Asus G50VT Is a Dedicated Gaming Laptop

The hardware required to play high-end games takes up a fair amount of space, the components require more power - resulting in shorter battery life, and they are usually very pricey. The device was rigged with a somewhat slower Core 2 Duo processor than the regular model and you will have to settle for one hard drive instead of two, nevertheless it still has the most important component from a gamer's perspective, and that would of course be the Nvidia 9800M graphics card. t 7.3 pounds, the G50 is quite heavy for a 15" laptop.

If the conventional prototypes and LED lights aren't sufficient to suggest at this being a gaming laptop, the "Republic of Gamers" logo might. The Vista Experience Index has never felt entirely relevant, especially on newer models, as the score often maxes out at 5.9. The device endorsed a 5.9 on everything but the CPU, which stayed at 5.2. In PCMark Vantage it got 3935 points, and in 3DMark Vantage E8541 - both very impressive figures. If you want some games, we fired up Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3 and FEAR. All of them were fully playable of course.

Asus also provides a utility to do some "extreme overclocking." We noticed an enlargement of about 2 frames per second with the expediency turned on. To accomplish comfortable framerates we had to turn the settings down to 1024x768 and medium quality to get around 33 FPS.

All things considered, the G50VT X1 is a great laptop for gamers on a budget. The only issue we had was with the LCD, which didn't provide high enough resolution and had slightly washed-out colors. UT 3 was no problem either - the framerate stayed between 50-60 FPS with fully maxed out settings. Crysis presented more of a challenge.

. Processor 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

. OS Windows Vista Home Premium

. Memory 4GB DDR2

. Screen 15.6

. Harddrive 320GB

. Graphic Card Nvidia 9800M GS

. Weight 7.3 lbs

. Screen resolution 1368x768

. Battery Life 1.5-2 hrs

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