*Official ASUS W90Vp Owners' Lounge*

unfortunately not yet its being shipped as we speak..but ill get to play with it on friday for sure!!

 

see if you can find e-wrecked's 3870 drivers and try them...or try the 9.2 cat drivers...

 

So what is everyone getting for battery life? No one's mentioned that yet

 

Fallout 3, No Overclock, Ultra settings.

Edit: Crap! I either cut my fraps reading off, or it didn't get taken in the shot... I'll try again. But for anyone wondering it's 30-40fps outdoors right now.

 

I am actually really interested in those new drivers, I think they could seriously help.... Ours seem... pretty old. Though the Mobility modder tool doesn't have support for our series cards yet.

 

Just a FYI .... the lappy is back in-stock in newegg (as of this posting, well technically it has been in-stock for at least 20min before I posted this)

 

asus may say no, but the 4870's/4850's say "hell to the yes!"

in this game of benching and finding the best for games..it's not going to be your stock asus drivers...

also, faisalhero with his 4850 seen major improvements when he went to the newer drivers. almost double

 

I'm not in a hurry, but I am always down for more performance

Crysis Warhead maybe done soon....??? I have no idea, Steam for huge downloads is flaky.


Also; thank goodness I don't have a girlfriend anymore so this thing can sit next to me on my bed. Putting it on my stomach makes me feel like I'm gonna explode! LOL

 

Its already back in stock on Newegg.

 

im knowing. we on the same team here..
and that's every manufactures standard response..use only thiers till they figure out what went wrong...

but this is in direct connection to the cards and their performance. and that home made stock driver they put out is just to say the cards work..lol
this is what happen with the 3870's..same thing. it was a driver waiting game...

you will need an experienced modder to mod the newer drivers for your 4870's. everything these cards and others do are 98 percent based on drivers. it's reverse for the gtx in terms of 3dmark06 only and stock drivers.
if i had this machine, i would already be working on them.... and since E doesn't have one as of yet...he cant really test them for stability, but im sure he will mod some for you guys to try if you ask nicely...lol

 

Lol~ striker your awesome.

 

Yea I'm still around, just a bit disappointed that it seems my laptop is the only one with problems

 

Well if theres anything I can do to help send me a PM any time, I think Strike would say the same.

 

i just talked it over with one of my distributors...i was debating it, but may just wait for the new clevo to debut. if i bought this one, i would have to put a quad in from the start and you cant do that through newegg..

so what's happening now?

 

Would I be able to open up the laptop to check this? I'm running 3dmark06 right now, and its done the whole entire thing while flickering like mad and with dark lines jumping all over the screen constantly... Or should I just send it in and rma it for a replacement.

 

Thing is, the flickering and screen glitches ONLY start happening at the exact same timepoint during the second test of 3dmark06, every single time. Anyone have any idea if this could mean anything?

Okay well, it just rebooted itself after the screen completely shut off.... not sure what that means.

 

Hey bibsybob, did you try -=$tR|k3r=-'s sure fire F9 reinstall fix?

Seems like that might be the magic solution.

 

did it look anything like this...

http://www.say-it-loud.com/vga.mpg

http://www.say-it-loud.com/vga1.mpg

if so, then one of your vga cards are probably bad...i had to send mine in when it was doing this..

it means your cards are not keeping in sync. with the video it is trying to render.

 

I recovered from the included recovery discs on the first night... After that was when the w90 would randomly bsod while browsing webpages...

 

Wait... contact asus or newegg?

 

Yea it looks pretty much like that, with distinct black horizontal lines as well

 

my preload is already erased when i installed a clean vista 64 from my own retail cds.

 

Try it, they usually put it on a hidden partition.

 

I distinctly recall erasing it and creating a single c drive when i did my own install of vista

 

it's one of your video cards. so no amount of reinstalling is going to help...i tried that with 4 different os's...in the end, i had to send it back and they gladly fixed it at no cost to me.

edit: also rule of thumb. i dont care who it is around here that says it's cool to delete your hidden partition to make more room..IT IS NEVER COOL! period. that 3 to 8 gigs it's taking up is in no way harming you. if you need to make a raid drive...then copy that partition onto and external drive or a dual layer dvd. those partitions usually hold all your drivers and os if done correctly. i still have all my old original hidden partitions, because you never know when you may need them....

 

K well, contact asus or newegg?

 

go with the replace. it insures a another one pretty quick. just make sure you already have it setup to recreate the problem. then box it back up and send it off with instructions. once they see it for them selves, they should ship your replacement the next business day.(speculation of course)

and if it's an issue with newegg, then contact asus. they may send for pickup or you will have to ship it to them..don't know for sure...

 

Asus. And see if you can cadge them for free stuff.

 

mess around and just get a free card replacement and a scuffed up case....

 

yes, try the f9 first... you still have to wait for an rma number and then to ship or drop it off....so now is the time to try everything....

 

For the HD 4870x2 not performing question (not said by me).
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=356484&page=2, from post 30 to next page.

 

Haha. Yeah, how young did you think I was? A little too young, I guess haha.

 

Lol enjoy the W90.

It might be cheaper in Asia? lol NO.

yes i want it. lol..

But i am not as lucky as you all. I'll live with my Asus M50 for a now.

Enjoy.

 

Don't put to much faith in that thread, as their claims to sub par ATI performance just circle around back to this thread and the first benchmark done on whats turning out to be a bunk W90 system.

Not to mention the wave of Nvidia fanboys you have to sort through. Already people have reliably scored in the 15k's with just turbo. Give the attention and the time those Nvidia cards have had the luxury of having i.e. the 8800GTX or the 9800GTX along with some actual performance drivers and a W90 will not leave you wanting.

Not to mention the difference in price between the W90 and those machines and your ahead of the game in more ways than one.

 

So i bought the Intel x25-m 80 gig ssd and read this quote on newegg: "Make sure your system supports SATA-II, or [the x25-m] it will only read at 100-120 MB/s (still not that bad, but why buy something this fast if the system doesn't support it)." So my question is, does the w90vp support sata-II so my ssd will run at full performance?

Thanks

 

Yes! Thank you. Now I can light my flamethrower there to wipeout the greens, making more reds

 

nvidia fan boy? yes! or fan of who's got the best card at the time.
so i guess that makes you a ati fan boy as well? yes.

me, i put no faith in words test but the fact based test proven by our members and other trusted sources.
15k in free 3dmark06....nice, but what about 20 dollar 3dmark vantage or the 20 or so demo games up for download?

people are always quick to jump on others in the forums...hahaha..to dammn funny.

 

Many of them have been tested and posted here with very admirable results.

 

ok, let me re read through here...give me a few...

 

sucks ...when you live on the edge there will be problems ... hope the drivers are mature by the time i get mine

 

Living on the edge and the problems associated with that are all the fun parts if you ask me .

 

you are correct. had to really look through.

 

Come on Johnksss

I think its very fair to say that taking 1 benchmark (not to mention the first from a NBR forum member) off a single machine that was having severe stability issues with the OS and probably one of the GPUs and running with it to a thread on the next line of Nvidia mobile GPUs is a little irresponsible and misleading. Some like myself might say fanboyish.

I am hoping that as more units get into the hands of the NBR crowd that those scores will go up as more and more attention/love is shown. As you now have read we have confirmed stable machines producing numbers in the 15k range with no GPU love. Unfortunately I am the furthest from a computer expert, although my W90 should arrive tomorrow.

I can only hope the W90 can garnish the kind of support that FH received with his GT725 (a model I had on pre-order but the W90 made it to market first) and a thread I still follow daily.

***Edited because I just wanted to add more hopefully for a better read

 

exactly my point!. and just like he was helped, so will they. so before you go jumping off with fan boy tactic stuff, you should know we are already on it.

i was more hoping that that was a gest of sorts more than you making a judgment call. is why i replied accordingly. me, the comments means nothing, but there are quite a few that get really heated around here.. . im not one of them.

edit: im about benchmarking to the best of ones ability not trying to keep someone elses machine down. we learn nothing from a machine benched in correctly...

 

Where's the Crysis Warhead benches?

 

I don't think I was the one making the judgment call in the various threads as it related to the performance of the ATI cards. I try to remain openly optimistic.

I may be relatively new to the forums but it is not hard to quickly realize there are distinct "camps", and when people start saying things like "I heard X cards performance is weak" it's not so bad to remind folks where and in what context the information they are using might be coming from. I just felt that it was severely premature and irresponsible to try and draw comparisons from the first benchmark off a quirky W90 (easy to tell by reading this thread).

Ok enough on that as I don't want to detract from what should be one of the focuses of this thread (getting the best benchs out of the W90/4870s. I will do my best once mine gets here tomorrow to move the thread forward but like I said before I am no computer expert.

 

ummmm....i was only talking about the fan boy remark...lol.

i threw the bench stuff in for kicks but corrected it already...lol

sorry for the confusion.

 

poor poor snow man ...

the snow man will melt soon ...

poor poor snow man ...

 

I must say that the GT725 owner's thread is a good read for anyone interested in the W90 from the perspective of the new ATI GPUs potential.

I am very excited at what results FH has been able to put together with everyone's help and hope the same can be done here.

Not sure that it will have any bearing on the end of the day performance but it seems that the W90 might have the edge over the GT725 by way of cooling just based on the dedicated fan setup (3 vs 1). Although I don't think the GT725 has reached any worrisome temps throughout the tweaking process but this might not only be attributed to good MSI design but the fact that it seems the ATI tool limits the GPU OC'ing.

 

it has more than a slight edge...the problem is finding just how much....