ASUS G73JH TZ054Z a good buy?

Hi there.

Im returning my Dell m17x R1 (280M SLI) for a refund. Because of some problems with boot freeze, bluetooth sound problems,sound cracks and so on. took me like 4 month with Dells support.

I have been looking into the ASUS G73JH TZ054Z as my new laptop.

but is this one full of bugs too, or actually a good choice?

Best Regards.

 

It's widely considered to be the best gaming laptop currently available. I've heard some issues with the ATI drivers, so be careful before updating them.

I'd buy it myself if I could, but it's almost twice the price here in rip-off britain, than in the US, and I don't have £1800

 

Its also considered to be one of the most Unstable ones as well!

If ur comfortable playin a game of russian roulette or ur feeling lucky, then go for it. If not, keep reading.


well, if newegg.com's customer reviews is any indication (take it for what its worth to you)....one out of five customers have had issues with this...severe issues.

And whats worse, if u look at the posted dates of the reviews, it appears that the rate has increased in recent months. I hav never seen this high a failure rate on a 1.5K+ laptop.

Although i have been using mine so far without any significant issues (knock on wood), Im still running it on all stocks sans Creative software. But I cant rule out this thing goin FUBAR in the near future. A few users have developed chronic issues that caused the unit to be RMA'd a few months into their usage...eventhough initially, everything worked like it shud be.

Im havin second thoughts abt this....In retrospect, my advice...don't get dazzled by the hardware, its no good if it doesnt work the way its supposed to. I shud just stuck to a G51 or heck even the MSI. Bear in mind the horrid feedback regarding Ausus (lack) of customer service, if u do hav issues with ur unit. I would say do a little more research, and if possible
wait a month or two to see if the issues can be resolved b4 plunging head first in to a 1.5k laptop.

Just my two cents.

 

If you want a nice laptop for gaming, you have to go for a Dell m17x or a Asus g73 as they have the best video cards as far as I can see.
You could also buy someting from teh deviltech.de but the design is not what im looking for.

Thx Hasib1522 I will try to wait a little more but its hard... hehe.

anyone know about a gaming laptop with usb 3.0?

 

I can see that the asus g73 only has an FSB on 1066 compared to my m17x's 1333.

my m17x has 4 g of ram and asus g73 has 6gb.

what is best?

 

Read some of Hasib's other posts: Overreaction much?

Chances are you'll get a working model. There was the idea that newegg had a bad batch of -X1s, and newegg/asus will RMA it fairly easily. Also, when you read the reasons for returns, they're not all legit (some are about "high" temps that aren't high, etc).

It's pretty much the same problem buying *any* laptop ...

 

That's hard to say, since we don't know how many units have actually been sold. For all we know, less than 2% of Asus G73 units have actual problems/hardware defects etc. You tend to hear about issues a lot more, however, because typically people with good working hardware are too busy using it to post in online forums ; )

well, MOST people. . . I haven't had an issue with my X1 yet, up to and including GFX driver updates and realtek audio updates.

Just my $.02

 

What exactly are his chances.....90%? 99% can you please clarify?

Newegg had a bad batch............I wonder what couldve caused that....poor QC? Lack of proper testing before shipping it out of the factory? And how can you be so certain that it won't happen again?

Newegg will RMA it easily - yes, and while someone waits for 3 to 4 weeks
for their laptop to be returned....or when their repair process is at 0% because the parts are unvailable due to global shortage or the like, they
are gonna be real thankful for that.

Not all returns are legit ....and you are the judge for everyone out there as to what constitutes a fair RMA right?

check this link:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/484720-g73-survey.html

This is by no means a big enough sample, but even with a -/+ 10% error rate (which is significant), 24% of the users so far had major issues (definition given in post # 3) with their G73. Thats still 1 out of four laptops. Now Im sure not everyone over there bought their laptops from Newegg...

Even if you cut that down to 12.5%, thats still one out of every eight laptops.........think about it......when was the last time you saw a +1.5K laptop with a +10% failure rate?

But I'm sure you will find someway to discredit my point.

Yes, you might have a better knowledge of laptops than me, I admit that.
You may even have more experience using various models, but the issues that one will find in this very forum, (with a little bit of searching and browsing), aren't issues I created out of fiction. These are real issues, and simply pointing them out is not overreacting.

Asus's customer care has been terrible...there are enough horror stories around this forum, for anyone willing to go through it. It is not a question of
whether the others are any better...its a question of getting it right.

I don't get it....why would you feel the need to defend Asus so much? As a consumer first and foremost, should you not rather acknowledge the poor service and reliability the product has shown and demand better?


Or maybe, its because U had a tougher life than everyone else here (or so you think).....you get to be condescending to everyone else?

I look forward to your reply!

 

There's no FSB. The memory controller is on the Core i7 CPU, and the memory bus speed will be set by the controller to the slowest memory installed - 533MHz or 667MHz.

 

hmm oki, so it seems like the RAM en the asus g73 is 1066 mhz RAM.
so are they much slower than the 1333?

 

Seems to me most people got 1333MHz RAM. Where are you getting your info?


You can search the web for 1066 vs 1333 articles and draw your own conclusion whether 1333 is worth it for your uses. For most users the difference probably isn't noticeable.