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    Any known issues with the G73jw?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Wolfpup, Oct 11, 2010.

  1. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    I'm not seeing much posted here about it yet...the jh ended up having that gray screen of death (which has maybe been fixed with a BIOS update?) Sounds like the jw has better cooling, but I haven't heard anything beyond the (excellent) review so far.
     
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    The USB 3.0 has some issues it seems, well atleast according to one bloke in here
     
    alladintherogue, Oct 11, 2010
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    I had mine for a bit under a week but to be honest have yet to identify any real issues. So far this is a very solid machine.

    1) The stock Blue Ray drive looks and feels a little on the cheap side, but to be honest I'm nit-picking here. It works well on software and DVD movies, in fact DVDs have never looked better on a laptop that I have owned. Still wanting to go pick up a Blue Ray movie to see how that plays.

    2) My USB 3.0 drives works well with my 2.0 devices, but I don't yet have any 3.0 devices to test with.

    3) I installed the beta graphic drivers and while it said it installed correctly I saw no performance gain and the device manager still lists the older driver ...sounds like user error to me :)

    4) Oh ya...and I keep hitting the "end" key when I mean to hit the "delete" key because it's in a different spot on the keyboard...more user error. :)​

    We'll see what the coming days/weeks expose but so far I'm very pleased. I've never owned a faster, better displaying system.
     
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  4. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    Cool, thanks guys!

    Hmm...I guess the G73jw has that Intel wireless display thingee though which I don't want, but other than that it's about perfect. (Aside from that I'd prefer an even higher end GPU, but hey, it's still good.)
     
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    The USB 3.0 issue has been solved. There is a setting in the bios that says to change if there is any problems with it. I changed this setting and now works fine for all my usb 2.0 needs.
     
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    Cool, that's good to hear.

    What's this about Asus' using poorly applied thermal paste or whatever that 'wears out'? Is it really a good idea having Gentech or XoticPC apply better thermal paste? I'm not so much against the extra money as I am paranoid about them ripping apart my brand new notebook before I even get it :-D
     
    Wolfpup, Oct 12, 2010
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  7. GenTechPC

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    I don't think better thermal paste is necessary on G73JW since both CPU and GPU runs cool with stock thermal compound.
     
    GenTechPC, Oct 12, 2010
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