Asus G73JW Owners' Lounge

[etismyname]

very excited.... I seem to be the first to go with an upgraded CPU.
Currently on the Fedex vehicle "out for delivery"!!
woot.

sorry but mine is also a i7-840qm cpu

have to say, a bit disappointed at the graph power, have to oc quite a lot to play some newer games at ultra graphic, like fallout new vegas, even when i oc at very high rate, when there is abt 10 ppl shooting, it lags a lot.
(some guy a few pages said his would run the game @1080p with 4aa with 60fps)
luckily, SC2 runs at ultra 1920x1080 is silky smooth

Ok, so I was playing modern warfare 2 and I have my clocks at 800 core, 1420 memory, and shader 1600. I had been playing all sorts of games with no problems the blink, the damn thing just shuts off...The whole comp. Boots back up no problem, so I run Kombuster to try and see what my tems are getting to, it looks like around 80 is the max, with 67 the minimum. Shouldnt this thing be idling WAY less than that? It was idling less than that when I got it and this was with the gpu overclocked I was getting less than 60 for the gpu temp.... I'm getting a little worried here. I could really use some advice on this one guys.

this is strange, check your clock rate when it is at idle. those are signs that you need to reduce your clock rate, mine is stable at your clock rate somehow...(currently trying to see how much I can push it to)
mine is idling around high 30 to low 40. room temperature is around 18degree (I had ic7 paste)

[12Marshall]

sorry but mine is also a i7-840qm cpu

have to say, a bit disappointed at the graph power, have to oc quite a lot to play some newer games at ultra graphic, like fallout new vegas, even when i oc at very high rate, when there is abt 10 ppl shooting, it lags a lot.

luckily, SC2 runs at ultra 1920x1080 is silky smooth

the only games I play and it's rare these days is counter-strike source and WoW. I expect this thing will blow those games away.

[ViciousXUSMC]

WoW has become a strange monster.

3 years ago a medium computer could run it fine, but they keep adding these patches and expansions to it that make it many times harder to render to the point where even high end machines can go down to their knees.

Sad thing is I think with all these new "features" it really doesnt look that much better than it did 3 years ago.

WoW was never about the graphics anyways so I do not think it was the best choice.

[etismyname]

the only games I play and it's rare these days is counter-strike source and WoW. I expect this thing will blow those games away.

easily owns CS:S not too sure abt WoW because I am not familiar with multiplayer games with lots of players, graphic-wise definitly capable, fps-wise, depends on server and ping and lots of other stuff i suppose

[Zengster]

For anyone with the webcam issue, you can try switching to the USB 2 thing camera setting. This fixed it for me so I don't know whether it works for anyone else

[tnad]

Well it does own WoW at the highest settings when you're alone around the world, but when you get to a city with tons of players, the fps drops but then gets better....but still crowded areas are not completely smooth. I think this happens with the best of graphic cards when it comes to crowded areas.

[jtjbt20]

For anyone with the webcam issue, you can try switching to the USB 2 thing camera setting. This fixed it for me so I don't know whether it works for anyone else

Could you be more specific please?

thanks.

[levanter]

For anyone with the webcam issue, you can try switching to the USB 2 thing camera setting. This fixed it for me so I don't know whether it works for anyone else

how do you do that?

[sleek629]

Hey all

Does anyone else have very slow boot times on the JW?
I've installed a G.Skill Phoenix Pro 120, and my boot times are much slower than they should be.. The system hangs for a good 20-25 seconds on the "ASUS" logo on boot up, and then flies through the windows load up phase.

Are there any obvious BIOS (or other) settings I've missed that should be switched off to speed this up?

Also, I've noticed that sometimes the Bios doesn't pickup the SSD drive, however the only time it won't boot into Windows (installed on the SSD) is if I have a USB drive plugged in. I've checked the Boot priority and made sure the SSD is number 1.

And yes, it's in AHCI mode..

Thanks!

[jm821]

For anyone with the webcam issue, you can try switching to the USB 2 thing camera setting. This fixed it for me so I don't know whether it works for anyone else

Could you be more specific please?

thanks.

how do you do that?

open up the Asus Lifeframe app, then look for the settings button (its a wrench icon), then click advance setting, then click the drop down button for the USB2.0 UVC 2M WebCam

and btw, this did not fix the lag for me