What is more important to you? Screen quality or No System noise? W870CU & G73

Like so many others here, I'm also looking to buy a nice gaming laptop. I have narrowed it to down to two, Clevo W870CU and Asus G73.

I have seen the Clevo laptop in person twice. The screen is simply gorgeous. The one other thing I noticed was the system noise. Under load, the system noise was clearly audible above the below average speakers.

I haven't seen the G73 in person but I have read the reviews and had lot of people say how quiet it is. Even with an i7 processor and 5870 in it, G73 manages to stay quiet and speakers are impressive as well. The downside is that the G73 screen is not in the same league as the Clevo. I couldn't find much data about the FHD screen on G73 but from reading the user posts here, the black value and contrast are not impressive.

Obviously screen quality matters, you stare at it all the time..but a quieter system that doesn't need external speakers matters too. If money and portability was not an issue, which laptop would you pick over the other and why?


Thank you

 

The Full HD screen on the G73 and the W870CU are the same, they both have the HannStar HSD173PUW1. Don't get confused with the Best Buy models that don't have the Full HD screen.

 

Are you sure about that? How can that be though? How can everyone rave about the W870CU screen and then complain about the G73 screen at Asus G73 owners thread.


Thank you

 

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Just make sure you get the G73 model with the Full HD screen. The Best Buy variants don't have the Full HD screen. The rant you read on the Asus forum came from an owner of one of the Best Buy variants.

"Some of you are going to wonder why the W870CU does so poorly, and it's simply a result of our test unit using an inferior HD+ (1600x900) LCD panel. Our understanding is that most (all?) of the W870CU 1080p panels are the exact same HannStar HSD173PUW1 that's in the G73Jh. That doesn't change the fact that the 17.3" panel looks great and performs better than most other laptop panels. The high water mark is still the RGB LED panel in the Dell M6500 (with a matte coating to sweeten the deal!), but RGB LED backlighting currently costs far more than WLEDs so you won't find that WUXGA panel in notebooks costing under $2000. The M6500 needed a target setting of 1.8 gamma before we could unlock its potential for color accuracy; we've tried a variety of settings on the other laptops and the best result on the G73Jh is still the default settings in ColorEyes Display Pro."

 

Many W870CU's have shipped with the AUO screens too. I've had both and the AUO has better color and is overall better in quality, imo.

 

Definitely screen quality and resolution. But doesn't the W870CU have a "silent mode"?

 

Take the Clevo, hands down. The Asus doesn't compare in terms of build quality, and a better screen is a must. You have to look at it every day.

 

System noise is irrelevant and inaudible when there are other sounds present (fan, air conditioner, games, music, etc).

 

I heard Asus G73 with 8GB RAM has one 2GB memory module on the motherboard that can't be replaced. If it ever breaks down you won't replace it.

 

It can be replaced just much harder to do so.

 

Both have pros and cons, but the fan noise on the w870cu isn't that bad to the point where I'll here it over watching movies with the built in speakers. I haven't tried gaming with the stock speakers...and honestly I don't think you would want to game using the existing speakers on either the g73 and w870 any way.