Asus G73 Benchmark Thread

I've never lost a monitor from OC'ing. I've lost a few to old age but that's it.

 

I finally got around to running that L4D2 timedemo. I had to reinstall the game to get it to stop crashing.

Run #1: 1080p, 4xaa/16xAF everything else maxed out-
3433 frames 38.404 seconds 89.39 fps (11.19 ms/f) 45.053 fps variability

Run #2: 1080p, 8xaa/16xaf everything max-
3433 frames 42.699 seconds 80.40 fps (12.44 ms/f) 48.633 fps variability

Run #3 using single 4870: 1080p, 8xaa/16xaf everything max-
3433 frames 79.562 seconds 43.15 fps (23.18 ms/f) 5.067 fps variability

So the 5870 is about 20% faster in L4D 2 which is quite good. I think Mandrake would probably get about 25% or more because of the 920xm. Evensen, how much film grain were you using? I left it at default. Also for the ATi control pane we all need to use the same settings for the mipmap level (mine is at high quality).

 

How about you guys try running the timedemo with the gpu overclocked.

 

does anyone know how much performance boost you get from 820QM to 920XM provided everything else being equal and no overclocking?

Is there any significant real world difference or only benchmarking difference?

Also, do those who overclock their 920XM on G73JH notice any difference when they play games before and after OC?

Of course, I am asking these all in the context of performance differences alone, ignoring the price difference.

thanks

 

Nope 0 running everything at stock... I tried the 920 in the G73 and its already pulled out of there because unless your going to pull a mandrake and OC the living daylights out of it for benching then just stick with the stock CPU.....

Im sorry i just noticed you said from an 820-920 but i went from the 720 to the 920 and well yeah what i said above ..

If your doing some video encoding on your machine you might shave off a couple minutes though ...

 

Just curious, may I ask why you pulled the 920 out of the G73JH after all the work? (I assumed you installed it yourself)

 

Just was not worth it ... I ran a bunch of benchmarks right after i installed it and in some cases my benchmarks were worse so i did a fresh install of the OS and the same thing so i yanked it out since it was doing 0 for me except raising my score in 06 by 1k and some in Vantage as well.. I wanted to know if it helped for gaming and it did nothing... It was sent to me to on the basis if i liked what i saw i would keep it... I also bought an M17xR2 at the same time and im going to give it a whirl in there when they release a bios fix for that for other reasons but again if its doing nothing for my games then its just a huge waste of money... Again though this is purely for gaming ...

Not trying to discourage your choice in the 820 i see in your sig and maybe you will have better results i cant say but im just being honest since you asked ...

 

thanks, appreciate the opinion.
My original impression was similar to what you just said , but just want to hear it from the experts

 

You cant overclock the 920 in the G73 can you? Thats the only reason to get it, and I know the R2 of the M17X can do it but thats big money for both the laptop and the cpu. Way more than I can spend.

I kinda miss my 2.7ghz Q9000 and I do not care for this hyperthreading nonsense, wish they would have just given us the i7 with higher clocks and without hyperthreading so that it was a true evolution of the core series.

Cant even play race driver grid with the i7 the hyperthreading is causing issues.

 

You can overclock the 920

Mandrake got it to 3.4 GHZ and hit 20k on the CPU score in vantage which is equal to a desktop i7 975

 

With the windows based intel overclock tool? I may have to hunt down a 920 then, I miss the cpu power of my W90 for encoding stuff. I dont think for just every day tasks or general gaming the upgrade is worth it but if your encoding stuff and can hit 3+ghz on all 4 cores stable thats a very significant difference than the 1.6ghz of the 720QM

I know the AW has bios overclocking and the Asus does not, but I do recall that windows based program. I wonder if via pin mod or some other hack we can unlock the 720QM to work with it.

 

has it been stable at 3.4ghz or is it like an in-lab testing condition?

For example, can you play Crysis on that for 10hr straight without overheating?

p.s I am more comparing 820 to 920, not 720 to 920

 

The Asus has a hidden menu for the 920 only that will let you overclock it just like the FSB way but the BCLK

IN the bios

 

will fitting the i7 920 void the warranty of the entire laptop or just the factory cpu??

 

Yep, I read about that.

We just need some clever people here to unlock that OC menu for 820

 

This generation of CPU is one to skip if no one can come up with an overclocking method.

 

you can just get the PLL

You can easily overclock some one needs to decompile the Asus utility and adjust the values for the 720 and then recompile

The i7 can overclock just like a core 2 duo the FSB was just renamed the BCLK

 

Entire Unit.

 

I hope this is the case, but I wonder if the asus utility is adjusting the bclk on the fly or if its just flipping a "switch" programed into the bios and the real answer lies in bios modding.

 

The real answer is just adding the 720 CPU micro code to open the Menu with the overclocking

 

anyone here knows / is trying to do it?

 

So its not using the extreme cpu unlocked multi its a "fsb" setting? if so yeah that would work there is hope! but I for one dont know how to do it.

Psst. Somebody at Asus please accidentally leak an unlocked bios for us...

 

My score seems a lot lower than the others. Oh well.

 

ziddy, maybe you ran those tests on battery?

 

Heaven DX11 Benchmark. Stock system, stock settings.

 

Ziddy, I don't see a problem with your score. I looked at the numbers from the first page, and your score looks reasonable. I do, however, wonder about Quagmire's score. How do you only get 8921 with an OC of 874/1200? Should be 9200 or so.
Ziddy123 = 8826 with 800/1100
Evensen007= 8943 with 867/1019
Quagmire = 8921 with 874/1200
euisungkim= 9014 with 851/1100
JS = 9109 with 860/1100

 

Ouch 29 fps on that resolution? DX11 is painful...

 

I want to see someone do it with a 720 to see if there is a difference.

 

Full res, everything else stock.



Surprisingly the system runs hotter with the Asus screen saver.

 

Drake how about running same test with OC'd CPU to check how much difference CPU makes..
an yea, even i'd like to see that score with same settings on an i7

 

Depends on how it is written. Dirt2 DX11 run awesome on this laptop (42fps on high at 1920 with 4x AA).

 

I finally got my last upgrade to my system which is the SSD. Doing a Win 7 install right now.

 

Having a SSD may help to raise some benchmark results... good luck with 17k.

 

Try this fix for GRID it works on the Desktop core i7 so it may work on the Mobile core i7

1. Navigate to Program Files\Codemasters\Grid\System
2. Rename workerMap8Core.xml to old_workerMap8Core.xml
3. Copy and paste the workerMap4Core.xml
4. Rename the copy to workerMap8Core.xml

In a nutshell your replacing the 8core map with the contents from the 4core map.
Sorry if this was a bit of a teaching granny to suck eggs post but past experience has taught me to do this first time around to avoid posting it again & again & again

Hope it works for you

 

got qustion to all you guys.. anyone playing GTA IV and AION here?
how much fps you get on MAX settings

 

Almost everyone I knew who tried Aion and then left in disgust (very dissapointed) were using 8800, 9800s and none of them had issues with Aion. These were my online buddies from WoW, Silkroad Online, L2.
- Should not even be a second thought for the HD5870.

As for GTA IV, I believe I saw a screenshot somewhere, maybe not. But I expect it to run fine.

 

I wonder that myself, I'm on pg 6, post #52. So far, I can't run clocks that high on anything else. I seem to get better CPU scores by a couple hundred points (had a run that CPU was 10800+), but the GPU score is subpar and it's reflected by the GPU Test #2 FPS. All other scores are on target with others, except Mandrake's 920.

Q

 

Heaven: NO Asus Easy OC, GPU 700x1000 (full screen)

Stock 1024 settings: 28.2 FPS, Scores 710

Stock 1920 settings: 17.8 FPS, Scores 449

Stock 1920 settings, GPU 860x1100: 20.8 FPS, Scores 525

What problems are people experiencing with GRID? It's running smooth for me with the same settings as Vicious review. About 47 Avg. FPS in Chase View and 67Avg. FPS in Cockpit View.

Thanks for this snoozeulooz, appreciate you getting it into the thread.

Q

 

Thanks Quagmire

 

No worries your welcome, basically both Grid and Dirt (NOT DIRT 2) where programmed and released before the the i7 and the 4 cores with hyperthreading causes the game to crash when attempting to go into a race.

I would love to be joining you guys in a purchase of this machine but as I am in the UK and unfortunately we get ripped off by our government getting taxed up to the hilt. As a result we had only 1 e-tailer with the PC on there website and it was £1800 = $2820. But on the day they were supposed to actually release it (today) they took down the pre-order and took it off the site. (I guess nobody was prepared to get ripped off)

As a result I will be purchasing a Clevo x8100 from Kobalt instead, but I still like to come in here and see how you guys are getting on with your new toys.

SnoozE

 

Mandrake, which SSD did you get?

That's my next purchase, or maybe the Sony Blu-Ray burner newegg $219.99

 

It's in my sig, the Mushkin.

 

Finally had a chance to do a benchmark.

Basic setup:



After OC GPU 800 x 1100

 

Very good O/C results on the gpu.

 

you break 9k yet Chris? Or did 0100's issues back you down a little....

 

I decided to play games for a while and enjoy the machine. Benchmarking can eat up so much time tweaking things, and I just wanted take a break for a bit. I think 0100 had a random LCD issue, because he could still hook it up to an external monitor just fine. It did spook me a little bit though.

 

Yeah but IT guys are best at it.

 

Yea I think personally right now while in Iraq im not gonna stress my machine to much to pull alot of the dust in to clog the system up. ill wait til I get home to Hawaii to do any OCin and modding and stuff like that. but sounds like its safe to OC 800/1100 eh?

 

Yes drake, the problem is we deal with computers all day every day at work which makes relaxing with a game much more appealing!

800/1100 has been very stable.

 

It's just not the same thing when it's your own system.