Just tackled my first G73JH GSOD?

Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who compiled information on how issues on the G73JH are handled; it made fixing my problems much easier.

I've been running benchmarks and doing tests on this new system as a matter of course. I'd been getting crashes on the FFXIV benchmark, and was pointed to install a later version of Catalyst as a fix. After spending a few hours actually trying to install the drivers(a few crashes and BSODs, ergh), I finally got the system up to spec and ran the benchmark. Halfway through, I got the dreaded GSOD.

I checked my vBIOS and found that it was running a 012.017 version. I went ahead and flashed to 012.020.000.032. I haven't seen any problems.

However, is my performance up to spec? My specs are listed below:

G73JH:

Core i7 740QM
Mobility HD5870
640GB, 5400RPM HDD
6GB RAM
213 BIOS

I'm getting a 13096 in 3DMark06, and the aforementioned FFXIV benchmark was 3512. My temps with those benchmark runs hit 66C CPU and 75C GPU. It seems like everything's running fairly well on my end; do these numbers seem up to spec?

 

Those seem normal for a G73JH, and the temps are looking pretty good.

 

Yep, those temps are good. What were your ambient/ bench settings. If you want i'll try running the ffxiv bench once i have that info just for the sAke of comparison.

 

Glad to see this system seems to be running at spec. As far as my ambient settings, my room temp is about 68F(20C) and I was running the FFXIV benchmark in 720p(I unfortunately have the 1600x900 display). I was using stock cooling with no notebook cooler; the G73 was just sitting on my table. Even at load I'm impressed with how quiet this machine is.

I also ran the Far Cry 2 benchmark tool and managed a 42.27 average framerate with all the settings at max except AA(which I set at 2x). 8xAA seemed to produce a massive amount of microstuttering.