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

your right about comparing stock to overclocked. and i was looking at my scores. my bad....

 

i can run it again .... and none of the m17x benchers run with physx

it may be lower then 5600 im not 100% but its higher then 5300

 

and in any case, the CPU score on the 720m, was only 8,000 which is about that of a Q9000. the i7 720m should have gotten at least 2,000 more points than that. if the total score was 7260, and the CPU score was ~8,000 then the GPU score is probably around 7100. which would be a fair bit above a 260m's GPU score. and sorry if I come off a little rude today, no harm meant by it, has just been a rough day. especially since it takes me about 1.5minutes to refresh the page with mt P3 500mhz cpu =P

 

i have to look at my 280m runs when i get the chance.....

 

Your laptop gone now?

 

So, I have finally caught up on the posts......this thread is on fire, and full of a lot of retardation and redundancy.

Looking forward to getting the badboy in hand...glad to see the comparative scores shining for the 5870 considering the initial 256 bit let-down. I am going to guess that the move to 128/GDDR5 is going to become the standard if this thing performs like a flagship should.

 

I noticed that some retailers have an option for an INTEL pro-wireless wifi card, whereas others only have the generic wifi card. Is there a big difference between the two? I would prefer the intel pro wireless because that is what I have been using. Can anyone vouche for the signal quality on the generic wifi card?

 

i have used alot of wifi cards and the intel 5300 is the best for me.

 

I had an Atheros wifi card in my eee PC and upgraded to the Intel 5300 and although it wasn't an earth shattering difference, it was a tad better range wise. I upgraded to the Intel 5300 on my pre-order. That and the cpu-gpu thermal paste were the only non-stock changes I made.

 

The pro wireless isn't even guaranteed atm because nobody knows if the laptop has 3 wireless antenna. if it becomes known that there is indeed a third antenna, all resellers will most likely carry it. Also- the 5300 (intel pro wireless) is a fair bit better than the 5100

 

The antenna are on the card itself. I opened my eee PC and physically removed the old card and installed the Intel 5300 (it came with an extra antenna) that I bought from e-bay.

 

What are you guys thinking about the USB 3.0? I mean why does Asus not include it into this laptop?

 

the chipsets are not supporting it

 

Was designed b4 usb3 was ... and this will be only a first product of 2010 gaming lineup

They can just stick the chip on the pci-e bus like addon cards just like wireless/sound/network...

 

I'm new here, and I've never bought a laptop. Is this a good rig? I don't think I was going to pre-order it, but I was going to get the SSD with another normal drive. Should I buy the 32 bit version of Windows 7? And does this come with a wifi card?

 

Yes it comes with a wifi card. Also, don't buy 32bit version of Windows 7.
For this rig 64bit windows 7 is a way to go.
This is definitely a good rig. New GPU, CPU, 8GB RAM, also a new cooling system, cooler design, high resolution..
Yes get the SSD and a normal drive (SSD for OS and apps, normal drive for other things)

 

Yea I can't wait to get mine, I'm gonna pull the OS HDD out and slap in my 120g OCZ Vertex SSD and install 64 bit 7 Ult. on it.

 

Use the search. And do some reading for yourself before you ask questions that have already been answered 100's of times please. : )

 

Currently I lost my job so I'm stuck with 2x 500gb HDs, hopefully changing one of them to SSD soon.
I can't wait to get mine either. This waiting is such a pain.

 

Didn't I read way back that it supports RAID 0?

 

yes, this supports raid0

 

yes it supports RAID 0, thankfully.

 

plz run 3dmark06 and post score plz. The only benchmark i can compare with.

 

no real life scores as yet i think so gonna have to wait for those spoony

 

I wonder what Clevo will come up with in response to this hmm...

 

um they did a long time ago called the W870 cu

 

Ok I have 3DMark06 v1.1.0 Professional Portable on an SD card which I will try and run tomorrow.

What settings do I need to use (such as resolution etc)?

 

Run it using standard 1280x1024 and native resolution. You can throw in your own flavors as well with AA to see how well the 5870 handles increased bandwidth demand.

 

we definitely need a STOCK '06 score. 1280x1024 and no settings changed, and then one at native res. iirc a stock 260m with an i7 720 can get ~10,500-11,000 3dmarks I'm not sure. can't test anymore either

 

..... run 3dmark vantage before 06 .....

OR

just run the GPU segment .... ALL we care about is GPU scores anyway

 

we'll get comparable GPU scores on the system anyways, in comparison to an M15X AP w/ i7 720. so the tests will be comparable. and iirc, running just the GPU tests of 06 results in no score at all?

 

i say just the vantage GPU test because he can't hide the screen that long ....

You have to keep in mind he is not supposed to be doing this ....

 

I'm going to run 3DMark06 as I've downloaded a portable copy which means I won't have to install anything. Just slip the SD card in and run it.

Will we be able to get enough info from 06?

 

Skip the cpu tests and run only SM2.0 graphics test and HDR/SM3.0 test to save time
if u wanna save even more time, just run 1 each of SM2.0 and SM3.0 and take a screen/write down of the fps in the detailed result at the end, that should be enough to compare it when someone on the board runs the same on a 260m and 280m

Either way be sure to get a screenshot of the detailed screen or save the .3dr file

Edit: also see the windows experience index rating, if its the same as when you ran pcmark (5.8 in gaming graphics which was wayyy too low) then that means the machine they have there has some driver issues so 3dmark won't give reliable results

 

Firefly Forest is the same benchmark as the first GPU test in PCMark Vantage Graphics bench where the G73 got 43.477 FPS at 1280 x 960 (windowed).

Can someone run the same Firefly bench on some other cards?

EDIT: It won't let me select that res in 3DMark06 - is there any way to force a res?

 

Run it from the sd card on your own notebook or some friend's 1st just to be sure if it can run directly

 

Yeah already done

 

Are u runnin it on the G73 right now??
if not, it won't let u select probably because your screen doesnt support that res or that aspect..

and i dont think comparing PCmark fps and 3d mark fps is a reliable way comparing performance

 

any idea on battery life of this beast? I heard i5 would be available in it, switchable graphics?

 

No I'm running it on my Studio XPS.

It looks to me like it's the exact same benchmark.

What's the easiest and best way to save the results by the way?

 

generally a screenshot will do =p

 

Is a screenie comprehensive enough?

 

Screen shot ... Then save to SSS n walk away

 

Make sure you grab the OpenAL installer because if you try to run 06 without installing it(from a folder that was pasted to an SD card etc) then it will not run ...

 

on the final results window you can click "Details" and save a screen of that or click "save as" and save it as .3dr
.3dr can be then opened with either 3dmark06 or you can open it with winrar and it has a html file inside with all the info



Also, please if possible like i said before try and get a screen of the windows experience index, coz if its updated and the same as when you ran PCmark, then the drivers loaded on the notebook there and not proper and you won't get accurate results from the 3dmark run

 

ken@gentech finally increased his prices too
new prices:
i7 820QM now $575
i7 920XM now $1175
AS5 no longer free
IC Diamond 24 Carat Thermal Compound on both CPU/GPU from$15 to $35
8X DVDRW DL Super Multi reduction from -99 to -89

 

supply and demand

Also alot of the cheaper things like the paste were to lock in pre orders

 

Even with those minor increases in price, the laptop is a bargain for what it offers. I've heard nothing but good things about GenTech.

 

those price increases were simply inevitable.

1645 base price for that config is outrageous

 

yes true without a pci-express goodbye usb 3.0. not a good news because if you manage blu-ray video you can transfere for ex. 20gb in only 70sec!!!