ASUS G73JH-A1 with ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 - Part 3

LOL! Instigator!

 

His is getting replaced and when it comes in he wants to sell it so it will be new in box.

 

Yes. I will sell mine it is new, sealed in box for $1599 shipped if you want it.

I'd prefer a money order but if you are using paypal pm me first.

 

Hard for me to believe the Sager X8120 will get the HD5870. I would have expected SLI 380s instead.

But if it's true, then good news for those looking for that!

The W870CU with the HD5870 looks attractive except it's $2,500 (same specs as G73).

 

UPDATE: G73JH shipment on March 4th is only going to be "A1's". No "A2's" on this shipment at this time. Next shipment is expected in on March 11th for both models.

 

Thanks for the update. I'll upgrade to the A1 if everyone ahead of me passes.

 

Wow, nice. Due to my order date, I don't expect to be in that March 4th shipment (order date is 2/11) unless I get fairly lucky, but this sounds good for everyone waiting.

On another note... my Dell Inspirion E1705/9400 appears to be having issues... and it is now out of warranty. Hope it holds on just a bit longer.

 

Well you did overclock the GPU far more than I would have wanted to, afraid to. I wonder if this has to do with it? I tried to overclock my GPU to 810 and saw it wasn't liking it, beginning to crash and shut down all programs. You O/C good 50 more clocks beyond that. I suspect that may be it.

I suggest future buyers don't O/C beyond 800/1100 unless you want to risk frying the GPU. My Vantage score is 9026 with 800/1100 with temperature of 76C with the 10.3 Betas, I don't see a need for more personally.
- I recommend DO NOT USE TWIN TURBO if you O/C the GPU. Same thing happens to me when I use 800/1100 with Twin Turbo over long period of time, I had it crash and restart while playing ME2. Since I turned off Twin Turbo, no issues since then.

Good luck evensen007!

 

800/1100? I would consider that a very mild overclock. And my locks first happened before I even found Ati Clock tool.

 

Screenshot I saw showed 867 I believe. Hmm but happened before you started O/Cing? Hmm I wonder what's going on with Asus/ATi. I hope Asus makes an anouncement for a solution to this then, bios fix, driver fix, something.

 

Sure, 1 time for a benchmark. That didn't crash my computer! And even then, I couldn't crack 9000. That should have told me something right there.

Like I said, I had 2 or 3 hard locks before Ati clock tool even came into the picture, so I don't think we can blame an overclock here.

I'm sure it's just a very limited bad batch of gpu's. I hope so anyway...

 

I wonder if this is related to the gray sceen problem I see posted in almost every gaming forum for the desktop HD5870?

 

I don't know; it's a good question. I was rockin' the 10.2 hacked and then 10.3 drivers that were both supposed to address the gray screen and I still get them.

 

Even....did you try booting into like a Linux live CD and stressing the system in a different OS? That's really the best way to be sure that there is absolutely no software issue...tho, since you've tried multiple drivers...it's probably unlikely. Just a thought

 

Before I sent mine back to Newegg I installed Windows XP and it did the same thing with the hard lockups and bars on the screen. Didn't try Linux but I spent an entire weekend troublehshooting the issue and had enough.

Evans - try uninstalling all ATi drivers or go into safe mode with networking and see if you can get the laptop to lock up in Firefox. I never had issues with mine under those conditions and am curious if you are experiencing the same thing.

 

yeah, I mean I OC'd the GPU.
but I didn't crack 9000 at stock clocks. I get 9012 when I OC my GPU to 800/1100. I don't think it's a golden sample.
Still I'm satisfied with the laptop. much better than what I expected.

 

I hear you, but I'm probably not gonna go that far. I had the 3 lockups start on the stock Asus drivers before anything else was in the picture.

The problem with safe mode would be that the gpu isn't being taxed at all so it wouldn't be a good measure of whether the gpu was bad or not.

I have been doing this for a VERY long time, so trust me when I tell you I exhausted all of my options for troubleshooting within reason.

 

Fair, just offering a way to test to help everyone out in the long run. If it locks up with the Asus screen saver while in Windows, it should within theory do it in Safe mode as well. If it is also locking up in Firefox or Chrome, that isn't "taxing" the gpu no more then it would in safe mode with networking support.

I feel your frustration, I lost my entire weekend last week trying to troubleshoot it (2 solid days) and 4 OS reinstalls. This was before the beta leak drivers, I didn't even get to test those.