whatever it is, that's how asus plays the game with their rog gaming laptops. time will tell. for consumers, it's much easier to decide

rumors said g46vr is already on the way (found at some European websites). found some screenshots too (but i'm not sure if they are real or just seo pranks). whether it's legit or not, not sure.

1. cpu is still 3630qm;
2. gpu changed to 760m.

usually asus support website will give us clues whether the said models are to be released in near future. for instance, the existence of g750 was denied but apparently it's on the way previously; when you can find the support page of that model, it's very likely the news is legit.

rumors also said intel is pushing partners to release devices with BGA packages :/ but again, it's up to the manufacturers. to me putting a BGA package in a gaming laptop is still not a good decision.

finally, rumors said there is no g55 anymore.

note that the above are all rumors. don't believe anything until they're proven to be true.

edit: .. and it's not only us. many complained about soldered cpu's.

This post has been edited by horns: Jun 17 2013, 09:21 AM

uh? there are external usb dongles for wifi that can be found in garage sales, lelong.com.my, etc. the common ones are 150mbps and 300mbps.

afaik, killer cards are usually for oem only. in malaysia i think it's like no sellers carrying them. i found it at ebay, but they're not worth it imo.

This post has been edited by horns: Jun 17 2013, 10:34 AM

i'm using intel 6235. to me both atheros and intel work for me.

you are correct. after looking around for clues and hints, i found out many are still having problems with 6235 and 6300. many pointed the root cause to be the drivers (but i suspect it might be other factors involved). that's why i do not recommend this to you.

fyi the issue is the connectivity not being stable (fluctuates randomly). some run at very low speed.

yeah i am still using 6235 for a number of reasons:
1. to me i don't feel any degradation of wifi access (not like others; many reported that it's below 40mbps; it's not in my case);
2. i am having 150mbps to 270mbps connection speeds. it's fine for me even if it doesn't reach the full 300mbps.

running 8.

edit: .ac wifi adapters have been released, like in certain models of g75vx. new aw 17 is using .ac adapter, too. maybe you can search for broadcom 4352, 4360 too.

This post has been edited by horns: Jun 17 2013, 01:02 PM

er.. 1102, no idea sorry. i guess you can use google to find that out

about the availability, usually it's not available in Malaysia. (well, at least i am not aware of their presence. maybe you can wait for other users who know more on where to get them locally)

samsung announced mass production of its xp941 pcie based m.2 ssd. the speed is 1.4GB/s.

i think they are at war in the european markets with competitors. previously european sites got the vx and g46 first iirc. i remembered when i saw the g55/g75 for the first time, it's at russian sites too (beside europe only). at that time, there was actually one g75 model with 3720qm cpu (back then the max ram supported was declared at 16gb )

for laptops, only mac can enjoy that first (well.. for now. some asus desktop boards also can use that)

no idea about market share in Europe lol; but i guess it's important to asus to maintain presence there.

asus has a new benchmarking tool called ROG RealBench (http://rog.asus.com/241042013/overclocking/rog-realbench-free-app-download-now/). you can try it out and compare it here

this is mine; all stock configurations bo clock one (cpu/gpu); using ram disk:

hehe benchmarking just allows us to do comparisons to reference scores. there is nothing fancy about it. whether it's better or not, that depends on what you're looking for. to me, for realbench, it's based on the predefined workloads, rather than synthetic tests; i just think it makes more sense.

i have 32gb of ram. 16gb of it is ram disk. my favorite is softperfect ramdisk.

first, if you're using the latest gforce 320.18 driver, please replace it with older versions. there has been reports about the suspicion of that version causing many similar artifacts that you described (up until frying the gpu). it looked like the signs of defective gpu's

70c should not be a big deal normally (in fact that's a good temperature for gpu imo; normally we have around 73 to 75c under load). however, it's still better to clean the fans and vents up; if possible replace the thermal paste on the gpu too.

you can observe the temperatures of your gpu with hwinfo64 sensors page. leave the page opened while you play games normally. after the game, check your max temperature for gpu.

sure; go to bios menu > advanced, and start ezflash. alternatively you can get there by spamming f4 key on POST.

nice if you did it carefully nothing will go wrong haha..

yeah it's here since last weekend. the sad news is that it has a soldered cpu this time :/

so far there is no news about g55 replacements.

maybe these can help:
1. http://www.techspot.com/guides/630-windows-8-boot-fix/
2. http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/win8/...ws8-bcdedit.htm

This post has been edited by horns: Jun 18 2013, 07:43 PM

ok sweet

wo.. nevermind it's not that bad if you just need to replace the display panel

nice

i think you better do that quickly. but how come you can get that? did you dry the battery very often?

same here; i never removed my battery unless i changed my hardware or did some house keeping.

no, the time doesn't get reset without battery. your cmos battery has problem? maybe you should change the cmos battery, not the other one?

uh? this one i am not ready to do it yet. it's conductive.

i think for cpu it's fine. but for gpu, there are some dies near the gpu.

if i had time i sure help :/

it's likely the issue of cmos battery. it's better to get it done at service center first :/

take the hard disk out and use another machine to do the backup; clone it; or whatever.

hehe.. there is no need for that; unless the problems are not solved after dealing with them.

well.. communications work both ways