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    Distorted sounds in G74SX left speaker

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by edskii, Aug 22, 2011.

  1. edskii

    edskii Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, everyone,

    I got my G74SX-XR1 from Sam's Club couple of weeks ago. It has really terrible 5400RPM HDD, that is killing the whole joy of using such a great machine. Plus I noticed that left speaker starts making distorted sounds when Creative THX enabled, looks like it is can't handle bass well, in spite of that right speaker does it just fine. Other people have found the same problem in their G74 too:

    G74SX Speaker crackle/static

    Should I return it to Sam's Club and get another XR1 from XoticPC ? I will end up paying same money, but Xotic ones have BluRay drive and 14GB RAM. And for additional 10$ I can get 500GB 7200RPM drive that's not going to be a bottleneck anymore. Eventually I will get SSD for the OS. But it'll take 7-10 days to get the new XR1, including the return process :(

    http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g74sxxr1-p-3139.html?wconfigure=yes

    Thanks
     
    edskii, Aug 22, 2011
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  2. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    Sounds like a plan, plus they can test the system before shipping.
     
    Chastity, Aug 22, 2011
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  3. Zymphad

    Zymphad Zymphad

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    Why keep something that you are unhappy with? You answered your own question.
     
    Zymphad, Aug 22, 2011
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