Howard's Asus G60VX-RBBX05 REVIEW

unrelated topic..this would make a beautiful little brother to the asus

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pa...ento/9556358.p?id=1218123847359&skuId=9556358

 

Not a bad package.

I "grew up" with a Radeon HD 3200. Finished Crysis with it. Just barely.

 

You can play CRYSIS with a Radeon HD 3200?
What you get like 2FPS

 

Nah you get around 10-15 on low settings as far as I remember...

A friend of mine had the HD3200/HD3650 combo dual graphics for power saving, and he actually had the HD3650 turned off all the time.

He did play crysis like that until I played on his laptop and noticed the performance was wrong for his laptop, and that is when I found out.

I finished crysis on a 9500M GS, with the downclocking issue. Boy were the last levels a pain even on low settings... No wonder I am happy running it at 1920x1080 all medium at 30fps, compared to 20fps on 1280x720 and med/low settings...

 

LOL you guys are going to make me show my age but I "grew up" using cards from 3DFX and Diamond Multimedia....That was desktops though since a gaming laptop was only a myth...lol

 

I know what you mean. I still remember the day nVidia came to shook the world with it's Geforce Card.

Hell, I have fond memories of my ATi Rage 8MB video card. That was such a huge amount of video memory

 

i remember my 466 mhz hp gaming pc with a tiny gfx card playing ultima lol

 

LOL both of ya know where I am coming from but se7in your machine would be a power house. My first pc was a IBM Aptiva 486/dx2 66Mhz...I was so pissed when Intel released the pentium 60Mhz about a month later...

p.s. That was my first PC. Before that I was a Commodore Amiga guy if ya'll can remember that far back.

 

Well I I started with an Amiga then First Pc was an olivetti 386 16mhz, second was a 486/DX33Mhz, then Pentium 133, P3 500 MHZ and Athlon 2600+ Now I wiating to buy my G60, have to drive down to Burlington and be sure that best buy has them in stock before doing that. Playing on the Ps3 and 360 in the meantime

 

3 hours of Borderlands the temp stuck around 72c

 

my history

commodore > UFO > Mcintosh > Mcintosh 2 > 286 > 386> 486> Pentium 1 > 2> 3> 4> Pentium D > Core duo > Core 2 DUO > macbook (hated mac) > Core 2 Quad > Core i7

Started with that tape recorder as storage device with that sharp squeaky sound as if someone is killing a chicken lol....still remember the green stick man figure in pc game...

 

HAHA Yeah I had one of those with my Commodore Vic 20. I remember spending an entire day typing in a basic game that was in the back of the manual then troubleshooting my typos for an hour or 2. Then I got to save the whole thing on a cassette tape that took about 20 minutes.

 

Damn..we are ancient...

 

What's a cassette tape?

 

Hey now..respect elders

 

LOL!
Kidding of course

 

lol...Just think we are almost to the point where we can say..."I remember loading a game off of a CD/DVD and it took forever"....

 

Yep well did that as well on my C64 and ZX spectrum, Now I'm feeling old even tough I'm just 34. At least by the end of the tapes there was turbo loaders that were loading the tapes quite a bit faster. I wonder how there was not more epileptic seizure back then with the color stripes flashing on the screen while loading.

 

Yep me too, dont know the fps but It played just fine, I am not a graphix snob like some people around here.

 

hi guys... m new to this forum.... i gotta kno how good my decision of gettin the g60vx is.... but my confusion is whic to get, the RBBX05 or the RBBX09. i outa some study on the net got to kno that the processor on the RBB05 dosen support the virtual Xp mode wher as the RBBX09 does support the virtualisation.... the price diff is jus bout 300$..whic isn much of a fact....cud u ppl jus help me out it it.... thanks

 

If the CPU on 09 has what you need (im not sure), and if you dont mind the extra $$$ then just go for it. But also consider newegg version, with better warranty, better screen just with the normal 6cell and one less hdd, same CPU, and probably save the tax it will become cheaper than the 09.

ASUS G Series G51Vx-X3A $1250

 

I would say get that G51Vx instead of the RBBX09... though it doesn't mention if the screen is LED backlit or not. Screen quality is not determined by resolution... some low res screens may be superior to high res ones for a ton of different reasons.

 

the screen is LED backlit.

 

hello every one,

proud to be a new asus owner,(got it ystrday at best buy 999 one), i m kind of new to laptops, can u suggest the best ways to optimize this machine, i uninstalled the trend net and couple of other things, and want to know how to make this machine a bit cooler, it reaches high temp and then falls down,

cheers
Shri

 

CONGRAD! just very basic, uninstall all those unwanted programs you don't need on the laptop then install latest update where there are a bunch of them. Then download this freeware

http://www.ccleaner.com/

clean out trash then clean out registry, this will take off all those broken links and registry values left over from the uninstalled and newly installed update and cosolidate your machine

Then go from there see how it runs then we will see what else can be done Just do the minimal stuff an let it stabilze.

 

Hi, I'm new here.

I'm thinking of this laptop or it's bigger brother with 17" screen (nice, but I don't like the chassis at all, ugly)

I had two questions..
1.) Dual Harddrives? (I saw it was answered yes, yay!
2.) Can the memory be upgraded? How much? DDR3?

Or, would it just be better to pay the extra and go for the 9cell? ( I hate waiting for delivery.)

Still, even the 9cell is DDR2 memory. I'd liek to upgrade that to possible 6gb or 8gm DDR3

thanks.

 

1) Dual HD yes,
2) You can add memory, maximum is 8GB OF DDR 2 PC 6400 800mhz ram. Which will be 2 X 4 GB ram. No DDR 3
3) 9 cell is nice, but it will stick out, depend on your need. But you get P870 withitso its up to u

 

hmm, okay, thanks howard. I'm trying to decide on which laptop to get. I will be playing mmogames and crysis, but for the most part, it will be used to watch tv on and DVD's. I was at best buy today and the sales guy (who didn't really know ANYTHIGN about computers, and it was obvious) stuck in a DVD so i could see the image. It was kinda grainy. Not at all like my desktop. I run a dell 24" monitor and a EVGA 8800 GTS 512mb g92 card with and intel 6850 cpu.

Maybe it was just a bad DVD. What's your experience with dvd? Good picture?

Also, off topic, but I was looking at the K-Will USB TV Tuner. any thoughts on that? it's cheap, just 30 bucks.

I'll be on the road, driving tuck, so I need a good laptop to use for entertainment.

 

What is the resolution on your desktop monitor? it'll look worse full screen on a 720p monitor because it has to scale up the picture.

 

I'm assuming your 24 inches is 1920 x 1080. Of course 1366 x 768 will look more grainy compare with 1080P screen and remember DVD is 480 only and we are pretty much spoiled by HD youtube, hulu, movie trailer, movie, TV, so DVD will look more grainy than you are used to. I have the g60 and have n problem getting beautiful image. You will just have to mentally prepare yourself that it's not a 1080p screen and its a darn stunning screen for what you pay for

 

I have it set at 1920x1200 right now. and on that setting, i can ALMOST play crysis at max settings

I guess I can't be picking, but i was just concerned with video quality watching TV or DVD's. It sounds like the games play just fine though from reading the reviews.

Also, i'm running XP on the desktop, so only seeing 3gb of the 4gb ram installed.

 

So Overall You've been happy with it? I noticed the sound was hardly noticeable inside best buy, wonder if it will sound that low inside the truck too. Hope not. I hate wearing headphones.

 

YOu mean speaker? for me its more than loud enough but or some people no. Easy fix, go to BIOS and default volume is set to 4 out of 8, just up it and you should be fine

Enjoy~

YOu sure you wanna carry this big heavy thinng in your truck? unless you play game other brand has lighter and same size screen laptop...

 

Ya, the weight doesn't matter. I might even get a stand for it and load on Co-Pilot GPS so I can have a big screen for the GPS instead of those small 4.3" ones. But Ya, I play games. I want to start Playing Fallen Earth. I played it in Beta and really Like it. it was kinda hard on this desktop though, so Hopefully it will play okay on the laptop.

 

Then unless u have a higher budget, this is you machine.

 

Get a nice laptop cooler. ZALMAN 2000 is really good.
You can also add a good thermal paste to the GPU and CPU to lower temps but that might void the warranty.
I added IC7 thermal paste and it helped a lot but to add you have to remove a little yellow sticker that says "void if removed".
That's pretty self explanatory.

 

hi howard

thank u for the response, what is the hard drive space u have, because mine shows total space to be 283 GB, but it is supposed to be around 320 GB ryt.

cheers,
Shri

 

Oh...the everlasting debate about HD space...and yea... supposed to be 320GB and it is 320 GB - windows 7 OS and other softare installed and after formatting, I won't go into detailed formula here, but the way manufacture measure it with how computer reads it are different, both parties are right but it does confuse the consumers. Just for sure, 283gb is right..u do have a 320gb HD but the way of measuring capacity and the space software taken up result in significantly less HD space for u but no, u didn't get cheated.

 

We will never see the end to that debate...lol.

 

thanks a lot abula.....

 

a small doubt folks, wats the diff bw the g51vx(newegg) n the g60vx 09... it has the same spec, but the g51vx is small in memory size. wat makes it more costly than the g60vx?
i wud also lik to add the g72gx 05.... a good comparison wud be really helpful.....

 

Which one from Newegg, the X1A or X3A? A couple of differences between both of those models and the Best Buy model is that they have a better screen resolution at 1920 x 1080 and Bluetooth. Plus don't forget they come with the better Asus warranty.

 

Just realized too that the X1A is an "Open box" item now for $1,019.99

 

wat is an open box item?

 

wat bout the g72gx..... it's got 6gig ram...

 

Some one returned it and now they are selling used.
If ever buying a "open box item" ask if it why it was returned. Could be a RMA.

Unless you are a power user 6 gigs is overkill for a everyday user. 4 gigs is more than enough for everything to run smooth.
G72 GX is nice but big

 

so has it been properly confirmed that the G60VX-RX05 runs cooler than the G51VX-RX05 or are results still inconclusive? wondering if its worth the extra $$ for the g60vx over a g51vx refurb

 

thanks IKAS V

 

Anyone else having issues with the color on their display? I'm finding that orange/yellow/red seem too saturated. Maybe it's the drivers I'm currently using 186.62. I think I'll try a few others and see which one gives me the best color.

 

You need to calibrate your display, drivers don't make any difference.

If you didn't know, Laptop displays absolutely SUCK compared to a Desktop LCD, so there is no way you will get what you want in the end. Go for the best you can get.