which Asus notebook would run FFXIV nicely

I'm thinking of getting Asus G51JX-3D to play FFXIV; however, it seems like large and heavy. I assum that it is desktop replace laptop created for gamers.


Should I get this laptop or should I get ultra portable laptop such as UL serise or U35/45 series with Vidock2?

 

I Already play FFXIV beta
You will be kidding yourself if you think you will be able to play the game (with decent settings and no lag) with anything other than a high end laptop GPU and fast CPU (both are needed)

Asus G51jx will be able to play FFXIV in medium settings but it's not worth buying in my opinion

The best laptop for FFXIV you can buy right now is the G73 (you can get it for like 1200$~ from bestbuy or 1400$~ from newegg

Any laptop with 5850 or 5870 will be great for FFXIV
if you can wait G73 is getting a refresh soon with Nvidia card, keep in mind that G73 is a 17inch laptop, if you want a 15inch lapotop wait for the upcoming G53

HP Envy 14 will be able to play FFXIV (Also Envy14 got a decent battery size and it's tiny slim laptop) but you will only be able to play at low resolution(1280x720)/medium settings with envy 14

With the G73 you will be able to play at 720p High settings or 1080p medium settings

This 15 inch 1099$ laptop will run FFXIV perfectly too. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152207

These are the results of the FFXIV benchmark (G73 = number 27 and 29) anything higher than 1500 = the game will be playable, anything lower than 1500 means you will suffer from low frame rate

 

So thought I would run the benchmark and see how my G73 fairs.

I guess those scores above are the low setting.

I got 2200 points on high (1080p)
and 3600 points on low (720p)

I had a mild overclock on the cpu & gpu.

 

~3400 on low with stock clocks. Running 10.6 with stock vbios and bios (206).

 

Well Hi everyone, newbie to the forum here. I'm about to buy a g73jh with FFXIV in mind.
But this Nvidia upgrade thing is bugging me. Should i wait until september and wait? Thing is, I would be stuck with a really old lappy (got no desktop pc), so the waiting until then WILL definitely be painful
but i'd hate to see a price drop right after i spent EUR1k400 on it, or to see it upgraded for a similar price.
Is is a good time to buy one now? Does the new fermi make a substantial difference or would it be somewhat similar? If it's only a few FPS i wouldnt mind a lot.
Thanks for your answers.

 

Actually the rumored new fermi for G73 will properly be a little slower (maybe 2-3 frames different only) but it might run much cooler and produce less noise (The g73 is not a noisy laptop though)

If you prefer Nvidia Drivers/Cuda/3D etc then it might be worth the wait, the new G73 will also have other stuff too though like USB3 and WIRELESS HDMI

If i were you I'd buy the G73 already so incase it was buggy you fix it before the game releases, i'm waiting for the G53 (smaller version of the current G73 but with nvidia card)

 

Last I heard the new lappy will be a GTX460 not a 480 so it will be lesser than the current 5870 card. Plus nvidias mobile technolgy is not as good as ATI's right now. its more power consuming and produces more heat. Thats probably why they are forced to use the 460 in the first place.

 

This is very true, the GTX480m was a disaster (even the desktop versions)
But the newer Fermi (GF104) did set new standard in the industry
It got the lowest noise levels and lowest temperatures plus it doesn't consume as much power as it used to be, the new mobile fermi will use the new GEN2 fermi.

GPU temperature during crysis (some GTX460 cards for sell right now does not even have a heatsink and the fan is super quite.


Noise level


GTX460 can be easily overclocked to 5870 level too which is insane.

 

It's hugely useful advice, I appreciate a lot, thanks. I don't really care about those features enough to justify the wait (well maybe except the GPU coolness but AFAIK the g73 doesnt heap up much anyway, right?) and the likely price jump so i'll go for the notebook as soon as i can find one. Thanks again!
One last thing, did you check the temperatures of your g73 when playing the beta? how was it?

 

I have a g73 and i'm pretty sure it will be able to handle FFXIV fairly well on atleast high settings.

Aside from that can you tell me how you're able to play the game? I've signed up for the beta but they haven't emailed me or anything.. did you get really lucky by chance or was there another way?

 

95c max on 720, 98c on 1080 were my peak temps. My max temps have been consistent over a half dozen runs.

Scores:

mid 3600 range @ 720, and 2096 @ 1080

10.6, 209 Bios, twin turbo active.

I'm not in the beta, but I can tell you SE sent the first official beta invite rounds out July 12th. If you signed up for the beta and did not get an E-mail, you didn't get in. If someone can link the beta download page [I don't have it on hand] and you attempt to log in with your squeenix account/password and it does not let you in, you can confirm you didn't get in

 

For those who are in the beta, are you experiencing EXTREMELY slow studdering/wild fps swinging? (sort of like warping around in the game while the rendering engine tries to catch up to the model movements)