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Ane of the most difficult things to do is to pick a low-budget (or entry-level) machine that can really practice the job for you, without leaving you stranded with a wearisome processor, low amount of RAM, a terrible screen, etcetera. This is why nosotros are prising manufacturers for trying to give yous the best bang for your buck… when your buck is not a very big ane.

Today, we are going to bank check out a laptop that falls in this category. Information technology looks good, has decent specks and, despite the TN panel, it offers a Total HD choice. ASUS has named it the X509. What is cracking well-nigh these laptops lately, is that they actually look pretty skillful – look at the Ideapad L340 (15″) for example. Well, this one doesn't fall behind in terms of design, but permit'south make a deep analysis together and meet how ASUS has managed to proceed the cost down, or in other words, what were the cost-saving measures.

You can bank check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/asus-x509/

Specs Sheet
What's in the box?
Design and construction
Disassembly, upgrade options and maintenance
Display quality
PWM (Screen flickering)
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Sound
Drivers
Battery
CPU options
GPU options
Gaming tests
Temperatures and condolement
Verdict

Specs Sheet

Innolux N156HGA-EA3 (CMN15F5)

Color accuracy 7.52.9

HDD/SSD
up to 2000GB SSD + up to 1000GB HDD

RAM
up to 36GB

Bone
Windows x Home, No Os, Windows ten Pro

Battery
32Wh, 2-prison cell

Body material
Plastic / Polycarbonate

Dimensions
360.2 x 234.9 x 22.ix mm (14.18" x 9.25" x 0.90")

Weight
1.lxxx kg (iv lbs)

Ports and connectivity

2x USB Type-A
2.0

1x USB Type-C
iii.2 Gen i (five Gbps)

1x USB Type-A
3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)

HDMI

Carte du jour reader
MicroSD

Wi-Fi
802.11ac

Bluetooth
4.2

Audio jack
iii.5 mm combo

Features

Fingerprint reader
optional

Spider web camera
VGA

Backlit keyboard
optional

Speakers
2 Speakers, SonicMaster

Optical bulldoze

Security Lock slot

All ASUS M509 (X509 / A509 / P509 / S509 / R509 / D509) configurations

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What's in the box?

Well, the contents of the packaging are pretty straightforward – the laptop, placed in a protective bag, a 45W power brick, and some set up guides and warranty paperwork.

Design and construction

Quite expectedly, the commencement price-preserving mensurate was to build the laptop entirely out of plastic. Yes, it is not the near premium cloth in any means, only actually, the X509 looks pretty good for a budget notebook. Information technology weighs only one.eighty kg and has a 22.9mm profile.

Every bit the plastic is not super durable, you shouldn't rely on it to have bully structural qualities. This means the screen is susceptible to bends during twists, every bit is the chassis, though – a lot less. Its hat can't exist opened with a single mitt, but it features a camera (unlike some gaming devices from ASUS).

And so there is the keyboard assembly. It features an near full set of keys, with the Number Pad segment beingness a trivial shrunk downwards. Actually, the keyboard layout is the same every bit on the ASUS VivoBook S15 S532 and S530, however, the keys are painted in black, rather than silver. By the way, the keyboard itself is pretty comfy for typing with its relatively long keystroke and tactile feedback. Moreover, the X509 is equipped with a very nice touchpad, which is accurate and swift.

On the bottom tin can be seen the ventilation grill, which is located correct higher up the fan, too as two speaker grills. Past the style, the state of affairs of the fan is pretty interesting, but more on that – later.

Ports

On the left side, you can find the power plug, a USB Blazon-C 3.ane (Gen. 1) port, ventilation grill, an HDMI port and another USB port, this fourth dimension Type-A three.1 (Gen. one), while on the right, there are two USB Blazon-A 2.0 ports, a MicroSD bill of fare reader and a combo audio jack.

Disassembly, upgrade options and maintenance

As you can come across from the video above, at that place are 10 Phillips caput screws, that agree the backplate to the chassis of the device. When you remove them, you demand to pry the console up, simply please make sure that you lot use a plastic tool, as a metallic ane will surely impairment the plastic console.

Look, what?! A Core i5-8265 cooled with a directly fastened copper heatsink. At present, that is interesting! Nosotros sincerely doubt that it is going to perform as good as a estrus pipe-to-estrus sink solution, however, it is probably the first laptop with such a cooling solution we're notwithstanding to test. Be patient every bit we're going to reveal how information technology performs in the Temperature segment. Still, the concept is that the air from the fan is going to travel in between the white lines (the bottom plate is constructed in a fashion that channels the airflow like that) and will eventually dissipate the estrus from the estrus spreader. This has the positive effect of cooling the VRMs and other parts from the motherboard.

Equally far as upgradability is concerned, this laptop is pretty strong. While there are 4GB of RAM already soldered to the motherboard, there is also 1 RAM DIMM that can add upwardly to a maximum of 16GB of retentivity. Additionally, on the top side of the automobile, y'all can find an One thousand.2 PCIe x2 slot, while the two.v″ SATA slot is located on the lesser right.

In terms of battery chapters, it is clear that ASUS has tried to cut even more costs by supplying the X509 with a mere 32Wh unit.

Brandish quality

ASUS X509 is equipped with a Full HD TN panel with a model number Innolux N156HGA-EA3 (CMN15F5). Its diagonal is fifteen.6″ (39.62 cm), and the resolution 1920 х 1080 pixels. The screen ratio is sixteen:9, and we are looking at a pixel density of – 142 ppi, and a pitch of 0.eighteen х 0.18 mm. The screen turns into Retina when viewed at altitude equal to or greater than 60cm (24″) (from this distance one's centre stops differentiating the separate pixels, and it is normal for looking at a laptop).

As expected from a TN console – the viewing angles are terrible. We offer images at 45° to evaluate paradigm quality.

The measured maximum brightness of 228 nits in the centre of the screen and 209 nits as an average for the whole expanse, with a maximum deviation of fourteen%. The Correlated Color Temperature on a white screen is 6100K – warmer than the optimal for the sRGB standard of 6500K. This changes to 10000K (cold, blueish light) when we go to the gray areas. This is corrected past our profiles.

In the illustration below you can see how the display performs from a uniformity perspective. In other words, the leakage of lite from the low-cal source.

Values of dE2000 over 4.0 should not occur, and this parameter is one of the first yous should check if you intend to apply the laptop for color-sensitive work. The dissimilarity ratio is mediocre – 340:1 (310:1 after profiling).

To make certain we are on the same page, we would like to give you a little introduction to the sRGB color gamut and the Adobe RGB. To commencement, in that location's the CIE 1976 Uniform Chromaticity Diagram that represents the visible specter of colors past the human center, giving y'all a better perception of the colour gamut coverage and the color accuracy.

Inside the black triangle, yous volition come across the standard colour gamut (sRGB) that is being used past millions of people in HDTV and on the web. As for the Adobe RGB, this is used in professional person cameras, monitors, etc for printing. Basically, colors within the blackness triangle are used by everyone and this is the essential part of the color quality and colour accuracy of a mainstream notebook.

Still, nosotros've included other colour spaces like the famous DCI-P3 standard used by picture show studios, likewise as the digital UHD Rec.2020 standard. Rec.2020, nevertheless, is still a affair of the future and it's hard for today'southward displays to cover that well. Nosotros've besides included the then-called Michael Arrow gamut, or Pointer's gamut, which represents the colors that naturally occur around us every day.

The yellow dotted line shows ASUS X509's color gamut coverage.

Its display covers55% of the sRGB/ITU-R BT.709 (web/HDTV standard) in CIE1976.

Our "Design and Gaming" profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma manner.

We tested the accurateness of the display with 24 usually used colors similar light and dark human being skin, bluish sky, dark-green grass, orange, etc. You lot can check out the results at factory condition and also, with the "Design and Gaming" profile.

Beneath y'all can compare the scores of ASUS X509 with the default settings (left), and with the "Gaming and Web blueprint" contour (right).

The next figure shows how well the display is able to reproduce really dark parts of an paradigm, which is essential when watching movies or playing games in low ambience light.

The left side of the paradigm represents the brandish with stock settings, while the right one is with the "Gaming and Web Design" profile activated. On the horizontal centrality, you will notice the grayscale and on the vertical axis – the luminance of the display. On the two graphs below you tin can hands check for yourself how your display handles the darkest nuances merely continue in mind that this likewise depends on the settings of your electric current display, the calibration, the viewing angle, and the surrounding lite conditions.

Response time (Gaming capabilities)

We test the reaction time of the pixels with the usual "blackness-to-white" and "white-to-black" method from x% to ninety% and vice versa.

We recorded Fall Time + Rise Time =12 ms.

PWM (Screen flickering)

Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is an piece of cake mode to control monitor brightness. When y'all lower the brightness, the light intensity of the backlight is not lowered, only instead turned off and on by the electronics with a frequency indistinguishable to the human eye. In these light impulses, the lite/no-light fourth dimension ratio varies, while brightness remains unchanged, which is harmful to your eyes. Yous can read more most that in our dedicated article on PWM.

ASUS X509's display uses PWM to adjust its brightness upwards until 60 nits. Additionally, flickerings are with a high frequency, which makes them harmless in this aspect.

Blue light emissions

Installing our Health-Guard profile not only eliminates PWM but too reduces the harmful Blue Light emissions while keeping the colors of the screen perceptually accurate. If you're not familiar with the Bluish light, the TL;DR version is – emissions that negatively affect your eyes, pare and your whole torso. You can find more information about that in our defended article on Blueish Light.

Decision

ASUS X509's TN display has a Full HD resolution, quick reaction time and comfortable backlight in terms of PWM. Notwithstanding, its poor viewing angles and mediocre contrast ratio in combination with the small colour coverage brand it a subpar console.

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Role Work

Function Work should be used by and large by users who spend most of the fourth dimension looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This contour aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity past keeping a apartment gamma curve (2.twenty), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

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Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Pattern and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate equally possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Spider web and HDTV, at white point D65.

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Health-Baby-sit

Health-Baby-sit eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and trunk. Since information technology's custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper and then the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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Sound

ASUS X509'south speakers produce sound with not bad quality. Its mids and highs are clear, while (expectedly) the lows have deviations.

Drivers

You tin can find all of the drivers and utilities for the ASUS X509 here: https://www.asus.com/bg/Laptops/ASUS-Laptop-15-X509FL/HelpDesk_Download/

Battery

Now, we conduct the bombardment tests with WindowsBetter performance setting turned on, screen brightness adapted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the ane we are testing the notebook with. Despite the notoriously small 32Wh bombardment pack, the laptop manages to go more than ix hours of Web browsing fourth dimension and six hours of video playback, solely on battery power.

Spider web surfing

In order to simulate real-life atmospheric condition, nosotros used our own script for automatic spider web browsing through over 70 websites.

Video playback

For every examination like this, nosotros use the same video in HD.

Gaming

We utilize F1 2017'southward built-in benchmark on loop in society to simulate real-life gaming.

CPU options

This device comes with the Holy Trinity of Whiskey Lake CPUs – the dual-core Core i3-8145U, and the quad-core Cadre i5-8265U and Core i7-8565U.

3D Rendering

Results are from the Cinebench twenty CPU test (the college the score, the meliorate)

Adobe Photoshop

Results are from our Photoshop benchmark test (the lower the score, the better)

GPU options

GPU-wise most of the models are coming with the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620. However, there is the option for NVIDIA GeForce MX250.

3DMark Fire Strike (Chiliad)

Results are from the 3DMark: Burn Strike (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the amend)

Unigine Sky 3.0

Results are from the Unigine Heaven 3.0 criterion (higher the score, the better)

Unigine Heaven iv.0

Results are from the Unigine Heaven 4.0 criterion (higher the score, the better)

Unigine Superposition

Results are from the Unigine Superposition benchmark (higher the score, the improve)

Gaming tests

cs-go-benchmarks

CS:GO	HD 1080p, Low (Cheque settings)	Hard disk drive 1080p, Medium (Check settings)	Hd 1080p, MAX (Cheque settings)
Average FPS	51 fps	30 fps	– fps

DOTA ii	Hard disk drive 1080p, Low (Check settings)	HD 1080p, Normal (Check settings)	HD 1080p, Loftier (Cheque settings)
Average FPS	71 fps	35 fps	fifteen fps

Temperatures and condolement

Max CPU load

In this test we utilize 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The beginning cavalcade shows a reckoner's reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (betwixt 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a expert indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Boilerplate core frequency (base frequency + X); CPU temp.

Intel Core i5-8265U (15W TDP)	0:02 – 0:10 sec	0:fifteen – 0:30 sec	10:00 – 15:00 min
ASUS X509	2.56 GHz (B+60%) @ 75°C	2.33 GHz (B+46%) @ 97°C	1.95 GHz (B+22%) @ 94°C
Lenovo Ideapad L340 (15″)	3.27 GHz (B+104%)@ 72°C	1.99 GHz (B+24%)@ threescore°C	2.01 GHz (B+26%)@ 65°C
ASUS VivoBook S15 S532	ii.96 GHz (B+85%) @ 75°C	2.95 GHz (B+84%) @ 90°C	2.17 GHz (B+36%) @ 68°C
Lenovo ThinkBook 13s	ii.76 GHz (B+73%)@ 75°C	ii.74 GHz (B+71%)@ 84°C	ii.11 GHz (B+32%)@ 74°C
Lenovo ThinkPad T490s	3.43 GHz (B+114%)@ 91°C	2.69 GHz (B+68%)@ 91°C	two.19 GHz (B+37%)@ 80°C
HP ProBook 450 G6	ii.69 GHz (B+59%)@ 64°C	2.53 GHz (B+60%)@ 68°C	two.09 GHz (B+31%)@ 71°C

As you could have imagined, the teeny tiny cooling solution that ASUS has adult for the X509 is not working quite well. Indeed, in day-to-24-hour interval loads, information technology is equally efficient as a two-oestrus pipe one, but under heavy load, the temperatures grow immensely in under 20 seconds. This prevents the CPU from reaching high clock speeds at basically whatsoever signal. On the vivid side, the processor doesn't throttle below the Base of operations clock.

Comfort during total load

On the bright side, the laptop remains pretty absurd almost everywhere, with the hottest point nosotros measured being slightly above 34C.

Verdict

Offset, let's note that at this price signal, all expectation should exist severely lowered. After all, this device is not battling with any MacBooks or Dell XPS 15s. With that said, we should start with the design of this machine. The X509 is a pretty sleek laptop that despite its plastic design, manages to give a somewhat good feel when handling.

In terms of performance, sadly, you won't be the possessor of the most powerful laptop out there. The chief reason for that is the bizarre cooling solution, which has no estrus pipes, nor heatsinks. ASUS only used a unmarried tiny heat spreader placed right on top of the CPU, and has the fan bravado direct at information technology. This resulted in very high temperatures in extreme loads and relatively low clock speeds. The skilful news is, that it is absolutely fine in day-to-twenty-four hours tasks similar Web browsing and video playback, where the fan is barely spinning.

ASUS X509's TN display (Innolux N156HGA-EA3 (CMN15F5)) has a Full Hard disk resolution, quick reaction time and comfy backlight in terms of PWM. However, its poor viewing angles and mediocre contrast ratio in combination with the pocket-size color coverage make information technology a subpar panel.

Next, there is the groovy upgradability that this laptop offers – it is equipped with a single RAM DIMM slot (4GB are soldered) and in that location is likewise the Thousand.ii PCIe x2 slot (that too supports SATA SSDs, as well equally the 2.5″ SATA drive slot.

Now, let'southward speak about what'due south not good. The first affair that comes to our mind is the TN panel. Despite its 1080p resolution, the viewing angles and the contrast ratio are terrible. And then there is the bombardment pack. Well, actually we were kind of impressed of the optimization of this laptop because information technology is equipped with a 32Wh bombardment pack and it was able to achieve more than 9 hours of Web browsing and up to half dozen hours of video playback.

Additionally, there is the keyboard that is comfortable to use with its rather long primal travel and somewhat clicky feedback, notwithstanding, the materials of employ feel inexpensive. And this is truthful for the unabridged device. The base of operations bends ever then slightly when you press upon it, and based on previous experience with ASUS' budget line up of laptops, expect some of the paint to rip off the keys at some bespeak.

Nevertheless, the X509 sits comfortably on a adept position in the market for entry-level laptops. And if you are wondering what you can compare it to, y'all tin can always check out our take on the Lenovo Ideapad L340 (fifteen″).

Pros

Sleek design
Surprisingly good bombardment life, given the small battery capacity
Bully typing feel
Offers decent upgradability
Has a quick reaction time and lacks ambitious PWM for brightness adjustment (Innolux N156HGA-EA3 (CMN15F5))

Cons

Inefficient cooling solution
All-plastic build
Limited IPS options
TN brandish has poor viewing angles and contrast ratio (Innolux N156HGA-EA3 (CMN15F5))
Covers only 55% of sRGB (Innolux N156HGA-EA3 (CMN15F5))

You tin bank check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/asus-x509/

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