Asus ROG G74 coming?

Did you ever get your G74, Climo?

 

It's been shipped and will arrive on friday! Woot!!

 

Hi

I've had my G74sx 3DE (i believe...its matt screen, but only 8gb ram 1 and 2x500 momentus) a couple of days now.

no OC or benchmarking -guy, never cared about it, until now.

haven't got the newest games yet, so fired up stock Crysis warhead expecting it to manage "Gamer" level at 1920*1080 at 30+ fps with no AA/v-sync.
sorry to say it didnt, only with "max power" (through this ROG -button) it manages i would say around 25 average, going down to 20 when everything hits the fan.

i do manage 30+ fps with "mainstream" on it.

I've got the latest 270.50 drivers, and its the 3gb vram card.

should i expect more from this one? or is the bottlenect the RAM or maybe non-update Warhead -patches?

regards

 

Check out the G74 owner's lounge thread, Adamanium and post your question there also. It can be found under Asus>Owners Lounge. There's a few of us on there and we have our G74's running. Maybe someone on there can help you out too. As for me, I can't say much since I've only played Warhead on a desktop and I'm unsure of how it would work on a laptop. I know the first Crysis needed a lot of power to run, just because it was a huge game with little optimization. Warhead was supposed to help that, but I can't imagine it being all that much better, since it was just an update to the original Crysis. So who knows. I know on Crysis 2, I'm getting decent frame rates on high/very high settings but I can't do ultra or max though @ 1080p and DX11.

And glad to hear it Climo! When you get it, you have to let me know if you are pleased! I'm loving mine thus far.

 

10F Toxic.

say, gettin the chills that gtx570m would be packed into G74 body in the near future - should we expect that anytime soon or is it higly unlikely?

regards

 

I'm not sure. If it is, I would expect a price hike which would start making other models more attractive. That's why I got the G74... there are faster machines out there, but the G74 is the fastest for the budget. Ya know?

 

G75 maybe, just look at all the previous versions, unless they got a new generation of cpu and/or gpu, I cant see why they would change the current just released G74

 

Crysis was never a well-optimized game for PC. Consoles run at 30 fps, and that is what the game expects to play at.

In the meantime, I would suggest OC'ing that gpu. You should be able to do 920/1680 pretty easy.

 

Not likely the 560M is built into the board. It would cost Asus far to much to replace the entire board just for a new GPU model.

 

What kind of max temps would one see on the 560m @ 920/1680 seeing that at stock they stay under 66c would it hit around mid 70's with that oc? I'm amazed at how cool the GPU is or should I say the revamped cooling on the G74 is amazing. My 460m can hit around 87c overclocked.

 

Furmark hit 69C with a 945/1684 OC

 

Can anyone help me with this:
I recently got my G53SW...I dont understand why it's showing only 174GB of space in My Computer when it should be having 750GB!! It shows OS( c: ) - 174GB!

 

you may need to merge the os partitioned with the unpartitioned space. to extend the partitions go to
comand promt
type "cmd" in the search box from start menu
then type "diskmgmt
then go to disk management and extend the partition to be merged with the unpartitioned space

 

Thanks a lot! I found it out later that the rest of the space partitioned from C drive wasn't activated...

One Q: I feel that 174GB for OS is like too much...is there any way to reduce it to say some 90GB or so and merge the remaining(ie 84GB) to the already previously partitioned space from the C (OS) drive? Will that "shrink volume" option available in disk mgmt be of any help?

Thanks 1ce again

 

I had to do that for my solid state drive, I was only left with something like, 20 gbs left on my 100gb ssd, so I started wiping my recovery drive, (I created backups, DO NOT delete your recovery without having some recovery back up.) And I used Easeus partition manager to merge my empty partition to the original and now I have something like 70 gb free on my SSD. Easeus can't be any more simpler, when it's literally click and drag for managing partition space on a harddrive.

If I were you, I'd take the extra partition you have and merge it with the OS partition. Delete everything on it, then open Easeus, and then drag the OS partition over the second partition, till there's nothing left on the extra one, and the OS partition fills the entire drive.

Unless someone else says something about this I'm unaware of, it seems to be your best bet in getting the full use of your harddrive. I've only done this once, and don't know if there's any drawbacks, but it seems to be right in theory?

 

actually, i just merged the partitions on a friend's new G74 using windows disk management. Of course, the second partition needs to be empty, but it's easy enough to do as well. I gotta say, the G74 is smexy, too bad the GTX560m in it makes it an unjustified upgrade from my current JH.

 

Actually, i was having an offline party with a small group of Alienware-ASUS ROG Vietnam User. One member, who is a vice-president of a retail computer store, took a brand new G74SX-A1 and let us open it.
My first impression on G74SX, is its weight. That thing is much lighter than the Dinosaur G73JH.
Second, it has one of the smallest battery i have ever seen.














Off-Topic: This is our offline party

 

That's awesome Windows' built in software can do that now!

Honestly I'm constantly forgetting about stuff Windows can do that it didn't used to be able to do. Heck, I guess those recovery disc programs are worthless now that Windows can do that too (and probably better)?

 

Well, you have to "delete" the partition in order to tell windows the space is not used for anything and it needs to be contiguous so there are limitations. It's great for merging partitions on a brand new Asus notebook though. For my more advanced partitioning needs, i use a gparted live cd.

 

Good luck for who sit behind Asus g74.

 

That's a secret weapon for the G74... blast the computer behind the G74 with some toasty air causing some poor unsuspecting user's frame rates to plummet with overheating.

Strike in silence.

 

I didn't have the option with mine. I deleted the partition and never had the option to merge it, no matter what I tried. Spent an hour trying to get it to work with Windows. As soon as I started up Easeus, it literally was a 30 second fix and I didn't even have to read up on anything. lol

 

I lol'd so hard =)

 

Can windows have inbuilt recovery programs too??...does that mean i don't have to burn all those recovery dvds for my new asus??

Thanks a lot tijo, toxic_society. Actually I wont to keep my OS drive separately. Do not want to mess around with that drive. I was seeking for removing all the redundant(extra) space from the os drive and putting it on the already partitioned drive... Is that also possible??

@all: my Dram freq shown by cpu-z is 665.2Mhz. Shouldn't this be 1333Mhz?

[edit]:

 

I'm not too sure about that... that's why I merged my two partitions, that way if I had any free space, I could tap into whatever wasn't being used in the Windows Partition.

 

Hey guys, if this worth it - Newegg.com - ASUS G74 Series G74SX-A1 Notebook Intel Core i7 2630QM(2.00GHz) 17.3" 12GB Memory DDR3 1333 1.5TB HDD 7200rpm BD Combo NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M ? 1749 usd. convert to sgd about 2250 bucks. if i purchase this from newegg.com will the warranty be valid or not in my country singapore? Has anybody bought from newegg before?? thank you.

 

Newegg's one of the most well known online tech stores in the United States, although I don't know that their return policies are all that great, or what issues you might have getting it shipped to you.

Not sure about the warranty issue, sorry!

 

I would really call them and find out. It seems like you get global coverage, but I think you should phone up ASUS and see what they say. The warranty is ASUS' responsibility. Newegg is just the reseller.

 

Regarding newegg, are they an asus authorized reseller?

 

Yes they are

 

Ok, so I have a slightly noobish question that I am ashamed to ask, haha. I ave build many PCs, but I am kind of new to the whole recovering/reinstalling from a hard drive partition

I plan to buy a g74, but I want to replace the 500g 7400RPM drive that it has with a hybrid drive, and then use the 500g drive it comes with as a second drive. To do this I will need to reinstall the OS. The g74 lets you make recovery dvds, or so I have gathered. I am just trying to confirm that the recovery dvd will be enough to reinstall the OS on a new drive, so I can reformat the "old" drive, getting rid of the recovery partition, to use it as storage. Has anyone does this or something similar that can confirm?

Thanks in advance!
Adrian

 

I'd say you do a clean install as the G74 will come preloaded with bloatware. Just do a fresh install on your new hybrid drive. Drivers can be got from member Chastity's page.

 

I would be fine with that, but alas, I lack a windows 7 install disk, and would the key that comes with the laptop work on a non-oem copy?

 

Would recommend an SSD personally the speed of a SATA III would be upto or more than double the speed of the hybrid drive, and then use the 500GB as your data drive.

 

Thank you FlyingFalcon for pointing me to Chastity's post. In her driver and application guide she gives a link to a universal win 7 installer, and says the key on the bottom of the laptop will work

Problem solved!

 

Regarding drivers, with a clean install the only drivers from Asus.com that I installed were:

-ATK drivers-these make the "fn" buttons work, like screen brightness, sound, etc.

-USB 3.0 drivers-Windows doesn't include these yet. Seemed to go on fine and work fine.

-Ethernet (AKA LAN) drivers-Windows didn't recognize the Ethernet port without these.

Besides that, I'll be putting on Asus' Blu Ray program...Roxio, I guess? And of course I grabbed Nvidia's newest drivers from Nvidia.com

 

Oh, and regarding a Seagate Momentus XT (the hybrid drive you were mentioning). I put an Intel 320 SSD in my new G74, but I have a Momentus XT in my Asus N80, and it's a great choice if you want something pretty fast but cheap.

The XT does a really great job keeping stuff on it's flash part, to the point where I really don't feel it's that different from an SSD for the important things. I mean any different in Windows boot times feels a lot more significant between a normal 7200RPM drive and the XT than between the XT and my SSD. Ditto for initial program loads.

The XT makes Windows pretty much instantly responsive, while on a normal drive there's always that period you have to wait before it's REALLY loaded even after you get the start menu. Okay, my SSD is better still, but the most drastic change was going to my XT.

It's a really nice drive, and I particularly like it for single bay systems...I mean I can't have less than 500GB now, and the XT gives you near SSD speeds IMO for hard drive prices in a good size.