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post #1 of 8
1/23/11 at 1:08am
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Will be receiving my G73SW-A1 on Tuesday!
This will be my first new laptop in 6 years, so I am very excited.
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post #2 of 8
1/23/11 at 1:14am
Excellent! Since it's one of the first notebooks released with Intel's Sandy Bridge internals, we'd love for you to write up a review when you get it. If you're quick, it might actually be the very first review of an in-production Sandy Bridge unit posted online!
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post #3 of 8
1/23/11 at 1:37am
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Do you know if there is a template of doing a review?
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post #4 of 8
1/23/11 at 2:04am
Once you choose to write a review (such as by clicking here), you'll be taken to a review template where you can fill in the information about your computer, choose a title, and write your review. Our template is fairly detailed but you have the choice of how closely you want to follow it. Feel free to put your own personal style into your review.
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post #5 of 8
1/25/11 at 5:35pm
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Just received my G73SW.

WOW!

Creating recovery media right now, but will start in on my review this evening.
Not sure how long it will take me, but I will try to get a review up by the end of the week.
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post #6 of 8
1/25/11 at 5:50pm
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Originally Posted by scottwmp View Post
Just received my G73SW.

WOW!

Creating recovery media right now, but will start in on my review this evening.
Not sure how long it will take me, but I will try to get a review up by the end of the week.
Best (and only) way to start! Looking forward to your review.

cheers ...
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post #7 of 8
6/3/11 at 5:25pm

Have a G73SW-A1 here with 16GB of the Kingston 1866 PnP SODIMM Memory, and it does make the system a bit snappier.

 

It will not give you more FPS since we have a dedicated GPU and memory, but it will help making gameplay smoother and even eliminate any microstuttering you may be having with certain titles.

 

You may not need to get 16GB, but an 8GB replacement + a SSD would be truly worthwhile upgrades for a G73/G53 Sandybridge model.

 

- Chastity

TeamROG

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post #8 of 8
6/13/11 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by Chastity View Post

Have a G73SW-A1 here with 16GB of the Kingston 1866 PnP SODIMM Memory, and it does make the system a bit snappier.

 

It will not give you more FPS since we have a dedicated GPU and memory, but it will help making gameplay smoother and even eliminate any microstuttering you may be having with certain titles.

 

You may not need to get 16GB, but an 8GB replacement + a SSD would be truly worthwhile upgrades for a G73/G53 Sandybridge model.

 

- Chastity

TeamROG


Yeah the biggest upgrade is the SSD as a primary, or even app drive. Anything over 8gb of RAM you may or may not even notice a difference, it all depends on the load you put on the unit, I got my G53 with 4gb and that believe it or not was just not enough, over 3 GB was being used just running WOW, and nothing else but OS and Anti-virus. There were some slow load times here and there. The SSD fixes load times of maps and data, the RAM fixes transitions and paging that only have less than 1GB to play with when I only had 4GB total (I currently have 8 =) ). You definitely do not want paging to disk =)

My rule is always max out your RAM even if not needed, as you can always rule out lack of ram when diagnosing some issues =)

-D
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