New series coming in in May at the very least. Mostly equipped with Ivy Bridge processors.

Anyone know official or common idle temperature for Intel I5 2430m CPU?

This post has been edited by rOnnyJustrOn: Mar 6 2012, 12:52 AM

The idle CPU temperature will be around 50 degree celsious

i wanna ask... my case as below

My asus u35jc harddisk KO.... im thinking to change to SSD 128gb (sata 3 6.0gps)

Do the Intel® HM55 Express Chipset Fully support for the 6.0gps?

im noob.. hope to get help here... thx

i dun think hm55 support sata 3 6 Gbps...as stated here http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chi...ipset-hm55.html .it only support sata 2 3 Gbps

Guys, I've just burned the W7 Premium copy to my dvd..I wanna ask, does the bloatware also include in the recovery software or only W7 premium?

The bloatware is only in the recovery. A fresh install only has the bare minimum OS. However, you would need to download some drivers for the hotkeys etc.

Got some question. Lets say if i wanna upgrade my ram to 2x4GB=8GB. What speed of ram should i chose for higher bus speed benefit. Can i just buy another one which is different manufacture from the stock one. Or i should buy two new dual channel one and what the speed is the best for my system? Very confuse here what the dual channel thing.

So, if i reformat back with my windows7 premium (dvd that i've burned from this laptop), it shouldn't come up with the bloatware right?

It is advised to use identical RAM to avoid any problems that might be encountered sooner or later.

Yea, the Dvd recovery you have burnt out is exactly same as your recovery partition, so you will have all those bloatwares preinstalled

Ok,I installed new W7 premium using my friend dvd to do a full reformat. Now, it keep saying that my laptop is not an Asus laptop?! Very weird..should I recover back to the old ones (w/ bloatware thingy)?

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Added on March 8, 2012, 7:46 amOk,I installed new W7 premium using my friend dvd to do a full reformat. Now, it keep saying that my laptop is not an Asus laptop?! Very weird..should I recover back to the old ones (w/ bloatware thingy)?

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Solution

Download the ATK files from the utilities, install it then it should recognize your laptop as an Asus brand.

This post has been edited by amalost: Mar 8 2012, 07:46 AM

I've upgraded mine to 16Gb HyperX PnP 1866mhz, so far so good. Never really had problem.

My opinion:
-Never mix RAM from different manufacturer. Its a real hit or miss kind of thing. When it works, you save money. When it doesn't work, you're fcked. Personally when I tried the latter a few years ago, I got fcked. Never really had problem like BSOD or things of that sort, but there's this kind of random events where booting becomes a problem. For long term sake, just get a new set of em.
-1866mhz is better than 1333mhz, but if you don't have the juice; just score with the 1333mhz. Buy 8GBx2. that way you can eventually add more when you have enough money. get 32Gb. overkill mang~ haha.
-8gb is good. but 12Gb is usually the better minimum. you don't really need 16 or 32gb imho. =p



oh inb4, new Realtek Audio Driver has just been released yesterday (V6.0.1.6559)

and

A link to help new users getting a *legal* clean version of windows on their pc

Nice advise. Thanks.

This post has been edited by rOnnyJustrOn: Mar 8 2012, 09:37 AM

Has any of you tried overclocking the 550m in N53S? How far can you oc it?

You should just upgrade into two 4gb 1333mhz ram of any brand you like, it's more than enough for a laptop.

This post has been edited by wacomfreak: Mar 8 2012, 05:23 PM

Yea 8GB of RAM is more than enough actually

Should i oc my GT540m? Some say it use the same chip with GT550m and i should can easily oc to the same clock with GT550m.

yea, basically GT550M is just an overclocked version of GT540M

Can anyone tells me about the gaming on zenbook ux31 i5 version?
I know ultrabooks aren't meant for gaming but I would like to have some light gaming on it during spare times. Just wondering is it smooth to play Heroes of Newerth and starcraft 2 on it?

From what I see on the Asus website, the zenbook ux31 doesn't have a dedicated GPU for gaming so I believe you can't run Starcraft 2 on it. Not sure how well it could run HoN tho, but I think you can at least run it on low setting.

Anyone here ever successfully oc the gpu like this? http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/geforce_gt_550m/

This post has been edited by wacomfreak: Mar 9 2012, 03:28 AM

Light gaming like Plant vs Zombie , Angry Bird ?

I do not think that it is capable of playing starcraft 2 smoothly. But DOTA will be no problem

BTW, why will you like to play game on such a small screen (11inch) ?