No joy for us G73jh owners though..
😞Part III (Testing the older G73JH)
Well, this part was more of a disappointment. I opened up the G73JH and swapped out the memory for 8GB of the HyperX ram. After figuring out how to get it all to boot with Dual mode, I got it running… and the system sets the RAM to 1333 mode. And it didn’t help much with overclocking. In fact it was a little less stable than my Kingston 1333 RAM modules.
While Kingston says these modules are “backwards compatible” the Gen 1 chipsets only support memory up to 1333, so the JH sets the 1866 RAM to it’s highest known compatible setting: 1333. I was hoping the memory would remove the limit in OC by being able to work at higher speeds, but it seems the memory wasn’t my limiting factor.
So if you were thinking of 1866 speeds in a Gen 1, I’m sorry to say you’ll need to upgrade to Intel SandyBridge.
This article was originally written by Chastity, TeamROG Notebook Moderator.
Asus Maximus V Extreme BIOS 1903, see specs above avatar.
Asus G73 jh A1 laptop, BIOS 213, vBIOS OD2, 8 GB Ram, 240 GB Intel SSD, 180 GB Intel SSD. Win 7 Pro. Purchased new from PowerNotebooks.com in May 2010.
(both have 1920X1080 hd screens, mine above, hers below )
Asus G73 Sw XR1 laptop 8 GB Ram, 160 GB Intel SSD, 80 GB Intel SSD. Purchased used >Ebay 1/10/13, Did clean install of Windows 7
