ASUS G50V AK020K - Opinions wanted

Seeing as my Acer Travelmate 8202 is on it's last breath after almost 3 years I'm in need of a new laptop. I mainly use it for gaming, video and surfing so I guess I'm about average when it comes to need in performance.

I've been able to play both Crysis and Fallout on it without any lag issues, so I'm not in need of something that'll run everything perfect for the next 5 years. But I'd like something that atleast would be able to run current games sufficiently.

However, one of the big annoying issues with the 8202 is the noise it makes, it's very loud; even when idle. Is noise an issue with the G50?

ASUS G50V
15.4"WSXGA+
Go9700M GT
T9400
4 GB
640GB
Blu-Ray
11n WLAN
BT
VHP

Will that fit the bill?
If you own one of these, please speak up with your experience

PS- I've tried searching myself, but I haven't been able to find much on this specific model nor on the G71V 7S024G which sits at the same price, but with a bigger 17" screen.

Thanks,

 

The laptop runs super quiet and really cool, although I have 2 x 250 gb hdds and no blu-ray so your experience may vary. The graphics card is quite powerful and will be able to run all games, but not at max settings and/or native resolution. You may consider the new G50's with a 9800m gts, but those are more expensive and I can't comment on the heat/noise.

 

I have one of the newer ones, and have owend a number of gaming notebooks. Its very quite, very...and it runs games well. Down side is its a bit thick.

 

G50's are silent, even nice when the fan is on high its not easy to tell if in a game or playing music at a low volume. They stay cool also.

Anyway get a G50vt (has much better video card) and some sites have the VT cheaper than the V's, haha.

I had the G50v-a2 for a few days and returned it for the G50vt-a2 and its a lot better.. Specs are the same less the hard drive size and video card but the 9800 does games much better... (but downside it sucks a tad more power, but not alot)

These notebooks are good at trying to strech the power, for example not in a game my video card runs @ pci-x 1x speed and like 169Mhz to save power, but once that game loads, it jumps to full power and is a beast...

 

Thanks for the replies

I'll try and see if I can find one, the only ones I've found online so far (norway) have been the Vs. It's alot cheaper to purchase from the UK or the US, but we have three additional letters on the keyboard so unless I want to copy\paste like a madman I'll have to buy domestic.

 

You could replace the keyboard with a local one

 

Or assign keyboard shortcuts to the new letters in the document editing programs that you use. (mainly some variant of Office, I assume?)

I often did that when I needed to type using special characters in Word.