here

if that's not enough for you though

there are mere 11 screws on the bottom

to get access to a little bit of

expansion ok so pop this off and the

first thing we'll see is we do have a

spare two and a half inch drive bay so

you can add a hard drive or an SSD we

also have I flipped this up yeah an

extra Dem slot so by default it's only

eight gigs but you can't upgrade to 16

pretty easy to have our nvme SSD as well

as what seemed decent cooling just a

couple of heat pipes here nothing too

crazy but the main thing is you do have

that expand ability with the two and a

half inch drive bay it's not that

difficult to say add a little bit of

extra RAM which you probably should

because I mean it is fine but 16 is much

more comfortable what really makes this

a gaming laptop is the GPU this uses a

Radeon rx 5 60 X very similar to the

issue that we recently took a look at

its totally respectable you're able to

play most games on medium settings at

1080p such as overwatch as well as apex

legends no no you won't be able to crank

out Ultra settings in a lot of games

again considering the price this is very

much par for the course it's somewhere

in the neighborhood of what you would

expect out of a GTX 1050 now speaking of

that Acer video one of her biggest

issues with it was the fact that there

were some major problems with updating

drivers

thankfully that has been resolved

however the driver issues have returned

in a different form

my dedicated GPU on this just disappears

sometimes now I don't know if this is

some weird power setting that I can't

find but sometimes especially when the

computer sits idle for 30 45 minutes or

so the dedicated GPU just disappears

task manager it's not in Radeon settings

the only way I've found to actually fix

that is to restart the computer now it's

not the end of the world because it does

of course default to the integrated Vega

graphics which to be fair actually quite

a bit better than what you'll find on

most other gaming laptops but still when

you talk about dedicated graphics just

disappearing sometimes it gives me some

pause to say that oh yeah you should

definitely go out and spend your $700 on

a laptop like this the hardware is there

but the drivers support just gives me a

little bit of pause before I recommend

it the FX 505 is a perfectly confident

gaming laptop now when you consider the

price the little issues I found what the

hardware really aren't that big of a

deal and the performance definitely is

there really my main issue is the

continued focus of those AMD drivers

it's not a deal-breaker but they can and

should be a lot better