My Experience with the G73JH

Hello all, first, i'd like to say, this forum has been a godsend to my adventures wth my G73. Extra thanks to ViciousXUSMC, his posts have been helpful beyond compare.

This isn't a guide, or a benchmark post. I just thought I'd share with you all my experiences.

My story: I was lucky enough to snag my machine off cowboom for ~$900, i was skeptical, reviews were iffy, but i lucked out. No signs of wear, great machine. Dropped in a 4th RAM stick to get 8GB, added a 120GB SSD to boot from, and stuck in the 500GB / 4GB SDD hybrid that's been getting all the buzz.

Overclocking!

CPU: I've got a stock i7 720qm, got it to 1.844 using setfsb, set the slider to "170" Easily worth the buy.

I was able to get clocks of roughly 800 / 1150 stable, using rivatuner. To get rivatuner to work, I had to install Radeon Bios Editor, and ATIwinflash, which then would give me a little message "now rivatuner should work!" (when i went as if to load the BIOS from the card)and so it did.

After a while i got restless, and decided to play with voltages. I put it at 1.20 Volts in RBE, flashed clock speeds of 850 and 1100 to my card from it. Dear god did this increase headroom.


FOLLOWING != TRUE
I was nooby, changing voltages forces defalt clocks, not real results.
Rivatuner next: 900 / 1250 clock stable. [if only] I've tried gaming on it, etc. Ran 3Dmark '06 and got
13854 3Dmarks.
Result
techPowerUp GPU-Z Validation 7vpr7
CPU-Z Validator 3.1
(intel turboboost was active, but you can see the increased fsb: 152)



GSOD: Never got me, apart from when i push the CPU too far (not stable above 1.844), and when i pushed GPU too far before flashing the BIOS.

Anyways, thanks to all, that's my experience with this, imo, wonderful machine.

[edit] Thanks to gary key, kb light no more problems

 

Doesn't overclocking by SetFSB program refreshes every time after reboot laptop?

 

Yup but you can do some batch file / windows scheduling / startup menu wizardry to get it to reload automatically.

 

Can anyone show me a link where you got information about OC CPU on this forum? Searching on this forum is very complicated task.

 

Argh. ViciousXUSMC had a brilliant guide somewhere. Couldn't find it anymore, had it bookmarked a while back. Poke around, you'll get the picture after awhile. Mostly, its, you can't set multiplier except on extreme edition processors, either in bios or with throttlestop, which leaves the rest of us modifying the BLCK, setfsb is the program of choice.

 

How would you do that? I have no idea

Panther214

 

If you don't want to pay the donation (it's only $5-6) you can follow the guide that's posted for the g51. Just play around with the diagnostic settings and see how the numbers change when you enable twin turbo and go from there.