Product Description

This product has been Refurbished to perform as new. It Comes with 90-Day Warranty. The Asus G50VT-X5 Gaming Notebook PC is made to thrill even the most experienced gamers! It all starts with mind-bending NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS with NVIDIA GeForce Technology and 512MB GDDR3 VRAM for hair-triggering speed, plus amazingly lifelike textures and lighting effects showcased on a brilliant 15.4-Inch WXGA Color-Shine display. Powered by a Blazing Fast 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor P7450 with 4GB RAM you'll have the performance you demand for today and the future. The 320GB 7200rpm hard drive, provides room for games and data, without sacrificing performance. Top it off with a fiery Rogue design pattern and you're set for unforgettable gaming action and attention. It comes with Face Recognition software for security, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit operating system with SP1 and much more. 15.6 WXGA (1366 x 768) Display Webcamera and Microphone NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS with 512MB Dedicated Video Memory DVD+-R/RW Drive with Double Layer; 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN 10/100 Base-T Ethernet; PCMICA II Slot Ports - 4 x USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, Headphone out; Microphone-in, VGA, HDMI, RJ-45; Approximate Unit Dimensions - 14.8 (W) x 10.4 (D) x 1.6(H); Approximate Unit Weight - 7.7 Pounds

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2952 in Personal Computers
• Brand: Asus
• Model: X5
• Dimensions: 6.20 pounds
• CPU: Intel Core Duo 2.53 GHz
• Memory: 4000MB DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Disk: 320GB
• Processors: 2
• Display size: 15.4
• Included Software: With Power 4 Gear Extreme, Life-Frame 3, Asus Direct Console and more.

Features

• Contents - Asus G50VT-X5 Notebook, 9-Cell Lithium-ion Battery, AC power adapter, Software Bundle - Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition
• Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 2.13 GHz Processor
• 3 MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz Bus speed
• 4096 MB DDR2 (PC2-6400) RAM
• 320 GB (7200RPM) SATA Hard Drive

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Customer Reviews

Best Budget Multi-Media/Gaming Laptop!
Ok, this is the fastest laptop I have ever owned. I actually bought the one with the p7450 2.13GHz, but I upgraded to the P8700 myself. I bought a Refurbished Asus G50VT.

With Vista on it is ok, but with Windows 7 on it its awesome. It can play Far Cry 2 and Call Of Duty MW2 on the highest settings. When playing these games, the video card got to 86C after an hour. My frame rate was in the High 20s mid 30s on the highest settings. The hottest the CPU ever got was 72C. Before I upgraded the CPU, it would idle at in the mid 30s(C). After I upgraded it and used Antec Formula 5 it now idles at 27-29C. The GPU idles at 42C and gets to around 50-55 while surfing the net or watching a video. This laptop runs cool compared to other laptops.

Some people have asked if it can handle 8GB of ram. After little research I found that it can take up to 8GB of memory. 8GB (2x4GB) on eBay costs about $240. Now for battery life.

On power save with the screen on the dimmest I get about 3-3.5 hours of life. Some people think that the light and design on the lid look bad, but I think it looks cool. I just wish that you could turn them off sometimes. Hard drive transfers at about 22 MBPS with Windows 7.

Overall its an excellent laptop. I paid $700 for mine on eBay. 5 Star Laptop!

Pros:
Fast Processor
Good Video Card
Big HDD
Long Battery Life
Fast Wireless Card
Excellent frame rates in latest games
Runs very cool

Cons
Lid Design looks bad to some
Screen slightly low resolution
Can't put a quad core in it

Like a pickup truck on turbo...big, ugly, and fast.
I had an Asus G1S before this. That machine fried itself with it's 8600GT-M video card (if you have this watch out for your ticking timebomb).
Anyway, got this as a refurb from Asus when I sent in my G1S.

The G50VT is about an inch or 2 wider in the case. It doesn't fit in my laptop bag now. It's got this really hideous graphic on the cover. I mean, something from Ed Hardy ugly. This is why it's staying home.

It came with 4gb ram/320gb hd (5400rpm boohoo), Vista Home Premium 64bit. It's a quick machine. Takes a while to get out of sleep mode, but that'll be rectified (I hope) with a fresh copy of Win7. Screen resolution is blech. The G1S had 1680x1050. I was in love. Now I'm back to 1366x768 (oh my god..my icons are big enough for grandma to read without glasses). Oh and no Bluetooth. Had trouble connecting to my Linksys WiFi router. Didn't like WEP. I had to use WPA (the preferred way), but now I have to reconfigure everything else in my house..ugh.

Get it, like it, and don't take it out of the house for fear of ridicule from anyone over 15 years old.

My favorite laptop
I'm going to make this short.

This is the first laptop that I'm truly happy with. I have gone through many laptops and desktops in the last couple of years and this is the first time that I'm able to do everything I would do on a desktop on a laptop.

The graphics card is pretty good, I'm able to play everything I throw at it at ultra high settings while using the laptop's native resolution. I upgraded to Windows 7 and all drivers work fine. The one touch overclocking works really well, and everything else is just perfect.

I didn't give it 5 stars because I think Asus should update bios to allow more than 4GB of Ram. The motherboard should be able to handle at least 8GB if not 16GB, but Asus says that max memory is 4GB (if anyone has tried putting 8GB in and it worked please let me know, because it will make this an awesome laptop).