The G73JH Facebook Revolution

God bless, and just use the machine if it's working. Just keep an eye on the temps.

 

all checked but the guy said run it on ur native screen resolution....1920x1080 or the bb version 16XX...not sure......and post results...from ur first post those temps u got are soooo high...and yh u wud be GSODin quite soon.....uness i bought this laptop to play a 1990 game like Contra then i have no beef with ASuS but to play these current games then hell yeah..have to do this......running to the fb wall....

 

My ambient temps usually mid to high 30s c.
When I triggered the thermal protection at 114c, it was with a bit of a crazy OC on a hot day.

Here's a run at my native res, 700/100 and with extreme burn in and postFX enabled, done in the evening at about a 25c ambient:

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/5181/furmarkextreme.jpg
It sat at 99c for the majority of the run; and tipped over to 100 for a few seconds because I sat it down on the bed from the table and covered the air intake. I quickly put it back flat on the table (no cooler or platform).

So while my temps are a bit high; so is my ambient. Even when I trigger the thermal shutdown, I don't GSOD. I'm not sure if there is a difference between my hardware and the ones that everyone is having such hard times with. I'm game to try things to see if I can cause the same issue though, maybe it will help pin down the cause, who knows.

EDIT: FWIW, I've played most of the 'problem titles' that everyone crashes on with no thermal shutdowns or xSODs. DAO, SC2, ME2, L4D2, tons of em.
On stock clocks I top out around 96-97c where my fan kicks over to 100%. OC'd, or running furmark I get up to 99-101; running oc'd AND furmark... well that kills my laptop pretty fast.

 

Well, no one has said that there aren't good units out there, but there are a significant percentage of ones with problems. The temp issues seems more prevalent.

 

Sure they have. A 'good unit' is one that will NOT gsod no matter what you do to it. I've put myself out there to test any thing anyone can think of to try and prove that even my unit with no symptoms of this issue is just not failing YET. Quotes below.

So ok. I haven't GSOD'd yet, but it COULD happen. And yes, my temps are higher than people who've repasted, but I live in a pretty warm area, and run a pretty healthy OC from time to time. Some people feel repasting is a good step and I have to agree... I'm not sure I care enough though since the warranty on my unit is 2 years and my last asus was rock solid for years even with the abuse I put on it.

What confuses me though, is that you and others who've repasted are topping out temps that don't even put your gpu fan to 100% speed. It seems odd. It feels wrong that paste makes a 20c drop possible, and that the gpu can hit 100% load on 30% fan speed and sustain.

If that is indeed the case, we may have stumbled across a difference between your laptop and mine. Mine is relatively recent, only 2 months old. My Gpu fan only gets to 100% at 96c, but once it does, it settles in and stays there pretty well.

 

The 30% fan reading is a bit erroneous. The fans actually will gradually ramp up to max. The sensor the apps are reading is the wrong sensor; they need to read the BIOS fan reading, not the gpu fan reading.

 

I'll have to take a video so people can see the dramatic noise and air jump my fan takes as soon as the gpu hits 96c. It's a huge increase, and not gradual at all.

I'm on metered internet here though, so putting it up on youtube will probably have to wait until this weekend.

I might also repaste this weekend depending on how busy I get, I've got some AS5 there and it's bound to be better than factory paste. I'm very curious about the state of my factory thermal paste and the types of ram modules on my 5870. If the local shop has ic diamond though I'll definitely pick that up, haven't used it before and it seems like 1.4g of a 1.5g tube of diamond being actual micronized diamond particulate should have pretty incredible thermal features.

So, any requests for specifics to check if I get the time to tear it down?

 

You can't say that without proof Chastity. Both Ken at GenTech and BTO have clearly stated the percentage is less than 1%. That's anything but significant.

Ken has in the past have even said, he gets very few calls about G73 having issues. Not GPU, or GSOD, just plain complaints...doesn't get many calls.

I won't deny that Asus should and should have in the past already released a proper vBios, but what you are saying is far from the truth and blowing this issue far out of proportion.

I've also noticed that there are complaints on other forums, but those people are actually the same people complaining here.

A bunch of unhappy G73 posting on a forum is far from representative of G73 owners.