Asus G73 Benchmark Thread

that's what made me remember this one.

say, i talked to klaus over at notebookcheck and he said for me to post it all in an email and send it.

haven't quite got around to doing that...thought it was a submit on your own thing.

 

Here it is:



My higher score is OC'ed to 3.2Ghz.

 

looks like it's right where it needs to be.

nice run there.

 

my bad. i didnt check it beforehand. is that cinebench a good bench in regards to video editing/encoding? i would assume so... and it looks as though its right with a 960 i7 desktop cpu... lemme look for a good cad bench.

 

John the magical Clevo in his sig is clearly a joke.....lol

 

lol yes... anything is possible in imaginationland

 

So much for me doing overclocking benchmarks. Looks like I have a lemon.

Just the standard 800/1100 overclock is showing some minor artifacts for me on the crysis benchmark. 2/2 times my display crashed and I had to hardboot the machine when overclocking.

The machine passes fine with no overclock and I have had no crashes other than those two.

Display just goes black with no way to recover.

Temps are fine, even sounds like the benchmark continues to keep running.

I may be able to get away with something like 750/1050 but thats not going to be a very big boost almost pointless. the 800/1100 was stable for Dirt 2 so its borderline.

 

That happened to me too while playing Mass Effect 2. I OC'd my gpu to 800/1100 but I had a lock up problem. After I reseted my clocks to default clocks it ran fine and it still runs fine. I don't think overclocking is safe in the laptop or maybe I got a bad model.

 

Its safe, and you do not have a bad model just "bad luck" overclocking is never a guarantee. Sometimes you get the legendary "golden sample" that can overclock like mad, and sometimes you get a lemon that cant go much past stock clocks. Looks like I had bad luck this time.

The card is only guaranteed to work at stock clocks so nothing is wrong with the unit if you cant overclock it.

But so far @ stock the G73 performance is really good, I dont think I see the need to overclock for anything so far other than Crysis.

Amazing after all these years Crysis is still one of the worst enemies of ATI performance.

 

I really want this laptop, ViciousXUSMC, do u know any place it is available in stock currently regardless of version. I need one urgently. I heard that there is a new one called the X2.

 

X2 is probably best buy model. They are usually the ones with the X models.

I have no clue who has stock or when more will be out. Patience is a virtue here. Pick a good reseller and get on the wait list and forget you ordered till it shows up at your door one day

I recommend gentechpc, you can PM Ken here on the forums and ask him what there wait time is and when they expect more units. I am sure he will help you with that.

 

lol..imaginationland...lol

 

Yeah its like 2 exits past lego land on the right.

When I visited imaginationland they told me there is a way I can raise my overclock level on the G73 over 3x, I just have to get a piece of the beard of chuck norris. Problem is I cant find him. I heard that he is holed up playing the full version of Starcraft 2.

 

Hi
These are by my stock A2, after clean install with the stock drivers.

3DMark06


3DMark Vantage


Unigine

 

lmao!

chuck norris dont need no starcraft...he just does a round house and the starsssssssss... craft them selves 2 the upper outter space regions.up out of his way.

lol

 

I got a problem while trying to run Vantage. It says:

" oops! 3DMark has unfortunately encountered an unexpected problem during benchmark run and was forced into aborting.

std:exception
Fullscreen state: lost"


Does anyone know how to fix it?

 

reboot usually fixes it.
or a check disk

 

unfortunately, that did not fix the problem

Edit: Found the problem. Just needed to minimise the Language Tools.

I got 7949 in GPU and 11586 in CPU (Vantage). Will take screenshot later

p.s. no overclocking yet

 

not to bad at all.

 

One quick question, does AMD Clock Tool give an option to permanently set memory clock and engine clock? It is annoying that everytime the laptop is turned off, the setting resets back to factory default

 

No, not by default. Maybe you can force it with some snazzy .bat files in your start folder.

If you find a overclock your 100% sure is stable and want to keep it, you can always just flash your gpu bios to use those clocks as the stock clocks.

 

Awesome, That's faster than my OC'ed Q9550 desktop @3.5ghz

 

Good job. About 1K point more than the 720 and 2.5K less than the 920.

 

well i think ima end up going this route over the clevo... ill wait till after ces to see if they have anything worthwhile in the works but im looking toward this setup:

G73JH-A2 - 1470.00
920xm ES - 600.00
kingston v-series 120gb - 250.00

total about 2350.00

this is about 1000.00 less than the clevo i wanted to build...

has anyone messed with the asus "twin turbo" driver? shouldnt be too hard to decompile and see whats going on...

Mandrake, how does your 920xm react to the twin turbo feature? does it lose the intel turbo boost?

 

If you can reverse engineer the twin turbo there would be a lot of very happy people here. What it does is raise the bclk freq from 133 to 142 so a 7% increase.

When turning it on with stock settings my system becomes completely unstable because it doesn't do anything with turbo boost. You need to go into the bios, set your turbo boost multipliers taking into account the bclk is now 142 instead of 133 and then the system is stable.

 

wait, where did you got the 1470.00 price?

 

And you can get a barebones clevo w870 right now for like $1080 with a 5870 in it so not that bad at all

 

@Mandrake

May I ask you the brand of the paste on your GPU and CPU, if you have? And can i upgrade the paste of my computer by myself (About warranty), or i should give the paste and laptop to Asus for upgrade CPU/GPU?( I will ask them about that but, wanted to ask you first )

 

I use OCZ freeze. Technically you cannot do it yourself on the CPU because of a warranty sticker that needs to be broken on the heatsink. I posted the picture of it here a couple weeks ago. I did it anyway because I was changing the CPU. I wouldn't do it just to change the paste. If your reseller is willing to do it then they can also reapply the sticker.

 

1470.00 is through ebay after 8% bing cash back

 

i see... i hadnt checked that model... i was looking at the d900f with a 975 i7... or the 8100 with sli gtx285's

still none of them have overclocking, or backlit keyboard... also they weigh about 4lbs more, and the cost difference is hefty

at stock settings, if you drop the turbo boost multi down by 1x is it still stable?

 

where did you ordered you d900x?

 

I picked it up through a guy named manbearpig, he runs imaginationland!

 

i see. it must be there. lol.

 

the funny thing about his imaginationland build.....it is completely do able, but clevo wont do it.

 

well they would then have to stop making the np9850 and the np9820.

 

It should be but I haven't tried. I put it higher and it was stable.

The Clevo 870CU does have bclk and multi OC'ing with the 920 proc. The power available is questionable.

 

With that weight?

 

well just wait for an alienware watercooled laptop

or fujitsu. they will all be water cooled soon

http://www.techfresh.net/water-cooled-fujitsu-lifebook-laptop/

http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=742

 

didn't Fujitsu already come with a water cooled version? someone has one..i remember them talking about it.



remember this one...
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooling/483111-project-terminated-m17-water-cooled-laptop.html

http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/10/28/waldic-water-cooled-laptop/

here it is
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/fujitsus-water-cooled-lifebook-n7010-with-secondary-4-inch-touc/

 

Thanks for that pic, john.

Made me LOL big time

 

This is true. Soviet has replaced the stock 120W PSU, with something more sufficient.

 

I wonder if my 180W universal targus would work with that system.

 

yeah, i got a kick out of that one, but if it worked for benching..then im all for it!..lol

 

Are you planning on replacing the G73 with the W870CU?

 

hrm.... i may need to look into that 870CU then... Not worried about the psu, i can get 200w and even 250w psu i believe...

 

But can the power regulators/capacitors on the laptop mainboard handle and/or pass through that kind of wattage?

 

shouldnt matter...

 

Okay, i will probably buy OCZ freeze as you suggested, did you use the same compound for the GPU also? Or just stock? Maybe it will make power problems but do we have any chance to put a desktop core i7 to this notebook? What do you think?

 

I highly suggest MX-3 or Shin-Etsu.

The MX-3 is quite a bit cheaper than the SE so I usually stick with that.