G72gx Ati 5870hd

G72GX ATI 5870HD


Hello all My First post but have been reading for some time now, Great Knowlegable people here.

I bought my Asus G72 GX Bestbuy rbbx 09 with the quad core 260GTX and thought this was the G73 of the time Bang for the buck then and if i knew about the G73 i would have waited.

Anyhow i already own this one and i'm still happy with and will use it for awhile and maybe get the AW M17 r2 when issues are fixes or the G73 this summer?
I have been able to over clock the Q9000 Cpu to 2.2 Ghz Stable along with the 260M OC to Stock 550/950/1375 Clocks and play COD4 for several hours with the rear Propped up an inch and it cools just fine in a 68 degree without any throttleing or crashing

I have recently Dropped in a X9100 Core 2 extreme Cpu 3.06 and OC that to 3.1 with 550/950/1375 Hooked up to my 50" Plasma And got a 6000 3d mark Vantage score.. Seems decent for this machine


Ok i have just done a teardown of the laptop to redo the Thermal past to ICD and took many Pics of the board and video card it even says G71MXM on the card lol But yea I know that many may Curse the Reverse MXM due to Upgrade but I have it and if the G73 has it too

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7524/img0262g72breversemxmca.jpg


Cool new upgrade path for the G72 Maybe? Of coarse cooling and support aside.

Maybe If I can get my hands on one of the cards Would love to try..


Den

 

Good job man, perhaps we can get some confirmation on the 5 series GPU, and hopefully, theres a small chance of it actually working! .

 

thanks man yea maybe


Here's a few more pix of the inside board, I've Been a hobby laptop tech for years since the Inspiron 8000 geforce go days.




http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1577/img0275mbincase.jpg


another mb pic
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7320/img0268mb.jpg


this is a shot of the pn g71 card
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7150/img0265picofg71pn.jpg



Den

 

I have got the Q9000 up to 2485Mhz before it did freeze shortly after


http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7267/coretempscr2485mhz.png

 

nice, yeah i've that problem, people have nailed it really down to ram tollerance, the q9000 is capable of a lovely 2.8ghz, as seen in the asus W90 mad overclock sessions haha.

 

Why OC so little? push that x9100 to 3.6 ghz. GPU should be stable up to 600/950/1450

 

Haha, but take your time getting there, always remember that! never go for a direct clock to clock OC, play it safe and slow.

 

"Why OC so little? push that x9100 to 3.6 ghz. GPU should be stable up to 600/950/1450 "


Ahh Yes i know this is for Playable long term clocking.
I have tried 600/950/1450 with the Q9000 W/Mild OC and Get The Freeze So cooling capacity is limiting with the single fan.
for benching
I do Push this machine hard and try the limits and I will be testing the X9100 Though ES to see what the pair can do?




"Haha, but take your time getting there, always remember that! never go for a direct clock to clock OC, play it safe and slow. "

Yes i have found that out that hard way I got in small steps and even then at times have has the first step lockup on me When Cold it seems so i let it warm up a little before.

I do have a Zalman NC2000 But this laptop seems to run best overall when Propped up in the rear.

With the cooler it shows super low temps but the airflow to parts of the board and memory chips do not get the flow that comes with the fan spinning on high then I can remove the cover and place it directly on the cooler and try super clocking it lol


I want to see the limit and do what Mandrake done with his M17X to this Laptop this being this model lost all attention to the New G73 Which looks Awesome!

 

Haha do it man, you could also attempt a flash to 280m gtx (but thats a risk you DONT have to take!)

Mandrakes done some mad stuff, i think he had a qx9300 running at 4ghz per core..Thats like a guiness world record score haha.

On a laptop...

 

Was a 280GTX Reverse MXM made? If so i would also do it.
think they were only MXM 3.0?

All yes that Q9300 is a Beast! 4gb per core is Sick and M17 has Much better cooling too doubt it would pass 3 for long in this laptop unless i under clock the Gpu then maybe?

Just waiting for a Dropped/Damaged parted out G73A1 on here or E-bay

 

"Haha do it man, you could also attempt a flash to 280m gtx"

Maybe i misunderstood Flash the current card? Is that possible or Flash support to the MB I'm Guessing, Would still need a Reverse MXM version still then,

Den

 

Aye, i believe Mr Moo/"The Moo" dont know his current name flashed his GTX260 to GTX280, and he was sucessfull (I dont think it was the other way around.)

 

The 260 and 280 are physically different cards. Just up the clocks on the 260.

 

Yes "The MOO" He's done alot of Good tests also

Well I must have missed that one And i think i will Aim for the 5870
I have Clocked the 260 to the 280 But i thought the Core was different But hey i guess it is in the flash then.

Well I must have missed that one And i think i will Aim for the 5870

 

There still both based off the g92 core, effectively making the same, with either more or less shader units/cores/thingies (Ok i guessed, but i bet thats fairly accurate.)

Im sure the Moo did suceed with the flash!

 

Interesting, Yes maybe some Cuda cores etc are crippled for the lower card ETC Cool either way.

Back to the Origional Intent of this Thread I would like to have somone Stop Benching and gaming on thier Spanking new G73 and Take out the 5870 card take some Photos or Better yet Send it to me

But Yes I would love to know is the 260MGTX physically the Same as the 5870HD that's the One to know??

Worst case, they changed the version then case closed.

But we will see and if i can do this then i will push it hard and share the info here..

Den

 

I'm very eager to know too, G72-73, there cant be that much difference (Except mobo haha)

"Hey, haven't you heard? Nvidia rebrand more things then M&S "

 

been benching on my ht being my LCD is a crappy 1400x900
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/9985/img0289benchphoto.jpg

so far My best run on vantage 6074 W/GPU 600/950/1450
CPU @3203MHz then again with @3400Mhz with no change in score being the gpu is the more important of the 2 in this benchmark.
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/907/img0291m.jpg


Den

 

Bump

Has anyone or reseller that may have opened the G73 seen or handled an ATI 5870 card?
Possibily while Doing an upgrade on the Thermal paste ETC?

I know the G73 is still new so if so very few have but just looking for the MXM version, reverse 2.1 or 3.0 ? or maybe somthing different?
If so that would be great.


Den

 

OK Folks I have Found the Unfortunate answer to my Own Question While Reading the Alienware m17xr2 threads of them wanting to take a G73 and swap the 5870 for a 4870 cards to upgrade a m17.

It was found the G73 Uses Reverse MXM 3.0 Type B
The G72 Used reverse MXM 2.1 Bummer
would have been fun to try. but not possible.

Case closed. pls kill thread.