* Official ASUS G73JH Crew Member's Lounge *

ICD7 is awesome.
It's a little trickier to apply because it's a little thicker but well worth it.
Man someone beat me too it..lol

 

Ok thanks..That's what I got with my sistem. I bought the g73jh at xoticpc.com, do they apply the paste or I have to???

 

They apply all upgrades for your order. This is the only way that you can get the thermal compound upgraded without voiding the warranty. Xoticpc is a certified reseller for Asus and therefore can apply these upgrades and still keep your warranty.

 

Ok thanks a lot!

 

So, if i went for the 2x 500GB HD's instead of 1 being a SSD. Then about a month or so after i got it I wanted to add a SSD, would that void the warrenty?

 

I'm guessing hard disks and ram are customer replaceable parts.

 

So let me get this straight.

No e-sata
No expressCard slot
2RAM slots instead of 4.

What else are they going to "reveal" before this thing gets out?

Oh woops, we meant 4370 card "our bad", oh you wanted the 2 HDDs IN the laptop?

So where did these BS specs come from in the first place? was there another G73JH that was supposed to be released, but ASUS realised they'd actually lose money on it?

 

The only thing that changed from spec is the ram slots right?

 

yeah i hope that the other ram slots are on the other side of the motherboard.

 

With no compartment to reach the CPU we're looking at a removal of the system board from the system to get to the CPU.

 

Looks like another almost for Asus.

 

No, you just have to remove the WHOLE bottom panel. I have to do the same thing with my G51JH. It's not hard to do at all.

 

Lol! Let's wait until it releases and we do a review before we start calling it a fail! I don't understand the negative nature of people...

 

As a new, lurking, G73 crew member...I say thanks and amen to that!

 

Then unfortunately I don't understand why you need to remove the top cover.

 

Yeah, and the 7,260 it scored on 3DMark Vantage.......was actually done at a lower resolution than stock, as it says in the pics, 1366 x 768 instead of 1280 x 1024, which is the stock setting for resolution in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark. That's ~25 percent less pixels.
So Asus is basically lying and inflating the score of the G73JH

 

They did when the W90 came out also. Remember Kinc?

Besides the "P" in Vantage stands for a specific res.

 

Vantage has presets based on resolution so unlike 3dmark06 you cant "lie" about your score.

P, H, E, the prefix to the score determins the resolution and other settings used for the test, so just make sure you compare them to another system using the same prefix on the score.

Performance is the normal test using the P prefix. Since this machine has an i7 the best thing to do if possible is only focus on the gpu score portion as we already know the i7 is the best cpu no need to look at the total score and let a good cpu bring up a bad gpu score (if thats the case)

 

I think he was saying it was "above" the ram slots in 2d, not in the 3 dimension sense. I think he meant you will have to remove the "bottom" ram cover and the "top" rest of the panels. It should just involve removing all the screws on the bottom and popping both panels off. We will see though.

 

Well if you have no intention on buying it, why in the hell are you in the G73 owner's thread spamming your qualms with the machine? Take it somewhere else!

 

LOL, touched a nerve!

 

It's just that there is a thread for this type thing over in the general Asus area. This thread is for people who have pre-ordered or intend on buying it when it releases.

 

oh no i want to buy it too may i stay here?

 

No Russians either Hazard!

 

crap...
/10char

 

Well, the P, coming before the score does NOT indicate a specific resolution, but rather "performance" settings.
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Asus-G51j-Gaming-Notebook-Review/?page=7
This laptop for instance, is run at 1280 x 1024 during the benchmark, and gets a score of P5214. Now if you subtract the ~25 percent difference for G73JH's ~25 percent less pixel, etc calculations @ 1366 X 768, that would mean the G73JH only scores a 5445 @ 1280 x 1024, making it only very slightly more powerful than a 260m GTX. Remember, at the bottom of the picture of Asus's benchmark of the G73, they're comparing it with a laptop that has a 360m GTS, not a 260m GTX, which is better.

BUT, the 5870m will do MUCH better in terms of power usage and heat production, than 260m GTX. It will surely overclock better too.

 

In case someone has not seen this. The quality itself is not that good, but you get the idea. DX11 is gona be frigign amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR40GwRtFyw&feature=related

 

+1, gj on finding the vid esso. I'm looking forward to direct x11 butcher games...perhaps assassins creed 3 would support it ^^

 

The preset of "Performance" in Vantage is tied to the resolution of 1280x1024. Go ahead and try to change it yourself. It will automatically switch to "Custom" and it will not give you a final score.

 

so was the resolution on their ppt slide a typo?

 

Yes, for both benchmarks. The whole thing is unreliable and we need to wait for a reseller to get this in their hands.

 

I gotta say DirectX 11 is simply amazing.
I'm waiting for games like Oblivion in DX11. it'll be incredible.
Aliens vs Predator and Alan Wake will be so good. can't wait.

 

even if it wasn't, 06/vantage don't scale like that. 25% more or less pixels doesn't equal 25% more or less score. when going from 1280x1024 in 06 to 1280x768, I only got 600 more points, which I'm happy to say is nowhere near the exact 25% difference in pixels.

 

do you know if ken has one. looks like he has some pics of the innards.-

Edit - me wantee benchmarks

 

Let's tone down the arguments please, I had to delete a few posts.

 

Hey, does this still have the HDMI output?

I figure for what I need this for I don't mind loosing the eSata or the Express Card since I already have more than enough Hard drive space (including 3 externals that add up to over 1tb) and I have never used the express card on my current laptop so I doubt I'll use one now.

However for HDMI output I figure if I get a new TV anytime in the next few years I can use the laptop to output to the TV so I can forgo a Blue ray player for a while longer.

 

yes, this laptop does have an HDMI out port.

 

Probably old news, but I noticed yesterday GenTech has the option for the 5300 Wireless card. You can update your pre-orders if you want that, I sent them $32 yesterday for it

 

Thanks for the update.
Probably going to update my pre-order tonight. did you send PM via notebookreview forums or email?

 

question on this for the dummies - does that mean that with a DX11 GPU, oblivion (which was written a while back) will still show all the tesselation and all the other goodies that a DX11 card brings? or are we talking about a new Oblivion game written for DX11.

Sorry if i'm not using correct lingo as i do not know how this all works.

 

Yes, whatever game it is needs to support DX11 for it to work. The cards are backward compatible with DX9, DX10, DX10.1.

 

so let me get this right - so a game like oblivion written in ?2006? would not support dX11 right?

 

yes, a game must be coded in DX11 to support it, so no, Oblivion won't support DX11

 

The continued bickering over the performance of the 260m GTX versus 4870/5870 have derailed the thread, so those posts have been deleted.

If you want to discuss the peformance of those cards, do it in another thread(that conforms to the forum rules) or via private messages.

Also, I suggest that some of you guys use the ignore system via Usercp...it does come in handy.

 

Thank you Kdawgca! Your services are appreciated, as always!

 

I totally agree people are bickering to much about different subjects of the same fourm.

 

man oh man, Strikers and Elements Sigs are both GONE!!! Also, Some nice new pictures up on Gentechs website of the system.

 

They apply all upgrades for your order. This is the only way that you can get the thermal compound upgraded without voiding the warranty. Xoticpc is a certified reseller for Asus and therefore can apply these upgrades and still keep your warranty.

 

Where??

All I can find is the same pictures that have been posted in the OP here, and at PowerNotebooks.com and Xoticpc sites.

 

Gee Wiz Donald, LOL!