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    Asus G71g-a1, A2

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by icon007, Nov 2, 2008.

  1. icon007

    icon007 Notebook Evangelist

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    after contacting 2 venders that sell these and the company. this laptop cannot be upgraded to a 1 gig video. i was set to buy this until i found this out.
     
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    icon007 Notebook Evangelist

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    i know, but to come with 6 gig of memory and not an upgradable gpu hurts.
    if asus did that, they couldn't keep that laptop in stock.
     
    icon007, Nov 2, 2008
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    I think the Sager's might have upgradeable GPU's. Also, the laptop in my sig has dual upgradeable GPU's.

    If that Asus had 4gigs of ram, no Bluray, and a 9800M GT or GTX i think it would be an amazing laptop. I probably would have purchased it then as well. If I'm spending $2000+ on a laptop, I want it to be as future proof as possible. 6 gigs of ram isn't really future proof in a gaming laptop.
     
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    icon007 Notebook Evangelist

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    6 gigs of ram isn't really future proof in a gaming laptop. what?? that more than is offered in most config which is 2 or 4 gigs of memory.

    sager does have upgradeable gpus which is a second one i will choose from.5793 run 2.53ghz/4gig of mem and a 512 9800m gts ( use upgradeable), which i call and email several venders to make sure.
     
    icon007, Nov 3, 2008
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    What I meant was that you want to future proof the GPU, and maybe secondly the CPU. Ram shouldn't be the priority when 4 gigs is currently more than enough.
     
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    RAM can always be upgraded, ever heard of 4GB SO-DIMMS? But the GPU most likely never will be able to upgrade. Thats what he was trying to say
     
    plasma., Nov 3, 2008
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  8. fusionsenses

    fusionsenses The Unbannable

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    6 gb of ram is not called future proof in gaming, it's called marketing in gaming. Even for the whole life cycle of this g71 line.
     
    fusionsenses, Nov 3, 2008
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    Although you wont benefit from so many gigs in a game as I dont see any games being released that uses that much, but what it does it is allow you have more open programs...

    I very often have to restart my laptop after photoshoping before I play games to get max performance, but with 6GB Ram you wont need too anymore
     
    potentv, Nov 20, 2008
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    True, besides it also helps with fast alt-tabbing and loading times in games. I experienced it first hand on my rig going form 4 to 8 gigs gives faster alt-tabbing and fast recovering to desktop after exiting taxing games in order to launch another application right away.

    Though the price/performance gains going from 4 to 8 gigs is surely not linear but gives that snappy feeling in the situations I mentioned above. DDR2 is dirt cheap now anyway.

    Corsair did a 3 versus 6 gig comparison recently the way they did 2 vs 4 gig before. In certain situations it helps to have higher capacity.
     
    Light Thinner, Nov 20, 2008
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  11. fusionsenses

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    Yeah, if it comes with the laptop, then why not. But if you have to pay extra, then it's different case.
     
    fusionsenses, Nov 20, 2008
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