What would you do?

My girlfriend bought me an Asus g73 from best buy a few days ago. It worked fine on the stock drivers but wouldn't run the final fantasy 14 benchmark (main game I will be playing with the new laptop) Did a little searching and found out that the benchmark would not run for anyone with the 5870 card unless they upgraded to 10.7 driver. No big deal, or so I thought. As soon as i loaded 10.7 I crashed. Same thing happened on every set of drivers besides the stock ones. I took it back to best buy and they gave me a new one. The new one showed a little more promise but still failed. I got the 10.7 drivers loaded and I could load windows, browse internet, ect, but when I tryed to run the benchmark (or any other game with decent graphics) I got the GSOD. Did more reading, realized this was a common problem. Did all the fixes that are on various posts on this forum and this is where I'm at:

Once I overclocked my gpu to 705/1100 I can run the benchmarch (scored 3600 for anyone interested) Play Crysis on max settings with no gsod so far. Have not had time to test it on a longer gaming session.

My question is, since I'm still in my 14 purchase period should I return the thing and get something else. I know it's working fine now but it shouldnt take overclocking the gpu to be able to run games on the newest drivers. I'm worried this machine is all sorts of fail and is going to give me problems in the future. Best Buy wont refund me outright unless I pay a 15% restocking fee (which I just cant do). So if I got a new laptop it would have to be something that best buy sells. Any help or ideas would be appriciated.

 

Could always just keep swapping out until you get one that works right .

 

Thats a tough one, cause I know what you mean a lot of people are going to buying this notebook for FFXIV because its good price and will play the game. However the problem will be realized for those people when they download the news drivers and get GSOD. You can not play an MMO and get crashes or GSOD, it just isn't going to work. You can either take the $200+ hit and get a MSI, Sager or sit on it and hope to god they patch this notebook soon or by the time FFXIV comes out. For me I am stuck with it now and just hoping the patch, thats where I am standing with the situation.

 

Try updating the Realtek HD audio drivers. I found R2.51 on the net and it resolved an issue with trying to run Perfect World. However....I am seeing the GSOD/PSOD as they call it now when trying to run the Furmark 1.82 GPU stress tool. I am in the same boat. I'll have to bring it back over the weekend possibly to try a replacement or get a refund and eat the difference and find one of these others that supposedly are working ok. Don't know where to find an MSI but other one I think can be purchased thru these custom shops at a much higher cost.