So we've started our back-to-school retail roundup of laptops, and while Dan and Scott got their first reviews posted without incident (the HP Pavilion dv7-2185DX and Sony Vaio FW480J/T, respectively), I wasn't as lucky with the Asus G71GX-RX05.
Actually, that's not entirely true. You see the review was sailing right along until I started reading complaints about the system's Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M graphics adapter basically dropping frame rates to 1-2fps once the GPU temp hits roughly 81 degrees Celsius. So we did a little more testing and sure enough the frame rates dropped and we couldn't get them back up without a restart.
Turns out Asus is aware of the problem and has been busily working on a fix. Some hiccup in the BIOS is causing the drop out and the manufacturer will be issuing a new BIOS version on or about July 9.
As soon as we have a chance to test it out we'll be revising and rating our review. However, if you've already bought one, rest assured that a fix from Asus is on the way and your frame rates will be back where they belong. (Which at least in our tests was very good for the well-configured $1,149 laptop.)
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