Trading my G73JH for this Desktop - Need input

First off reasons behind this. Im half way thru my warranty on the g73. The g73 has left my desk once and it doesnt look like we are going to have any reasonable way to upgrade the video cards. If something breaks on the g73 i have to send it to Asus wheres if a desktop breaks i can usually just replace the part myself.

I have a guy offering me this desktop and LCD screen. He`s suppose to stop by this after noon. The desktop is a little dated but is comparable to the g73JH in specs. Here goes with his qouted prices on the new parts. He claims to have most paper work and boxes as well. I added it up and today the system would cost around $900 to build including the screen, mouse, keyboard. What do you think? Will i have problems playing current games with the xfire setup or will i be looking to upgrade right away?

Xfire setup
$154 MSI R5770 Hawk Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

$133 SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100283VX-2L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity

$ 74 Logitech G700 Black 13 Buttons Tilt Wheel USB RF Wireless Laser 5700 dpi Gaming Mouse

$ 32 LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS424-98 LightScribe Support

$200 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard

$195 Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor BX80605I5750

$ 80 Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive

$120 AZZA Solano 1000 Black/Black Japanese SECC Steel/Metal mesh in front ATX Full Tower Computer Case

$100 OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Modular High Performance Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandybridge Core i3 i5 i7 and AMD Phenom

$ 90 Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler - 140x140x25mm, i5, i7, 775, AM2

two sets of RAM

$103 OCZ PC3-12800 Gold RAM - 4GB, 2x2GB, 1600MHz, DDR3, Low Voltage, Dual Channel Model OCZ3G1600LV4GK

$103 OCZ PC3-12800 Gold RAM - 4GB, 2x2GB, 1600MHz, DDR3, Low Voltage, Dual Channel Model OCZ3G1600LV4GK

$190 Acer X233Hbid 23" Widescreen HD LCD Monitor - 1920 x 1080, 40000:1 Dynamic, 5ms, HDMI, DVI, VGA, Tilt Mount, Black

$ 35 Logitech Comfort Wave 450 Black 104 Normal Keys USB Wired Ergonomic Keyboard

 

Also. He claims the cpu runs stable at 4ghz if that means anything performance wise?

 

Pretty good trade if you ask me. The G73 is pretty much a lost cause for future gaming due to its lack of upgrade-ability, while this desktop still has a year or two of solid gaming left in it. Videocard and CPU easily resellable and upgradeable if need be. Unless you need the portability of the G73, you got yourself a pretty good deal.

 

Good trade or not I refuse to read further into that wall of Desktop related text. Dont do it!

Every single Pro is applied to the desktop and every single con is applied to the laptop.

We know desktops are better but to me a laptop is good looking, compact, and fills me with excitement knowing how hard it is going to be to A. Get it to perform well B. Modify, replace and upgrade and C. Fascinate with its ability to produce results in something as thin as a roast dinner.

You will trade in a masterpiece for a box and your electricity consumption will be 10x higher for only double performance.

Lest we not forget you will be banished from this forum and have to mingle with the desktop people over on desktopreview who we call ''normies''. FOR SHAME!

JH FTW.

 

You know i posted this thread on Desktop Review yesterday. One reply in a day. I will miss it here. This Asus forum is great. I read it everyday even tho my g73JH has been perfect. Thanks for the input. I`m not so nervous about it now. Hopefully the guy comes thru and shows up!

 

I agree with that and you are correct you will. I have spent time in the Alienware and Acer forum and both great forums but I find knowledge and support is passed around here a lot due to the nature of the Asus problems and the atmosphere thrives when people face the same issues, not to mention when those dorky americans wake up the forum buzz's

Turn the bloke away he wants your laptop for a reason to join us here in this great society

 

oy vey

 

Good trade, just make sure there are no artifacts on the Cards. Do a mem test if possible.

But a laptop is a laptop, its mobile, if that loss is ok then the Desktop is great. it all depends on your choice for mobility.

 

Bad trade.

If you are going to trade portability for power, then you better get a lot more power for it. G73jh is an amazing portable gaming machine.

X-Fire is a no-no for me.

Top 3 reasons why people have problems with AMD GPUs

#1 The game doesn't have proper multi-GPU, cross-fire support. Have to wait a month for a proper patch for it. Crysis 2, Shift 2, Witcher 2, EVERY game I've played had players waiting a month or months for patches to resolve their multi-GPU, cross-fire and SLI issues.

#2 They have to wait weeks or months for drivers to be released with proper profiles and driver fixes to support the game for cross-fire.

#3 Cross-Fire hardware issues.

That's all I need to say. If you want a good trade for your PORTABLE gaming machine for POWER. I'd only accept at MINIMUM a SINGLE GTX 560Ti or HD6870. But really wouldn't accept unless it had a SINGLE GTX 470 or a HD5870.

 

All 3 of them misconceptions. I know because I have a crossfire machine as per my sig.

Every vendor has issues with new releases and both of them have released preview drivers for BF3 and Rage for example.

Witcher 2 is one exception that took way too long, but citing one problem doesn't make all their stellar work with other titles irrelevant.

The gains are well worth the rare pains we might have to endure. Be it on a laptop or a desktop.

 

Fine for you but it's not a misconception.

I'd say about 95% of all issues I see on Guru3D with AMD, or even on AMD support forums is about cross-fire.

And it's not just Witcher 2, it's EVERY SINGLE GAME I've played this year I see patch updates for SLI and CF being released nearly a month or more than a month after I've already finished the game and bored with it.

I personally will never buy a multi-GPU setup, just not worth the problems.

 

Same here man
I just traded my desktop for a G51VX and I'm never looking back

I wouldn't do the trade for a desktop
The desktop uses WAY MORE POWER. so you will be wasting electricity for little gain.

Honestly your laptop should be able to play any game you need. The best gamers know that you dont play on max settings anyways. Especially not in a competition.

 

have a read at this.

The GPU scaling in lower model cards is a problem if u have good quality monitor.
I am facing the same problem with my dual 6770 HD cards. The picture is clear in my old monitor, but in my new 24 inch ASUS LED its horrible.

I wish I had known this before buying my radeons....

 

ATI are fine for single cards but Crossfire is not worth it.

If you love benchmarking then they will be great but you will spend a majority of your time trying to get crossfire to perform correctly, I have had several SLI and Xfire mobile setups and they all cannot get near a single powerful card in gaming performance.

In some games you even see 0% performance gain and it also causes some to suffer, compare that to the heat and power consumption its a no go imo.

 

meh...not worth the trade.

...at least not for that desktop.

 

Don't trade the G73JH for that desktop. Crossfire is a headache, and those cards together aren't that great. If it were for one GOOD card, like a GTX 570 or Radeon HD 6970, then it's worth considering. I was just looking at a desktop build on newegg, and there's MUCH better equipment out there than the desktop shown in this thread.