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

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I received my tracking number for tomorrow by noon also, thanks EXCaliberPC

 

Go into bios and change it. You might have yours on auto, you'll have to set it to manual. If you don't know what you're doing, read up on it, or just don't touch it. If you screw up, you can always reset and start over. There's a reset button at the bottom of the motherboard.

I don't have an Asus mobo, so I'm not sure how they work. Mine's the EVGA X58, so mines different from yours. It shouldn't be that hard if you read up on them. I didn't know anything when built my first computer back in 2001. Yeah I made alot of mistakes and cost me alot of money along the way.

I'm not sure how OC or whatever on the G73. I won't know until someone reviews it and mine ships out. I will assume it'll be close to the desktop version, but different too. A little over a week left until the A1 comes in.....


http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/...ormula_special_edition_x38_s775_motherboard/4

http://www.techspot.com/review/71-asus-maximus-formula-motherboard/page4.html

I have a high end pc[[email protected], 260GTX SLI] and no I don't "need" the G73. I just "want" it. I can run my second WoW account on the G73 and play in bed if I feel lazy and don't want to get up. I just need to find a little table I can use on the bed...

 

So guess what this means



Gentech pulled through for me again. I'll have the unit tomorrow

 

I wanted to see one of these units in person before making my buying decision. Alas, it's not to be. Best Buy no longer has them in stores. Neither does Staples. No other retailer in SW Florida carries it. Bummer.

 

Dont worry you can see mine, I am only charging $5 per ticket, extra if you want to touch it

 

Ooooh allegorical. I C vicious! btw your report on the upgraded wireless card seems like bad news...I mean I'd prefer to have the best available but if you were say, playing an online game and had an average router (200 something kb/s), would you notice any difference? thx

 

Seriously Best Buy had the G73 before GenTech/XoticPC/EXCaliberPC did? Staples sells Asus Gaming Laptops? Last I went to Staples it was, meh, meh, meh, and more meh. Whether it was a Gateway, HP, Compaq, it seemed every laptop was the exact same except rebranded. Oh wait...

 

If you read the white papers for the 5300 it requires a special router technology that is not in the common router to get the faster speed. Without it, it will be just as fast as the 5100. I dont even think you get better reception or anything like that because I think the extra antenna is only in use while connected to said hardware to increase the bandwidth.

 

Haha awesome.....

 

Does anyone know how loud the fans are on G73 ?
is there any info online about this?

 

Look forward to some of the new owners first impressions and the user reviews. That will be your best bet.

I would assume they will be very quiet due to the robust cooling solution and the newer card tech. The W90 I just had was almost always silent and a similar cooling solution and it was holding two video cards instead of just one.

 

Hurray, a review soon.

I'm not giving up my G51vx anytime soon, but hey, I like to see what new tech can do.

Speedstep. Or, Enhanced Intel Speedstep Control to be more correct.

And I didn't know speedstep affected RAM. I thought it just lowered the multipliers on the CPU.

 

did you guys order with ICD24? or just the basic a2 model?

 

Yeah just the cpu multi changes it wont do anything to the ram, I must have gone off on a tangent there.

 

Ack, I posted that in the wrong thread!

 

Just basic for me I had no reason to get ICD and I like to review products with a base configuration so it applies for the masses.

There is not as much use reviewing a unit that is fully upgraded to like the highest cpu, 3x more ram, dual SSDs in raid 0. Because its not the same unit anymore and it sure cost a lot more too.

 

I doubt any units shipped out today with upgraded paste on them .... Stock for me all the way...

 

I'll be waiting for your reviews! I hope g73jh doesnt disappoint me.

 

Hey guys I heard this BSODs >_>

 

You think he's lucky? I feel like I won the lottery. I called today at 10am, ordered it and paid for it by 10:20, and it was dropped off at the FedEx Kinko's by 3:06pm. It will be delivered by 1:30pm tomorrow. I am 15 hours away from some Modern Warfare 2/Crysis goodness on the sweetest looking machine I've seen. On a side note, no wonder it was $158 to ship overnight. It's freaking 19lbs!

 

The MSI is the low res option I'm looking for WOOOOHOOOO.

 

DUDE, not cool... I hope you are just kidding around cus I dont know what Im gonna do if this BSODs on every game like the last G series (forgot which one it was)

 

He's joking. Don't worry.

 

Can't wait to see some of the unboxing videos and reviews tomorrow. Part of me wishes I wasn't so freaking cheap.

 

It's called smart, not cheap. With the money you saved on shipping, get some new games.

 

my friend in china got his 2 days ago and he said the GPU burned after 3 hour of play time and there even was smoke going outta that rig..



p.s GL to you guys!

 

Lol. Just joined, only one post. Wow, I can really trust you.

 

Dude, your friend just hit the turbo boost, and what he was seeing is this.....

 

Wow......RoG FX lighting?

 

LOL, fine....SONS of Guns!!

 

In case anyone is confused, that lighting is my worst 5 minute Photoshop ever. But it looks cool, in an "alien" kind of way.

 

its funny you should do that. ive been working on a background/account picture of the g73 with afterburners on full blast(the whole heat wave thing). although i don't think the F-117 has afterburners. im actually just learning Photoshop and Illustrator to make backgrounds for my G73JH when I get it

 

If he bought it in china...and got it 2 DAYS before we got it...it was probably a fake That's my guess anyways. I feel bad for your friend tho

 

ETA of 3/2

I wanna see LOTS and LOTS of pics, videos, benchmarks and impressions. If I gotta wait that long, then I want to live vicariously thru the smarter, sooner preordering people

 

I wont be recieving mine for a while either so i'm holding out to see game benchmarks and how far the m5870 can be overclocked!

 

I want to see people start finding max OC on these. I wanna see if it can match a 260m SLI at least.

 

There's no way the stock GPU will be pushed to score similar to two 260's in SLI.

 

Why am I up this late? I'm going to bed so I can wake up to G73JH pics and reviews.

 

Seeing Mandrake pull 20,000+ in 3DMark06 with his i920/dual 4870 alienware has me really J right now. What are we thinking for stock scores for the G73 i720? 14k?

 

Yeah there was a post about it earlier. I think it said somewhere between 13000-15000

 

That's B.S. You are not the only one with friends from China and had them do research on the G73. The G73 is being sold equivalent over $2000 in China and there haven't been any postings on Chinese forums of heating issues.

- It's ironic that products made in China sometimes are more expensive in China.

 

Based on some downclocked 5750 runs, the 5870 should be able to get between 3600 and 3900 in 1080p Vantage Ex. That's 900 to 1200 better than the GTX 280m. Not a huge gain, but a gain, none the less. I should be sleeping right now, but I am so excited about my delivery tomorrow, I am digging up all my software and drivers getting ready for the install.

 

Maybe not, but we can hope for more stability. There is a posting here where someone compared SLI 280s to HD5870. HD5870 while lower overall numbers, person said it did not suffer stuttering and significant slow down like the 280 suffered. From that posting, believed the HD5870 was overall the better card over the SLI 280 for that reason. But that is just one person's assessment and these are desktop cards.

 

I dont think im gonna sleep tonight. just going to stay up watching TV and waiting on the reviews. for those that are getting theirs tomorrow... congrats, check out ninite.com to help install your programs faster.

 

Yeah I'm getting all my stuff out ready to be installed and moving files over for easy transfer. Thanks for that link, that will help a lot.

 

I know this is a bit OT, but I need a good program that can find multiple music files that are the same. iTunes isn't good at it.

 

iTunes --> File --> Show Duplicates

Select the ones you want to get rid of, and hold down SHIFT, the press DEL. This will allow you to move them to the recycle bin instead of just removing them from iTunes's playlist.

 

isn't the 5870 claimed to be 30% faster than a 260m? 260m in SLI is abt 40% more than a 260m alone if I'm not mistaken. There is still hope.