If ur not rushing why not wait?

I think i do need a new laptop, as my aging M1530 is having problems, like getting hotter and showing some signs of another GPU failure.

Mine not gpu failure more like thermal paste caked to extreme and gpu overheats coz asus designed my a8jr to have the copper pipes for cpu and gpu are shared. so both are spreading heat to each other which result in force shut down sometimes.

isn't that the common design for most laptops???

should be. I think so.

or maybe u reapply thermal compound on the CPU and GPU???

those on my Asus are nothing to shout abt (thermal blu-tak anyone? well, they look like blu-tak anyway)... there's significant improvement after i put in my own OCZ Freeze...

I dun have disassembly guide for my A8JR. Tried to open up last friday but open the back but still haven't fully open the chasis.

do u really need to open up till that point???

i merely remove the heatsink and the pipes only, juz enuf to reach for the CPU...

Mine is different, the back plate of the chasis can't reach as the copper pipe is below and blocked by the delta fan blower.
continue this discussion at asus a series thread.

Maybe a repasting will do?

should be doing repasting tonite.

And Heard some G73jw still faces missng keystrokes and underperforming GTX 460m in FF14 frames compared to AW HD5850m.

Here we go again.

G73JH had that problem, but solved with BIOS flash.

I might as well get AW since im in Aus and dont have to worry about customs, if G73JW gonna have a lot of silly problems like G73JH initially.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Oct 18 2010, 02:41 PM

It was the synaptics driver to begin with.

well, i do see G73Jh selling for around AU$2.2k here...

Where?

All im seeing are 2.5k and above for A2.

i saw A1 selling around 2.7k Aus @ www.mln.com.au

here u go...

http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search...asus+g73&spos=3

u can try PCCG... one of the more well known e-tailer... G73Jh is listed as "Clearence" in their website...

This post has been edited by astria: Oct 18 2010, 02:58 PM

Do you mean this site?

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...oducts_id=15580

Oh my, this is sweet, 2.2k with Hybrid HDD, but SSD still faster.

yup, that's the one... it's really a sweet deal...

One question, how much is the difference between i7 720 and i7 740?