Comment on ASUS Republic of Gamers G74SX-DH71 Full HD 17.3-Inch Gaming Laptop (Black) by Thöm Frost.
This system is Fricken awwwwwwsome,
The good:
12 gb of ram
bluray drive
17.3″ screen that looks bigger
intel second gen i7
usb 3.0
The bad:
it comes with the nvidia 560gtx instead of the 570 or the newer 580
its no light weight. you don’t want to carry this around all day.
if you are like me and go to lan partys then you will enjoy not having to drag around a case, monitor, keyboard, etc….
i put in 16 gb of ram and it was easy there is one big cover on the bottom with a screw that gives you access to the ram and hd’s.
the next thing i will do when i can afford it is put in a ssd drive
my windows 7 experience index on this system is
Processor: 7.5
Memory: 7.9
Graphics: 7.2
Gaming graphics: 7.2
Hard Drive: 5.9
what sort of disappoints me about the numbers is i have a older laptop with a 460gtx that gets the same numbers (graphics).
so must be a setting or something slowing it up.
the hard drive speed will get better when i put in a ssd or if i can figure out if i can raid 0 the drives.
when i got this system it was between the MSI that has the gtx570 and this one.
i heard the MSI has a better warranty but don’t matter if you can’t get a hold of them, and that has been my experience with MSI.
i had bought 2 motherboards in the past for systems and needed tech support for both. one had to flash the bios because the with out it the board would not recognize the cpu. the second contact was a bad mobo. both times could not get a response from MSI.
the one thing i cant understand why laptop makers still do it is put in vga connectors i would much rather have 2 hdmi ports on the system.
but over all i am pleased with this system and would recommend it to anyone, with or with out the changes.
Overall Summery:
Great system
Some areas of improvement
Not meant to be carried around much.
Who should get this system?
Gamer’s
it runs
battlefield 3 great
crysis no problem
skyrim with ease
cod wm3 great
wow lol ya i play it runs great
this does out perform some of my friends gaming desktops
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