Recent content by Fadekyn

Not sure on the G53 but on the G73's you have to manually flash the Bios and vBios. It's not hard, but this ensures that there is no conflict between the gpu and motherboard. (Although that is with an ATI card, might be different with Nvidia) One other thing I recommend with ASUS G53's or...

If you're playing WOW, then you should look to the Acers for your price range. For $650 you can easily find a laptop with an ATI 5650 than can easily run WOW at medium settings. Especially if you keep the shadows low to med and the new water low to medium. Important note, WOW is actually...

Yeah, the only two problems I have with it happen to be with the placement of the microphone/headset vga jacks and the touchpad not having an off switch. I haven't downloaded that little program that freezes the touchpad while you type. (easy fix) The mic/headphone jack placement is a pain due...

Go to notebookreview.com, go to the forums under the discussions tab. Find the ASUS room and then find your respective model. I can almost guarantee they'll know where the fuses are and whether you have a pinhole reset.

Refurb G73JH off of newegg. Although the sager is nice too.

If it was untaped wires coming out of the computer that touched, while having a charge run through them, then it's either a fuse in the computer or your fried something in the computer outright. (do computers even have fuses?) Nothing about that description makes me feel good. Ummm......does...

If you plan on playing SC2 or Diablo you really want to focus on getting the best graphics card you can get. Follow that by display, CPU, RAM, then storage, especially if the size of the laptop does not matter. For the mid/upper end of your price range you can easily get a GTX level Nvidia...

It doesn't say what the graphics card is. In your case you shouldn't settle for anything less than an ATI 5650 when spending $700. Nvidia equivalent is the GT 540M, or am I off on that? (not sure) Take a look at new egg. Also, if gaming is your main need don't rule out refurbished. Usually...

There also may be better video cards released around the July/August time. So you might be able to get a better deal on an "older card" that happens to be new or newish right now. In your scenario, odds are that at your price range SB will become the default chipset. So you probably won't...

If you're looking for WOW on ultra settings than the only one that will handle that comfortably is the GTX 460M out of all the computers you are looking at. While that one posters suggestion of the ATI 5870 rig would handle it as well. I just bough an ASUS G73JH-RBBX05 recertified from Newegg...

I wish I could find it, but there was a solid comparison video running SSD vs Hybrid vs 7200rpm vs 5400RPM. It was probably by the same company selling these hybrid drives. The test runs from startup to opening 5 programs (some office, crysis, 3drenderer and two other programs) then shutting...

Well, the combination of the SB chip, price and SSD's more or less wins out regardless of the other builds. Although, dual SSD to me seems a bit overkill when you can have a much larger secondary 7200rpm drive to lower the costs even further while still retaining the system speed. What peaks...

:D It doesn't take six months for new cards to be available. What I was saying is that since Nvidia and AMD released their new cards about 3 weeks ago in 6 months we can expect a new release of newer cards. Thus making the release 3 weeks ago the new old cards. So for example, right now the...

Try slickdeals.net, they've been finding some deals that are along your criteria. However, for the $600-$800 range you can easily find 13-14' computers that have much better processors than a dual core. In your case, you will want to focus on the GHz level of the processor. Currently, since...

I personally could not afford a Sager. However, I did consider their lower end NP build and a few other builds. Fortunately, I was able to find an obscene deal on an Asus G73JH. The only other gaming rig systems I looked at were by MSI. Of the three Sager does seem to have the best...