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    ASUS G71G-X1 - video card surprise!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by green3q, Dec 10, 2008.

  1. green3q

    green3q Newbie

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    Just purchased an ASU G71G-X1 from NewEgg. Listed stats are
    ASUS G Series G71G-X1 Intel Core 2 Duo T9400(2.53GHz) 17.0" Wide UXGA 4GB Memory 320GB HDD DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

    The sticker on the computer also indicates that it has a 9800 GS.

    However, Device manager and display controls all tell me that the card is a 9800 GT. (yay?)

    Anyone else have this experience? Any ideas how to confirm which card I've got short of cracking the case open (and voiding the warranty)?

    Mostly curiosity... don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth and all... (though I suppose that would have saved Troy, had anyone thought to do so).
     
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  2. RangerXML

    RangerXML Army of None [TRH]

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    Its been established that the 9800M GT is a driver thing and that you really do have a 9800M GS. I've been looking at getting a g71g for a while now and its come up before.

    ...or were you expecting a 9700M GT?
     
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  3. frostbit3

    frostbit3 Notebook Evangelist

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    Well in the G50VT Asus has said (According to other people) that it is actually a 9800GT, and that they underclocked it because the temperatures were not to their likings.
     
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  4. David

    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    9700M GS = underclocked 9800M GT

    If you use a 9800M GT driver on a 9700M GS, it will show as 9800M GT. Also all benchmarking utilities (3dmark06, everest, GPU-z, etc) shows the GPU as 9800M GT, hence some people may think they have a 9800M GT, but in fact it's really a 9800M GS.
     
    David, Dec 10, 2008
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  5. RangerXML

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    That would be really interesting, there have been proven cases with actual video cards for desktops like the 8800GS/9600GSO to a full 8800GT/9600GT even doubling the vram after being flashed in some cases because it was just disabled. They couldn't sell the cards below market because of NV and wanted to get rid of the boards, so they just flashed them with a lower cards bios.
     
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  6. David

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    Hmm. that's interesting... i gotta say i love their cards, but hate their business practices. They did a classic bait and switch for the Asus U6V recently as well where they renamed and bios flashed its GPU from 9400 to 9300 :( I'm guessing they nvidia and Apple have some kind of agreement where the new macbook/mbp are suppose to have the "first" 9400 GPUs.
     
    David, Dec 10, 2008
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