Your experience thus far with your Asus G-Series Notebook

[JDS]

As the title says, I am curious how your experiences with your notebooks have been. It could be as simple as a one-word summary. I want to know how you feel about your notebook and why. What changes would you make and how would you rank it?

To start, I would say my experience has been a roller-coaster with the notebook. I bought it with very high expectations (probably too high), and that lead to a tad bit of disappointment on my end when my notebook couldn't put out the performance I feel like I paid for. I often worry if there is just something I'm missing, or that I didn't do that could be holding my computer back, so you could say I am a tad bit paranoid. The upside of said roller-coaster has been that it lead me to a new genre of gaming, and a new hobby of my own. I have been playing around on pcpartpicker.com trying to make the best desktop I can for a relatively affordable price. I have even tried to overclock my GPU (nVidia GTX 670m 3gb), I found that I am just not experienced enough to handle this. I feel like my computer isn't working to its full potential, and I want to know how to unlock, I am just unable to figure out how. What changes to your notebook have you made? What have you noticed had worked? What hasn't worked?

Anyways, my experience has been mostly enjoyable, but also frustrating at moments. My biggest complaint: I feel like I paid for more than I received. My favorite part: it opened up an entire new world for me, as corny as that sounds.

[nirO]

nItHz wrote:
for me, the experience has been great. till now, no problems and no problems with audio too. only concern for me is that after heavy gaming, the gpu temp is around 87 deg C. but i cant rma since i bought it from US and i live in India. but i can adjust with that. 🙂

i think all our G`s come with global 2 year warranty.. u might want to check that.. u could RMA in india as well... but u would still have same problem with support that we all do... unless india is better in support witch i highly doubt lol

[GottiBoi55]

nItHz wrote:
for me, the experience has been great. till now, no problems and no problems with audio too. only concern for me is that after heavy gaming, the gpu temp is around 87 deg C. but i cant rma since i bought it from US and i live in India. but i can adjust with that. 🙂

Yeah I agree with the others, you have a very poor "paste job" on not only your GPU, but probably your CPU also!
You should be able to RMA in India, check HERE for support!

My GPU never goes higher then 70c during heavy gaming, the only time it went higher was during a stress test with "MSI Kombuster"!
During the stress test it leveled out @ 80c, but yours went to 87c during heavy gaming, that's way too high!

[SpasTaz0917]

First of all
I traded my lovely MBP 15" 2011 with 1gb 6750m
To a
iMac 21" 2011 with 512mb 6750m
Then same the night to
Asus G75VW with 3gb vram 670m x)

Well first impressions moving from true quality product to, well Asus products...
Which are have a fine quality but its still Asus...

The screen is truly abysmal, had to buy asus mx239. the trackpad is millions of millions miles away from the glass trackpad from apple.
The fans are loud in idle mode. Or just the standard 2000rpm is loud as sh*t
The USB ports are speedy but can't have a Logitech unifier
and a USB flash drive or harddrive one the same side, The mouse pointer gets jerky.
And it reeked of cigarette smoke... The previous owner is a smoker...
And the stock wifi card was POS
And this laptop has a complicated disassembly as opposed to a MBP

Moving from OS X 10.8 to windows 8 was a challenge although I dual booted into win 7 in MBP to game.
Stockholm syndrome: learned to love windows 8.


Well I like this laptop alot it has more internal parts that I can change.
And the first thing I did was redo the TP etc. and put intel 6235. next upgrade intel 7260 ac until "7230 ac" is released someday 🙂

The best part is that I upped from a 2011 MBP to G75VW and only paid for traveling to swap PC's 😛
Since I'm only a student.
New price for G75VW is still around 2300usd where I live. So saved alot of money!! Just by swapping computers with other people 😛 gotta admit the stars were aligned for me that day 😛 that luck

Right now I'm in the process of modding the bottom panels for intake mod, inspired by dreamonics handiwork 🙂

I still regret that I've swapped my pretty MBP for this... At least when if comes to transporting the G75, the damned thing weights a ton 😛 and it doesn't fit in the laptop compartment of my MissionWorkshop: the Shed, messenger bag. Which had cost me a lot almost 300 usd because of import taxes...
But maybe their large backpacks are better suited.

tl:dr
All in all I love this piece of brick ❤️
It plays my games at reasonable settings
And it spared me from building a rig.. Since I like the portability of a laptop.
"You can't make an omelet, without breaking the eggs!"

[DirkHardeck]

The gpu memory is only used if the game or application needs to load data into it, such as textures or frame buffers. Your cores are doing the actual calculations. It is very rare at this point for a game to show full usage of 3 GB of VRAM, most games max out around 1.5 GB.

[datacore]

There are a lot of things I do not like but there are also things that I do like. The things I don't like happen to be the most important however such as; performance, display, and price. Things I am happy about are; build/presentation, tons of USB ports, keyboard backlighting, sound/speakers, keyboard layout, and trackpad. Keeping in mind the things I am happy about are available in most laptops anyway.

I actually wanted the Y series Lenovo (with SLi) as it was highly recommended after doing research on the web. However this product is not available in Australia 😞

[GottiBoi55]

Well I'm on my third G series Laptop, so that says a lot!
I love them, each new G series just gets better.
There's many good things that most have already expressed that I agree with!
But the G75's sound problem, well you all know about that!!!!!!
Don't get me started about that issue!!!
( I use external speakers)

I been pretty happy with my choice, not many problems. (mostly driver issues)
I guess I been pretty lucky, no RMAs on any of my Laptops.