Asus G73 Benchmark Thread

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Top 5 scores in Vantage are now in the original post. If you want your name/score posted you're going to need to score higher than the top 5.

 

Still having troubles with steam?

 

No, I don't use it at all. lol

 

I've seen temps in excess of 86C on these sleey0. That's very hot.

 

I'll run it on my 4870 xfire as a comparison. Ok I just ran it, your timedemo causes the game to crash out the end of the run so I can't get any numbers. Anyone else?

 

My temps are always below that while gaming. About 84 max. I don't consider that hot, but to each his own

Like I said, the only thing that will push it further is furmark.

 

Ok Mew, I ran it.

Run #1: 1920x1080 Everything maxed. No AA. AX set to trilinear = 3433 frames 46.523 seconds 73.79 fps (13.55 ms/f) 12.582 fps variability

Run #2: 1920x1080 Everything maxed. 8X AA 16x AX= 3433 frames 63.475 seconds 54.08 fps (18.49 ms/f) 7.687 fps variability

Also, do you say "F%$# that" at the beginning of that timedemo? haha I though I heard someone say that.

 

Interesting, it crashes out for me at the end of the timedemo. I wonder if it has to do with xfire?

 

Can you guys try doing 4X AA and 4X AF? Thanks!

@joker: Strange, I thought Xfire works well with L4D. Did you check dual GPU?

 

Ok, at max setting and 4x 4x =
3433 frames 57.096 seconds 60.13 fps (16.63 ms/f) 9.165 fps variability

Is that about what you expected Mew?

 

On an AW, Clevo, or Sager I would 100% agree with you. On any mainstream market brand I think that is probably a little closer to normal. The trade-off is that the fans in the G73 are completely silent. I haven't crested 76c even after a long Bad COmpany 2 session, and that was with the laptop sitting on my lap.

 

Compared to the M17x, the cooling is def not as good.

However, if you want to hear a laptop sound like a F22 taking off, then the M17x is for you

That's the trade-off and I'll take it every time. Quiet with slightly higher temps is ok with me.

 

True, M17x is definitely loud, especially compared to the M15x. But I always have my volume up when gaming so the fan sound doesn't bother me. During idle it's fairly silent. Those 80+ temps are still too high, mainstream or not. The G73 does have dual fan cooling so I'm sure better temps can be achieved.

 

Joker, would you mind running the LFD2 timedemo that mew gave us with just 1 4870 active? I'm just curious how the 1 4870 would compare to the 5870.

 

The cooling setup on the G73 is VERY similar to the M17.

 

Too high for you or for ATi spec?

I will say that you can't feel any heat with this thing on your lap, even while gaming. I just don't see the point in saying it's too hot.

I could agree if this thing was 90+ (and even then it is still within limits) but it isn't. Under serious load during gaming or benching it hasn't gone past 84 for me.

I guess everyone has there own standard of "hot"

 

Batman Arkham Asylum bench and temps after playing for over an hour.

For bench - all settings max at 1920 x 1080

 

What?? something's wrong man, I played 6+hours of Batman Arkham Asylum and it never got over 84C max.

 

Joke has always had his own definition of "hot". To him the G51J was also too hot while mine never goes above 87*C under heavy load. Seeing how the G73JH has even more powerful components 84*C is not hot at all. But Joke has had the G51Vx in the past so his opinion is from experiance with ASUS laptops.

 

What were you checking temps with? gpu clock tool or hwinfo?

hwinfo was giving me much lower readings than gpu clock tool

 

Do you think when you hit 17k, you will be sucked into a wormhole and alter the space-time continuum? I do.

 

Kinda like the LHC?

Some kind of big bang is going to wipe out the earth

 

Hmm it looks like the ATI GPU clock tool gives MUCH higher temp readings than hwinfo.

 

Drake...

Do you think you'll hit that 17k mark tonight?

Btw... Good thread lots of info and I need something to keep me going. My a2 has been parked about 5 miles from my house since friday, sitting on a ups truck, waiting to be delivered Monday.1
I think I may freak out soon.

On a side note I am tired of using my iPod as my primary computer. And I have leveraged some of this Down time to set up my workstation. I have my 22 monitor set up ready for dual display upstairs, and I ran another hdmi line in the basement to my 46" Sammy.

Off topic question about VGA and dvi? My monitor has both as options, but I only have a VGA cable left in my cable stash. Will I be losing that much quality if I hook up the display with that rather than buying a dvi cable? Oh, I also have a VGA to dvi cable, but I figure that is pretty much the same deal. Did not mean to hijack, but this is the only thread I have bookmarked on my iPod and I was laZy to go look for another.

 

Don't know if 17K will be tonight. Might need more time to tweak.

 

Possibly the whole universe!

I noticed that too. I wish we could get to the bottom of which temp reading is th true core temp on ati clock tool. I still think it is the lower one, based on the fact that the 5870 is a 45nm part.

Mack, I can't believe you dont have yours yet!!!

So you're going hdmi->Dvi on your 22" monitor? If you use Vga on that, you shouldn't lose much display quality. If you are asking me whether you will be affected if you use Vga on a large samsung display instead of Dvi or Hdmi, the answer is most likely yes. Some large format lcd's don't accept full 1080p over vga, and even if they do the image will be slightly worse over vga because of the display size.

 

Man I can REALLY see that the 5870 is for real. If this is what 1 card can do with a 920xm...I WILL be getting a this in CrossfireX as soon as it comes out in a notebook!

 

Hmm yea I really don't think we have an accurate idea of the temp of this thing. People are assuming this GPU runs hot now because of the higher temp reading on AMD GPU clock tool, but I agree that is probably not the core temp.

Anyone else have any idea how we can figure out the temp readings?

 

Make sure you are using the newest build of HWInfo32, released on Feb 9th.

http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html

 

Large Sammy will be hdmi to hdmi, for the 22 inch monitor I only have VGA to VGA or a VGA to dvi cable? So o guess I'm asking of I should buy an hdmi to dvi cable or would I be fine using the VGA out option.

And yeah even... I can't beleice I don't have mine yet either. Plus ups won't schedule a pick up until they have attempted at least one delivery. So I may not even get it tomorrow.

 

DO you ever laugh drake?

Ok, I am getting seriously pissed off. I have tried 5 different video recording programs to capture a Bad Company 2 demo. Most of them don't work right. Fraps is doing something really weird. I understand that it will reduce my frames by a certain amount because of overhead, but it is cutting them to 15 fps no matter what settings I alter on the video tab. This tells me something else is going one. Someone has to have some experience recording a video timedemo on a demanding game through fraps or some other program. It's really starting to urk me.

You will be fine with vga to vga on the 22".

 

That is what I thought

/end hijack

on a side note the iPod touch is a pretty sweet device if you are too cheap (like myself) to pay for iPhone service.

 

Increased heat, especially in a fairly contained plastic shell like the G73, will cause problems for other more heat sensitive components in the system and speed up their mean time to failure. People with G51's are already seeing the effects of hot running GPUs with failing mainboards, gpu ram and other components. That's why it's best to keep your GPU/CPU temps down as much as possible as well as reduce internal heat buildup. The G73 is a very closed looking design with few small vents which lends to heat build up inside despite those two rear fans. If those fans were doing a good job, the 5870 would never hit 80C+. 10101010100 or whatever his name is a good example, he pushed his 5870 a bit too hard given the thermal constraints in the G73 and fried it.

 

Why do I come across that way?

 

Because you're a robot.

 

That's right, I forgot.

 

I haven't kept a lappy longer than a year. As long as it doesn't fail before then, I'm good

 

Same here. I always need the new shiny.

 

0100 0101 = J in binary
1010 0011 = S in Binary

Those are just my initials. JS

Feel free to call me JS if anyone prefers. It was either that or Packed data representation.

Incidently, after flipping my screen, I was able to VGA my lappy to a monitor and play Crysis just fine. So, my 5870 is still alive, but something happened to my screen. Whether OC'ing had anything to do with it, I am sure Mandrake or you (Joker) would be a better authority than anyone else on the matter.

 

could try reseating your montior cable

 

I saw that a guy did that to his 4870 and got it working over there in the AW thread. Unfortunately, I shipped her back to Fremont, CA yesterday.

JS

Edit: If I hadn't just shelled out $2k for this A2 and the Blu-Ray burner, I would be all over your sale. Very nice price, sir!

 

I don't think Crysis is very good benchmark for ATi, seems heavily optimized for Nvidia. Lame Nvidia tactics at work.

 

What do you mean? You have killer performance there. I can't get close to such performance at all with my GTX260M.

 

It just scales much better for Nvidia equipment. Where the m5870 is 30ish % faster than the gtx260, it is only 5-10% faster in Crysis.

 

GPU clock tool. I don't use hwinfo.

 

For the l4d timedemo, you average abt 3 fps more. I got 57average fps at 4x AA and 8x AF. At my native res & max settings. I'm happy seeing that most of the extra power of the ATI is being used to drive the high-res screen. Don't feel like I'm missing out a lot here.

edit: That's even more impressive considering that the ATI is paired with an i7 compared to my T9600.

 

True... The bump in res from 1440 to 1920 is a huge hit on the Gpu, so in that respect you are right. You really aren't missing out on much.

 

Moo already selling the new aw?

 

Interesting...

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