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

3dmark2006 please!

 

the 820 imo is overpriced, the 720 should be plenty for gaming (OC's to 2.4ghz I think on two cores, roughly equivalent in speed to a 2.8ghz C2D I believe)

 

lol 3dmarks are secondary to me after all the work put in to make my g51 run cool =P

 

I want to know the Furmark burn temps too.

 

64GB/s memory bandwidth. I'm sold.

 

This is all good for a general idea, but I would take care in drawing any final conclusions here. The G73JH displayed at CES may only be a pre-production model..... ???

 

if its shipping in february I'd assume they are already in production..

 

No CES model is final and it runs really nice and cool.

Can't get any temps out of Furmark for some reason.

Vantage I can only run at 1024 x 768 unless someone can PM a reg code over to me.

 

I feel the hype level beginning to slowly rise again.

 

Sure, but many times at these shows, they display pre-production models. Perhaps iaTa can narrow this down?



EDIT: Thanks iaTa! I just saw your post!

 

get HWMonitor IaTa... thats an awesome way for temps!

 

PM sent,,....

 

Good job Zero!

 

Lol I sent one too

 

wow this thread advanced a good 30 pages since last night haha

 

This thread is now officially full of win - great job so far guys, keep it up!

 

I'm really getting into this comp for myself. Was looking at the Sager NP9280 prior to seeing this baby plus I love Asus' tech support from the stories ive heard

 

yeah i'm still looking at the np9280 but it doesn't have dx11 so that's a no go for me.

 

I must have hit the refresh button about 30 times already. It's getting me hyped up to get this

 

Why the np9280 and not the np8690? Judging by what I've seen, they're similar and you could get the latter similarly spec-ed out for around $400 less.

... Wait - the np9280 is 17" isn't it? I'm guessing that's it? Unless there's something else I'm missing?

 

Not sure yet. Currently running my m15x 8800gtx so I am OK still on the mobile front. Might just do a system overhaul on my desktop because I have a lot of usable parts and could do a mobo/cpu/ram/gpu upgrade.

edit: But i am a tech lover and sometimes just need to scratch the addictive itch. This may be what I need. Something is telling me to wait a bit and see what refresh will happen with the AW line....price and value propositions I typically ignore when it comes to my mobile devices and go price/performance ratio on my desktops. I guess I am a lappy snob

 

the np9280 uses a desktop i7 in it.

 

NP 9280 is the desktop i7 single GPU.

The one you're thinking about is NP8760.

 

Ah, mistakes on my end then, my bad!

The NP8690 was the one I was looking at as a possible G73JH-A1 replacement should the bad news for our beloved new laptop had kept coming in so assumed other people might be as well as it's almost the same price/specs

 

Ah codes don't work lads as this is PCMark Vantage.

I deselected everything but Gaming and have attached results (remove .txt extension).

Only 1280 x 960 res though.

 

More Info IaTa!

You DO have a cam with you, don't you? VIDEO! VIDEO! VIDEO!

I am still hitting the 'refresh' button!

LOL!

 

I still wanna see a screencap of HWMonitor.

 

no. 3dmark vantage. not pcmark vantage.

i think they are different.

 

Hype can be fun. I'm not looking to get another laptop until the end of the year or later but am very exited for all those here who are considering this. If this were 4 months ago I'd most surely be in like flynn! Still ... 2 laptops are better than 1 ... hmmm! This has all the features and design appeal I've been looking for.

 

How about the "feel" of the system. Cheap plastic? rubbery? solid no flexing?

 

Agreed, but I feel sure the G73JH is going to run cool.

 

Ok this is after Furmark Extreme Burntest for over 3 mins.

Oh and it looks like the rubber angular stuck on feet have a tendancy to fall off!

 

I'm hoping it does, but then I look at a picture of the inside of my G51 and I get doubtful =P

 

PHP:

weak lol...no GPU thermal sensor? haha new cooling design but you're not allowed to see its efficacy, love it

 

In a video interview with 2 designers from asus, they said they used a rubber finish on it. just incase anybody else was wondering about that.

http://techinstyle.tv/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYdlxN5cMw

 

NICE! It's looking good for starters!

 

@iata - Thanks for being our on the ground tester and hands!

 

booo is that an 8-cell battery?

 

8 cell has been in the listed spec since page 1? lol

 

what does he say in the end of that video?

rumor is they are going to launch in march and have some more severe yield issues?

 

oh lol, missed that part

 

Yea thanks iaTa!

From pic's it looks like 3 different coverings were used. Rubber for the hand rest, a matte black plastic for most of the unit and a textured gritty black plastic for the sides and underneath.

 

Thanks mentalmike'

I'll add this to the lead post of the G73Jh Owner's thread. Nice find!

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I heard that too, March?

 

Video doesn't work for me says error and private

 

I heard that also from the ATI guy saying yields may be low and shipping in March

 

Wasn't working for me either until I disabled the HD option and now it's fine

Interesting video as well - well worth a look if you want to see how the laptop looks closed and just get a general feel for its appearance and to have an idea of what materials they used and the look they're going for

 

The video is working..... try again later. If it gets lost in the advancing post here, just go to the lead thread of the Owner's Lounge.

Also, even though we keep hearing Q2, I really believe it will actually be end-Jan to mid-Feb.

 

We only keep hearing Q2 from this forum and that's due to the wired.com article - if one of our users really heard end-Jan to mid-Feb from a senior asus rep at CES as posted previously, I think it wouldn't be too optimistic to go with that as the more likely option

 

It works in non HD thx Vitor711