The 1982 Lockheed Sea Shadow may be rusting away in Suisun Bay, but its  Commie-spooking contours haven't been forgotten. They apparently  inspired the design of the Asus G74SX-A1, which just won a HotHardware  recommendation for its cheese-eschewing looks as well as its  performance, efficient cooling and realistic $1749 price tag. For once,  the Core i7-2360QM CPU coupled with a GeForce GTX 560M and generous 12GB  dollop of DDR-1333 RAM actually conspired to surpass the  manufacturer's 3DMark benchmark claims. It wasn't flawless though:  overall computing performance was middling compared to rivals; the  speakers were shoddy when it came to producing music rather than  explosions; and the 17.3-inch Full HD display was slightly wasted on  some games that only ran smoothly with high quality settings at  1280x720. Still, all this naval talk makes us fancy some Silent Hunter 4 -- and that should play just fine. 
 
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