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    Is this a good deal on this ASUS gaming laptop?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by jackcrab, Apr 30, 2012.

  1. jackcrab

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    Don't get the Best Buy models after the first G73jh, they gimp the graphics cards and even the hard drives on every model. :/
     
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    I got one its running great the G-card is not gimped. only crappy thing is the Hard drive. i swapped it out for a 180g intel sata 3 ssd. its a good buy. IF your playing MMo's you really dont need the fancy blueray player or extra 8 gigs of rams nor the 3d.
     
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    What's the bus width on your card?
     
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    its 128 and i know its a bit lacking compared to my 258 on my desktop but for what im running which is blizzard games it more then enough. Even the 670 is at 198 so there is not much difference. If your looking to play battlefield and FPS games might want to hold on till the 7970. But like i said if your a MMO player its a good deal.
     
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    128 is gimped compared to the non-BB model. Why say it's not?
     
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    how exactly is the g-card "gimped"? its a gtx 660m... how is it 'gimped' as you put it? aren't they all the same...?
     
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    The bus width on the BB models is only 128bit while the non-BB models are 192bit.
     
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    i dont know what bus width is!! how does that affect the graphics?

    but wont this computer be enough for diablo 3?
     
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    I'm not sure if right, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Think of bus width like a road. Wider roads, with more lanes, will allow more cars to go through at any given time. Same thing with bus width. The higher the number, the more graphics it can let through at any given time. For example, if this Best Buy model has a 128-bit bus and another model from somewhere else with the same graphics chip has a 192-bit bus width, the one with the higher bus width will run the game more smoothly. Like at 100 average fps, vs an average fps of 80. Diablo 3 will run on the Best Buy model just fine.

    With that said, according to the notebookcheck entry for this GPU, it seems like all of them have a 128-bit bus. Is that true?

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M - Notebookcheck.net Tech
     
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    All GTX 660s (Kepler core) are 128-bit. You are probably thinking of the GTX 670 that is in some of the other G75s, but that's comparing apples to oranges (well, maybe tangerines to oranges...)
     
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    this laptop has been a nightmare for me too. the internals are good but the laptop quality i think is pretty poor.
     
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    Interesting to know. Not sure why Asus did that but kept it with 192 on their other Nvidia platforms.
     
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