ASUS G73SW Owners' Lounge

[Gooz]

Hi! Just thought I'd let you know that the G73SW is on the shelves in New Zealand (and I'm writing this from it right now )

Specs: Asus G73SW-TZ052V 17.3" Core i7 2630QM Sandy Bridge 8GB Memory 1TB (500GBx2 Hybrid) NV GTX 460M 1.5GB Blu-Ray/DVD Writer USB3 802.11n BT Win7 HP
Price: $NZ3500 (roughly $US2600)

Cheers!

[myx]

Don't just tell us you are writing from it!!
Did you buy it? And if so, give us some numbers. Pics or it never happened!
I got one on preorder. Hopefully I will have it by next week.

[Gooz]

Probably not what you wanted, but here it is on my dinning table...

[myx]

Did you run any benchmarks so far? 3dmark or such? What are the temperatures on it? Maybe some unboxing pictures or videos?
I'm dying here to get mine.

[Gooz]

Only thing I tried: Result

Time to go to bed, so sorry that's all you'll get today

[Edit: re-run later nvidia driver version 261.14 for a score of 1813, also managed to get score to 1829 with version 266.58, but screen starts to flicker and this is not a usable driver.]

[flubadoo]

Hmm, somewhat underwhelming.

I'd rather go for the Sager NP8150-70 series, seeing as they are cheaper and perform the same as that.

[Gooz]

3DMark Vantage: Result

[myx]

What laptop did you have before? Do you feel any improvments over that? How is the battery life?

[dune10191]

Probably not what you wanted, but here it is on my dinning table...

Is that ArmaII your playing? If so, how does it run?!

This game is one of the main reasons I need the upgrade.

[Gooz]

Yes that was Arma 2. I haven't had a gaming laptop before, so I can't say how it compares, but you definitely can game on it. The Arma 2 benchmark gives an average of 38 fps on 1920x1080 interface with high details...

Attached is a RealTemp benchmark with Prime95.