I know other people have the hinge and freezing issues, but what about the Audio Issues? Anyone else that has an ASUS Laptop have that problem as well?
@VercettiMusic i have even more and the problems are keep coming , 3 times repaired in warranty and 2 time repaired after warranty and i don"t even wanna repair it , the problems are keep coming, i glued hinges to make lid openable .
@@sonicextralifefan91 i am not joking bro, i am really unlucky do you know how i ma using my laptop? By casting screen on my mobile with SpaceDesk i was lucky enough to install spacedesk on my laptop before it's screen start showing lines so it's just 1 click connect now 😂😂 now my laptop's non working parts are dedicated gpu , screen , some capasitor that is causing laptop to not turn on if i leave it in open( to start it i need to put it in my bag everytime i shut it down) as soon as i build pc i am gonna throw this in garbage after removing useful components.
Thank Goodness someone is still making videos about this laptop. I've had mine since mid 2019 and it's been quite a ride. The thermal throttle isn't the worst problem, power throttling is the catch with this laptop. I've learned a lot with this bad boy and opened it several times to oil the fans, unclog the scape and change the thermal pastel.
@@clive0494 it means the laptop is not using all of his performance and power because it's not connected to AC outlet. You can set the limit a bit higher so it isn't going to do that too fast, the standard is very low.
Man I have nearly all the same problems you had with this laptop besides the audio crackling issue, I've noticed for me at least the random freezing and crashes usually occur when I'm using an internet browser or watching videos, playing games it rarely if ever froze on me, that said the freezing only started happening for me after about a year or so of using it, I'm glad I'm after replacing it with a PC.
Damn I thought I was the only one with these issues hahah. The random freezing and hinge are the worst issues but also overheating CPU (i7) with some games (not even AAA games). Getting an external cooling pad underneath helps at least. The anti-dust cooling is adequate though.
This laptop has throttling issue indeed but i manage to fix that by cleaning the fan every 3 month. It got quite dirty plus it has bad cooling system, thats why u cant tolerant with such dirt with the fan. Thats some tips from me
Can't relate. I had this laptop for 3 years and had no problems with it at all. Literally nothing. The only thing I didn't like about this laptop was the battery. Everything else works perfectly for me.
I haven't has any freezing or sound issues with mine, and I have the i5 HDD model. Just took it apart today and "fixed" the hinge with superglue. Ill come back here when it breaks again...
Can confirm hinge design is bad I can't open back plate open cuz screw on top right & left didn't come out cuz that screw into hinge Audio issues can be fix by reinstall audio driver
I have the asus TUF gaming FX504 series since 2018. I also have the freeze problem (by most of the games I play) and the overheating problem when I play "Rust". Very frustrating, anyone found a solution for the freezing problem?
does anyone have idea what is the diameter of the screws in the heatsink?? I sent it for repair and later wanted to change the thermal paste myself and the company destroyed 3 of the screws...
I got the 1050ti version about a year ago for 600$ cad; got it off of some guy on kijiji and the device was new so that was a win. Imo i feel like I shouldve bought it for 450 or even 500 cause holy the battery life actually sucks.
I agree with the hinge issue. Sure. It's annoying, sure it can't be fixed none other than warranty technician, BUT I highly disagree with audio and freezing. I owned the i7 , 1060 version for 3 years and first time it went to repair was none other than because of the hinges. Next one was just recently as the gpu fan stopped working, but it was repaired just with a bit of dusting. Now the laptop is again in warranty repair because of the hinges. Yea. They suck, but everything else I highly disagree especially with the Techtablets review which I showed to few of my friends who know bit more cooling of laptops and the cooling is just fine in FX series being a laptop.
You can "highly disagree" all you want. That doesn't change the fact that the audio crackles and freezing which is unacceptable from a 800 dollar laptop. 😔
So I've had this laptop just over a year now (about 13 months) and it performs much worse than your laptop. This is probably either because you put more ram into yours or because I accidentally bought the variant with an AMD processor, maybe a bit of both. I've been considering lately to get rid of this thing and buy a new one, but I cant decide between doing that or just getting some upgrades for mine (its completely stock still). I'm looking for advice on which choice to make and what would be the best thing to do for that choice (what upgrades to get/good laptops to buy). Knowing my parents they will restrict my budget for a laptop to like 1000 tops. Any advice would be helpful! P.S: My fans (specifically the one on the right side of the computer, left when your looking inside from the bottom) have been making a strange grindy/rattily sound lately and I tried cleaning them to no avail. Any Idea what would cause this issue? I suspect a faulty motor or a fan being off balance but I don't know for sure.
Fan prolly has a bad bearing, which would need to be replaced. I had 2 upgrades to my laptop, 8gb of more ram and 480gb ssd to extra storage. Honestly i think waiting until budget laptops come down in price is your best bet (hopefully by the end of this year).Getting that fan replaced is definitely recommended.
@@ZackEberly Alright thanks man. One last question. How much would it typically be to get the bearing/fan replaced bc the warranty on this thing ran out literally at the end of last month?
You can get them for 20 bucks on eBay. It’s an easy fix even for a beginner. First remove the back panel (many videos on UA-cam that can show you how). Take out the screws holding in the fan, discount the fan connector and replace them.
Not of hand but, here is a universal screw kit, which some people have used for laptops- amzn.to/2RBsx3f I'd try going through some forums and see if anyone else has done the same.
@@ZackEberly asus fx504gm I solved the freezing problem of the screen I formatted the computer 1 month ago, it has never been frozen so far, can you try it and share your video
@@ZackEberly yeah I'm not saying it's linked together, just saying if you could a video on how to overclock this model because I have the same laptop same specs
Hey man thanks for your nice videos.my laptop model is fax 504GE which it has graphics 1050Ti GDDR5 4GB and cpu processor is intel core i7 8750h. And memory is ddr4 8gb Hynix 2666Mhz . I want to buy m.2 ssd and 8 or 16 Gb ram. I have some questions.does it support nvme? and does it has limitation capacity for m..2 slot? For example maximum m.2 ssd size is 256Gb? I asked you these question because I want to buy a sumsong nvme 970 evo plus 500 GB and does my laptop support this model? Another question is does my laptop support 980 pro 500 Gb model? Because second on is PCI 4x4 version and first one is PCI 3x4. Can you tell me my laptop what kind of PCI support? Is there deference between you installing a game on on ssd and SSHD (specifically on frame rates)? Because when I am playing call of duty warzon it has terrible frame rate and so much lag and I know the first issue is memory And I hav to buy a memory.the memory which is in my mind is 8 or 16 Gb ddr4 Hynix 2666MHZ. If i am buy 16 does it run dual channels? is there much different when you have 24 GB and 16Gb? sorry you comment got to long because I want to ask my question in detail.
@@ZackEberly I have been saw it . But you were upgrading your laptop with sata ssd. I want to upgrade my laptop with m.2 ssd . And your laptop already has a 256 nvme m.2 ssd. My question is does it supports more than 256 GB nvme m.2 ssd??
@@ZackEberly ua-cam.com/video/3lInVzXBO1g/v-deo.html In this video you upgrade your ram and a ssd I think with kinkgeston .any way . Do you know what is the m.2 PCI gen? I have read some where that it’s 2x3 and I can put 3x4 but it doesn’t reach its maximum speed .another one says 3x4 . and I am get confused 😐 😑. And about the maximum capacity support the asus website says it’s 258Gb but some one says it’s 2 Trabyte 😑. And I saw some videos that they have put more than 258GB. I have planned to buy a 500 Gb 970 evo plus but now it’s not clear to me that even I can put this on my laptop or not. I have searched and read comments so much about this questions but I don’t get a clear answer.
Sorry about this. Here- ua-cam.com/video/WDu17q1hkTE/v-deo.html What you want to get is a 500GB (or larger) NVME M.2 SSD. Get gen 3 cuz it doesn't support gen 4. Here is a good one- amzn.to/3fKaL7S
I should make a video, I had terrible problems with my Asus 504GD 1050 but with alot of tweaking, a complete hardrive failure the seagate fire cuda 1tb it came with and the 128gb m.2 ssd it was somehow missing I just put thermal paste on the gpu and cpu, i put a regular laptopHDD and reformatted it pulled the bios battery out for a minute and put it back in. I used AVG driver update and ditched all the stupid asus drivus but the bios and it runs great! Finally, and yes my hinges broke too i usedHOT glue fearing that super glue if that got on y screen it would be terrible. Good luck and Asus is terrible i bought a graphics card off them and it gave me a bitcoin miner virus that was almost impossible to get rid of
@@ZackEberly I never made a youtube video before. I dont know I can try though, I only have a samsung note 10plus or an iphone 12 too use as a camera the cameras on these gaming laptops are terrible they shouldnt evven put a camera on this laptop...
With all due respect, nothing but nothing of what is reported in the video is real, I have put 16 gb and a 500 gb ssd on it, and it works spectacularly. I have tested everything and it is different from what you report, I am sorry that it works badly, it is very possible that you have some problem in the hardware, or you have had a batch that was manufactured badly, but in my case even connected to a monitor via HDMI It works perfect, it's more like a systems technician, I repair many higher quality gamer noteboks, and this one surpasses it. a greeting I only comment on my experience.
@@jerayrualvarez7847 Honestly, you people are good for me. I apparently did not read that correctly. Yeah my upgrades work to and everything works, but somethings don't work well on this laptop.
I know other people have the hinge and freezing issues, but what about the Audio Issues? Anyone else that has an ASUS Laptop have that problem as well?
@VercettiMusic i have even more and the problems are keep coming , 3 times repaired in warranty and 2 time repaired after warranty and i don"t even wanna repair it , the problems are keep coming, i glued hinges to make lid openable .
Tbh, I had no issues. I had this laptop for 3 years as well, and I had no problems with it at all
@@sonicextralifefan91 you are very lucky, and i got bad luck of 200 peoples on me.
@@KhuniBacha lol
@@sonicextralifefan91 i am not joking bro, i am really unlucky do you know how i ma using my laptop? By casting screen on my mobile with SpaceDesk i was lucky enough to install spacedesk on my laptop before it's screen start showing lines so it's just 1 click connect now 😂😂 now my laptop's non working parts are dedicated gpu , screen , some capasitor that is causing laptop to not turn on if i leave it in open( to start it i need to put it in my bag everytime i shut it down) as soon as i build pc i am gonna throw this in garbage after removing useful components.
Thank Goodness someone is still making videos about this laptop. I've had mine since mid 2019 and it's been quite a ride. The thermal throttle isn't the worst problem, power throttling is the catch with this laptop. I've learned a lot with this bad boy and opened it several times to oil the fans, unclog the scape and change the thermal pastel.
what is power throttling?
@@clive0494 it means the laptop is not using all of his performance and power because it's not connected to AC outlet.
You can set the limit a bit higher so it isn't going to do that too fast, the standard is very low.
Man I have nearly all the same problems you had with this laptop besides the audio crackling issue, I've noticed for me at least the random freezing and crashes usually occur when I'm using an internet browser or watching videos, playing games it rarely if ever froze on me, that said the freezing only started happening for me after about a year or so of using it, I'm glad I'm after replacing it with a PC.
Try to clean the fan regulary. It fixes the problem for me
Damn I thought I was the only one with these issues hahah. The random freezing and hinge are the worst issues but also overheating CPU (i7) with some games (not even AAA games). Getting an external cooling pad underneath helps at least. The anti-dust cooling is adequate though.
This laptop has throttling issue indeed but i manage to fix that by cleaning the fan every 3 month. It got quite dirty plus it has bad cooling system, thats why u cant tolerant with such dirt with the fan. Thats some tips from me
Can we all agree that the FX504 is the worst gaming laptop ever made?
I AGREE
Nope.
Can't relate. I had this laptop for 3 years and had no problems with it at all. Literally nothing. The only thing I didn't like about this laptop was the battery. Everything else works perfectly for me.
Simplest resolution so far I've found for my Asus FX504GM freeze is to detach battery
I haven't has any freezing or sound issues with mine, and I have the i5 HDD model. Just took it apart today and "fixed" the hinge with superglue. Ill come back here when it breaks again...
Two months in and the “fix” is still holding. I’ve stopped traveling with the laptop and started closing it from the side/ bottom of the screen
Oh also, thanks for the Tonor TC-30 Microphone review, I will be ordering it tomorrow!
*Watching this review on my ASUS TUF FX504GM WH51*
ASUS TUF FX504GM WH51: Why are you watching this, master?
Me: I...misclick.
Can confirm yes I have some of these issues, the hinge & freezing mainly everything else has been ok
Can confirm hinge design is bad
I can't open back plate open cuz screw on top right & left didn't come out cuz that screw into hinge
Audio issues can be fix by reinstall audio driver
I’ll have to try that for audio.
Hey I’m know I’m late but what HDD did you buy for the laptops expansion slot ? I have trouble and I’m new in laptops
You can buy any 2.5in hard drive or SSD. And SSD are cheap, so 500gb from samsung and 1tb from crucial is a good choice.
@@ZackEberly thanks !
I have same problem.. only use for 3 months then put it away and start build new pc
I have this. And the black turned screen . Help!
I have the asus TUF gaming FX504 series since 2018. I also have the freeze problem (by most of the games I play) and the overheating problem when I play "Rust". Very frustrating, anyone found a solution for the freezing problem?
Someone said, reinstalling windows help that problem.
Try to clean the fan regulary. It fixes the problem for me
yes, buy a new laptop and throw the one you got on garbage, and never get an asus ever again.
YOU are so underrated Love you bro keep up the good work remember me😁 also have a great day
same model as you man, and I upgraded to same storage and it still falls short for gaming unfortunately, 1tb is minimum for gaming anyway
My worst acquisition ever. If only i knew this before buying it
does anyone have idea what is the diameter of the screws in the heatsink?? I sent it for repair and later wanted to change the thermal paste myself and the company destroyed 3 of the screws...
great review
You deserve more than you get on UA-cam, very underrated.
I got the 1050ti version about a year ago for 600$ cad; got it off of some guy on kijiji and the device was new so that was a win.
Imo i feel like I shouldve bought it for 450 or even 500 cause holy the battery life actually sucks.
I agree with the hinge issue. Sure. It's annoying, sure it can't be fixed none other than warranty technician, BUT I highly disagree with audio and freezing. I owned the i7 , 1060 version for 3 years and first time it went to repair was none other than because of the hinges. Next one was just recently as the gpu fan stopped working, but it was repaired just with a bit of dusting. Now the laptop is again in warranty repair because of the hinges. Yea. They suck, but everything else I highly disagree especially with the Techtablets review which I showed to few of my friends who know bit more cooling of laptops and the cooling is just fine in FX series being a laptop.
You can "highly disagree" all you want. That doesn't change the fact that the audio crackles and freezing which is unacceptable from a 800 dollar laptop. 😔
@@ZackEberly Yes I can cuz I didn't have any of those problems whatsoever.
Oh good for you
true .. i am struggling with same problems with hindges and RAM
So I've had this laptop just over a year now (about 13 months) and it performs much worse than your laptop. This is probably either because you put more ram into yours or because I accidentally bought the variant with an AMD processor, maybe a bit of both. I've been considering lately to get rid of this thing and buy a new one, but I cant decide between doing that or just getting some upgrades for mine (its completely stock still). I'm looking for advice on which choice to make and what would be the best thing to do for that choice (what upgrades to get/good laptops to buy). Knowing my parents they will restrict my budget for a laptop to like 1000 tops. Any advice would be helpful!
P.S: My fans (specifically the one on the right side of the computer, left when your looking inside from the bottom) have been making a strange grindy/rattily sound lately and I tried cleaning them to no avail. Any Idea what would cause this issue? I suspect a faulty motor or a fan being off balance but I don't know for sure.
Fan prolly has a bad bearing, which would need to be replaced. I had 2 upgrades to my laptop, 8gb of more ram and 480gb ssd to extra storage. Honestly i think waiting until budget laptops come down in price is your best bet (hopefully by the end of this year).Getting that fan replaced is definitely recommended.
@@ZackEberly Alright thanks man. One last question. How much would it typically be to get the bearing/fan replaced bc the warranty on this thing ran out literally at the end of last month?
You can get them for 20 bucks on eBay. It’s an easy fix even for a beginner. First remove the back panel (many videos on UA-cam that can show you how). Take out the screws holding in the fan, discount the fan connector and replace them.
@@ZackEberly cool thanks for the help
Do you know the screw size of the laptop heatsink? Mine one screw got stripped.
Not of hand but, here is a universal screw kit, which some people have used for laptops- amzn.to/2RBsx3f I'd try going through some forums and see if anyone else has done the same.
I have this laptop and the freezes is really badly
My man… got ur same problems! It’s not a bad pc but… DUH. For how much do you think could I resell this laptop?
I think the resell value right now is, 200-500 dollars
is there a way how can I fix this freezing problem
I couldn’t figure out way, i think it’s with the gpu switch from integrated to external (1060)
@@ZackEberly asus fx504gm I solved the freezing problem of the screen I formatted the computer 1 month ago, it has never been frozen so far, can you try it and share your video
Can you do a video for overclocking the system because I tried overclocking it before my machine learning project because there was an issue with FPS
You don’t to overclock cuz of thermal issues
@@ZackEberly yeah I'm not saying it's linked together, just saying if you could a video on how to overclock this model because I have the same laptop same specs
It’s like overclock any graphics card (check UA-cam for tutorials) But like I said, you don’t want to do that it a laptop.
Hey man thanks for your nice videos.my laptop model is fax 504GE which it has graphics 1050Ti GDDR5 4GB and cpu processor is intel core i7 8750h. And memory is ddr4 8gb Hynix 2666Mhz . I want to buy m.2 ssd and 8 or 16 Gb ram. I have some questions.does it support nvme? and does it has limitation capacity for m..2 slot? For example maximum m.2 ssd size is 256Gb? I asked you these question because I want to buy a sumsong nvme 970 evo plus 500 GB and does my laptop support this model? Another question is does my laptop support 980 pro 500 Gb model? Because second on is PCI 4x4 version and first one is PCI 3x4. Can you tell me my laptop what kind of PCI support? Is there deference between you installing a game on on ssd and SSHD (specifically on frame rates)? Because when I am playing call of duty warzon it has terrible frame rate and so much lag and I know the first issue is memory And I hav to buy a memory.the memory which is in my mind is 8 or 16 Gb ddr4 Hynix 2666MHZ. If i am buy 16 does it run dual channels? is there much different when you have 24 GB and 16Gb? sorry you comment got to long because I want to ask my question in detail.
I have a video on my channel about up grading it. Why don’t you watch it.
@@ZackEberly I have been saw it . But you were upgrading your laptop with sata ssd. I want to upgrade my laptop with m.2 ssd . And your laptop already has a 256 nvme m.2 ssd. My question is does it supports more than 256 GB nvme m.2 ssd??
@@rezasalehi8405 I don't think so, I show it briefly in the vid. I think its only sata m.2.
@@ZackEberly
ua-cam.com/video/3lInVzXBO1g/v-deo.html
In this video you upgrade your ram and a ssd I think with kinkgeston .any way . Do you know what is the m.2 PCI gen? I have read some where that it’s 2x3 and I can put 3x4 but it doesn’t reach its maximum speed .another one says 3x4 . and I am get confused 😐 😑. And about the maximum capacity support the asus website says it’s 258Gb but some one says it’s 2 Trabyte 😑. And I saw some videos that they have put more than 258GB. I have planned to buy a 500 Gb 970 evo plus but now it’s not clear to me that even I can put this on my laptop or not. I have searched and read comments so much about this questions but I don’t get a clear answer.
Sorry about this. Here- ua-cam.com/video/WDu17q1hkTE/v-deo.html
What you want to get is a 500GB (or larger) NVME M.2 SSD. Get gen 3 cuz it doesn't support gen 4.
Here is a good one- amzn.to/3fKaL7S
How about asus FX503VM?
Seems like the 2021 version is kinda better
I hope so... I know someone that got 15in and it seemed to work much better.
Never ever buy any Asus products. Worst laptops I’ve ever owned and I will never support this company
it cant even launch fortnite dont ever buy this laptop i have it and still have it and very very very nad laptop
Hi How are you Bro🤷🏽
Doing Good. How about yourself?
@@ZackEberly me tooo⛹🏽
I should make a video, I had terrible problems with my Asus 504GD 1050 but with alot of tweaking, a complete hardrive failure the seagate fire cuda 1tb it came with and the 128gb m.2 ssd it was somehow missing I just put thermal paste on the gpu and cpu, i put a regular laptopHDD and reformatted it pulled the bios battery out for a minute and put it back in. I used AVG driver update and ditched all the stupid asus drivus but the bios and it runs great! Finally, and yes my hinges broke too i usedHOT glue fearing that super glue if that got on y screen it would be terrible. Good luck and Asus is terrible i bought a graphics card off them and it gave me a bitcoin miner virus that was almost impossible to get rid of
You should make a video, its ridiculous how bad some of there laptops are!
@@ZackEberly I never made a youtube video before. I dont know I can try though, I only have a samsung note 10plus or an iphone 12 too use as a camera the cameras on these gaming laptops are terrible they shouldnt evven put a camera on this laptop...
With all due respect, nothing but nothing of what is reported in the video is real, I have put 16 gb and a 500 gb ssd on it, and it works spectacularly.
I have tested everything and it is different from what you report, I am sorry that it works badly, it is very possible that you have some problem in the hardware, or you have had a batch that was manufactured badly, but in my case even connected to a monitor via HDMI It works perfect, it's more like a systems technician, I repair many higher quality gamer noteboks, and this one surpasses it. a greeting I only comment on my experience.
Your funny kid, but your wrong 😑
@@ZackEberly he upgraded it bro, please have some reading comprehension
@@jerayrualvarez7847 Honestly, you people are good for me. I apparently did not read that correctly. Yeah my upgrades work to and everything works, but somethings don't work well on this laptop.
@@ZackEberly I personally have Asus tuf gaming fx505 too