Asus G73JW at GenTech for 1645$

The hardware id is HSD06A5. Other than the bleed it is a very nice screen for a TN panel - nice and bright with decent viewing angles.

 

I just found out that it is a Hannstar HSD173PUW1. I hope that is a good thing.

 

Its the same exact screen i have but i dont have any of the bleed your speaking of... Maybe a smidge of it at the top if any at all but i have seen some screens with like 3 inches of bleed on the top/bottom or both so im not sure how bad the bleed is on yours ?.. Also when people take pictures of it that makes it a 100 times worse then in person..

 

That is the same screen I have in my machine. I definitely haven't had a problem with backlight bleed. I'm with Quadzilla on this one, my screen might be a little dime, but the contrast is phenomenal. I have never had a laptop do black so well.

 

Yeah the screen is certainly not the brightest but makes up for it in details with those awesome blacks... Very inky blacks..

 

Gah all you people getting you G73jw so fast!

How long did it take for your laptop to ship from Gentechpc? I ordered my laptop from xoticpc (to avoid CA tax from Gentech since I live in CA) and the laptop went into the production phase last Thursday and is expeted to ship end of this week or beginning of the next. They definitely take too long! They said removing the blue-ray drive is quick and easy.

 

What else did you order with the machine ?.. Did you have the paste redone ?...

Removing the Bluray is one screw under the access panel on the bottom so yeah its very easy and swapping the faceplate to the new drive is also easy...

 

Just the blue ray removed, nothing else. They said they do all sorts of tests on the laptop before they ship though.....

 

Looks like you and I are in the same boat tnad. I ordered mine from xoticpc on Sept 13th and I feel like I've been stuck in production/shipping forever! Aside from that their customer service has been pretty responsive. I just wish they had more accurate information about their prep time before shipping...

 

Ordered mine from Xotic late Wednesday night the 15th and it shipped Monday the 20th--should be here later today. Got a memory upgrade, the 6200 wireless, one hybrid drive, re-paste and the 'rush' option.

 

Yeah no rush option for me which means I have to wait in line in the production phase to get the downgrade from blue-ray and that's probably at least 7 business days. They said they have a very large amount of orders going through production.

 

I have back-light bleed about an inch and a half in (top and bottom). I only notice it on a black screen and a bit on letter-boxed movies. I think I'm just going to live with it because everything else on the laptop is amazing. My screen is also one of the brightest I've ever used and I've had well over a dozen laptops. I was able to adjust the the EQ setting to Rock which cut down on the rattles quite a bit. These speakers are VERY LOUD by the way.

If anyone else wants two finger scrolling and three finger gestures here is a link to a driver which is working great for me.
New HP Touchpad Driver that Unlocks Multi-Touch on older Touchpad - www.hardwarezone.com.sg

 

I got no rush option and a downgrade from blue ray as well. At the latest, Im told it will get to me by the first week of October...

 

Got it a few hours ago. First impressin is it is HUGE. I looked at it at Best Buy but it's like furniture, always looks smaller at the store. I'm going from a Dell 710m so the G73Jw is 2.13 times bigger in footprint.

 

brilliant find! thanks for that, was missing it having moved straight from a MBP to this.

 

Just received mine and posting on it now. I seem to be in a dilemna however. I can't seem to make recovery discs with the AI Recovery program because the start button is greyed out. It also states that there is no recovery partition. Thoughts? I replaced one of the HDDs with a SDD on my order with GenTech if that helps any.

 

Yes chances are the hidden partition for the recovery disc creation is gone ... Im sure they just cloned the main partition as i think most resellers just do this and dont move that hidden partition over as well because space is generally scarce on SSDs over traditional HDs..

 

I see. I guess I should have opted for the recovery discs option before I placed my order. So am I out of luck in making my discs or is there an alternative somewhere? Kind of in a hurry since I have to head back to my apartment in LA so any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Scratch that, Ken solved the problem. So awesome.

 

I ordered mine today (not at GenTech but in Canada, want to avoid duty etc..).

Can't wait!!

 

Just ordered mine today too! Can't wait! Hopefully it doesn't take too many days to build...

 

Congrats to all the new Owners ..

Here is a link to the owners lounge so if you have specific questions related to the G73-JW you can post them there ..

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-reviews-owners-lounges/518687-asus-g73jw-owners-lounge.html

 

Looks like mine is still on schedule for delivery Friday. Boy is this great!

 

Hey everyone, thanks for the great thread! I just placed my order with Ken today, and I'm psyched!

This is going to replace a 4 year old Macbook Pro. I was alittle sad to hear the RAM comes in 4 2gig modules, but oh well, I'll just have to upgrade all of them if I want to boost it up to 16 gigs.

Overall looks like a great machine, can't wait for it to get here!

 

Hi, all

Does anyone know what is the average FPS + TEMPS you would get when playing a game like Crysis or metro 2033 when this notebook GPU is over clocked

I have seen the video on youtube of the G73JW playing Crysis and the FPS seemed lower than the G73JH also not as smooth. (bit disappointed)

CAN THE G73JW MATCH THE G73JH WHEN OVER CLOCKED

THANKS

 

IT's FRIDAY! DID YOU GET IT YET?

 

I am waiting for mine to arrive -.-" approximately one week from now or even more if worse! i got it from Ken from gentech ^^ the best service in the world!

 

hehe thanks jhan..my beast ended up with 6200..expect to get it in 10 days..35usd is equal to more than 110 here..i am in asia now..thats the different..

 

Got mine yesterday and i"m knuckles deep in this sucker! I really love the look of this machine and the service from Gentechpc was AWESOME...Thanks Ken.

My idle temps for my CPU are between 45 and 50c. Load with prime 95 is the low 70's. Gpu idles low 40's and 20 mins of furmark topped out at 85c. I did get the repaste.

Vantage scores:
stock 259.12 = p7429
New 260.63 = p8597

Holy bloatware Batman!!! I used some very helpful posts in the jh owners lounge to see what was useful or not. Probably should have done a fresh install but I usually wind up doing that once a year anyway.

I have read some people are having missing keystrokes with the keyboard. I have noticed this but.. I attribute this to getting used to the chicklet design. Spacebar is my most noticeable problem. More time should tell.

I have also noticed a small popping noise once in a while while I'm clicking around in windows. It's not too noticeable or bothersome but will definitely keep an eye (or ear ) out for this.

Will be putting some games on today but I foresee nothing but joy! I'm really lovin it so far..just got to get used to the size. I'm coming from a dell xps m1530...Lol. The backpack is nice but seems a little small for my needs. I'm considering the Slappa M.A.S.K. KOA or Highfive?

Thanks to all the posters here. Your GREAT!!!!!

 

Just got mine last night but not from xoticpc. On Thursday, I canceled my order with xoticpc and I placed an order with Powernotebooks.com. I received it on FRIDAY! It took ONE DAY for Powernotebooks.com to get this beast to me factory sealed! Big thank you to Donald!

I did a fresh install and partition and tried Starcraft 2 on all Ultra settings. Everything ran smooth when playing campaign with the occasional hiccup when things got intense (ie. large number of units fighting). I suspect I will have to bump it down to High settings for multiplayer. Coming from the MBP 15", the game looked totally different on this machine! My eyes were bleeding from visual overload!!

I'm still getting used to the keyboard design of this thing. I feel its a bit cumbersome compared to the MBP.

Haven't been on a windows machine for a while and was wondering if anyone can recommend some good software for backups (like time machine) and monitoring cpu temps (I'm using speedfan but wondering if there's something better).

I was also wondering if there was any way to change the function keys so that I wouldn't have to press fn+fn[num] just to change brightness or sound?

 

Backups? Here's one that will do the job nicely, and it will perfectly clone your HDD too. Personally, I prefer to backup my HDD's as a bootable 'clones'. In this way, if I ever have an HDD corruption, or failure, a simple HDD swap puts me back in business in less than 10 minutes.

EASEUS ToDo Backup (and it's FREE!)

AND, there is also a plug-in of this software, that you can add to these suites of helpful tools:

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (BartPE/WinPE environments - You can create bootable USB flash drives of these too)

and/or

Ultimate Boot CD (Linux environment)

Also, these suites, in and of themselves, offer several other backup options..... and a boat-load of other cool goodies!

Good stuff & works great!

ENJOY!

 

I've always found Powenotebooks.com (and Donald for that matter) to be very responsive. I am sticking to my original decision to hold out for the G53 but I'm glad to hear that Starcraft is playing well for you. I'll be downloading the high-def version of LOTRO and I'm eager to see how that plays on my new system...in a couple of weeks.

 

LOTRO highres should look really good with the G73jw. It even looks great with my old m1730. I played it for a bit to compare to WoW. Too much lag on the servers and combat animations do not flow too well. It's hard to find something you like after WoW.

 

medium and high using DX..11?

 

I noticed Gentech is now offering the Intel 6300 wireless card installment, complete with the 3rd antenna for $75!

I'd still say the 6200 is the way to go, but that's just my opinion. Guess it depends on how future proof you want to be, right?

 

whats the difference between the 6200 & 6300 wireless card ?

 

The biggest difference is that the 6200 supports 350 Mb/s while the 6300 supports 450 Mb/s.

The 6200 uses 2 antennas, the 6300 uses 3 antennas.

You can take a look here: Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 and Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6200 Overview

To make full use of the 6300 and its throughput, you'd need a pretty new top of the line router.

I think most people should be more than fine with the 6200, but maybe if you do a boatload of transferring files on a wireless network or something, maybe you want that extra speed (again, assuming you have the right router).

 

Thank you
guess you are right 6200 is more than enough

 

I wish I would have come across this forum and Gentech BEFORE I purchased my G73JW. I would have definitely purchased from them. Next time!

And this forum....is superb!

 

i ordered mine from xtoicpc on the 16th sep, they still havent ship it out til now, if you want the computer quickly, get it from gentech

 

Yah Gentech all the way. I ordered it on a Monday, they did a repaste, added the wireless card and did a KB mod. It shipped out Wednesday and I got it Friday with 2 day shipping . AWESOME!!!!!!

 

Was your order with a credit card or cash payment? I know they can start working on the laptop sooner with a CC payment + testing period. Not sure if other retailers test theirs but that is why xotic takes longer.

Just ordered mine from them too so we'll see how long it takes

 

they don't do test unless you have upgraded something . gentech would be better as what i am seeing people are getting their laptop on time . i already experienced with xotic service

 

ah ok, I only swapped out the blu ray for a normal dvd drive but currently xotic's price was lower than others

Guess my overall time won't be that long if they don't test it

 

they sent me email confirmed payment was received on the 16th.
this morning i got another email saying that it will be sent from 27-29th(most likely 29th), i wanted dvd combo instead of blu ray, thats the only mod.

 

but was it with a credit card or other method?

 

wire transfer

 

Similar experience with xotic. Ordered on the 13th, laptop got put in for customization on the 14th for a hard drive change and a re-paste. Got told on the 7th business day that one of their customization guys quit unexpectedly (like that's my problem) and that my lappy won't be ready until the 10th business day. So, here I am hoping that they finally ship it off tomorrow. Seriously? I whole 14 days to fit in a hard drive and re-paste?

 

Production time is currently estimated at 5-10 business days from Xotic :|

 

With modifications we ship in 1-3 business days.

 

Excellent! I'm holding you to that Donald!!!!

....well after the G53s arrive of course.