ASUS G75 (Best Buy) > M15x ??

Howdy Everyone,

I was wondering what people think about the new Ivy Bridge based G75, and if would be an upgrade to my almost 3 year old M15x ( specs in my sig). Thanks!

Rich S.

 

I don't think so man. I don't think the G75 bb has atm is fhd. A much better alternative if you MUST have a gaming pc is xoticpc. It will be a bit pricey but you will get a variety of gpu's to choose from and fhd. And they will apply IC diamond to the gpu and cpu which is well worth the $ imho.

 

That's bad advice. For one, the BB G75 is 1080p, and second, paying $75 or whatever nonsense charge it is for an ICD repaste is ridiculous.

 

Most people will end up experiencing over heating issues unless they repaste their ivy bridge cpus. Having it done, and done right at the factory for both the cpu and gpu. Without the chance of breaking something or voiding your warranty. Is well worth the $25, it's not $75 no idea where you got that from.

 

a 920xm + 7970m upgrade for your current system will blow the g75 away. and still cost less than the new system

 

Are you insane?!!

Asus have learned from their mistake with the JH in regards to thermal compound and rarely do you need to repaste yourself and if you do it is for performance related issues or for overclocking means.

The new tech is going to run faster while drawing less power and producing less heat. The 3610QM + 660M GTX is not going to be huge but will make a big difference CPU wise your 720QM is looking a little weary at 3 years old and the 1.6gigs over 4 cores is going to begin struggling with the newer games that are poorly optimised. GPU wise there is not a major difference but the biggest factor is running on battery + you get optimus.

+1 it is indeed a joke. I paid 20 quid for my Clevo to come with ICD and it arrived and hit 110oC as soon as I fired up a stress test. Want it done right do it yourself.

The BB has no gimpage from what is being shown apart from less RAM and HDD.

 

Hey guy, i'm not insane. And the thermal paste has to cure before you run a benchmark. Only an idiot would stress test a freshly pasted cpu.... I own a zenbook-- without a doubt the best designed laptop in history. But I had to go back to the store 2 times to get one that worked right. Same thing with the rog laptops. I bought a G74 back in the day and had to bring it back 4 times before I got a good one, and after using a perfectly functioning G74 for about a week I realized that the weight doesn't justify the performance. Asus qc is joke and Sager beats Asus rog and alienware any day of the week.

 

ICD does not need to cure where are you getting your information from? I have repasted every single chip since I was a fetus with ICD and stressed the hell out of it for 24 hours every single time, the world did not end.

Your experience with bad thermal compound is your experience it does not mean that every single Ivy CPU is going to require a repaste as you mention above.

Everyone know Sager and Alienware beat Asus performance wise so that is about as helpful to the people that own Asus laptops as a chocolate teapot.

If a man loves his Asus no one is going to tell him otherwise.

 

Before this gets too heated, keep the tone civil. 25$ though i'd consider paying that for ICD. ICD doesn't have a curing time either, i've experienced this first hand. AS5 has one, but most other pastes like MX-2/4, ICD don't have any significant difference over time.

A notebook done right won't need a repaste, sorry to hear about your bad experiences though. Desktop IVB run hotter because of the TIM between the CPU die and heatspreader, but that doesn't apply to notebooks sicne the CPUs are bare die anyways.

 

$25, $75, doesn't matter. Still a stupid amount to repaste. Better to order some yourself and do it yourself. A lot cheaper, plus you have extra if you ever need to repaste again (on that machine or any other).

If a laptop needs a curing period when it came with the compound already installed, there is something really, really wrong, especially when the compound doesn't really need a curing period. Hell, the cheap Dynex crap I got from Best Buy (was an emergency, got tired of the thermal shutdowns lol) cooled my GPU by at least 10 degrees right after installing it and have yet to need to redo it.

 

For you, me and others on this forum, yeah paying for something you can do yourself, might seem a bit over the top. However, there are a lot of people, average Joes and Janes, for whom this isn't really an option. As such, i find 25$ an ok price, steep, but still ok. Now i don't think a repaste is warranted in the first place if the laptop manufacturer did the job right, i only repasted mine because the TIM in my G73 degraded after 9 months.

 

Howdy Everyone,

Thanks for the info.... After posting this I sent some time doing some research and found out that the wireless card in the G75 does not support dual-band (specifically it won't do 5 GHz), which unfortunately makes it a deal breaker for me. I was drawn to it due to the price, as builidng a new Alienware or even Orion laptop with similar specs (with the extras I would want like Blu-Ray, etc..) pushes the cost to over $2200. Based on from what I can tell, none of these is a significant enough upgrade to replace my M15x. I am still currenlty able to play most games the way I want, and that is normally when I get a new laptop. I should have known that a gaming laptop for $1250 had to cut some corners... Thanks again for your feedback!

Rich S.

 

Yep, agree...

There´s a problem with the design IMO, it´s running way too hot.

Here´s a way to fix it, good luck, habla el spaniol?

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