For those who want to achieve better cooling, its better to raise the laptop about an inch or two at the back with the backpanel opened. And make sure nothing block the intake/ exhaust with sufficient area for the cooling to breathe (open area is recomended). I make a hole to my cheap notebook cooler for the fan to breath better. I noticed doing this can improve cooling further about 2-3C

I wonder why you guys so anal about driver version? Unless it gives some boost in performance in games dont bother about it, its not like 8.631 is 10fps slower than 8.661

Is there anything for k40 user? Where you found it exactly? I update the first post

Ok, thanks for testing.

BTW i just run 3DMark Vantage on this lappy, I got this score:

Entry Preset:3090 GPU score: 5041 CPU score: 1422

The Entry preset score is not bad, but the Performance preset (but with 1366x768 resolution instead of normal 1280x1024) runs as slow as a snail doing 100m run

Other 3DMark score is on 2nd post, check it out

You using the driver from ASUS site from the first post is it to enable PowerXpress, correct?

That is why I run the fan via 5V USB power, I dont want to toast the two most precious thing in this lappy. I want to report this to ASUS, but I have done plenty before, mostly mobo as I use nothing but ASUS for the past 2 years, they dont bother

Hmm...I dont know whether I want to use HD3200 as I run on plug most of the time....ah might as well use it since its there

Still no use, they usually put lame suggestion like we know nothing about computer or give empty promises like "report this to a higher department" or something like that

EDIT: I put a low resolution Crysis Warhead cutscene video on the 2nd post, all the setting is on the video detail

This post has been edited by Najmods: Nov 21 2009, 02:23 PM

Thats a bit too...drastic. I never played with BIOS before. Maybe overclocking freak knows how to do it

Run a battery test now that PowerXpress worked like a charm. I managed to get one and a half hour when watching movies. Full detail on 2nd post

Overdrive is mainly used for overclocking/tweaking but overclocking doesnt work but you can chage memory timing, but there are lots of setting in there and most of the time even the best tweaked one doesnt have much difference

I did use VLC before but after using MPC with shader enabled, I cant use any other player, they dont look as good

Its been asked more than 3 billion times I even put it in FIRST POST. First there are NO heat problem, second, notebook cooler cant do much in terms of cooling

You read other laptop thread, they even reach over 100C. It can be considered normal for a laptop to have these temperatures

Alright, I'll be done

This post has been edited by Najmods: Nov 21 2009, 10:52 PM

The BIOS itself can flash it, download the latest BIOS, put it to any thumbdrive or put it to somewhere simple like C:\ or D:\, restart PC go to BIOS by pressing F2 and go to Advanced -> Start Easy Flash and browse for your BIOS files

Nah, only if you know what you are doing then you can use Winflash. Hmm...with Winflash I think you can flash k40 BIOS in k50 lappy and vice versa but I dont think there are any benefits, unless one is superior (like fan speed for example)

Have you even bother to look at first page? For crying out loud...this getting annoying. Everything is there

This post has been edited by Najmods: Nov 21 2009, 11:19 PM

If anyone finds a guide/manual or something how to open the laptop entirely please do tell me. I'm planning to make a backlit keypad

Welcome to the forum. First of all, is that the latest driver from ASUS site? If it is, if I remember correctly Windows XP doesnt support PowerXpress so you need to force to run dGPU from the BIOS

Yes, that is exactly what I said. Before you try reinstalling XP you could just change the BIOS setting, I think you dont need to reinstall Windows

77C is fine. If its just hot and dont have any other problem like system hang or crash you'll be fine. Of course its hot, if you use k50AB the numpad is sitting on top of the DC converter (or should I say power supply) if you plug it to the wall. Mine runs hot too when gaming. If you plug it to the wall remove the battery

I've run GTAIV for a few days now, it only get 15fps but its playabe....just. If there is anyway to overclock the CPU it would be great

And also, I got my USB fan hack to run internally so you can run with the backpanel closed. I'll upload them soon

This post has been edited by Najmods: Nov 26 2009, 03:48 PM

Here is the pics. For you to get it work with the backpanel closed you need to plug it inside, thankfully the inside of the USB port is open and you can safely put the wire there and the advantage is you can still use the USB port for other stuff too like thmbdrive, mouse etc.

Picture below shows the +5V supply of the USB


And I ground the CPU+GPU fan onto the DC in pictured below, now you can put the backpanel and still running full speed


It is posted on the first page, 2nd post for more detail picture