Vicious's G50V-A1 Review

[lightning penguin]

Wow this is about as close to a standard review possible and you're still gonna add in more information? Repped for being such a dedicated reviewer.

Awesome review, this laptop is a beauty, shame it's GPU seems a little unpowered..

[Sparky86]

@ViciousXUSMC & RdWing

Thanks for the quick answer. Good to hear that this laptop does have a Line-In jack.

[ViciousXUSMC]

Wow this is about as close to a standard review possible and you're still gonna add in more information? Repped for being such a dedicated reviewer.

Awesome review, this laptop is a beauty, shame it's GPU seems a little unpowered..

Yeah my reviews are usually very in depth. My C90S review had benchmarks for 3 different operating systems :P

The gpu yeah... it gets the job done. This thing will definitely let you get your gaming fix on the go but its not a powerhouse. If I recall we were near 4000 3dmark06 on the DDR2 8600gt and near 5000 with a high overclock on the DDR3 version. So this card sits close to 50% faster than my old one and it has yet to be overclocked. Since it runs so cool with luck it can go very high.

For the value the G50 is outstanding, $1600 for all the build quality other parts, its almost a steal. All the gaming notebooks with equivilant build quality and parts with the real high end cards are in near the $3000 range. The few notebooks near the same price range with a higher card like the gateway sacrifce every single part on the notebook just to increase the gpu power and keep the price the same.

So I would rather have less game power and higher quality like this unit because I do much more than just game, and I do have a desktop at home for a reason :P and I am not about to drop the $3000 or more it takes for a good high end gaming notebook.

Heck my super high end gaming desktop I just built was only $1200 and it has dual 4850's and all that stuff it just murders games 1920x1080 all maxed out with triple digit fps. But thats the reality of things I cant walk around with my desktop the size/heat/power restrictions are always going to make it impossible to compare a good desktop to a notebook and computer games are based around the power of current high end desktops always.

[Keeperian]

Have a question!
I´m sure there is no lower screen resolution than WSXGA+ (1680x1050) on any G50 model?
Just checking because one online-shop here in Sweden wrote out WXGA+.
Guess it´s a big type-o because another shop has the WSXGA+ (1680x1050) in info on same model(number).

I´m getting one 4 sure! Looks great in performance!
But here we have to wait! They will be in stock 21/8!

[ViciousXUSMC]

The "imitation" model from best buy has a 15.6" 16:9 screen that has a lower resolution so I guess it is possible. But the Asus retailers here have 16:10 1680x1050 screens.

[link747]

Yeah it glows, you should be able to tell from the pictures (the keyboard picture) I dont think it would really be useful as it would be easy to find just from the light coming from your screen if you were in the dark, its just more or less for "cool points"

You can see it blue in a very bright room but it wont really look like its glowing unless your in a dark room.

I guess I will add a few keyboard in the dark shots for you. I'll do some "emo" shots lol with a super long shutter so it adds alot of glow effect, and some motion blur shots.

Can you turn off the blue glow around the touchpad?

[dit_xi]

Now that's how ya do a review! Rep up! 2 thumbs up!....and all toes as well. Tremendous job. Absolutely Viscious! Thanks, man! Wonder when they'll release the G70V?

[thedove75]

did you know when you finish the rest of the review, any estimation
trying to take final decision between this one and the sager np8660 its bigger and heavier which i dont like + i love asus

[ViciousXUSMC]

I set my self a virtual deadline of Sunday night.

Between now and then I want to get more game benchmarks up, and a guide on how to install the new drivers for the video card thats the main thing on my mind. I dont work tonight and the wife does. So when the kids go to bed I will probably start burning the midnight oil. My games list may extend to.

CoD4
Crysis
DMC4
UT3
BF2142
TF2
Portal
Grid
Fear
Warcraft 3 + TFT

I'll use the build in bechmarks for games that have them like FEAR & Crysis and the rest I will just take some pics with Fraps and give an idea of expected frame rates.

I have had no luck finding a way to manually overclock the cpu higher, change memory timings, or overclock the video card yet, but once a way is found I would update with that.

[VikingBastich]

I think you may have sold me on this notebook! I just wish I could get more than 2 hours on of the 6 cell.. i'll prob just buy 2 and lug the brick and them around in the backpack. It's not THAT heavy all together is it?