Asus G73 Benchmark Thread

it was said about 1 1/5 hours.

 

Is that under load? power saving mode? Im interested to know how long i can word process on this thing.

 

just know your under 2 hours per battery
the more you disable and turn off and tone down...you might gain another few minutes....

 

I think it is. With those settings I haven't reached over 76C.

I know when I had my Nvidia, it was usually around 95C, everything stock with new thermal paste. Damn Nvidia!

 

Thanks

Anyone else got different opinion?

 

As with the Sager NP9850, the Sager NP8120 is also Dual Lamp. This has been confirmed by Sager.

 

Well not according to the panel specs which is the same screen the W90 used it was certainly not Dual lamp ...

Unless something changed since the intial release of the machine it is still the same Samsung panel as the Asus which is a Single Bulb...

If you have a X8100 with you and can get the hardware id info on it that would be most appreciated since im considering this machine ....

 

Since both Sager and Clevo are standing behind the statement that it is Dual Lamp, I would have to say it is. Unfortunately I do not have a X8100 right now but we have received a confirmation from Sager's engineers this morning that it is Dual Lamp. Unless something changes, it should remain a Dual Lamp.

 

justin, what is the status on orders for the G73 at XoticPC?

Say, if I was to order one today, how long would it take for you to recieve it, swap out the stuff that needs to be swapped out, and ship it to Sweden?

/Eri

 

Ok thanks for the info and ill wait till someone gets the unit in hand to try and confirm it is .... I know you trust Sagers word so for the moment i will as well ..

Sorry to derail the Benchmark thread ...

 

So I dont derail this thread any further please PM or Email me if I can answer any questions for you.

 

I get 2 hours and 30 minutes while browsing the web on battery. Just word processing seen benchmark close to 3 hours.
- I got a little under 2 hours watching an HD 720p video also.

 

Hi Folks. I just purchased a G73J and I am terribly disappointed with the i7. I am an engineer and I do a lot of modeling and simulation. The simulations are pretty much single-threaded and they need a lot of HP per thread. Needless to say, half of a 1.6GHz core per thread is pretty pathetic! I bought the hype, even though I did quite a bit of of on-line research and read that "hyperthreading did not hurt performance" and that it was better than past hyperthreading. This is Intel BS. They're still reserving half the processor bandwidth for threads that might never materialize and the "turbo" doesn't come into play unless you have free cores. They have achieved improved (and pretty impressive) performance for "normal usage" by moving bandwidth around in a shell game. Nice, but it doesn't work for me.

My question is, is there a way to turn off hyperthreading on this machine? I can't find it in the BIOS setup (weird.) If not, this thing is going back and I'm going to get a G72, which I should have done to begin with.

 

No you can't. And if you would have researched this chip and laptop as much as you say you did, you would have realized straight away that a laptop with a super fast Core2Duo would have been miles better for your situation than an i7 that Intel lied to you about.

You can buy an aftermarket 920xm chip to pop in the laptop and that will allow you to reach far higher single thread speeds because it is unlocked.

 

this person was asking for the information you gave...not me . i was giving a guestimation of what some others have said.
slamming
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Battery benchmarks anyone?

 

I am going to deny your request. Been too busy using the beast to run a proper battery mark on it. I can tell you that I set it to low power mode and just browsed the web on the couch and got just under 2 hours.

 

I apologize for the noob question, but has it been confirmed that this is the HM55 or PM55 chipset?

Because if it is the HM55 then the arrandale IGP should be useable unless blocked in BIOS and would enable a much longer battery life. I can get 3.5 hours out of my M17x with the 9400m. It also would just make no sense to have this system as a PM55 since only a single GPU is being used. The PM55 is really only needed when doing SLI/CF

 

Yes sir...

 

You're right, of course, and thanks for the info. A working fella only has so much time to research these things, and my search didn't turn up anything definitive for single-threaded applications. The Intel data sheet stuff is virtually useless in this regard.

The 920XM would still be hyperthreaded, and I'd still be better off with a Core2 Quad. I often run 4 simulations concurrently which will run a Core 2 Quad to 100% utilization. With an i7 and hyperthreading, 50%. Where's the "use it all" button, Intel?

 

Which program are you using to monitor all the threads?

 

Tmonitor is good for seeing core speeds

 

Hmm the i7 usage will be more like 80% and the extra 50% (Not being used) for the hyperthreadding extentions is more like 20% per core (Is this right?)

But the lower clock i7 is very efficient so it should perform on comparison close to say 1.8 - 2.0 ghz a C2Q processor would at. (Is this also right?) benchmarks suggest the new architecture is really efficient!

 

Already done. Both Asus and GenTech have benchmarked it and got the same results as I did.

 

do we see the pattern here...
i was answering someone else and he was acting like im the one asking the question about battery life...
i could care less about battery because im a bencher and we don't do battery...

 

Because you answered first with a guess, so just answered with my experience with battery. Second time because you posted a question asking for battery benchmark.

But agreed, I wouldn't worry much about battery, if slamming is worried, he ought to buy a netbook.

 

that was my next thing....to offer up a m11x

all good though ziddy123! we we're getting to the same thing, only you had the facts.

 

Do you know of any other apps to monitor the i7 core/turbo speeds?

 

i7 turbo...it comes with realtemp 3.46

and run it against task manager performance window

 

I know that tmonitor shows "core speed" for individual threads, so it includes hyperthreading (i get 8 cores in my i7 920 desktop)

 

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Mine only shows 4 unless I'm missing a setting.

 

Hmmm, that is interesting Mandrake. I did not have to do anything except run it on my desktop. Maybe it is unsupported CPU? Shoot cpuid an email

 

define 4 cores...

and yours should look something like this.....4 cores / 8 threads.
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=834857

 

Same here, I'm using TMonitor but only see the 4 Cores being monitored, but the 8 threads.

 

Here is your answer for the 920.



The test was done with 100% load on the CPU.

 

There is a Windows Gadget called ALL CPU Meter that can show you individual activity of 8 threads. It may not be precision looking, but it works and adds a good compliment to other monitoring software for CPU usage.

Sorry, gadget sizes are fixed, but hey, it gives the info.

@blasto65, seriously man, a little post control would be appreciated for our ever growing threads. Thank you.

Q

 

Same test with that gadget. There's no option to make it bigger.

 

enensen007 how are the new ATI drivers working any problems?

 

Has anyone with 920 tried to disable HT while benching?

Just curious if its possible, as doing so may makes higher OC'ing more stable, as seen on the i7 powered desktops.

 

Mandrake, do you have to upp the voltage or anything like that when you raise the multiplier to reach 3.2 GHz per core?

I am awfully tempted to getting the 920 when (if) I buy the G73, Mostly because I'm not only going to use it for gaming, but also for on-the-road rendering and stuff like that. However I'm not sure how the 920 "overclocking" works?

/Eri

 

Not an option in the bios or in the power management options.

You are allowed to set the systems TDP and TDC limits. Setting it high allows turbo boost to reach the multipliers you set.

 

I'm doing a lot of rendering type testing now as I'm going to be a render/encoder on the go and I can tell you now based on the 720, your heat will not be under control if you OC the multipliers of the 920 too much for these types of loads.

Q

 

3 New Game Benchmarks:







That makes 19 games so far I benched. I still have like 10 more to go, but thinking of updating to 10.3 now and doing a few comparison benches on instead to round things off.

 

19 games is a nice round number

But why cheat yourself? Get those updated drivers! I want to see the benches with the updated drivers. Please

 

Cheers.

Im not made of money, so i cant buy multiple laptops for different purposes, so i was curious just how much i could squeeze out of the battery if i was forced to. 2hr 30 min web browsing sounds good, not to mention almost 2 hours of 720p video (although i guess running off the HDD is much better than reading a disc)

Thanks for the figures!

 

Ok I am on the 10.3's now.

Ran Dirt 2 first since its supposed to have one of the largest gains (about 10%) and the gain was not very large only 1 or 2 frames per second. However since I was at like 28fps average 10% of that is only 2.8fps... So its still an improvement.

I also tried overclocking for the first time. A simple 100mhz increase on core/memory to 800/1100 gave HUGE results. Almost 5 frames per second more. Looks like between the new drivers and a moderate overclock Dirt 2 is going to be playable totally maxed out with DX11 Ultra settings.

I'll test 3 or 4 of the other games that had low frame rates and chart up some comparisons between stock and new drivers/overclock.

Then I'll be done with that and just use my machine

Was kinda dissapointed with the i7 cpu today. Was trying to use AviSynth to do some transcoding/filtering of a video I took with my new Vado HD and its not powerful enough to play the video much more than 2x realtime before it skips frames. I have a feeling my old W90 with the 2.7ghz OC would have handled that job ok.

So its looking like the 920XM cpu upgrade is going to be a priority to me when I find the money and a good deal. I'll pick that over a SSD. My machine is perfect though, kinda hate to tear it apart for the cpu change. Afraid I will mess up my keyboard or something.

Not break it, but just that if its double taped down, when it goes back in I may get flex or some other small issues. Heck I think everybody that did the cpu change had a pretty rough time with it. Somebody broke a fan connector, and I think quadzilla felt like his keyboard was going to snap in half because of the double sided tape being like industrial strength.

Once I get it in though and have my cpu power literally double from 1.6ghz to 3.2ghz+ it will be awesome and I can be really happy with my G73.

 

I got my machine today.

Will be posting some benchmark on the 820QM CPU on G73JH over the weekend. I think no one has posted any benchmark on that CPU yet

 

Ok first of the retake's



Its Stock
vs
10.3 Drivers
vs
10.3 Drivers + 800/1100 Overclock

This will be the same format for all the upcoming benchmarks.

 

Yeah, I dont want to be the bearer of bad news but it will be almost exactly the same as the 720QM its only very slightly faster and still has no means to overclock. Even the 920XM would not be doing much better if it was not unlocked for overclocking in the bios.

 

We shall see (after all, it's all speculations until we test on the actual thing, right? )

 

Looks like a 10% rise on the 10.3s to me. 10.7% to be more precise.