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    Unboxing your G73: A Short Setup

    Asus has in recent series has shown that it takes to have the powerful notebook gamers to build and decent. Unfortunately, these were never perfect, and almost every customer had some fault. Either configuration was to be unbalanced or well-chosen hardware equipped the display with a lean. So it often happened that one particular model did not buy one, because, for example, the desired full HD resolution was offered, although a strong GTX260 was installed. When defense needs to be said that it not be better made, manufacturers other.

    Here is quiet simple guide to give you information on setting up the Asus G73 gaming laptop. Recently, ASUS has announced their new line of PSUs G Series, which includes models with capacity of 1000 and 850 Tues As the company, new products are extremely reliable and able to provide stable high-powered computer. According to ASUS, this new systems are ideal for addicted to gaming and overclocking. Both models have been tested for compliance with the requirements of 80 PLUS. Their efficiency reaches 86%. The scheme of active power factor correction can improve the stability of supply and provide a high power factor - up to 99%. For the production of BP G Series uses high-quality Japanese capacitors. Efficient cooling provides a 135-mm fan. Declared MTBF is 500 thousand hours. For this indicator, new items about five times higher than many competitors' products.

    Asus G Series is almost complete analog model A4L, only built on a processor from AMD and takes advantage of the discrete (external) video card from the world famous Canadian company ATI. And all of the above has allowed the company ASUS, even in the segment of budget laptops to provide a laptop for a reasonable price with good computing power and excellent video to use this notebook is not just for work but also for entertainment. It therefore contains an Intel Core i7-720QM, a graphic card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 backed by 1GB GDDR5 memory and no less than 8GB of DDR3 1066 MHz. Storage is entrusted to two hard drives of 500GB in RAID and a Blu-ray. The last computer built around a Full HD screen of 17.3 inches.

    The G73 will all change. Full power without restriction, but this also has its price. We have chosen is not like normal G73JH TY033V G73JH with a Core i7, but the smaller brother Core i5 equipped. The Ram was halved to 4 GB. With DDR3 at 1066 MHz it has not changed. Unchanged is the built-Radeon 5870, the 1 GB DDR-5 are available. The disk size was the original 2x500 GB 2x320 GB reduced from. The main limitation is the resolution, the version on this was limited to 1600x900.

    This reduction should be only one process in practice. A Core i5 instead of a Core i7 does not really hurt, because the sense 8 threads for games already been discussed enough of. Since the core i5 661 test, we know that games and two additional threads can better deal with two cores. The 4 GB of Ram are not a huge loss, because the graphics card itself a 5-GB DDR memory supplied with himself. The hard drive does not mention it, the taste will remain and use case.


    Up to that point we would have the limitation of the hardware is not disturbed. But as soon as the display is about, it starts to think again, for so noble hardware earns a good resolution, especially one built in Blu-ray player is when. Remains only the question of how much one can do without the full HD resolution on. On one side of the notebook is too high resolution criticized for what HD5870 currently not in a correct, but would be faster to topic, as one would like. Full HD resolution must somehow be supplied with power also. And so the question remains open even as it is a future proof graphics card with the maximum possible release? How often will put the resolution down, because games like Crysis and Co liquid then run much better and also provide details.

    On the left is the Blu-Ray drive with DVD burner. As USB ports can be RJ45, 2 x 2.0 and microphone and headphone find. On the right side again, there were two pieces USB, an HDMI output and VGA port. A card reader round out the package. The mat design goes all over the laptop, even if the lid flips open. We like very well. Very impressive is the large keypad, which is an additional number pad like on a normal keyboard and also includes the way is also illuminated. The keys F1 through F12 are additional functions such as lighting of the buttons, volume and picture settings assigned. Thus, film speed settings are also made during a game or Blu-Ray.

    Specifications G-1000HA / G-850HA:
    • 1000-W (G-1000HA) / 850 W (G-850HA);
    • Dimensions: 200 x 150 x 86 mm;
    • Connectors: 8 x SATA, 4 +4- pin +12 V, 6 +2- contact PCI Express (6 to G-1000HA, 4 for G-850HA), 1 x EPS;
    • Scheme of active power factor correction;
    • 135-mm fan;
    • Protection: OVP, SCP, OCP, NLO, OTP, UVP, OPP.

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    First Look of Asus G73 :

    Press the F2 key to get into the BIOS boot, where you can find some useful settings too. This function also includes a mini-OC from Normal to Turbo, where the 142 MHz clock BCLK is increased on addition and one on the x19 multi whopping 2.7 GHz comes with. The bios version was not the latest, now there is the version 205, the support of W25Q32BV, 32GB memory stones supports. There are currently experiencing problems with many SSD hard drives, especially with Samsung models. Although these are recognized in the Bios, but motionless behave when it comes to boot. Intel and similar board as Kingston and Mushkin run without problems.

    As soon as you boot the first time Windows ins, operating system is installed to the end. This is normal with complete systems, so that the user's personal settings and computer name, enter password. This has lasted for 10 minutes, after which we use an SSD in the old notebook is no longer used. In the time we install normal Windows 7 brand new and have long time bored on the set desktop. But no matter. One reason could be the four partitions, which one has made two hard drives off.


    Think about, whether you want to start right at the format, because the list of installed programs is very long. Above all, there are also some trial programs while, anyway expiring and will need replaced at some point. Just before all test programs and write down the good and use it again later. We felt that too much, and we also wanted to remove the partitions annoying.
    We have the first page of the Asus CD with all drivers and tools addressed to. This we have to delete all partitions and after a clean installation of Windows 7 then used and looked surprised. That worked perfectly. CD in, the program shows all the missing programs you all with automatic restart, then install once. Unwanted programs can be clicked away.

    One of the mandatory programs for us was the Asus ControlDeck where you can touch a lot of settings on one. In a transparent OSD menu, you can quickly many things such as resolution, brightness, volume, power-saving features and much more. can adjust. Very practical, concise and functional.

    Setup Guide:

    The Asus G73 loads the last ATI Radeon HD5870 , a model that should offer performance up to the expectations of many players. Unfortunately, these models are still under embargo, it will have to wait before having a more complete picture of its performance. Windows 7 is a great operating system, be infinitely better than their predecessors, but it is necessary to optimize it a bit, especially on older machines, or netbooks, due to limitations of memory, processor and / or disk space, so in this post I intend explain a bit like minimally optimized so that you can work with Windows 7 at its best.

    Package:

    You get a pre-installed Windows Home Premium 64bit with an Office 2007 Trial, and a lesser known anti-virus, also limited to two months. Windows Recovery CD, ASUS CD with all current drivers and Asus Tools. Other useful programs, such as Asus DVD, Power2Go, Label Print, Power Producer, Power Director and Media Show are included.

    First when you open the box check that the shipped box is not damage that you can see by monitoring the same. Then comes the screen hinges which you must check that it is not loose. After that turn the same on and then check that there are no dead pixels on the screen. You can monitor the same for running the laptop for some hours. Then comes the backlight which must be proper and all the buttons are highlighted. The other option is manually installing Windows and Drivers back again to get the brand new laptop with no bugs and issues. This take very less time where you can clean install Windows 7 or run the recovery process.

    Remove Unwanted stuff from Windows 7 and Optimize

    Visual Adjustment:

    By maximizing or minimizing a window in Windows 7 is made by a number of effects and animations that can disable a better system performance, for this do the following:
    • Click on Start and write SystemPropertiesPerformance and we open the item appears.
    • Then select the Visual Effects tab
    • Disable Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
    • OK.

    Boot Speed:
    By default, Windows 7 only uses one core of our processor to start, if we have more than one processor core can take advantage of this:
    • Click on Start and type msconfig and press Enter
    • Then select the Startup tab, followed by Advanced Options
    • In option Number of processors introduce the number of our processor cores usually have 2, 4 or 8.
    • Select Apply and OK.

    Virtual Memory
    Go to Control Panel - System and Security - System - Advanced System Settings. On the Advanced tab click Settings in the Performance box, now click on Advanced and table below, click on Virtual Memory Change. The configuration screen virtual memory allows Windows to automatically manage our virtual memory, but if we can manage ourselves to improve the system manually.


    To change the values of virtual memory will go to custom size and enter the value for our system if we know the size is usually assigned to allocate 256 MB, so that so we make sure the system will always use a little disk paging , thus what we are doing is to save disk space that may not be necessary.

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    Disable System Restore

    Since Windows XP have this option, but System Restore is not a backup system even less, and indeed, how many times have you used?, If you have space problems, it's best to disable it, for it to go to Panel Control - System and Security - System - System Protection, and the system protection tab we click Settings, then we will open another window and then click on Disable protection.

    Zip Disk

    This option is only recommended if you have limited space because it slows the system. To compress the hard drive, you go to My Computer and right-click on the same go to properties and then go to disc to compress. You can find that next to the box of compress.

    Temporary Internet Files

    To configure this, you open Internet Explorer, press the alt key so that you leave the menu, then go to Tools and then Internet Options and in the history section and click the settings button.

    When you open a new window with the screen you will find yourself on the left where you can configure the settings that you need in your Internet Explorer, but hey, tell him not to save the record and not caching may perhaps be a good choice for space-saving.

    Erase data backup system

    To delete copies of old system and you will not need you have to write in a terminal or MS-DOS window as administrator the following: sfc.exe / purgecache

    Remove Fonts

    Fonts (fonts) especially TrueType use some system resources. That is why if we want Windows to work more quickly, you need only use the sources we really need. To eliminate the sources that do not use the following:
    • Go to Control Panel and look for the Fonts folder
    • Move the sources that do not use some backup folder
    • Leave only the necessary sources and ready.

    Fast Shutdown:

    Previously we saw how to speed up booting Windows 7, but it is also possible to accelerate the shutdown of the system:
    • Go to Start and type Regedit
    • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl entry
    • Right click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout
    • Change the default (12 seconds) at the minimum you want, this way Windows will not have to wait for an answer to close the program.

    Disable the search index
    • If you know where each of your documents and the search function does not really use it in the least, you can disable this feature so that you get a lower consumption of system resources.
    • Let's Start, type services.msc and press enter
    • Then we looked for the Windows Search service, we right click and in the field of press Start type to Disable or stop.

    Speed Up Taskbar
    • Go to Start and type regedit and press enter
    • Then we looked for this entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
    • Then in any blanks we right click and select New> DWORD Value
    • In that inning put him the name ThumbnailLivePreviewHoverTime
    • Following this we right click on this new entry, select Modify> Base> Decimal.
    • Then select a number in milliseconds, for example 200.
    • Disable system sounds
    • If you do not really need the sounds of Windows, you can disable them to get more speed:
    • Go to Start and then write mmsys.cpl in the search box.
    • After the sound tab you will find a menu called combination of sounds we will select no sounds.
    • Accept

    Remove Startup Programs
    • The more programs from starting with Windows, to start later than this, so it is better to disable programs that do not necessarily have to start at the same time as Windows 7:
    • Go to Start and in the search box type msconfig and press enter
    • In the startup tab we can remove the check mark to the programs we do not want to start.

    Disable Windows Aero
    • Since Windows Vista will use a feature called Aero graphics, a number of features that consume many system resources, but significantly improve the appearance of Windows, most of all because the slides in our programs.
    • Right click anywhere on the desktop and select Customize
    • In the color tab disable the Enable window transparencies.

    Disable unnecessary services
    • Many services and resources dealing with probably do not use them in Black Viper has published a list of services you can stop, it is necessary to do the following:
    • Go to Start and types services.msc in the Search box.
    • After the service we do not need, by right clicking on it we can choose whether we want to start with Windows or just stop it.
    • This last step is only recommended for more advanced users, the completion of a service may have some problems if it is not adequate.

    Appearance

    And we would just put the Windows appearance throughout life and remove all monads blue color transparencies, etc. are very nice but unfortunately do not contribute anything.

    To do this you go to control panel and in system properties go to safety > performance, then adjust visual effects and then you give it a better performance absolutely everything, as you wish.

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    Remove Unwanted Asus Programs

    You can see some free utilities and programs provided you to by Asus. You can simply remove them from Control Panel. For that go to Control Panel and then click on Programs and Features. I had mentioned some of the common utilities below but comparing to them there are more. But this are the most recommended done to remove. You can simply remove the power4gear which manages the power management of Windows 7. But the inbuilt utility for the same is fine. This actually decrease the performance of your system. Then in there remove the following:
    Antivirus programs like Norton Trail or Trend Micro :
    • Pre-Installed Games
    • Power4Gear
    • ASUS liveupdate
    • ASUS AP bank

    Other than this it is also recommended you must use a good registry cleaner tool. There are many tools available. When you remove the program there are some left entries in the system which cause the slow issue or error. So you can collect some kb of space and even make your registry much stable.

    Windows Update

    First thing for that I will recommend you run Windows update. You can also download the same from the official site of Windows which has size of 1 to 1.5GB. This is the first update and while updating the same I will also recommend you download and add more stuff. Do not forget to add Microsoft Security Essentials. If you want you can also choose any different antivirus for your choice also. But this one is free and very effective also.

    It is built for Windows so you will not face any issue on that. The next thing you will need to do is to get a new web browser. There are ample of them look for a browser which can provide a good support for importing settings from a different browser like old bookmarks. Then pending is adding a flash player, java and other updates and at last you can put your programs and applications like Microsoft Office, Photoshop, etc.

    Some Recommended Settings

    Here are some recommended tweaks for sound settings which is responsible for laptop’s performance and stability. First update the audio drivers. It consist of Realtek drivers. Just right click on My Computer and choose Properties. Then go to Hardware tab and click on Device Manager. Then right click on sound device and update the drivers. You have to update Realtek HDMI Output do not forget to Disable all sound effects which are not needed. You will notice some difference in the sound settings.

    Then the other important thing you have to update the BIOS of the system which his basically the most recommended one. This will make your system much more efficient. But you must ensure first the proper version before updating. The other option is vBios update which is quiet easy solution.

    Windows Performance & Benchmark

    Here is the first performance index used by Windows. The Windows Experience Index determines the functionality of the hardware and software configuration and expresses the result as a number from the index rating is given. A higher base valuation generally means that the computer, especially in demanding and resource-intensive tasks, better and faster computer behaves as a base with a lower rating. The ratings range from 1.0 to 7.9.

    The Windows Experience Index rating is the advancement of computer technology focused on. To take account of faster, more powerful hardware depreciation areas with time, higher imported. The standards for each level of the index remain generally unchanged. In certain cases, however, may develop new tests, which are reflected in results may be lower.

    From the performance can actually be satisfied. 6.6 points for the chip are more than adequate, somewhat thin, the 5.9 points in the memory. Since we had because of the DDR-3 a little more waiting for us. Dual DDR-3 on a board with a 1066 MHz H55 cannot work wonders, too. Points can, of course with the graphics, there are only 0.7 7.2 of the maximum points away from.

    Another brake is the disk, which is normal for these drives. SSD disks also achieve a score above 7.0. The pure CPU performance can be the 64bit version of Cinebench compete with. Here we came to 3400 points from the single-core rendering and 7805 points from the multi-core rendering. When OpenGL benchmark, we came to 5107 points.

    Hardware :

    The 17.3 "wide display HD + is in 16:9 format and resolution, a maximum of 1600x900. The lighting is via LED. This is not a Full HD display has built, as with the stronger Core i7 model, we can only High costs lead to return. The visible surface has a glossy coating and it mainly outdoors with clear reflections to compute. In normal lit rooms but you have a perfect picture. The colors are very strong and do not distort. Also, the perspective has enough reserves.

    The Speakers of the House of Altec Lansing, which have their headquarters in America. Besides the two speakers built above the keyboard can still be found on the underside of a subwoofer. This we have something ridiculed at first, but in our first attempt Blu-Ray not amazed, we bad. This is very strong, and in certain securities it can be clearly shown on the keyboard feel as well. The speakers themselves sound very good on the usual "tin-sound" you wait in vain. The in-game and movie sound effects make it as arising in any case much more fun.


    But the graphics card is not the only asset of the Asus G73. It also features an Intel Core i7-720QM and some versions should also be equipped with a Core i7-920XM. These processors can be supported by 8 GB of RAM DDR3. Two locations disks are also present to offer a choice of either two or two SSD drives or SSD combined with a hard drive to get the best of both worlds. The rest of the configuration is more common with a 17.3-inch full HD panel, a 4.1 audio system Altec Lansing, a 2MP webcam connectors or even Wi-Fi 802.11, Bluetooth, HDMI and USB ports of course. The Asus G73 will work on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and have as many models of the brand, Express Gate, a mini operating system able to boot in less than ten seconds.

    The G73 also wants to be different! Fully oriented "gamer", boasting an ultra-modern, combining a matt finish with simple lines and sharp a stealth bomber. Other light elements give it his signature visual equipment while a plethora assures efficiency in all conditions of combat that is the game, video editing etc. Basic configuration is Altec Lansing 2.1 sound system, 2 megapixel webcam, or a 17.3 screen "LED Full HD 1920 x 1080.

    Temperature

    Due to the temperature you need not worry themselves. The cooling system was designed so that all the air is sucked in at the housing front, and back up through the whole case is headed for, where they both "exhaust pipes" on exit. The Core i5 is manufactured in 32nm and consumes less power than an electric toothbrush. Thus, CPU is also the subject temperature fell. The HD5000 series is thanks to its outstanding architecture optimized for mobile use. The tests have already shown the desktop. Without load it consumes little power, although under load it is thirsty and hot, but this is very civilized limited. The built-cooling parts including heat pipes can pay off the heat well. The case is nowhere to become excessively warm, another sign of a successfully implemented cooling. The warmest point we could with the back 42 ° to measure. The bottom was warm to 26 °.


    Power Consumption

    Also the power consumption is critical, if for us a rather modest. You have to expect that so well-equipped notebooks also consume electricity. So it surprised us not think we have to idle mode 40 Watt consume. For Office applications WLAN there were already 96 watts. Of course, one must consider that a laptop connected to the power supply no power management settings are used almost as well as the brightness at maximum is. When playing World of Warcraft there were about 125 watts.

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    Hello friend I atuazei bios asus G73JH my laptop and after that my laptop does not work!, you would not back up into the windows of your original bios? a need to rewrite the original bios with my recorder eepron bios chip, thanks

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