How's the image quality on yours?

^Weird you get that kind of problem in the first place.

I bought single stick of 4GB RAM for RM135 totaling 6GB but Windows say only 5.86GB usable. Doesn't matter much to me anyway. I put 2GB SD card in it as dedicated ReadyBoost and disable pagefile entirely. Things never been zippier even with 5400rpm harddrive

Some random SD card I found lying around my house. Speed is only 12MB/s

All my hardwork is paid off, hunting for PLL datasheet, learning how setFSB works and changing memory timing. Took me two weeks to understand those. This is the final result

Temperature remains pretty much the same, 75C load when playing Starcraft 2 and GTA IV. But performance in Starcraft 2 increase dramatically from barely playable at medium 1280x720 to very playable 1366x768 High, GTA IV only increase about 2-5fps

Lol of course not. This laptop is not for experimenting. Its used for my study. This is just my nature to learn the hardware inside the things I buy. This time I won't mod the hardware part, just software. Although I have disassembled this laptop, the warranty is still there because the only warranty void sticker I see is on the CPU HSF

Done some test on how much performance increase from overclocking, so I use CPC Media Benchmark to gauge before and after performance difference, and its quite significant

Stock 2.0GHz speed:
Image editing: 839 points
Video encoding: 951 points
Multitasking testing: 595 points
Overall score: 795 points

2.5GHz overclock
Image editing: 1031 points
Video encoding: 1199 points
Multitasking testing: 703 points
Overall score: 978 points

Clean up startup process, remove the unnecessary things that could slow down startup. I have about 50 process after bootup, and that's quite a lot for me, because the necessary ASUS stuff like ATK and Keyboard Filter, AMD GPU also eats considerable system process plus some additional process like WLAN Optimizer to prevent spikes in DPC Latency checker

Also defrag your system, use CCleaner to clean up registry and any old and temporary files. Make sure virtual memory is one fixed value, for example 2GB means 2048MB for minimum and maximum,

For AV, use the free ones like AVira AntiVir or Panda Cloud Antivirus

You already pinpont the location, what prevent you from putting it there? The vent is from CPU and GPU HSF while the bottom left is the harddrive.

Why are you so concern about loading time? If it did play well why bother?

I put it on the HDD because its roasting hot. The 2nd one you should put it on the vent on RAM slots if the space permits

What kind of 'heating' problem does nvidia card have? You must been brainwashed by those fanATics

Its 90W power adapter, what sort of Toshiba adapter you talk about?

Don't use 'newb' as a reason. You could use HWInfo32 or HWMonitor

I've RMA my A42Je because the GPU is stuck on 3D speed even when not gaming, it annoy me to no end when the laptop is hot. Because of CNY maybe I'll get it the week after

The spec are the same as other A42J series with AMD GPU, so its interchangeable

Download latest BIOS if you don't done so already. Link here

Put the file in USB drive (its better if the drive is empty so its easier to select the BIOS files) and open up BIOS (press F2 during startup) and click Start Easy Flash. Make sure the battery is inserted so if there is power failure it won't disrupt the flashing process

Whatever you heard, the GPU plays major role in gaming, CPU comes second. Most games still better with fast dual cores than slow quads except for some like GTA IV. Even Pentium P6x00 is good enough for games if it coupled with good graphics

EOL = End Of Life.

CPU and GPU in laptop could handle up to 110C (depends on architecture), don't go for "water boiling" danger, because transistor ain't made from water. Having quads in small formfactor do have its downside especially when coupled with midrange GPU. Do you use laptop cooler in the first place? Make sure it cools in the right place, where the CPU and GPU HSF is

His laptop is A42Ja, I checked all his post in this thread before posting that. I doubt dust clogged that fast. It took quite a few months for dust to clog a heatsink, maybe up to a year or more. But the battery is good point, if you plugged to the wall, remove the battery no matter if you just browsing or playing games, the heatsink location is very close to the battery