Asus G73 Benchmark Thread

Awesome!! Just took bad that there wasnt a way to unlock the multipliers on the i7 720 to OC that beyond the turbo feature...

 

disabled at a hardware level so you will never do that

Some one needs to grab the PLL and then Pay some one to write the software to overclock it

 

Which Anti-Aliasing, Cat AI and mipmap texture settings do you all use when gaming?

 

ugh don't get me started about Aion, i used to play it on my desktop.
quad core 2.6 ghz, 8800 ultras in SLi,had everything on max setting, not a single lap, or frame drop even in biggest battles.

But the game itself is jsut terrible, i wasted 17 million trying to hit expert armorsmith only to have it fail on my 5 times. i quit that game after 1 month.

 

Korean MMOs have a lot to do with Asian culture. Gambling is a major part of their culture and history and it's still evident in their games. Much of gear improvements in any MMO developed in China, Japan and Korea are based on chance, gambling. Which is a shame because MMOs are time consuming enough without having to waste time trying to upgrade based on chance.

Also chance is a great game mechanic to charge extra to increase your chances through item malls and other bs.

Strangely I found Asian MMOs are more about the individual. Maybe this has to do with so much of their lives are about the greater good of society this is a chance to be unique? I am not sure. But much of this chance I believe is also a way to differentiate characters from another. Games like WoW where gear upgrade is determined and there is no difference between one shadow priest that has completed Ulduar from the next. Same tier gear, same enchantments, same gear stats etc. More about team work than the individual.

But I like some Korean MMOs. Where Aion failed is end-game and reason. There is no reason to play Aion. The faction war is mindless. There is no given reason to fight the opposition,. As a player immersed into a world I was not compelled to participate in the conflict. Even a simple game like Silkroad Online had a compelling reason to be involved in the triangular conflict.

That was my take on Aion.

 

Indeed, a most profound conclusion. I also believe you are correct. I spent the entire year of 1996 in Iwakuni, Japan. I was amazed at their culture, as well as their lack of interest in personal rewards. Many would not think of trying to stand out amongst the crowd. Where U.S. workers want to be rewarded for good work, Japanese workers want to see their company rewarded or recognized. Hell, the most popular car color there is white! People there just don't want to stand out.

In business, it's not about the individual. Rather, it's about "what can I do to help facilitate the company's growth?" I loved living there, and want to go back some day. The people were amazing, and traveling to Hiroshima was a very sobering experience. Still, my most prized memory there was standing in line with a bunch of cool Japanese kids waiting to pick up the new Nintendo 64 with Mario 64! I hooked that thing up to my TV, had no idea what all that japanese writing meant, but I played the hell out of Mario! Good times, good times.

 

Maybe Zfactor could help with this.

 

Doubt it you need special bios editors and everything :/

 

anyone here tried msi afterburner for overlocking?

 

What's the difference between the A1 and A2 models?
Man this laptop is really,really good.
Lost track of it since it's a little bigger than I would like but after seeing these benchmark numbers it has me drooling again.
Any issues with the temps when adding a 55W i7-920XM?
How well does it handle heat under full load?

 

I tried it and it didn't work. I don't know if there is a config file for it to add the 5870. Wasn't worth investigating since I mostly do vbios flashing.

A1= "The Unicorn Model" - Only been heard of and never seen. It comes with a Blue-Ray drive. Everything else is the same.

Take a look at this POST for temps under load.

BTW, for anyone following some of the issues I've been having it all seems cleared up after replacing some of my ram.

 

Fantastic Drake! I guess I really need to do a fresh install on my machine since I seem to be having some residual BS going on from the G51 swap. Bah!

The weird thing is that the only thing that crashes it Firefox, which is probably the reason I am putting off reloading.

 

I wanted to post these CPU scores so everyone can see them.

AW M17xR2 OC'ed i7-920XM



Desktop Stock i7-975 Extreme



Asus G73 OC'ed i7-920XM



Notice that the 920 in the Asus is OC'ed to the stock speeds of the Desktop proc.

 

Beastly overclocks on that Asus... Scary

If they made a smaller version of that G73 I would get it.

 

Since they used a smaller keyboard and have some wasted space internally they could have gone down to a 16.3" size.

 

Unbelievable that you were able to hit 20k on the cpu score with the G73! Vicious needs to get all over this.

That AlienWare vantage score is fantastic.

 

The AW score is curiosity of Joker. He has the only i7-920 M17xR2 not experiencing power issues.

 

Just finished doing a fresh install. Everything is running so much better. I tried the google chrome browser that someone suggested just out of curiosity and I actually like it. Very small footprint and very fast. Even faster than FF.

 

It's hard to change browsers. Took me a long time to get used to firefox.

 

Took me 3 seconds to move from FF to chrome

T minus till fedex gets here

 

What are you waiting for Moo? And +1 for Chrome.

 

I hear you. I figured since I was going with a fresh start, I would give it a try. It's very utilitarian. Even more so than firefox. I like it though; it has a very light footprint.

 

I did try chrome yesterday and I did like it but as of right now I have no reason to switch.

 

I still prefer FireFox. Only because I find FireFox easier to use with the menu bar rather than Chromes thingys on the left where it's hard to access with their pull down menus etc.

As for speed it's debatable. I've seen stats and graphs favoring both.

 

Opera ftw!

(and chrome is really ram hungry, having a lot of tabs open on 1gb ram just kills it (G73 probably wont suffer from it with 8gb

 

*** Official end of browser talk ***

 

Hi Mandrake u asked about which model i mean in the other Asus thread,
i was asking about the model with the i5 dual core and 1600x900 display if the peformance could be as good as the i7 with full hd display. It seems u are an expert in such things i know finally its my decision but i would like to hear your opinion for that thx (also any other expert here can say his opinion , sry if iam annoying someone i know much questions and posts allready around here)

 

I wanted to see all the specs of that model. Do you know the model number?

 

Thx for your fast answer! I made a photo with my handy thats what i can read about the model number Asus G73JH-TY033V 0210CD-SCA, but iam from austria middle europe idk if that model is sold in US.

Edit: I found a model in france it seems to have the same specs thats the page for it http://www.idealo.fr/prix/2045807/asus-g73jh-ty009v.html

 

Yeah there isn't much info out there on it. Which i5 is it?

As far as performance goes it will depend greatly on the game itself. Normally running at a lower resolution will give you better performance but some will argue it won't look as nice. In the end both systems are running the ATI 5870 so gaming will be similar.

If it does come with an Arrandale processor you may have the benefit of using switchable graphics to save battery life when not gaming. That would be a huge plus to some. The I7-720QM does not have it.

 

Intersting maybe we will see a bestbuy version after all.

 

Its the i5 430m not the best i5. Battery life is not important for me cuz i use it as DRM. Atm i have a hp 9200 with a 20" screen, 1650x1050 resolution and a nvidia 8800GTS i pretty like the resolution just the card is getting to slow soon, i just look for a silent notebook with good perfomance, the silence is most important cuz the laptop is near the sleeping room and my wife has good ears .

 

I wish I could comment more on the i5 but I've never tested one.

 

I have, and they are pretty good cpu's.

The i5-540 in my Envy consistently scored about 8k CPU in vantage.

 

Thanks for your answeres, i guess it maby will be posted somewhere allready but pls can u tell me the vantage points off the i7 for a comparison?

 

Around 10.5K

Look at the Vantage benchmarks on the first post of this thread.

 

Thx and sry

 

Sound the effin alarm my g73 is finally here...preordered on 12/31/09...got to within 5 miles of my house on 2/12/10...and signed for by my wife at 4:33 today beeches. Delayed extra for inclement weather in the Pittsburgh region.

Just got done shoveling the effin driveway again, taking a sheet, then it is unboxing time beeches.

 

Thanks for your, um, informative post.

 

you forgot the

So far my ONLY qualm is the keyboard and the fact it is VERY wide. Also the 16:9 is alot harder to get used to from 16:10

 

Forgot what? lol

 

LOL! Take that sheet man; you deserve it! Now unwrap that sexy bit3h and make sweet love to her.

Ok, I saw this thread was posted to by Moo and I got excited. C'mon moo, roll up your sleeves and get to work!

 

and do what ?

 

WHoa. Emoticons.com exploded all over your thread postings!

What do you mean "do what?". You know what!

 

I seriously have no idea what your talking about

 

He wants you to start making "HOW TO" video's with the G73...

 

Thats going to be a no on this system. With warranty concerns and then the amount of work it entails.

95% of people should NEVER even try to remove the GPU or CPU on this system even with a video helping.

 

That's what I love about mine. I can get to my CPU and video card in about 2 or 3 minutes...

 

It isn't that hard, moo.

But the nice, yellow sticker on the CPU heatsink that says "WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED OR BROKEN" should make someone think twice.