Asus G73 Benchmark Thread

lol, its become the G73 Boogey Man Monster thread that hides under your bed waiting to take your G73 away

 

DispIO is the core temp.

This is just awesome. Links to product please?

 

thanks evensen.... so thats the one that I want to keep an eye on then?

 

I got the copper from ebay, LINK1, LINK2. I also got the thermal pads from ebay but they were too thick so I bought this, LINK. It won't be in until Tuesday so the system remains apart.

I also have thermal tape and adhesive for any "loose" pieces.

 

Guys, what's your average in Borderlands?
I'm getting only 35~40 FPS and sometimes ~50.Everything is on,except for Anisotropic and Bloom(there's no AA in Borderlands). 1920x1080. Is my average normal?
BTW,I'm using 800/1070.
There's no much diference when I use Anis 16x,maybe - 4FPS

 

Do you turn vsync on? If no, do you see any screen tearing?

 

Yes,sir. That is the only temp to keep an eye on.

I may be attempting this when I get bored. Thank you for the links!

Did you look at Vicious' review thread? I thought he benchmarked it there. If not, someone else did.

 

Hold on guys, let me buy some stock in copper mines first.

Shiney work there Drake.

 

...in Hong Kong.

 

Hey Mandrake, know asking a lot here.

But when you do this, can you take your time in providing step by step with a few photos?

I am interested in this modding, this would be worth opening up the case for

 

It's already done. Just waiting for thermal pads. There really isn't much to it besides making sure there is clearance and since the G73 is so thick towards the back there plenty of clearance. I could have even used bigger copper.

 

Prety weird thing happening.
Borderlands doesn't have Vsync option.
I'm using ''Force Vsync'' and ''Force Triple Buffering'' on D3Overrider for all the games,like BFBC2 and MW2.When I turn the Vsync option off on D3Overrider,I just don' get tearing in Borderlands!

 

You need to edit an ini file for Borderlands to turn vsync on. I would tell you which if my G73 wasn't in a thousand pieces.

I'm not as familiar with D3Overrider so I'm not sure what it's doing.

 

@Mandrake, hahaha , those pictures shows brilliant and perfect work to us!! But how many Degrees decrease are you expecting?

 

Can you create a new thread for it or post it on the first post of this thread or something?

Like did you glue it or solder? I'm in the dark how to do it. What does stacking more copper on the copper pipes do? Dissipate heat passively better?

And to me, the cooling on the Core seems ok, but it's the memory that Asus decided to ignore. Are you using the thermal pads for that?

 

Mandrake, you will get getter cooling if you put all the copper on the fins and heatblocks but NOT the heatpipes...

for them to work efficiently you have to have a polarized heat situation, the copper on the heatpipe makes the fin to block heat ratio less polarized. Hope this helps - this is starting to look like alot of M17s did haha

 

can i see a pic with the back off so i can see the gpu????

 

Not much if there isn't proper air flow. I will need to test.

I will consider it if I find a way to make a significant improvement.

It's similar to the way I did the M17. There is very little room to do it towards the front of the GPU so it has to stay towards to back where the pipes are. Putting it on the fins in the front I will have issues with clearance. Any other suggestions?

Just the gpu?

I think I know what you're saying, give me a sec.

 

Well Drake, you do know how to light a fire under a thread

 

Here you go Don:


The closer you get to the opening the less room there is.

 

how much clearance do you have from the gpu heatsink to the cover?

 

It's on a slant the back of it I can easily add the ramsinks while toward the front I can add it as long as I don't put the cover back on.

 

do you have any on ou right now?

 

Yes on the back side. I'm in the middle of putting it back together to do some testing.

 

I ran the DMC4 test just like I did HERE. Temps were identical. I still need to replace thermal pads but I doubt it will help much. Hopefully it will help when benching.

 

all those extra heatsinks wont do jack unless there is good airflow over them

was nice in the M17, just take the bottom of and sit it on a Cryo - saw huge gains

 

I didn't think so for everyday use but as soon as I get my AC going I'm hoping for an improvement.

 

does the ac unit give a good airflow or mostly just provide the colder temps

 

Both.

/10char

 

that is nice

think I will still have to pass on getting one though , just aint practical for me atm - scaled down the benching considerably

 

Just wait until you get your next system.

 

Now what would be funny is seeing Dell offer it as an attachment lol

"For just $300 more we will also send you a portable AC unit!"

 

"stike in Slience"

 

Moo you need to stop using your phone to post haha

 

Are those temps with the cover on?

With or without the A/C?

If they are with the cover on and without A/C, I'll be jumping up and down.

 

not practical huh...that ac can blow in a case just as well as blowing across a laptop....

 

John you are trouble....

Desktop is almost done though! Got my loop running in a plastic box atm to check for leaks. Will look in on it in the morning

 

your about 300 points shy of me being in trouble...lol

think im going to pick up a xeon 3800 batch cpu this week...giving it considerable thought.

 

Said you are trouble, not in trouble lol

I lack the huge amount of hardware to test to catch you, unless I can pull some world record out of somewhere

 

lmao
thought you forgot a word in there...doing a moo and the iphone. lol

you need new hardware for that. i still have yet to bench all the new cards...once i do...ill shoot right on up..

 

not cool ... I have a Nexus one and the dictionary on there is worse then my internal dictonary !

Side note ... the urge to open this box is overwhelming ...

 

my bad mr moo!!

say moo, what are you doing now??
you still have your clevo??
and did you see q56_monster and his memory over clock on the 280...1235

 

If that was with my AC is would be about 40C cooler.

My system was stock, cover on, not even a notebook cooler. What temps do you get when you run the benchmark?

 

I don't have that bench. But on vantage my core was 77 and my memory in the 90s. 3DMark06 was 74/88

So that's a very nice decrease in temperature. Maybe having the cover off makes a difference also.

 

The benchmark is linked in the original post if you want to try it.

 

Finally some improvement after replacing thermal pads.



Edit: Never mind my system wasn't set at high performance (although my scores did improve). I'll try again tomorrow.

 

Wow, I'm amazed that adding more copper to the pipes reduce heat this much!

How did you attach the copper to the pipes?

 

I'm guessing it has to do more with lapping the heatsink, replacing paste and thermal pads.

I attached around 15 pieces of copper.

 

That is an awesome improvement Mandrake

 

Metro 2033 frames per second / settings, anyone? It's looks like a real cruncher.