Just wanted to thank you guys for this awesome forum!

Thanks to the threads here, I've spent entirely too much time and $$$ on my G73JH-BST7, including, but not limited to:
- CPU & GPU Pasted with ICD7
- Upgraded my screen to 1920x1080
- Maxxed out my memory (16GB)...don't come close to using it all.
- Installed a Bluray/Lightscribe drive (HP CT21L)
- Installed a clean Windows 7 install onto my SATA II Samsung 128gb drive
- Flashed to current bios (213) and VBios flashed
- Upgraded to the I7 940XM processor (sitting on my desk...I have to open my laptop up back up and get it done...after reading the threads, not expecting night and day results, but hey, this is all my G73 has to offer now, short of overclocking things). The only CPU intensive game I play is Starcraft 2, which already plays to my expectations.


Just wanted to say "Thanks!" and that there is a wealth of knowledge on here! I've lurked for over a year, but just now decided to join!

 

Wow man, you have dumped a TON of money into your system. Congrats on the purchase and let us know if we can do anything for you alright!?

 

The community here is great! I take this opportunity to say thanks too!

 

Well, no-one can claim that he's not doing it in style. They do it big in Texas!

 

Yeah, I have this forum to thank for it! (I do a lot of GIS and Photoshop work for my job, so I always appreciate the processing power!)

 

Waste of money... will you sell the Screen? CPU? GPU? and bla bla bla...?

 

Nice laptop you have there but do not listen to the bad things about the 940xm once you tweak it you will notice the biggest gains should you make use of it, that thing is a monster so get it fitted asap.

Welcome to the forum also!

 

wow...... that thing surely will beat g73sw/ the upcoming g74sx. congrats. how much you spent for g73jh+all of upgrade?
is it stable? no issues with touchpad , keyboard lag, gsod?
how about some nice benchmark to show off your machine with stock and oc

 

actually, the 940xm overclocked is either just under or about the same as a Sandy 2630 on stock. The Gen2 Intels are really an awesome development.

 

I was having the GSOD until I flashed the VBIOS and installed CCC 11.5 and haven't had an issue since then. I was having SEVERE overheating issues on the CPU (not the GPU) about a month after I bought it (i.e. CPU temps on all 4 cores consistently in excess of 85C. Repaste with ICD7 resolved that.)

It is VERY stable.

I'll get some benchmarks going when I get the 940XM in.

I visited best buy today to tinker with the new SW, and the INSANE amount of bloatware on that thing has it coming to a crawl, but I definitely like the "true" two button touchpad on it.


Probably going to hold on to the old parts (for now) "just in case".

I don't seem to have the keyboard lag issue.

 

Have everything running and now stable, but not without a few hiccups...

Not overclocked, after day #1, the display just straight up went blank. (I could still hear windows start up, and the bios start up sound, keyboard flash, etc.) so I took it apart again (I've got this down to a science now...can take it apart in about 10-15 min) and couldn't find anything wrong, so I put it back together and it decided to work. Ok.

Day #2: One of my (three) power supplies decides to die. I didn't think anything of it, as I'm not overclocking it at the moment.

Day #3: Power supply #2 dies. Ok this is getting weird. I put a laser thermometer on the outside of the brick and it was at 128F...that seems too hot to me. The 3rd supply (all 3 are OEM Asus BTW) seems to be keeping everything working just fine. The power brick gets up to 111F at 100% load. I have done a full burn-in test at 100% load for 24+ hours and the hottest temp the CPU saw is 78C. I'm using ICD7 paste on the CPU and GPU. During games (Starcraft2/Duke Nukem Forever for example), the CPU stays around 75C, and the GPU never goes over 63C.

As far as performance improvement, honestly I can barely notice any difference right now, but it seems I can have more running in the background without it affecting the performance or FPS.

However, I am purchasing the higher wattage power supply before I start tinkering with overclocking. The fan on the left side back (the CPU fan) seems to run at high speed more often now, but its still plenty quiet for me. (which doesn't really make sense to me, as the CPU is running cooler now)

So from what I can tell, the 940XM runs cooler than my 740QM did by quite a bit.... The 740QM went from 85C then with the ICD7 repaste went down to about 79-80C.

 

Yeah. Not properly, or smart ... just big.

But seriously, good work on the lappy. In the future, if you're going to go that route though, it may be more cost effective to do it differently.

 

So you dropped in a 940XM, and you managed to kill 2 power bricks by overstressing them with your overclocks.

Time to get the larger power brick.

 

Hah... well no overclocks. Just 940XM stock clock. I'm waiting to overclock once I get the bigger adaptor.

 

At stock it should not be going much higher that 65watt at full pelt so that is strange what wattage is your brick? You might want to check the power output of the brick against the plug your using because it sounds as though something is shorting it out.

I am running my 920XM at around 95watt with the stock 150 adaptor which has been abused for 12 months now and still works fine. But I am in the UK so I guess the voltage is different.

 

Well, recently I've been logging the temps and I think there's an issue with the sensor. It stays around 80c max on all 4 cores when at constant 100% load, and for a second it jumps to 97c and then right back to 80c. I think it's the sensor acting up.


At full load, my "Kil-A-Watt" that I have plugged into the wall shows it's pulling 119 watts. I have never checked this before, however.

 

What were you using stock 150 watt Asus adaptor?