Would you guys give up your FX for an Asus G72GX? Dilemma.

I thought my P7805u was fried for good with my nvidia bios issue. It was just not responding to anything anybody tried. But a super smart guy fixed it for me and now everything is good again. I have put in a faster processor; T8300, have Arctic Silver on everything possible, copper shims on NB and Vram, BIOS flashed with lower volts, underclocked in windows and overclocked in games. Use a 64gb SSD for boot and a 7200rpm drive for data/games. It runs cool, it runs fast and it's set up perfectly for me. I get nearly 10,200 in 3DMark06 (Up from 8700) and can play any game I want. (Mass Effect 2, Arkham, Bioshock 2, etc. all run super smooth and my gpu temp barely cracks 70.) I am 100% satisfied with this computer.

But I thought it was dead and I know I needed a gaming laptop quickly. So I found this deal on Newegg and took it. It's on the UPS truck as I type, about halfway here, due in on Monday.

Newegg.com - Recertified: ASUS G Series G72GX-RBBX05 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8700(2.53GHz) 17.3" 6GB Memory 500GB HDD DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

I expect similar, probably slightly better performance but I understand this thing runs very hot and hot computers bother me, I don't care if it's safe or not, I just like my computers to run as cool as possible. Some people say it's fine so I'll know for sure when it gets here. I also like the lighted keyboard on this one, that's a nice touch. I would definitely swap my SSD over to this computer if I keep it.

And that's my dilemma. What would you do? Send the Asus back or sell the Gateway? It would be a no-brainer for me if it wasn't for that lighted keyboard. I play in the dark a lot and have often longed for an illuminated keyboard.

Maybe in time I'll come to appreciate the Asus as I do my FX but this Gateway is pretty much my favorite laptop I've ever owned. It is just one rock solid gaming machine. Great keyboard, perfect layout for me, decent enough screen. But the speed, low temps and low noise are why I love it.

Which laptop would you keep and why?

 

Uh, is that a typo? "T8300"?

 

Nope, T8300. The bus speed is 800MHz but the overhead on clock speed (For some reason I don't really understand it runs at 2593MHz max.) makes it bench decently higher on every test I've thrown at it. I just put it in there temporarily but had no desire to go back to the P8400 when my upgrade plans fell through. The T8300 is faster everywhere I can find in benchmarks and in games. I made a thread about it and got some answers as to why this is so.

 

Here are some screenshots. I can get the 3DMark score up to 10,200 if I tweak the GPU up a little more but furmark will crash sometimes about 20 minutes in, everything else runs fine though but I keep it at these levels anyway. All of this is an improvement over my P8400 so I can't think of any reason to stick it back in.

 

honestly the fact that the laptop is recertified would leave me feeling mortified. i would stick with the gateway for that sole reason. other then that i cant really find a reason i could give you since ive never used one of those although the g50 my friend has does run real hot but thats a 15" model also.

so in conclusion my opinion would be to return it and save up for a much better model since this "upgrade" really isnt that much better then the gateway you currently own.

 

Thanks. That's pretty much exactly how I feel about it. Now if I can just keep myself from turning it on and seeing that LED keyboard it shouldn't be any problem.

Love my FX!

 

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My sister has that asus and its a pain in the , the wireless cuts out and you have to disable it, restart it and then enable it again and theres quite a few out there that have the same problem. Also it gets seriously hot when playing anything. I think it has overheated a few times too because she would be playing it and it would completely shut off. Hopefully though thats a one off. I love the backlit keyboard though

 

my old coworker has one of those and he is always complaining that it get very hot. i played on it for a hour one time and the gpu temp was over 90C. the laptop only has one fan for the cpu and gpu.

 

I'd personally need quite an upgrade to justify that kind of money. For that you could get a X25-m 80GB for os, momentus xt for storage and 8GB ram and have change too............