Aiks.. Easy to do?

easy once you try not to snap anything, and handle it carefully..

Will consider letting someone else do it - i aint good with my hands haha.. Thanks for the advice

Any others using the G-series?

you should learn to do that. this is because g55 is still good for a relatively wide range of upgrades. cpu up to 3840qm; ram up to 32gb/4x8gb; wifi to .ac to match your .ac wifi router; hdd to ssd; msata ssd; additional hdd caddy to replace dvd/bluray drives. you can even make a raid with 1x sata ssd and msata ssd to boost the speed.

i have done all the above, and confirmed that they all work very well. for gaming, yeah it doesn't last long. however for other purposes, it's a good machine.

Good advice bro. Good advice indeed.

I shall go and fix it myself then. Gonna go shopping at Lowyat for a good AC card then - figured might as well as the best there is.

Any reco or the Intel one works fine already?

I found this: is this the one you guys are referring to?

(http://www.intel.my/content/www/my/en/wireless-products/dual-band-wireless-ac-7260-bluetooth.html)

the other reason to learn the teardown of g55 is for laptop maintenance purposes. when you are familiar with it, you can do a proper dust cleanup and replacement of thermal pastes for your cpu/gpu under half an hour to 45 minutes.

just follow the guides at the first page of this thread then you should be all good. the key is to be gentle and patient.

to replace wifi card you don't need to go all the way to a total teardown. the card is just under the keyboard, below the left side of the display panel.

yes, i use the same intel 7260-ac. https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3227346

i have an old asus rt-ac66u wifi router. it works very well. (866.7mbps for me) however i think there should be new models available already.

Thanks - you are SUPER helpful! Kudos!

well. i know i shouldn't ask you to refer to the guides at the first page because your machine is a g750 (and there are no tear-down guides about g750 in this thread yet haha!). however something like these vids at youtube should give you some ideas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsv8Vtml-E0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0dkQ4rajyM

good luck

This post has been edited by horns: Sep 25 2014, 07:59 PM

Ops.. Yeah just noticed the model names are diff.

Have checked the videos out but am more worried now given that the lappy requires so many screws to be off to replace the WiFi card.. -.-"

Will figure it out somehow. Haha..

yeah the screws. of all things for asus to be generous, they chose to be very generous about screws

the whole teardown process is actually simple. however it become tedious because of the screws.

also, please note that in general there are two service areas in your laptop. when you take off the small back cover, the area that you can see is called user-serviceable area (for instance, for g55 basically it means 2x hdd bays, 2x ram slots, and 1x dvdrom / bluray drive). that's how far asus allows a user to touch the laptop's internals. the rest are actually non-serviceable by a user.

unofficially, as long as you do not touch parts that are covered with warranty-void stickers, you are fine. just put the stock parts back in case you really must send the laptop in to a service center. (the only sticker that i saw in g55 was a tiny yellow sticker, covering one of the cpu heatsink screws).

Noted with thanks!

Would want to ask any G750JM user here, is the wifi module using the Killer Wireless-N or something else like Broadcom/Intel?

How much you got for your JM?

I have g750jx.

wifi is atheros same chipset with killer wifi.

Its time for the scoop of the Month.
7th of October will be official date release for GTX 9xxM Series.

Asus will refresh G750 model to G751 and comes with 2 variants.
G751(JY) Gaming will be as thick and bulky as G750.
G751(JM/JT) Slim will have some slim down.

ASUS ROG G751JY-T7054H (JY High End)
•Price: 2499,00 €
•1080p FHD 17.3" LCD IPS Display
•Intel i7-4860HQ (2.4GHz) Haswell
•Nvidia 980M Graphics
•1TB (7200rpm) HDD + 512GB SSD
•32GB 1600Mhz Ram


ASUS ROG G751JY-T7004H (JY Low End)
•Price: 1799,00 €
•1080p FHD 17.3" LCD IPS Display
•Intel i7-4710HQ (2.5GHz) Haswell
•Nvidia 980M Graphics
•1TB (7200rpm) HDD + 256GB SSD
•16GB 1600Mhz Ram

ASUS ROG G751JT-T7033H (JT Series)
•Price: 1599,00 € (US = ???)
•1080p FHD 17.3" LCD IPS Display
•Intel i7-4710HQ (2.5GHz) Haswell
•Nvidia 970M Graphics
•1TB (7200rpm) HDD + 128GB SSD
•16GB 1600Mhz Ram


ASUS ROG G751JM-T7041H (JM Series)
•Price: 1399,00 € (US = ???)
•1080p FHD 17.3" LCD IPS Display
•Intel i7-4710HQ (2.5GHz) Haswell
•Nvidia 860M Graphics
•1TB (7200rpm) HDD (No SSD)
•16GB 1600Mhz Ram

NOTE: Spec are speculated to be but maybe slightly different regionally.

And its Bonus time, it has been a while since we last heard about GX500.

Here's the scoop:
Asus GX500(JMC) will feature GTX 980M in that slim chassis.
Link to GX500 3d Mark Result

Side Note:
GTX 970M are replacing GTX 860M based on other competitor.

Credit to NBR for all the infos provided.

wow. direct conversion showed jy high end is MYR 10k (xe.com).

although the specs look good, pricing wise that means it's more expensive than the current aw 17 highest end. (4910mq, 32gb, gtx 880m, with 3 years of warranty, for MYR 9,766.00). no matter how i calculate also cannot justify this one. one word: cra.a.a.a.zy.

I think MY unit will use at most i7 4710HQ. Never went over that. I think GTX 8xxM is a specimen tick Maxwell like last time GT/GTX 8xxx desktop series last time.

hm.. alright it makes sense

if the rumor is true about 980m (i saw a review that said it's equal to 2x 680m), this is a must-buy. i'm now still using 680m to play bf4. with mixed video settings, you can play bf4 online at 1080p with more than 120 fps. to me, 680m is still a damn good gpu.

with the same video settings, gtx 690 is doing more than 120fps for bf4, at 1440p.

for fps games, it's better to have more fps lol!

I know it's out of topic , but anyone have idea how much the Asus Rog G20aj price ?
The Mini Desk Detail

It won't be cheap that's for sure, and It uses GTX 780 while GTX970/980 is available now in current market custom build would be much cheaper compare to G20AJ