well, good luck!

as a prevention, you might wanna take the photos of the laptop (whatever you can think of; side view, front view, top view, rear view, etc.) it's especially important to take notes on where the grills are exposed (rear view, vents, etc.)

this way you can check it out for external anomalies later.

you should have backed up when you had a chance. or like @holloway said, replace it with another hdd.

.. that's epic :/

.. ni lah lagi extra epic :/

ah.. it's better that way :/

you also wanna build a rig? nice!

beware for new haswell machines: the voltage of the ram is now 1.35v. ram that need 1.5v (common ones that can be found in the local market) are very likely to cause troubles later (over heating, damage to the cpu integrated memory controller (due to the increased potential difference), and increased battery use).

damn.. it's in the specs of the cpu :/

the ram with 1.35v is kind of rare here :/

i can only see crucial and mushkin. the rest are of 1.5v. damn haswell.

haha hope so but with the recent lack of supply of ram chips, it might not be happening.

yeah sandy b**** and ivy b**** can still profit from the high-power ram.

yes sure. however, i still prefer high power ram, because they should be more efficient in terms of performance.

it's a laptop la. how far you can do OC? :/ you might as well get the high-power ones.

yeah learn from @holloway. disassembling a g55 is simple.

i'm still waiting for my 7260 .ac wifi card (should reach here this Friday). whether it's working or not i will share the information here.

haha yeah it's around that price range.

can la be confident a bit.

MYR 180.00.

theoretically, yes. practically, no

right sorry i read it wrongly

you have 4 ram slots in a g55 with i7 cpu. you can do it without voiding warranty

.. and it's not 2x2gb; it's a single 4gb ram under your keyboard. so you still have 3 empty slots.

locally, the matching one that i know of is kingston (timing is 11-11-11-28; 1.5v). you can do 3x4gb kingston to get 16gb.

in general a decent consumer grade ssd will do much better than a hdd.

since you're looking at this particular ssd only, it's better you ask in the ssd thread instead. there should be someone who have first hand experience on this one; or you can also google for reviews about m500 by other people.

as for online purchase, why is that you can only get it from crucial online store? have you checked out the garage sales section? getting a local set is better than getting it elsewhere (unless locally they charge you for a few hundred bucks more); local warranty normally is cheaper.

my preferences are still samsung and plextor.

awesommmmmmeeeeeeee!

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013...-card-case-deb/

i hope they push this eGPU out asap! previously i found gpu cube but the damn psu power is so little :/

uh? carry it around? @holloway is right: don't, lol!

i put this at home la. i have plenty of space at home i don't play games when i work. for work purposes, even the 660m has more than enough juice already.

oh.. imo for the sake of discussions let's us do not limit ourselves to the keywords, 'mobile computing' only. if i really needed to stick to those topics to the letters, i really have nothing to discuss already (as of now, high mobility means low performance, relatively; there is not much to discuss lol!). i might as well go else where

i just think that it's a nice idea that an external gpu can be used to replace our aging gpu. with this accessory, we don't need to worry about whether the gpu on our laptop is of custom form factor or soldered, and we can just get one and use it for all sorts of low-powered laptops.

if i have a desktop rig, eGPU is pointless pci-e is much better lol!