Howard's Asus G60VX-RBBX05 REVIEW

Not sure how to do the pic thing, can u show me or have a link to instructions?

 

Based on your idle temperature, I think your Powermizer is also not working.

Can you check your idle GPU clocks (either CPU-Z or GPU-Z will show it)?

 

snipping tutorial


also you can press your print screen button and open paint, select paste.

 

guys i just got street fighter 4 and need for speed shift, on the street fighter 4 this thing runs flawlessly with maxed settings, the resolution really helps this pc its awesome.. i also recommend buying the wireless xbox 360 windows controller and wireless receiver. it makes everything easier, playing street fighter with my chick on my laptop is awesome lol

 

great review, i like the g60 chasis more than my x5
3/5

 

I really don't think my powermiser is working to at least from what it says my laptop isn't extremely hot though just sort of iding right here and gpu-z my gpu is 65oc

 

What does your GPU-Z say? Temperature doesn't mean much by itself if we don't know your clocks. If your GPU-Z says your clocks are 500 Core, and 800 Memory, then your Powermizer isn't working just like mine isn't working.

I'm using NTools to downclock my Core and Memory to 200 (lowest my Memory will go) and shaders to 625 before there is a confirmed driver that fixes this.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=273276

 

This never worked for me but I'm curious if it works for anyone else with a G60...

 

Yeah Im on 500 mhz and 799 mhz and just using google chrome and a few other programs ill try that powermiser switch thing.

 

Hmm. Do any G60 owners have a working Powermizer?

 

the switch seems like it done it and its working now it was down around 200/120and then i fired up the wow trial and the clocks went back up to 500/799 and then closed it and now am at 200/120 You do have to restart when using the switch wow and im now at a chillly 56C

 

What drivers are you using?

 

stock 186.40 drivers after my mishap with my wifi driver I restored the computer and im back at stock.

 

I may try that. Did you restore using the backup disc or the recovery partition?

 

Recovery partition but like i said I did that to get my wifi working not to get powermiser to work

 

I also have this laptop and have been doing extensive testing on it, so far i have done a slight overclock with power4gear included with this system clock went from 2.13ghz to 2.3 ghz not much and is hardly noticable, how ever i have been able to overclock the gpu a great amount with only going over a few degrees celcius over the stock clocks, this laptop has awesome cooling for the gpu and can be safetly over clocked to these speeds playing crysis wars online for 3 hours straight gpu clock = 611, memory= 899, shader =1441. it does have a little room for more but it will generate a little more heat it would provice only slight performance, this i found to be the most stable clocks. i use nvidia tools to do this under the performance tab since ntune did not work properly got the blue screen because its not compatible with 64 bit. hope this helps. crysis runs great btw, native res. shadows n objects tuned down to game everything else up all the way aa 0x

 

lol wut?

Numbers, please. Temperatures, specifically.

 

Hello all,
I am planning to get an ASUS G 60VX, does it come with dual HDD, I am interested in having dual OS,(windows and Fedora), can I do this.

cheers,
Shri

 

I'm not sure how dual booting works with Windows 7 but I see no reason why there would be a problem.

It comes with 1 HD, so you will have to buy another one. You don't need 2 HDs to dual boot, you just need to repartition the HD into separate pieces.

 

I Would think it would be compatible with fedora never check im gonna get ubuntu 9.10 a spin on here myself There are 2 HD bays but only one HD so you can ad another if you want. But I would check on things to see if it works.

 

and i am also planning to get that http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9568112&type=product&id=1218125777703 this laptop has 9 cell battery how many hours is life ? and wifi is 802 bgn.most of strong laptops have 802 agn.ıs it enough?

 

It's a Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN.

I don't think the $1199 version is worth it... that processor upgrade is not strong enough to be worth $150 or so.

 

320gb+9 cell battery+2.53ghz=200 dolar ???? can u recommend me between 900-1200$ laptops plz?

 

Well it really comes down to what you need, i mean the 9cell alone is worth 150-175 on most retailers, a P8700 sells around $200, and the 320gb driver is like $80 or so, all this more than justify the difference, but its about if you really need it. Also at $1200 you can also get the G72gx, which you would also gain better resolution screen 1600x900.

 

g72 has very big screen g60 rbbx09 is better

 

Thank you ,

i am a student and still thinking if I should get this or not,
things that are bothering are the battery life and the warranty if I get it from bestbuy..

Shri.

 

Battery life will be the usual 2-3 hours I'm guessing, a bit more if you turn everything down. Warranty is standard 1 year through BB, but you can purchase BB's extended 3 year warranty.

You may want to purchase from Asus or a reseller however as I believe they offer a better warranty off the bat.

 

i was in BB yesterday, they said the battery backup is for about 1 hr 39 mins, that's what was concerning, how do we buy it from asus because they have nuthing on they website.

Shri.

 

Asus does not sell direct. you can only buy from resellers.I Personally suggest GentechPC.

 

temp 74 degrees celcius 2 hours of crysis. laptop runs cool and shows no sign of it being hot.

 

Is this runing hwmonitor while gaming? or just after end up gaming you monitor it? also what setting you playing: res, aa, etc.

 

Yeah. I think I'm going to call shennanigans on 74C for the GPU.

Even I haven't gotten sub-80 on Crysis, and my machine is covered in copper blocks and the bottom panel is modded.

What do you get in Furmark?

 

If you dont beleive me thats fine, i have nothing to really prove to you. Anyways im using gpu-z to monitor. This laptop seems to run cooler than any other gaming laptop I have had. Last one I had was a 6860fx gateway with t9300 processor. That had 8800 in it which seemed to run hotter than my 260m. Im also using modified drivers for the 260m as well. Got them from laptop2go or something.

 

If this helps you I dont live in cali, I live in NE and the temps in my house is about 60 degrees at all time. Summer time im sure ill hit 80 + degrees celcius.

 

Battery life on this is about 2 hours on power save doing regular usage. If you have it on the power4 setting then expect about an hour and 20 mins.

 

Howard's awesome Asus - Laptop with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor with link from BestBuy reviews, along with all the following discussions here, finally solved the agony of shopping for an affordable WoW gaming laptop for me.

Thanks Howard and all the ASUS posters-you taught me a lot about what is important but now can ya'll help me set this thing up and correct what I must have already screwed up?
Bought one on 10/25 and this is the first time I have been able to get past the IE8 'Sorry IE can't display this webpage' messages to get back here to ask my burning questions???

Is it me or did I get a lemon??
Howard- Did a warranty card come in your box? Zero in mine
Did anything in the box have the specs written on it? Not mine and not on box either.
How many discs came with it? I got 3
The user manual only has about 10 pages and really does nothing to help a non-techy set it up. Help me, I'm dying here guys.

First off, had great problem connecting to wireless network (a neighbor's router cause I have no connection myself). The on/off wireless seems real loose and kinda rattles with too much play when you touch it.
Then I couldn't view any IE websites-( including ASUS) so couldn't get an online manual or help there-still can't. So was forced to accept trial of Trend Micro AV that came with computer. BOOM! After they updated and installed it, I thought I was beginning to make progress. Updated Win 7 for a whole day with wireless connection coming and going (how do I reset network adapter on this thing?).
Tried to remove Trial MS Office bloatware without success.
Started tweaking prefs and learning more about IE8 and Win7 when I could see pages off and on-looked for fix for that-no luck.

Then system and wireless connection got even more unstable, and became very, very much slower than it already was from start- Micro Trend AV sent notification that they 'were sorry but one of their updates was bad and was causing system instability and network connections problems' (after I had used system restore to the previous day already!) Ouch- the fixes they said to do for it were way over my head.

Finally finished Win7 updates, more from Micro Trend AV and began downloading WoW from my acct online...It's at 53% after 12th hour. Wireless connection comes and goes but says strength is excellent. 9 more days to see if I should keep laptopor return for exchange.

Worse, I still don't have a clue how to set up the partitions or make the right decision re that...think I have 3 choices but theyare all greek to me.

As you can tell- I am fixing to whine and feel entirely over my head in setting this baby up. My Toshiba A205-5000 set up fast, cruised the net fast, updated fast and played WoW great til patch 3.2 so you can understand why I might be wondering if I have a lemon or have lost my marbles with this ASUS.

What should I do?
Catzpaz

 

What do you get in Furmark with those clocks, and please record your ambient.

Screenshots please.

 

if you had nothing to prove you shouldn't be posting such fallacy. You can either post screenshots, and prove it, or stop trying to antagonize with blatant lies.

 

Why would post false notions about about a computer, im not a sales rep for asus. Its a computer, im not here to brag, im just telling you what I observed. I do not have any mark program on my computer either. Is there a demo I can grab to show you ? and element why don`t you find yourself a friend besides being a grumpy forum goer. I dont post here to get flamed i post to give information so if your going to be rude dont post to what i`m saying at all. thanks.

 

Well... here the thing, some of us, including myself find it hard to believe, since the G60 is basically the same as the G51. Which is known to be a hot runing laptop over intensives tests. Even the G51J is going toward the 97C in Crysis, given its a much higher res than G60, it should be going at least to high 80s.

Personally what i dont wish to happen is comments like yours give a wrong impression, to people looking for a laptop or even getting discomfort of what they own expecting certain temps.

Im not blaming you, nor i dont want to sound like im coming down to you, i presonally would like to see evidence under the same conditions that the G51 has been judge to validate the claims in your comments like other posted above Furmark or OCCT are good stresstest back up the statements.

 

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

 

If I had Crysis, I would be able to test this out and call it a day.

I can't remember my temps from running 3Dmark06, but I am sure the GPU did not go into the 80s.

I don't intend to run Furmark until I get my notebook cooler, as I don't really intend the card to ever be running so hot.

 

You can download a crysis demo. not too hard to find with google.

 

Is 1.05 the final? I'm downloading that now (now too large of a file) and will run it. Stock cooling and no notebook cooler - for now.

Nevermind, that looks like a tool that requires the actual Demo to run. Too lazy to download a huge demo for now.

 

Howard-
That was a most excellent review!!! Now that I bought one I really need help deciding if I should keep it.
As for the folks arguing with temp outcomes- tis truely cool but haven't gamed WoW bg's yet.

 

howard if i want may i turn off keyboard backlight?

 

I'm not Howard but yes, the computer defaults to no keyboard backlighting. You can turn it on though with a few brightness levels to choose from.

 

Prove us wrong, and I'll gladly apologize.

See, Abula's being nice about this because he seems a nice guy. He won't call you a liar.

 

^^ couldn't have said it better myself.