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

If she's sending you links, you send her back a treasure hunt, ending at the spa with the jewellery in the room!!

 

hey guys I have a question, any idea about the battery life on this thing? Probably like 1 hour eh?

 

LOL!

35 years of my life have been married, and the 'material girl' always emerges, ESPECIALLY in divorce, or with age.

Try to find some middle-ground fellas, LOL!

 

It's posted here!

 

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you there. However, these women clearly havent found the satisfaction that comes with a good conquering/dominating/killing spree/pwnage lol

But as men need to be trained to put the toilet seat down, women need to be trained to expect less and then maybe they could actually be pleasantly surprised every once in a while

 

Hmmmm, and I trust the big 'M' has not come into your life yet. Now THIS brings an entirely new outlook, LOL! You will see! (and your man will be left scrath'in his head for all eternity!) "WHAT HAPPENED!"

 

I'm getting my girl friend Dragon Age: Origin. It's a beautiful win/win really. That way my laptop is, almost, almost, like her own....atleast when I'm away for class and she's not. -_-... On second though, it might just backfire on me....

 

Ahhhhh, the bliss of youth......

 

oh wow awesome! Almost 3 hours, thats incredible! Thanks btw, sorry for not checking that in the first place.

 

Hey, no prob........ we will know for sure when we get our hands on these things!

 

haha yeah man, thats what I'm waiting for! This thing is looking better and better every minute!

 

Hello all, I put in a pre-order last week and have proceeded to read through all 377 pages of this thread. I figure if I read the threads long enough, my laptop will some how appear...

I had a few initial Qs and one main one. First the initial Qs:

1. What is better AW or Asus?
2. Is it appropriate that resellers (and all manufacturers) don't send you the original part when you upgrade?
3. Is 3dmark the best way to judge laptops?
4. What reseller is best?
5. What's up with the group buy thing? Who is in on it at this moment, and is it fair to the reseller?

Okay, when you guys are done with flaming out 377 more pages on the above, I have that main Q. I saw this asked in the thread but not specifically answered:
I am too cheap for the SSD setup at the moment (yes I realize its like getting a corvette and then putting $%!# tires on it, but like I said... I am cheap), so I am getting the RAID 0 setup now but am planning to throw on an SSD in the future when they get cheaper and I realize my mistake. Without further adu, the reason for my post is: how much of a hassle will it be to move my OS and whatever else from a RAID 0 setup across the 2 disks, to one SSD? Will I have to reformat and start over or can it be done with a simple utility.

p.s., the answers to above are 1. apples to oranges , 2. yes, duh, 3. whatever, we are all just chasing the dragon on g37 info, 4. whichever ships first, 5. I'm cheap but not that cheap, resellers deserve to subsist more so than bestbuy.

 

Do not feed the troll.

 

Try asking without the "funny" parts of your post you may get more help.

By the way I have a 2008 Z06 Corvette and I am getting the G73 without SSD

 

The post was a serious question mixed in a big joke about all the useless flame wars.

 

The big joke did too good of a job masking the actual question. I completely lost track of your point.

 

fair enough. The important part:

"I am getting the RAID 0 setup now but am planning to throw on an SSD in the future when they get cheaper ... how much of a hassle will it be to move my OS and whatever else from a RAID 0 setup across the 2 disks, to one SSD? Will I have to reformat and start over or can it be done with a simple utility."

 

You will have to start from scratch.

You will have to back up all of your data and then do a clean OS install on your SSD.

 

Paladin is correct ... You cannot convert raid

 

Interesting reading... I wonder if this is what is holding up the G73/5870? There are more links at the the bottom of the posting;

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Newsentry.153+M5ade9499b07.0.html



On another note.. TG, the G73 is not getting a 5850!

http://twisted-reviews.com/short-review-ati-mobility-radeon-hd5850-1-gb-ddr3-first-benchmarks/



*WoW!!!! The Asus W90VP-A1 w/QX9300 is Still the current King...... What a monster!! 20,284 in 3DMark06!!!

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,8805.html

 

Thanks, guess I better change my setup.

And now back to lurking b/c mocking the silly flame wars in this thread went over like that joke I made about someone's incarcerated uncle at their dinner party...

 

LOL! Old, old news......

Kinc's original post of this is on the XtremeSystems forums, and he is with Asus marketing. This little feat of his was done and posted, two days prior to the W90's release on 19 Feb 2009. No one since has gotten close, and he hasn't responded to questions, post, or email, regarding his stunt.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=218157&highlight=Asus+W90

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3710774&postcount=53

 

why does that kinc "stuff" always pop up, lol

 

LOL! People keep finding it!

Burns your bunions, doesn't it? Are you outside in the snow, trying to beat him again? Quit try'in Bro, He had Fugger and all his Asus guru's behind him. IT WAS A MODDED W90, LOL!

 

All he had that made him special was that unlocked BIOS.....Mandrake managed nearly the same thing in a M17 using XTU (he exceeded the CPU OC)

 

Oh, no doubt, a tweaked out bios, spec'ed and tweaked mem, XTU, Fugger, and the whole ASUS team behind him. I still laugh about the W90's final release bios, and how Asus never officially supported the QX9300 in the W90.

Nothing would have made me happier, than to see Drake smash Kinc's marks/marketing stunt. Besides, how can Kinc's marks be considered valid? It's not like anyone with a retail release W90 can replicate them.

 

Thanks for the links... Good reading, but it would appear that Kinc has turned into a Klink and pulled a Sholtz on everyone! lol It would be nice to know what video driver he used etc..

*Still,,, I am Very, Very impressed with the W90VP-A1 w/QX9300... It is Good looking and seems to have tons of jacks! I have to have one, reguardless of driver issues.. It's a sweet notebook.

 

Yep, pure deceptive marketing, and it worked!

The W90 could have been really great, and still a good seller today, if it were aggressively supported from the beginning. Great strides have since been made with the W90, but this credit goes to the fellow NBR members in the W90 thread.

 

Also never thought about this....the W90 was 1920x1080 wasnt it? So that 06 score is not at the standard 1280x1024 but at a lower resolution which would artificially boost the score in comparison to 1280x1024 scores

Maybe Mandrake DID beat it lol

 

No, I don't think so..... Kinc's screenies are well studied, and look at those clocks, and the mem! I don't think Drake got close here either, did he?

Anyhow..... GO, DRAKE, GO!

 

He got upto 4 GHz because he could pump the core voltage up using XTU

he got 18200 in 06 with 3870s lol

And I will bet his screenies are studied. Like how he hid everything that could be compromising to the alleged score....

 

This is by far, "hands down".. The best notebook forum.. There are so many talented members on here.. All who are fond of this hobby, and willing to help each other out.

 

1920x1080 screens support 1280x1024 ...

Thats also why i have been wondering why Asus chose 1366x768 to show off the G73 scores ?... Oh well we will know soon enough i guess..

 

Oh ya....I feel stupid now lol, good catch

That score is still suspect though in my eyes!

 

So what's the deal with this SATA to USB cable/kit that comes with the V-series Kingstons?

"After the cloning process is completed, the operating system and applications will run with solid state drives and hard disk drive will be used to store data such as music, video, photos, and other similar files."

That's what I'm reading after a quick google search.

http://www.gadgetfolder.com/kingsto...s-for-quick-upgrade-laptops-and-desktops.html

 

To follow up, I have been married for almost 2 yrs, and I have been blessed with a non materialistic wife. She is more than happy I am getting her a laptop. We'll do something nice for V-Day, movie or dinner.

She still doesn't understand why I want all the bells and whistles in this new laptop, but I have a feeling once we have it, she'll know

Can you all see my sig pic I doctored up? Stryker has me wanting to join the crew member club

 

It's definitely a real score, just not replicable by others.

I actually have a lot of respect for Mandrake for pushing his M17/M17X as far as he did.

 

I hope to match what Mandrake did on his M17x. Managed with the GTX 280m's. Now I need to do it with the 4870s

 

If I didn't run into power issues with the M17/4850/qx9300 combo 20K would have been easy. Regardless right now my M17 is packed away ready to be shipped to it's new owner and all I have to play with is my Thinkpad until my M17x/G73 systems come in.

 

Does the W90VP-A1 suffer from the same power issues as the M17 when equipted with a QX9300?

 

I personally don't know enough about the W90 but I'm sure someone here does. Striker has stated before that the W90 never officially supported the QX9300.

 

Ok,

I just cannot see why the W90 or Asus would have any issues with supporting the QX9300.. The chipsets socket supports it and it runs at the rated 45-watts thermal.. So that should not be an issue.. Didn't they initially come out with 2.8ghz/P9600 in them? I found a YouTube video that Gentech did on the W90 with QX9300.. It seemed pretty stable to me.. He even did a temperature reading.. It was a nice benchmark review.

 

Qx9300 worked great in my W90 but Asus did not officially support it because they never sold a model with that CPU in it... They were trying to keep the machine within a certain budget for the consumer and the Qx9300 would have driven the price way up... Still no excuse not to have multipliers etc in the bios though... I ripped mine apart the first day and found the PLL then worked with the guy from SETFSB so we could atleast OC to a degree but it was still a fairly weak OC atleast for the Qx9300.. The Q9000 guys made out like a bandit with some getting over 2.7ghz from 2.0ghz..

 

You kinda lost me... So after the QX9300 went in the W90 did the factory Asus overclock program still manage to bring it up to about 3.0ghz? Or is the only thing that worked was SETFSB? Or the Asus program worked, but SETFSB needed to go higher than 3.0ghz?

 

Nope the factory program brought it up only 3 or 5% i cant remember exactly since its been awhile... SETFSB was what brought it up to 3.0ghz although i found for gaming and such that 2.9ish was much better for stability... For benching though 3.0ghz was fine...

 

I have seen some low prices on eBay for a QX9300 ($400-500).. Even though not much of an overclock with the stock Asus program, would you still say it's worth having over the Q9000 if the price was right?

 

Yes it is....

 

If your thinking about buying a W90 then yeah i would opt for the Qx9300 but at this time i could not nor would not recommend the W90 unless you were getting a super deal on it... 512 megs of VRAM is just not enough for 1920x1080 when looking at the future for gaming and even when it was new it was still somewhat of a bottleneck in things like Fallout 3 or Oblivion GTA4 etc...

 

No offense, but isn't this the G73 thread?

 

No it's the w90