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Cale Hunt

ASUS built a desktop gaming PC around a mobile CPU — it's an interesting, if flawed, idea

ASUS TUF Gaming T500.

The T500 is a gaming PC unlike any I've ever tested. While it comes with a desktop-class graphics card — in the case of my review unit, an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti — it relies on a mobile processor and RAM installed on a specialized laptop motherboard.

ASUS designed it as a way to offer "lower power consumption than a typical desktop machine" while avoiding some of the performance drawbacks due to the constraints of laptop hardware design.

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