Flbroker's ASUS G50Vt - A2 with Nvidia 9800M GS Review

The G50 series is larger and heavier than most 15.4" notebooks and rivals with a few 17 inchers. It's not terribly difficult to carry around, but this is of course will vary for each individual.

 

It's roughly the size of a 16", maybe a hair bigger, but it's not as heavy as you might think. I find it fairly easy to carry around. It's the power brick that has some weight to it.

 

dude its maybe 7-8 pounds with the brick, not exactly a deadly weight. I quite happily carry mine around most of the day, all you have to is think that all this carrying will be worth it when you open up your bag and are struck by such searing beauty.

 

I definitely recommend a GTS overclock and DOX 182.05 drivers for anyone who's willing to tweak their system. For the heck of it, I ran the same Crysis test as in the original post, and got:

Average FPS: 32.23
Min FPS: 15.77
Max FPS: 43.56

 

So i'm guessing this bios flash is also applicable to g71g users who have the same 9800m gs?

 

Yup, same GFX card + same motherboard I think so I don't see why it shouldn't work!

 

I would be careful of using BIOS versions not specifically released for your particular machine. Are you sure it's the exact same motherboard?

 

Techniqually it should be the same is in theory its just a bigger version of the g50, but that doesnt much matter if the g71 BIOS are taken from nvflash by the actual flasher and not downloaded from somebody else, who may have a g50!
Dont cut corners by downloading the modded BIOS from another member, its always best to do it yourself so you know and the time it saves you is not worth screwing up your machine by using random BIOS!

 

I would like to say this lounge area helped a lot in my decision buying this laptop, 1st day with it and just wanted to give props to ya'll. The discussions are very helpful and i wasn't even aware of better video drivers than the manufacturers.....i got owned by those threads .
Anyways, big up to the lounge and this forum.

 

sorry, havent checked back in a while. I skimmed through the BIOS flash and it seems really complicated. I wish they made it easier for us computer retards haha. well, i'm going to pick up a usb drive to flash my bios and i'll come back to report if it worked on the g71

 

I´ve just customized mine and it will be shipping next week... I´m anxious to see it!

 

Great review! +Rep
Im thinking of purchasing a G50VT-A2 in the next week or so, u still enjoying it?
Was it worth paying that much?

 

buy it... buy it... you wont regret it... i luv mine

 

Ey guys iv have been having problems trying too gett the modified bios for the 9800m gs id like to OC it .. never oc'd before do u think i should give it a go
my g50vt is till underwarrenty.

any advice ppl
cheers

 

My friend has one and he tried the gts bios but sometimes it gets unstable with some games like TF2. Anyway he didn't need it. 9800mgs works great like it is.