11-15-2016
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12-11-2016 04:12 AM
TimeTorn wrote:
I have the same laptop, picked it up for $200 at a pawn shop a couple years ago. Not a bad deal.. Laptop is running fine for me, I'm typing on it right now. There was a VBios update for this laptop, to fix a green screen of death error. Also, newer drivers are not compatible with the old VBios. I've never heard of this problem causing a completely unresponsive system though.
Not sure what to tell you as far as your laptop goes man.. I noticed you repeatedly said "I'm not a noob" in your post.. saying something like that so many times, makes me think maybe you're not quite a professional. In over your head, know just enough to get yourself into trouble.
If I had to throw a guess out there, if the laptop has already chewed up two graphics cards, there's probably a voltage issue, capacitors or whatever causing it to fry the graphics cards. I would also say maybe something is wrong with the bios settings.. but I don't think there's an option to increase voltage with the stock bios.
Anyways this laptop came out in like 2010.. It's now almost 2017, so you're playing with nearly 7 year old hardware. Performance wise.. You could pick up a mid-range consumer laptop that would outperform this thing for $300-400 brand new retail. It would have a warranty, support, drivers and all that.
I would highly advise you to just go out, bite the bullet, and buy something else. Salvage what you can from the laptop you have now, sell what you can on ebay.
Unless you plan on playing games outside of your own home, on a regular basis, I would suggest you buy a desktop. You'll get much better performance for your money. Current gen laptops are VERY competitive with desktop performance, especially with the new Pascal GPUs, the mobile versions are identical to their desktop counterparts. But again, unless you play lan parties and such, or portable gaming is a must, like in my case since I'm a truck driver, and a desktop just isn't an option in a semi-truck.
Get a decent gaming desktop, and spend the money you saved on a decent little notebook for when you need the portability.
My new laptop will be in the mail tomorrow, Intel i7 6820HK, GTX 1070, 32gb DDR4 2666mhz, 4k display, samsung 950 pro m.2 nvme, I blew $2650 on it. If it wasn't for the fact that I can't really use a desktop, I would have just spent $1500ish on a desktop, and another $500 on a decent laptop, and saved $500.
If you're on a really tight budget, AMD Apus are a decent way to go. Here's one from walmart for $230 https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-15-ba018wm-15.6-Laptop-Windows-10-Home-AMD-Quad-Core-E2-7110-APU-Proce...
Anything above the $300 price range, just stay away from AMD, and go with Intel/Nvidea.
Anyways, sorry if this wasn't the answer you were hoping for. I know it's hard, depressing, and frustrating giving up on an old computer that was pretty good during it's hayday. But sometimes it's better just to let things go.
If you already have a better system that you use as your main computer, and you're just playing around with the g73jh for kicks, I wouldn't buy the same GPU if you're going to replace the graphics card. Get something better, since the GPU in this thing is it's main bottleneck. The CPU really isn't that bad, at least on mine since it has the 720QM.
Good luck to you.