If you love a big laptop without a big price tag, this RTX 4070 17.3-incher is an ideal pick at $1,300
Asus TUF Gaming F17 | RTX 4070 | Core i7 13620H | 17.3-inch | 1440p | 240 Hz | IPS | 16 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | $1,699.99 $1,299.99 at Newegg (save $400)
The massive 1440p, 240 Hz screen is the star of the show here but the rest of the hardware isn't bad either! You've got a full-power RTX 4070 to push all those pixels around and the Core i7 13620H is still a decent CPU, despite being a few years old.
The mega-tech event CES 2025 has been packed with all kinds of new CPUs and GPUs for laptops, but there's nothing wrong with the last-gen stuff or even components that are a bit older than that. Sometimes, all you want from a gaming laptop is a big screen, especially if you're using it as a desktop replacement.
Well, enter stage left this Asus TUF Gaming F17 for $1,300 at Newegg, with its 17.3-inch 1440p IPS display. With a refresh rate of 240 Hz and full Nvidia G-Sync support, you know it'll be very easy on the eyes. All those pixels, though, need a decent GPU to process them in games and to that end, you get an RTX 4070 chip to dole out the frames.
With a maximum power limit of 140 W, you'll be getting the full performance from that chip but the best thing about this TUF Gaming F17 is that Asus hasn't gone with a high-end, power-sucking Core processor. Instead, it's a two-year-old Core i7 13620H.
Sure, it only has six P-cores and four E-cores but it's honestly fine for most games. And because it's not stuffed with cores, it's not super-heavy on power (it's still an Intel chip, of course...) which means the GPU will be able to get the majority share of the power delivery.
That's going to be important when dealing with a 1440p display because that resolution involves 60% more pixels than a typical 1920 x 1200 panel. Should the native performance of the RTX 4070 not be enough, at least you'll have DLSS 3.5 upscaling and frame generation to boost the frame rate in games that support them.
The rest of the hardware specs are pretty decent too. Sure, 32 GB of RAM would have
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