Hi. I’m Dave Altavilla for a HotHardware. And today, we’re going to take a look at a new notebook from Asus of the V50Gt and this notebook comes from the Asus line of republic of gamer’s product. It’s targeted squarely at the performance enthusiast or gamer—and at seven pounds flash, I’m going to take a globe traveling in a long business trip but it’s a desktop replacement machine. You might have a bit of fun with it. This is an Intel Centrino two base notebook. Let’s fire it up and see what she’s made up.
The Asus G50Vt weighs in at a half 7.5 pounds and that’s what we call a desktop replacement notebook. It held from the Asus line of Republic of gamer’s products which is targeted towards the performance enthusiast and gamer and as you can see the stylings are quite nice with silver and blue inlays on the hood which also illuminate when the machine is powered on.
The G50Vt is based on Intel Centrino 2 platform technology and the Intel PM45 express chipset, 9CH9M Southbridge combination. In addition, this model included onboard discreet NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS mobile graphics for gaming and multimedia performance. Our machine was also built upon an Intel Core 2 Duo dual core processor at 2.26GHz model P8400 and 4Gig of DDR2 800 system memory as well as 250Gig standard 5400rpm Seagate hard drive. Although higher density storage configurations are available with dual drive Raid O and Raid 1 options up to 640Gig and 7200rpm speeds.
On the right side of the system are standard line in and line output and headphone audio jacks as well as a pair of USB to that old port and then included super multi-RWDVD drive with a light scribe. On the left side of the system, we have an SVGA output port. Slots in the chasse were cut from ventilation. A USB 2.0 port, a TV antenna jack for an optional onboard TV tuner 1394 FireWire port and here is an excellent option for expansion easy to port. HDMI output and a standard 8-in-1 flash card reader slot. On the front edge of the system are speaker ports at either corner, an infrared receiver port for an optional remote control, a Wifi On/Off switch and various indicator lights for things like Wifi and power status.
The keyboard area of this notebook is a standard full size layout and it’s very spacious with an available num pad on the right hand side. In addition above the keyboard area is an indicator panel that provides you battery power remaining as well as standard hard drive activity lights. In addition to this control panel over here which gives you access to onboard software utilities like Asus direct console 2.0 which provides control of the onboard hood lights gives you again a battery power remaining and a little bit of overclocking capability.
Here, you can see where a normal mode but turbo and turbo extreme modes are available with overclocking for the processor again are standard clock speed at 2.26GHz. In turbo extreme, we’re able to take it up to 2.493GHz and a 293MHz front-side bus. Pretty nice utilities onboard and all available through this touch buttons. In addition, you have a control with a touch button of various power saving modes, quiet office mode, battery saving, high performance, etcetera. Again, all with this nice and touch sensitive illuminated buttons on the panel here.
Now, since this machine was built for gamers, we decided to set up some quick benchmark runs—software’s enemy territory quake wars. And as you can see, it’s blowing to our custom time demo here with relative of this and we’re going to end up falling down about 64.5 frames per second in frame rate. And set a resolution of 1280x720 with 4X antialiasing enabled. Incidentally, this machine has a pretty good speaker system onboard as well courtesy of Altec Lansing. And as you can hear, offers a fair amount of volume for a notebook. And let’s do—to this rather large mid-range speaker on the end side of the system right here. Not too bad for notebook.
And we found that the G50Vt lasted about an hour and a half on its standard six cell battery under gaming conditions or perhaps when viewing a DVD. Anything that involved a little bit of GPU workload over on a lighter workload conditions that didn’t involved the graphic processor as much like standard desktop application. We found it lasted almost two and a half hours. We can find the same configuration that we tested here at HotHardware as a standard—at retail locations like Best Buy for about $949.00 or you can find higher configurations online as well.
I hope you’ve enjoyed our video spotlight of the Asus G50Vt Republic of Gamer’s Notebook. I’m Dave Altavilla for HotHardwares, thanks for stopping by.
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