G73jh Bios 209 (At Your Risk)

[ziddy123]

rick07 brought this to our attention: http://forum.notebookreview.com/6271142-post92.html

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So I took the plunge, at work no less (extremely baka, as the G73jh is also my work computer). It works. Bios has no different options though, everything you see in 206 you see in 209.

So what did change? This bios fixed everything I wanted fixed.

Fn+Esc Freezing
Fn+Esc does not freeze anymore. I'm spamming it right now and no freezes anymore. Yeah spammed it 25 times to double check :P

Keyboard
No more I/O conflict. I didn't have any problems typing on this keyboard, so can't really say if anything has changed. But I definitely haven't been making any erroneous mistakes that I thought maybe wasn't my fault. Well for this post made zero mistakes so far. But I did have the I/O conflict before and glad to see that is taken care of at least.

CPU Throttling
No throttling until 35%
At 35% CPU is at 900 mhz
At 30% it drops to 500 mhz

Plug it back in, zooms to full again. So the CPU state after plugging in returning to normal is fixed! No restart needed.


GPU Idle Temps
Strangely it's lower by about 4C. My ambient core temps were usually around 56-57C. Ambient temp here is 72F like as it always is.

GPU Temp with DXVA

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[Chastity]

Sweet! I'll give it a shot when I get home today.

[ziddy123]

GPU Temps with DXVA, 720p video offloaded on HD5870



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[Tim4]

Originally Posted by ziddy123

GPU Temps with DXVA, 720p video offloaded on HD5870



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Ziddy have you noticed that your GPU core is 500MHz now? That means that Gpu is downclocking itself automatically now or you just underclocked yours?That is the reason of so low idling now.

[ziddy123]

Wow, thanks for noticing that. Yeah it's dynamically underclocking depending on use. For DXVA it's 500 mhz. But for surfing the net it's 700, but guess that's cause I have it on high performance.

[Tim4]

Originally Posted by ziddy123

Wow, thanks for noticing that. Yeah it's dynamically underclocking depending on use. For DXVA it's 500 mhz. But for surfing the net it's 700, rofl.

Yep,thats why it's still beta. I guess I will wait till final will be on Asus site.
Anyway it's nice from Asus just trying to do this, that will be super if our GPU will underclock itself depending on usage as desktop does.Thans for trying this for us!
Can you look what clocks GPU core have when it's idling? I guess that dynamic underclocking will be key feature of this BIOS. Thumbs up for Asus!

[ziddy123]

Well IDLE depends on the setting. For power saving it underclocks to 300. For balanced and performance it's 700.

BTW even though it downclocks to 500, I think the temps are impressive since those 500 mhz are still underload with video rendering.

[Tim4]

Originally Posted by ziddy123

Well IDLE depends on the setting. For power saving it underclocks to 300. For balanced and performance it's 700.

BTW even though it downclocks to 500, I think the temps are impressive since those 500 mhz are still underload with video rendering.

Agreed! 4C with just bios update is nice!One quick question maybe you fans just spinning quicker now. That thing could be upadated in bios. Maybe they just increased GPU fan rpm for a little at idling.

[Kalim]

I glad to hear that the beta BIOS didn't brick your G73, but I still wouldn't bother with it until it's finalized and placed on the ASUS website.

BTW, could you please fix your top image in your first post so that it fits into the 500x500 rule.

[Hasib1522]

This is a nice find indeed. Very promising...to see that atleast Asus is tryin to fix these issues. +rep ziddy!