asus g53jw vs asus g53sw

asus g53jw specs

- 15.6” FHD 16:9 LED Backlit Wide screen (1920x1080) Super Clear Glare Type Screen
- Intel® Core™ i7-740QM, 1.73-2.93GHz, (45nm, 6MB L3 cache) - Standard
- nVidia GeForce GTX 460M 1,536MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11
- 8,192MB (8GB) DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory
- Combo Dual Layer SuperMulti 8X DVDRW Drive
- 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s)
- Internal 5-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/ xD-P)
- Internal Bluetooth + EDR
- Built-in 802.11 Wireless B/G/N - Stock Wireless Card
- Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera
- Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included
- Smart Li-ion Battery (8-Cell)
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit


asus g53sw

same exact specs as listed above but the new 2nd gen intel i7 2630qm

now my question being, is the performance going to be a great enough difference between the two cpu's that i should wait for the sandy bridge?

I don't need the laptop right atm but i would like to make my purchase soon so i can get back to playing my games

 

Well im sure this will be moved to the Gaming SubForum soon

lol anyways yes theres a decent difference between say the 740 and 2630, however in terms of gaming* performance, no, youll be bottlenecked by the GPU. Unless you play big RTS games like me (not SCII, something more like SupCom) or something else more CPU demanding, gaming performance should be about the same either way.

Although it seems you arent in immediate need of a laptop so if thats the case you might as well wait for the SW version. The sandy-bridge can hit higher turbo speeds in quad mode, has a clock for clock advantage, and will give better battery life.

Ugh, not sure if ive helped good luck on your choice, cant go wrong either way to be honest.

 

If it was me, I would Get the cheaper one. Reason being is that in the future the 460m will be the bottleneck, neither of the Processors will be.

You won't notice much of a difference between the 2 processors with gaming.

SC2 or any other rts will benefit from the faster processor. The increase will be marginal as the gpu won't be able to keep up with the cpu if it ever gets bogged down that far.

Its all about how much your willing to spend.

Edit:
If you don't need one right now maybe wait for the 480m or 485m to come down in price.

 

yes, id personally love to the see 480 or 485 come down in price, that being said i dont think they will drop soon enough unless the new nvidias and ati's get launched

 

True...

You really can't go wrong with either of them at that price range. battery life should be about the same as their both 45watt. In any case battery will probably be around an hour with both models.

 

battery life isnt an issue, i just need something reasonably cheap in 1200-1300 price range i can play sc2 with good fps

 

@Scion

They both max at 45watts, that doesnt mean they are always at that.

The sandy uses the 32nm process vs the clarksfield 45nm, and therefore should run cooler and have better battery life, afaik.

And Blizzard (as always) did well to optimize SCII, so unless you play lots of custom games (multiplayer custom, not skirmish) that have rediculous numbers of units, the sandy wont give you a boost in that game. Only bigger, (and far worse cpu optimized lol) rts games like SupCom with 1000s of units or games like DragonAge (I think, Chastity can chime in here if im wrong ) will benefit from the additional CPU power...

I agree with Scion about the "go with the cheaper one" though otherwise youll always be waiting

 

i only plan to 1v1 or 2v2, if i did play custom games it would be something more like an aots im not a fan of mass units, if the cpu did become a problem i could upgrade it but my biggest worry is the gtx 460m and how well it will perform over the next few years

 

ahh agreed, forgot about the 32nm and the the IGP in the CPU so yeah it will probably be better on battery.

 

also one last question, is the gpu upgradeable or soldered on the g53jw-a1?

 

Correct. Unfortuanlly ASUS doesnt want to activate/use the IGP in their G series line even if it will help battery greatly. So battery life and the coolness of the laptop will increase with the Sandy Bridge CPU but not as much as it could.

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I don't think its upgradeable, I also don't think its soldered in.
Asus seems to put reverse mxm cards in there laptop so you can't change them. Also bios might be an issue if a card were to fit.

 

Unless I'm just looking in the wrong places, the new G53SW is $2000+ (I've seen it for $2500, with the starting/base components, not the 485m or anything like that). The G73SW is about $1700, maybe $1850 if you're going by MSRP. So like I said in another thread, I think it's ludacris (the rapper has made it so I don't know how to spell this word) that they're charging hundreds more just because it's 2" smaller. Seriously, 2" smaller = add on hundreds? Wish it was like that for other things... But ya, who the hell would pay for that? You'd have to be very desperate for a 15.5", like you own a $1000 crazy expensive leather briefcase that will only fit smaller laptops.

I was planning on waiting for the G53SW because I THOUGHT it would be like $200 cheaper. Guess not.

 

Yeah. Imagine that, smaller size = larger price. I bet your cell phone costs more than your netbook, too.

On one hand, you could think that asus is just doing it because of price gouging. On the other hand, it might be a question of economies of scale - they probably ship more 17 inch DTR laptops than 15 inch ones... (why would you get a small desktop replacement laptop?).

 

Dude at XoticPC told me that they might be jacking up the price because they want people to think they have the 15", when in reality they don't, it's just a pre-order. He told me that according to the last ones, it will be about a $150 difference, with the 15" being cheaper. So it sounds like smaller laptops aren't actually more expensive, it just is a couple resellers being stupid. Anyways, I went with the 17".

Edit: Ya, it appears that those insane prices were because... those were Australia prices (doh!). Dude on another thread said the 17" on there is like $2700, which is on par with how it should be as far as price difference between 15" and 17". I understand if it was like the technology of a 17" packed into a 10", but it's not. Anyways my mistake.

 

Well, if you look your in the UK, it may as well be $2700. The price of a G73sw is £1700, about $2700 (that’s US dollars not Australian). I'd love a g53sw, I'm not expecting it to be cheap