has anyone upgraded g73 cpu?

Has anyone personally upgraded their G73 cpu? If so to what? also where can you buy the mobility i7s? I cant seem to find them anywhere.


also is it possible to upgrade to the new nvidia 480x when it comes out? with some obvious cooling mods?

 

Yes there have been members who upgraded there CPU's but it's not easy at all, you basically have to take to whole laptop apart, seriously!
And No you can't upgrade to a 480M GTX more than likely it's not supported in the BIOS.
You can find i7 on Ebay.

 

why do you have to take the entire computer apart for? cant you just pop the old CPU out and slap one in? or is there tricky screws all over the place and you need to rip the entire thing apart??? so the GPU cant be upgraded?

 

would this work in a G73?? can someone show me a post where can lead me to installing this


Intel Core i7-920XM Processor2.0 GHz 8m 1333 MHz Q3B8 on eBay.ca (item 320539357685 end time 26-Jun-10 10:15:32 EDT)



pretty good price,, considering most places charge 1000 bucks for this upgrade alone.

 

whats with that low price. Thats amazing. Heck, maybe when my warranty runs out, I'll attempt to put that in maybe.

 

Here is a video of how to take it apart... I put a 920xm in my G73 when i had it and its no walk in the park ... I have taken apart TONS of laptops and this one was a challenge thats for sure ... Getting the keyboard off while not destroying it probably being one of the worst aspects...

Asus G73Jh Disassembly Take Apart G73 Replace Video Card - Built To Order Forums Build Your Own PC or Notebook Help and Support

 

And you have to place the RAM in certain order( forgot exactly how it works ) for everything to work properly.
I have no idea why.

 

Yeah that hidden ram module has to be empty the first time you boot with the new CPU. Just plain silly.

Cheers,

 

For some reason i never had that issue even though others did ....

 

I dont see the point in upgrading the CPU when almost every game at 1080p is going to be GPU limited.

 

Sure that may be the case for games, but for encoding or rendering, that will help just a little I'm sure

 

oh yeah i encode tons and tons of movies etc... id kill a man to take some time off that process... especially when im late for a hot date or something and im waiting for a ripped movie to encode hahaha...

Id like to see some times that guy with i7 980s OC'd are getting encoding full dvd rips.... or how many frams a second .