Asus G73JW discussion thread

LOL! Good 'catch' Donald!

 

Those temps look promising, furmark that thing up

 

Disregard my initial post about the display looking larger, by default "screen magnification" was set to 125% rather then 100%

 

Im sure there will be Bios update

so when we buy from any reseller they all will
have same Bios updates or all sellers have there own
different kind ?

Thanks

 

^The G73JW will ship with the default BIOS from ASUS. With the newness of it will come with the stock bios.

Downloading furmark! I do like the two button design below the touchpad vs the 1 button on the JH.

Attached Vantage Run with 259.47

 

Don't worry about the hasty screen reporting. It's understandable..... you got caught up in the awesomeness of that thing, didn't you?

And how does that screen look, and is it the same screen as the 'JH' model?

 

460 vs 5870 plz.

 

I did

Screen is the same model as the "JH" model. (HSD173PUW1)

 

There are many gaming benchmarks yet to be run..... and we will know more of this in time.

 

LOL! I THOUGHT SO!



And many thanks getting out this preliminary info Justin!

 

Thanks -=$tR|k3r=

Furmark has been running for about 6-7 minutes and max temp is at 78c. It hovered at 73c for a while.

 

This is good news indeed...... so much for those concerned with the nVidia BURN. When do you anticipate having your video review posted?

 

Joseph is just starting the video review as we speak. Will take a hour or two for the video and then several hours for YouTube to upload it.

Joseph just stopped Furmark at 20 minutes and the max temp was 78c. Very good!

Sorry Joseph is running these tests and updating me with progress, little bit of a lag.

 

GREAT! I look forward to the video! AND, YES, very nice on the temps! Get BUSY Joseph!

 

78c is impressive as long as you guys aren't furmarking in a freezer Hell even clevos run hotter than that... now it's gonna come down to benchmarking and realworld vs the 5870

 

We weren't supposed to put in a freezer when running? lol

Keeping very good temps. Room Temp is about 72F

 

LOL! Hakira made a good point! It had me wondering your ambient temp.

 

Great info!

 

Thusfar.......... It is looking SWEET!

 

wow its not really that hot. looks likes its all upto the benching.

 

If most of the G73JW 460m's, are consistent with Justin's preliminary furmark findings, this thing is gonna run cool in most any game.

Justin, how were the fan speeds, and noise during the furmark run?

 

I might have to drive down to Gentech PC and pickup my G73JW instead of waiting for the shipping (it's only 2200 miles away). I'm dying to get it.

 

I'm betting the fan noise would be even more quiet than the JH. The G73's cooling has always been whisper-quiet, and 78C really isn't that much considering the GTX 460M's running on all cylinders.

 

As for the noise in Furmark it is nearly the same as the G73JH, mild fan noise. We are adding this to our video clip to give an idea of fan noise when the GPU is being pushed with Furmark.

 

Wow, i just want to thank you guys at xotic for doing all this so fast and keeping us up to date with the testing.

 

Here are some Crysis Warhead screenshot, tested at 1920x1080 4XAA at gamer mode:

 

Nice Ken! It looks like the temps & marks are pretty consistent with those previously reported. Look'in GOOD!

Thanks Ken!

 

It's great to see good temps coming out of separate testing. Even moreso assuming this is based on the stock thermal paste. I've been trying to decide whether or not to bother with the IC Diamond thermal compound option or not. It's getting harder and harder to wait for the G53 at this point. Might have to cave in to a G73...

 

Ken did you run HW Monitor during Vantage? 43C Max on the GPU?

 

No that was idle temperature.

 

Which is consistent with Justin's earlier reported idle temp of 41C......

 

looks like it idles low but seriously , this is inferioer to G73JH in gaming performance... P7300?.. the G73 gets P8000 at least.. good thing i got the JH..

 

Looks good Ken... Scores and such are about what was expected from the 460m atleast out of the box...

I am sure drivers will improve performance in time ...

The temps though are better then i think everyone expected them to be thats for sure ...

 

I would not say 700 more points in Vantage is anything to get excited over ...

I grabbed a JH over the JW myself(again) but it was more of a financial decision ... I wanted the JW and that new card thats for sure ...

Ah well life go's on ...

 

Thanks Quadzilla, here is the screenshot of Furmark:

 

Yeah those temps are very good ...

Hey Ken when you get a chance can post a pic of the GPU from what little you can see of it with the bottom panel removed ?... Curios to see how Asus designed the card ..

 

I can show you the whole video card and it's big.

Asus use new type of thermal pad now, it's kind of like liquid thermal pad.

 

Well it looks like it sure is working... also that is one big card+heatsink. Is the Jw still retardedly difficult to disassemble like the jh?

 

^Yes it is.

 

Wow Ken, looking at that, I don't know whether to praise new technology, or be afraid (be very afraid!). Can you research this new 'liquid thermal pad', and get more info. I am just wondering if there is a case to be made here, for the ICD upgrade. I assume the CPU uses the same material? Undoubtedly it seems efficient now, BUT..........

 

Yeah when redoing paste on the G73 you hope you do it right the first time ....

As for the card it is HUGE..

 

These cards run soo cool out the box you will have nothing to worry about ... If you opt for the ICD7 upgrade it will only get better ... I would not even bother with the Liquid Thermal Pro in this instance....

 

It's not really liquid, more like warm gum some sort.

Yes CPU and GPU use the same thermal paste as the G73JH.

 

Thanks Ken, but how are the properties of this new stuff compared to ICD7?

Hey, I enjoyed your new G73JW video here, but I must ask, who is that narrator? He's SEXY, in a 'soothing grandma to sleep' kinda way!

(DANG IT! Now I told ya Ma, if you're gonna play that video, take her darn teeth out first!)

 

His voice is deep enough to be a voice actor imo lol

 

Some MW2 screenshots 1920x1080 4XAA :

 

*sigh* Don't NVIDIA cards have lovely colour and vibrancy compared to ATI?...

 

Dang Ken, less blood splatter on the camera lens, please!

 

Yeah they do.. you can crank up the saturation in the ATI control panel to help alleviate some of that ... Its somewhat close to digital Vibrance ..

For years i didnt want to touch an ATI card for the lack of that feature but when they added it finally, it helped alot...

 

I actually found color saturation to help a bit better with colors than nvidia's digital vibrance (it's the same thing, different name). I compared my old G51J screen to screen with same games and images. It has been on ATi for a while but man it's like super hidden. Like they are ashamed of it

I was surprised to see the MSI having better colors all around with the exact same screen. Both configured with Digital vibrance (GTX260m G51J) vs the Color Saturation (MSI GX660R).

Anyways, looks like a nice GPU upgrade to the GTX260m, but from MW2 and Crysis, it doesn't quite look up par to the HD5870 yet. A mild OC will help reach HD5870 performance in no time. (I got over 70 in MW2, and 30fps average all high 1920x1080 in crysis)

And temps are good too! Better than G73JH. It has the same temps as my GPU with 840/1040 clocks, which says a lot already considering I have a higher speed fan.

And damm, that GPU is HUGE.