G73JH Users please post a few furmark runs!

Where are you guys finding a furmark that works on this laptop?
It seems like nothing works on this laptop that's needed without tweaking the hell outta it, lol.

I could definitly use some info on finding a furmark that'd work with this thing if you guys have one.

 

You can use this link and download furmark. Install it and then run it..simple.

 

I wouldn't download furmark if you even paid me to.

 

Any particular reason for you to say that

 

The user base for that application have cult-like tendancies I prefer to use Heaven engine for testing / stressing. It's more typical for a gaming experience. And if it's going to GSOD, it happens pretty quick.

 

Its a very useful application... So why not?

 

Guys... one off topic question here.

Ok here it goes.. yesterday, my c:\ had 13.4GB in it. Today morning- 14.4GB and now 15.5GB. i cleaned the registry, cache memory, IE cashe etc. now its down to 15GB. i havnt installed anything new. so what might this be due to??

 

Ok, so.. My thing after 12 minutes of Xtreame Burning Mode showed it capping out at 107C, at 1920x1200 res.

No shut downs or artifacting took place.

That... Good or bad for this laptop?

 

I also noticed an unexplainable 1,5gb more on my ssd now that you mention it... And i do have system protection (shadow copies) and hybernation off...

 

@ ZigZag557
I would petty much say that isn't good. anything over 100 is not good(atleast thats what i hear) + auto shutdown kicks in at 110c i think. thats why it dint shut down.

 

Exactly... see that?? thats what i cant explain. even i have hibernation, windows update and all that disabled. I keep tabs on the SSD every time i go to My Computer. Hence i noticed.
Also i analysed the fragmentation level on m SSD and it says 17% fragmnted...?? I thought this thing doesn't get fragmented that easily..

 

Heh fragmentation means nothing on a SSD There's no one-to-one relationship between the OS's logical point of view (sectors/cylinders/platters/etc.) and where the data is physically stored.

 

Thats pretty bad and unacceptible. If the ambient temperature was a bit higher your laptop would reach the thermal limit and shut down...
Id consider good under 90C and safe under 95C. More is just too much - more heat means more chances of damage to the components, which translates into shorter component lifespan. Not to mention a laptop shutting down on you while you work or play games is not part of a fully operational laptop...

 

Just asking for asking's sake, but what's the min-max operating conditions for the G73JH? I don't see it anywhere on the box?

I think I'd heat 100C easily if I didn't have air conditioning. Its like 35C indoors here in the Gulf (with suffocating humidity), and anywhere from 45 to 50C outside.

With air-conditioning set to 23C, I idle at 55C stock clocks, 44C, downclocked, and a max of 91C. Averages around 80C throughout gameplay.

 

Your temps are fine .... You have nothing to worry about temperature wise .. Hardware can fail but it wont be from your temps ..

 

When I called asus, they said it's normal to run at 95. So if you're in the ballpark, (3-5 degrees) then you're good.

 

Whell your temperatures are just fine. But no laptop should shut down at any reasonable ambient temperature - as a manufacturer you have to take into account people are using laptops in high ambient temperatures as well. And if he is hitting 107C already that isnt fine, since just a little increase in ambient temperature would cause him to shut down.
Ive owned many gaming laptops and even a crossfire 3870 AW with a shared heatsink for the two cards never broke 95C at any load or ambient i tried. So seeing such temperatures on a single GPU solution is unacceptible in my book.
Under 95C or at least under 100C with furmark if youre in a very hot area and under at least 60C idle on high performace is what you should have.

 

Thanks for reminding me about that one! I hadn't tried it since the wireframe mode was crashing on a previous Catalyst version.

Just tried a benchmark run (Catalyst 10.6) ...

Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.0
FPS: 16.7
Scores: 421
Min FPS: 9.9
Max FPS: 42.3

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Mar 7 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
CPU flags: 1596MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series 8.741.0.0 1024Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

HWiNFO GPU Sensor Max results:
Thermal Diode 90.0C
DispIO 78.0C
MemIO 90.0C
Shader 87.0C
Utilization 99.765%

Ambient room temp 25.2C

And wireframe works

 

I spoke with the guys at the place I bought it from (built to order), and they said that 107 sounds pretty normal for these laptops on a furmark burn test at that res.

I guess no games will actually run it that ragged anyways. I mean SC2 would max out my 295 at it's "gaming" max vs it's benchmark max, and it seems to be the same with this 5870. It's benchmark max and gaming max aren't exactly the same. It never goes beyond 96C when gaming in crysis and SC2 and mass effect 2.

 

A few hours of crysis pushed my previous laptops to just 2C lower than what i got in furmark.
I dont know about you but having such high temperatures is alarming to me. And you should know that most companies will tell you its fine since they want to save themselves the trouble of you returning the laptop for a repair/replacement...

 

True. It could shorten the lifespan of the card alot too even if I managed to avoide complete overheating with this thing.

What I wanna know tho, is is with our laptops not having a way to control their fan speeds?
We shouldn't be sitting at 41% in GAMING laptops. This thing should be cranking 100% when a game is going!
There's no reason for it to be so low and the temps to be anything past 85C.

 

Its made so the fans kick in full when the core temp sensor reaches 82C, which is just fine. If your card isnt one of the defective hot running ones and if you dont have a bad thermal paste application temperatures should soon stabilize after fans go to full blast.

 

Would you say mines a defective hot running one?

 

I dont know.. Perhaps its the paste, but it really has to be a bad application of TIM for it to run that hot..

 

This is my result
Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.0
FPS: 20.8
Scores: 525
Min FPS: 10.4
Max FPS: 55.6

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Mar 7 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
CPU flags: 1596MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series 8.741.0.0 1024Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1600x900 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

HWiNFO GPU Sensor Max results:
Thermal Diode 81.0C
DispIO 74.0C
MemIO 81.0C
Shader 77.0C
Utilization 99.561%

My ambient is 23C. Running Catalyst 10.6 on stock vbios with 0 issues.

 

I thought you were showing off until I saw the resolution

 

Yeah, I ran test just to compare temps with yours.And posted it , if someone will be interested in.

 

Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.1
FPS: 19.4
Scores: 490
Min FPS: 2.4
Max FPS: 52.9

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
CPU flags: 1708MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 8.683.0.0 1024Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1600x900 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

HWiNFO GPU Sensor Max results:
Thermal Diode 89.0C
DispIO 82.0C
MemIO 89.5C
Shader 85.0C
Utilization 99.656%.

Did you apply any thermal paste in you GPU?. for low temperatures.
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| 6gb 1333mhz DDR3 | 500GB 7200rpm HD | Bios 206/1.01 CC Ati