G73JH-BST7 from BB

Other than mounting the HDD to the bracket and opening up the bottom panel and dropping into place in the big empty slot, add 2 screws, and replace bottom lid?

 

I just got done adding the secondry SSD to my G73. but the system seem not very stable. sometime,the machine cannot identify the new SSD when it boot up. :S

 

Try swapping the drives in the bays.

 

Hi guys just coming in here to share the excitement
My G73JH-BST7 (grabbed from newegg for 1000$ which includes tax and shipping) is on it's way to my house!

 

nice!got 1 dollar less for mine. is it brand new? i got a refurb. it came with no box :|

 

mines refurb too :/ but with these forums I don't lack any confidence

 

Very nice any warranty? Mine was refurb and even out of the refurb warranty runs like a bloody charm.

Whip that 5400RPM out and get a SSD in there mine is on the way. After fixing all the niggles you will be very impressed I love the 5870M and it performs very well for such a cheap laptop along with the 720QM easily pushing upto 1.9-3.2ghz with SETFSB, I get better results & benchmarks than a stock 840QM after sorting out the timing issues.

 

SSD's have such a small size tho is it possible (very nooby question) to use one in parallel with the original 5400rpm drive? Let's say I buy a 128GB SSD and put windows 7 on it and my games, then on the 500gb drive put my movies and all that stuff... Is it possible? and how?

Thanks!

 

yup, totally possible and what a lot of ppl do. :>

Just put the hdd in the second slot of the G73.

 

Exactly ^^ the 5400RPM will be acceptable so have a play with it when you get it but in my eyes its very slow I remember my duel 5400 in my G70S and even when I had them running RAID 0 they barely just passed as acceptable load times, remember the G73 has totally separate SATA ports there is no RAID driver. You really want 7200RPM minimum I picked up two for very cheap giving me 1TB but one of my drives decided it was time to retire with his slippers and pipe the other day so I spanked out 150 quid for a nice fast SSD.

The load times may not be worth the price but they will knock vital seconds off your life

 

is there any guide online to do this? because I don't want to have windows 7 on both drives

 

does this Amazon.com: Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST95005620AS-Bare Drive: Electronics will work fine for this laptop? and better than the 5400 that it comes from stock?

 

Yes it will work and yes it will be faster.

It is a hybrid meaning you will have 4GB of solid state 'read only' available also so your commonly used items on the hard drive will be stored on this 4GB and accessed in speeds way above the 5400RPM drive.

 

Great for boot times

 

so for gaming perfomance you wouldnt recomend this hardrive? im trying to look for one ssd but i dont know to much about what brand is the best for this kind of hardrive

 

It wont make any difference to gaming only load times and map load times etc..

Gaming performance comes from the CPU and GPU.

The HDD will boot faster, load faster, access information faster. With 7200RPM and hybrid SSD A LOT faster than your 5400RPM.

 

SSD is generally useless after the game's loaded. Once a game's loaded you only need enough RAM.

 

when bestbuy release this version of g73jh? it came with the bios 209 or 211? or the first one bios?

 

My bst7 came with the 211 bios.

 

Just ordered a refurb G73JH-BST7 off newegg (they're up for 824 bucks, pretty good deal for a laptop that games about as well as G73SW-XT1--obviously the Sandy blows it out of the water for non-gaming).

Anyway, I've been reading up on these threads, and was just curious what the first steps I should take once I receive it are, especially regarding BIOS/VBIOS/ATI Drivers. Should I only update BIOS/VBIOS if I experience *SOD? What about ATI drivers? I'm guessing I ought to run the latest ones of those possible.

Any caveats I should know about? Anyone bother with/is it possible to OC the GPU? Thanks in advance for the advice.

 

can i upgrade the processor on this version of g73jh(best buy) to an i7 920mx? becuase i remember i had and asus g51vx(best buy version) and i couldnt upgrade to a core 2 quad since this version couldnt support this processor but the g51vx-a1 they can support the C2Q my fear is that i dont wanna waste again cash buying an i7 920mx and again this version of g73jh-bestbuy dont support it any know what is the max model of i7 that support this version?

 

Yes. 940XM is the max.

 

Hey everyone,

I'd like to start off by saying sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I looked through these forums for the last few days and have not found any definite conclusion for my question and I figured this would be better then creating a new thread. Okay, so I'm in the market for a new laptop and have decided that the best bang for my buck will be one of the G73JH models but I can't figure out which one. Newegg has three re-certified models for sale. The ($824.99) BST7, The ($853.99) RBBX05, and the ($899.99) BST6 . The BST6 cost more because it has more ram and and bigger HDD then the other two but its graphics card is a NVIDIA GTX 460M. I naturally thought this is the one I should go for but I keep reading mixed reviews that the ATI 5870 is better then the NVidia 460M, so I don't know which I should buy. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for the help!

 

Ok before you consider the BST6 that is not a JH that is an SW and it has the poor 128bit 460M GPU which is about 30% weaker than the 5870M if you want to game do not consider this model.

I have the RBBX05 and its a great model you just need to decide if you want the HDD space and a tiny bit faster CPU from the BST7 because they are pretty much the same the difference being you get a 740QM instead of a 720QM and 140GB more space.

Ideally you want to get an SSD for it anyway so the HDD is not important as most use it as their secondary data drive. I would pick up the BST7.

If you wanted to spend a couple of hundred more $ you could pick up a G73SW-XN1/2 model which are newer but the 5870M is a powerful card especially for that price.

 

Ah okay I see. Thanks Dallers I will go with the BST7.