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 been nice but it's not hard to upgrade a laptop's memory these days and given that you're just getting 16 GB of DDR5-4800 here, you might want to do that at some point in the future.
Storage comes in the form of a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD and although it's not clear if an additional drive can be popped in, there are plenty of large, fast SSDs that you can buy if you want to upgrade the storage.
There are cheaper RTX 4070 laptops than this Asus model and there are more expensive ones with faster processors, but if all you care about is having a big, fast screen to work and game on then you can't go wrong with this deal.
