About the ASUS G74SX-FHD-TZ130V - (Price $2,499.00)
While the graphics card in this gaming notebook isn’t the fastest out there, the well-rounded specs easily make up for it.
The 17.3in ASUS G74SX-FHD-TZ130V is a very well-rounded gaming notebook, and for $2,499 it's fairly priced. It’s got the high-end specs you’d hope for in a gaming notebook needed to run the latest and greatest games at the highest settings.
An NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M dedicated graphics card provides plenty of grunt, so newer games like DiRT 3 will run at the highest settings on the 17.3in full HD screen. There’s also 8GB of RAM and a high-end Intel Core i7-2630QM (2GHz) processor that can ramp up to a mighty 2.9GHz using the integrated Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology.
To take full advantage of the full HD screen there’s a Blu-ray player, and there’s also a whopping 1,500GB of hard disk drive storage. Although you can move it around if you need to, at 4.28kg it’s not what we’d call mobile.
This notebook is pretty good in terms of specifications and price. It's not the best we've seen, but it's not bad either.
| Spec Label |
Spec Data |
| Graphics system |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M |
| Drive 1 Capacity () |
1,500 |
| Processor series |
Intel Core i7 |
| Processor model |
Intel Core i7-2630QM |
| Processor speed (GHz) |
2 |
| Standard Memory (GB) |
8 |
| Drive 1 type |
HDD |
| Optical drive |
In-built |
| Ethernet |
Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) |
| Wi-Fi |
802.11 b/g/n |
| Battery (cells & type) |
Li-Ion |
| Screensize |
17.3 |
| Dimensions(WxDxH) |
420x325x62 |
| Weight (KGs) |
4.28 |
| Reads |
Blu-ray/CD/DVD |
| Writes |
Blu-ray/CD/DVD |
| Native Resolution |
1,920x1,080 |
| Operating System |
Windows 7 Home Premium |
| HDMI |
1 |
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