Promo €899 Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252, slim lightweight creative gaming laptop 7 hours without Windows 16″ 144Hz Ultrabook Black Intel i7-H RTX 4060 TB4

Our opinion on the Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252

Supplied without Windows, the gaming laptop Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252 thin and light with a battery life of 7 hours suitable for studying, supports recent games thanks to its high-end NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing graphics card. This GPU accelerates multimedia processing like the 16 GB of RAM and the high-performance Intel Alder Lake Core i7-12700H hybrid processor as well as the fast 512 GB SSD storage reinforcing the responsiveness of this Ultrabook. Equipped with a 16-inch Full HD 16/10th IPS anti-glare screen whose frequency of 144Hz improves fluidity in games, this versatile black laptop designed for gaming and creating is also equipped with USB-C Thunderbolt 4 connectivity and Wi-Fi 6E, a biometric fingerprint reader, a webcam shutter and a backlit keyboard.

Features of the Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252

The Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252 faces the competition

The Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252 is currently showing in promotion at Cdiscount and offers a configuration/price ratio interesting for its category where it is one of the cheapest and lightest to offer Thunderbolt connectivity, a biometric authentication system as well as an equally efficient graphics card and processor, with the choice of operating system.

If this Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252 does not meet all your criteria, you will find in our guide Gaming laptop other configurations to play with a similar budget. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.

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Chassis, connections, screen of the Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252

Cooled by IceCool technology using 3 heat pipes, 1 fan (87 blades) and air vents, this versatile, gamer-oriented and creative laptop that can be opened 180° completely flat has a gamer appearance thanks to its slim design and light Indie Black black.

Rechargeable to 50% in 30 minutes, this creative gaming laptop PC has good connectivity with its USB-C Thunderbolt 4, its Wi-Fi 6E ax and Bluetooth 5.3 modules for wireless remote connections and communications, its output practical HDMI video to easily connect it to a TV or a monitor for example, its audio port as well as its 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) providing transfers up to 5 times faster than USB 2.0 if USB 3.0 devices are plugged into it.

You can authenticate biometrically using the fingerprint reader and Windows Hello functionality.

Those who want to protect their privacy will appreciate being able to hide the webcam behind a shutter when not in use.

The chiclet keyboard is equipped with a backlighting solution that can be activated whenever you need to better distinguish the keys.

Players will appreciate that the screen adopts a frequency of 144Hz because it provides much better fluidity in games and more generally in everyday life than a standard 60Hz panel.
The Full HD screen is suitable for videos due to its 16:9 format and benefits from significant viewing angles, both horizontally and vertically, thanks to its IPS technology.
The screen adopts an anti-reflective coating making it more readable than a shiny panel in a bright environment (eg outdoors).

To fully exploit the potential of this creative gaming laptop, you need to install a complete operating system, such as a Linux or Windows distribution.

NVIDIA Optimus technology can thus be activated to determine in real time the graphics resources necessary for the successful completion of the tasks carried out.
When the performance of the graphics module inserted in the processor proves insufficient, Optimus automatically switches to the dedicated graphics card.

If the integrated solution is used as much as possible by Optimus even though its performance is significantly lower, it is because it consumes little energy, which favors autonomy compared to the second, more demanding and powerful solution.
With one or the other, you can obviously watch photos and videos.

Performance, battery life of the Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252

The Asus Vivobook 16X FX3605ZV-RP252 is aimed at those looking for a thin and light portable portable PC that performs well in creative-oriented gaming.

It delivers solid general performance that will delight as many users as possible.
Because this laptop is driven by an Intel Alder Lake Core i7-12700H processor with 14 hybrid cores and an integrated Iris Xe graphics solution. Certainly an older generation, the Core i7-12700H still holds its own and is seen here coupled with 16 GB of RAM.

The potential of the Core i7-12700H is deployed in work requiring CPU (and RAM) resources taking advantage of multi-core, such as photo editing, video editing or 3D rendering.
In this type of area, we obtain faster processing here than with a classic Quad/Hexa Core processor.

Creative people will appreciate it, especially as the dedicated GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card on board speeds up processing. And this under applications exploiting GPU computing power, such as Vegas, the Adobe suite or VSDC.

Featuring the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing is a high-end dedicated graphics card that will also interest gamers.
Thanks to this GPU, we can indeed play recent games.

On the storage side Asus unsurprisingly opts for an SSD, here with a classic capacity of 512 GB.
However, if you need more space, you can use an external storage module. Favoring a USB 3.0/USB-C/Thunderbolt device then represents an interesting option to benefit from fast transfers.

Still, the SSD clearly improves responsiveness and fluidity.
Thanks to the SSD we can quickly access online game cards while launching games/software, processing and starting/stopping are particularly fast.
It must be said that in addition to being shock resistant, energy efficient and silent, an SSD offers great speed.

As for autonomy, count on around 7 hours of battery operation in light use (with Optimus, around 2 times less without) for this gaming Ultrabook which is quite easy to transport because it is thin and relatively light.
Some wishing to equip themselves with a student laptop may be interested.
Also expect heating and noise in the event of heavy loads (e.g. games, treatments) from this versatile gaming laptop PC to which you can add a ventilated support to limit its temperatures (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).