Asus G73jh Info Thread!!! - Page 4

NW this is at least the second time and second notebook were power issues. And it crossed my mind you have what? 125w power brick? Just a guess and desktop guys have much greater power supplies. Think you may have hit a wall you can't get past? I mean isn't a 400w power supply kind of weak for a desktop. And it crushes what you have to work with.

But I must say I enjoy watching you try. Keep going and good luck.

Point taken.

Could it be from all the stress its been under? Regardless I would hope the components would last a bit longer, even with the smell of burnt plastic in the air.

Impressive number.

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NWGuru,

How noisy is your Asus laptop? I am considering getting the Asus G73 and I would like to know the noise level. I like quiet laptop.

NW you are a manic keep up the great work! And I like your motto, if it ain't burning it ain't working.

I am curious, would the 5870 chip fit in the current M17x? I am debating to wait till beginning of march to find out if they will offer it or not. I'm pretty settled on the R2, but wish the 5870 was available for it. If there was an option to simply buy two cards and replace the 4870's later I would be fine with that to save some moolah until the price goes down for that upgrade. Probably is posted somewhere, but with all the painting I've got to do I haven't had much time to check.

I mentioned this in this thread because you had a picture of the two cards next to each other. I wasn't sure which was which. (not that savvy on mobile cards, still a greenhorn in the gaming laptop field.)

Now this I really like

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Very informative and thorough. REP

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Good to know Thank you.

NWGuru, in honor of your very informative thread, I hereby declare this thread.. stickied!

I am another owner of the G73JH, mine is the model A2 which I received from XCaliberPC. I ordered on February 5th and had it overnight shipped, arrived on the 6th.

On NotebookReview, Quagmire was the first to receive his, then it was 0100 and then it was I.

This did come with free shipping so if I did not pay for overnight, I would have paid 1550.

I see the only impression here is from NW who is not the typical laptop user. Here is one more tame than his.

Mine is stock. I have the i7 720 with 8GB of 1333 Kingston memory and 1 TB of 7200 HDDs. I use the AMD overclock tool to set the GPU at 799/1100 and it works flawlessly. I haven't had any lock ups or any issue with heating.

The backpack that came with it is very plain, all black, unassuming, and rather bland looking. This is all good when you travel a lot with the notebook, I don't want a neon colored bag that screams, look at me I have a $2,000 laptop on my back. I can fit the G73 easily and take it out with ease. The second compartment has room for the power brick (if you haven't had a performance laptop like this before like me, I was astonished at it's size), my large Audio Technica AD900 or Sennheiser HD650 headphones along with my lunch and a book. Still has room to spare. 0100 was able to fit 3 textbooks along with it if you are a student. The straps are not beefy, but they have no stretching and are comfortable. Their is padding to protect the laptop front and back inside. On the outside there are two paddings left and right side so it sits comfortably on your back. For a free backpack, it's great.

The mouse was a Razer Abyss and it sucks. Give it to someone who needs a spare mouse with only two buttons and mouse wheel. Australians are getting the advertised HP Voodoo mouse, I may call Asus and ask them to replace this junk with that. But then I do have two functional mice already, may not bother.

Vantage score of 8,900. I have played Crysis and Warhead both on high with physics low and never had stuttering or slow down that affected gameplay. I averaged around 30-32 FPS. For Mass Effect 2 I get average 60 FPS with everything on and 4AA. Killing Floor with everything maxed is about 90 FPS and FEAR 2 has been cranking in the 40-50 range.

How quiet is it? Well last night I was just lying on my bed lounging and playing NFS Shift for 2 hours (brain dead). I suck at that game, I lead in first and the very last turn is always the most difficult and come in 2nd or 3rd. Anyways I did not use the headphones and just used the laptops speakers. I could not hear the fans at all over them tiny speakers.

How cool is it? Look at the above. My lap did not sweat, that's how cool it was.

I have no problems with the keyboard. I type fast and regularly as I use this at work also. I have no flex problems as NW has, I imagine NW has much heavier fingers than I do. I have ZERO flex around the keyboard wrist rest. I don't know what NW does, but the Asus is built solid. I can lift this on any corner edge and see no flex at all. I have no doubts that the Alienware is better built but you pay a premium for a boutique laptop. For what it is, it's solid.

I have found the air intake is behind the lid inside the hump. I have done a smoke test and witnessed the smoke being pulled under the lid into the back. You can slide a paper under the lid and discover there are two slits on left and right for air intake.

I get around 2:30 minutes of battery. On 55 minute train ride to work I still have over half battery left.

This thing is a beauty. It's simple, all black, matte finish is very professional, and business like. You will fit in any work environment and receive compliments.

Overall this is an incredible value. $1550 unmatched by Dell/Alienware, Sager or any Clevo based notebook. I do not have the Dell discounts as NW does, but to get the same specs WITHOUT the X-Fire HD4870s, but same screen, HDDs, ram etc, Alienware charges 2X what Asus charged, $3,000.

Value? It's mind boggling.

It is unfortunate that some have had issues with their G73. But I can say as one of the first to have the G73 and one who has had it on 24/7 all week, at night have it do encoding/downloading it's been fantastic. I have had ZERO lockups or shutdown except when I tried to O/C the GPU to 850. Screen is great and I hope others who decide to purchase have the experience that I have had.