Asus G72GX RBBX05 Laptop (Best Buy model)

[The_Stinger]

Well, I guess you are lucky then Mine was manufactured in 08/2009 and the display is made by AU Optronics.

[skygunner27]

Originally Posted by The_Stinger

Well, I guess you are lucky then Mine was manufactured in 08/2009 and the display is made by AU Optronics.

That's interesting.
I prefer Samsung over LG. I've never heard of Optronics.

[The_Stinger]

I hadn't heard of them neither I like the display except for the grayish black.

[skygunner27]

Originally Posted by The_Stinger

I hadn't heard of them neither I like the display except for the grayish black.

Everything on my screen looks to be in the acceptable range as far as contrast goes. But then again I'm not that picky when it comes to contrast on laptop monitors.

[VoltaicShock]

I love the screen on the G72. I always have it at full brightness.

[lord_al]

I love the screen on my G72GX RBBX09 its so much clearer then the G71GX.

[Eclypse3D]

Originally Posted by ash999

Yeah I was just curious how you were getting over 100fps in places, when I realized I had a setting that capped mine at 60fps. After turning that off I saw the big fps and was happty in the regular world. My feeble brain can't see framerates above 30 so 60 is overkill anyway.

I'll play with settings to see what I can live without while in heavy instances and in Dalalag.

However I am still wondering about the onboard overclocking mode. Is it 2.88 GHz out of the box?

Thanks

No 2.53 is out of the box of the CPU however, the 15% overclock from the turbo gear extreme setting brings it to 2.8891ghz or so. It sounds like you have something going on if you are not getting 24-50FPS in dal. My settings in WOW are exactly the following:

Under effects I turned the slider all the way to the max, then on the first page I unchecked all the below boxes. (full screen glow effects, death effects, etc.) Then on effects screen the only change I made was to drop the shadow quality down to one tic above lowest, it produces shadows that are like the shape of the player but does not do advanced shadows of absolutly every object in the game. Shadows especially in DAL are the largest FPS eater.

you in theory only need 24FPS for it to be movie smooth, and yes what you cannot actually physcally see above about 32FPS or so, you can still however FEEL it well above that. Thats why with the exception of 120-240Hz LCD tvs games play so much more smoother on CRTs still at 120-140Hz which in FPS shooters like CS was so important for accurate shots.

=)

-Regards

[Eclypse3D]

Originally Posted by skygunner27

Review, well done.

The only thing I disagree with is the screen res between 1600 x 900 and 1440 x 900. At one point in time before I returned my G72(bby) in favor for the G71(bby)I had both models G71(bby) and G72(bby) side by side. I could barely see a difference.

For the most part I think your review is unbiased and dead on. I find interesting that you knew to include that the performace would be slightly higher at native resolutions. Most reviewers fail to mention that in their G71 to G72 comparisons. Another Pro is that you don't have to bother with Asus/mentormedia for the Free Windows 7 Upgrade. I got sick of waiting and had Besbuy install it

Congrats on a job well done

1440X900 and 1600X900 resolutions are very close to the exact same thing overall. No matter what higher resolutions will always result in finer images, but its subjective to the person behind the screen. The one constent is that the G71 should net higher FPS (although very small) only due to the number of pixels per inch the gpu has to render.

1600X900 = 14,400,000 pixels
1440X900 = 12,960,000 pixels
A little under 2 million pixels difference.

I do not like AU panels at all, they tend to be overbright and I do not like the viewing angles at all on them. I prefer LGPhilips and even Samsung panels to them. I had an AU optronics in my gateway FX laptop and it was just garbage.

-D

[Eclypse3D]

Originally Posted by lord_al

I love the screen on my G72GX RBBX09 its so much clearer then the G71GX.

Is that screen the 1080p thought (1920x1080) Wuxga or the 1600x900?

[lord_al]

1600x900 same screen.