ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120 Review

ASUS entry to the world of game capture and streaming

The ASUS TUF series is no stranger for offering budget affordable range of gaming product, and now ASUS slowly introduce more accessories and companion to it, such as what are we reviewing today, the ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120.

Unboxing And Contents

Upon unboxing you will get the following

Quick Start Guide*1
HDMI 2.0 Cable*1
USB 3.2 Gen1x1 Type-C ® to Type A Cable*1
USB Type-A to Type-C ® Adapter*1
3.5 mm to 3.5mm Audio Cable*1

Design

The ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120 design screams gaming style with the metal that covers on the top while the bottom is on plastics and rubber feet. This combines provide heat dissipation, especially if you are streaming long hours, with the silver color coating that is a standard color that fits most gaming setups today. Of course on the top you have the signature TUF RGB logo which can be customised via Capture Console.

In front you will get Audio (Mic In / Audio Out) 3.5mm and Game Pad (Mic Out / Audio In) 3.5mm for party chatting. Over to the back you have a USB 3.2 Gen1x1 Type-C for connecting to your PC which can capture up to 1080P at 120FPS, a USB passthrough which is capable of output up to 4K at 60FPS while another HDMI In for connecting to your game console or PC you wish to capture the records/stream.

Features

The following are the features of the ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120

• Certified OBS Studio™ compatibility which is compatible with OBS, OBS Studio and OBS Streamlabs, giving users more choice of which variant they wish to capture from.
• Passthrough up to 4K at 60FPS which does ensures maximum PC and Console display delivery standards without limiting any scaledown.
• Two 3.5mm jacks which enables party chat and especially useful for both streamer and caster capturing voice at the same time.
• UVC Compatibility, which is a standard for webcams can plug and play cameras in the past, now it is available on the ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120 for a hassle free, driverless plug and play operations.

Setup and Experience

ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120 offers a painless setup, all you need to do is plug your console, USB C to your Laptop/PC, and optionally if you wish, plug it to your TV with the Passthrough HDMI. Over to the PC or Laptop, you will need to install either Streamlabs OBS or OBS software and start your overlay configuration, which if you are a beginner, I suggest using Streamlabs will be better as it offers overlay, theme download and sync via any of your social media account, and this makes it even better as you can login and carry your settings on any PC or laptop. If you want to setup your microphone recording support with the capture box, you can do that as well, or you can use your PC’s microphone jack, its totally up to the user.

Now to the ASUS Video Capture Console, this is actually essential to be installed for configuring your RGB lights according to indicators required especially when streaming, without looking back on your main OBS screen to identify status of streaming, whether its ready mode or standing by, or even signal status, while you can also control HDCP protection status, firmware update and dedicated headset volume support.

Now towards the fun part, the capture via OBS is set to 3800 on bitrate and we tested the recording, we find that the best for 1080P at 60FPS capped over our Nintendo Switch and the quality is good with a very low latency while recording and display passthrough standby mode, sound quality is capture at 44.1Khz with good quality as well on both sides which also an important part when streaming towards multiple social channel such as Facebook Gaming and Youtube Gaming Livestream, so far we do not encountered any obstacles, just note that OBS video bitrate is based on your PC specifications, so users have to play around with the numbers and get the right one. We included a recorded sample as above for reference.

Technical Specifications

Verdict and Conclusion

The ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120 is a reasonably positioned, balanced performance level capture box that we think it is suitable towards all level of enthusiasts and gamers alike, which host a good amount of connections and ports to plug and play straight away without much hassle, with the RGB logo as an indicator, this gives a huge selling point that the RGB lighting is fully customizable as a fully thought streamers concern when coming to indicating modes over the lights designated. Perhaps this is the Capture Box that is right for you towards all your streaming and casting needs without paying too much and firmware updates could improve things further with adding more features, which ASUS always paid attention to.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box FHD 120 is still not yet available but from the price point, we should be expecting it less than RM900, and for more information, CLICK HERE for the product information