About to purchase a G750. May I have some advice, please?

[Wiggs]

Hi everyone. With help from this forum, I've decided to plump for a G750, after my Acer 6935G suffered a........mishap.......

Either THIS G750JX

or THIS G750JM + an SSD. Perhaps THIS SAMSUNG

But I'm at a loss as to which to go for.

The 860M has definite appeal, but I'm just worried about all this Optimus stuff I keep reading about. Now I do like oldish games eg. Doom3, Quake4, even ye olde RTCW; and I don't mind a tinker, but I don't really want ball ache every time I install one.

Also I read that you can't up the frequency of the screen with Optimus enabled, which I also understand is a desirable thing to do.

I love the idea of Optimus, but it seems badly implemented and a bit restrictive.

I guess what I'm asking is:

Is it worth having the newer GPU and have Optimus, or the older GPU without Optimus? And is there anything else to consider between my choices apart from the obvious differences in spec?

If you guys and girls could point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful.

Cheers. Rob.

[hmscott]

Wiggs wrote:
Well I'm more than happy with this G750! It's brilliant.

Ghosted the original installation, combined some of the crazy Asus partitions, updated to Win 8.1, installed Classic Shell (ahhh thats better!), updated some drivers.

Not had a chance to do all of hmscott's suggestions just yet, but will do.

Got the AUO screen, and I'm happy enough with it. No flickering, or lines that I can see. No problems with the track pad, seems to operate as it should. No rattling from the subwoofer. It's all hunky dorey.

All in all, I'm a happy bunny!

Now to see what the temps are like.

Wiggs, that's great, glad you got a good one!

Taking your time is a good idea, sometimes doing too much at once takes away from the fun - and that's what it's all about. 🙂