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    Unofficial bios for UL50VT?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by r0b0t c0rpse, Aug 6, 2010.

  1. r0b0t c0rpse

    r0b0t c0rpse Notebook Consultant

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    Would like some serious overclocking ability! does one exist?
     
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    I don't think so, the UL50 community is quite small.
    Besides there not much that you can squeeze out of the SU7300, you can use setfsb to push it to 1.9 GHz, but thats already a 46% overclock, so there simply won't be much overhead left on that tiny CULV chip.
     
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    howabout a bounty for a bios with chipset control, memory timing, fsb, etc...? get enough ul50 owners who want it, all throw in 5-10$ some one will make one ;)
     
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    lol, sure, I'll commit 5 bucks if someone actually makes an optimized one.
    Btw robot, does your UL50 ever have a weird lcd problem where the screen contrast would change by itself when displaying a webpage with a lot of whiteness? It would shift back if I switch to another window, but it's really annoying.
    I've only experienced it with the Intel GPU active, when nvidia GPU is running I havent been able to replicate the problem.
    Heck, if someone can make a bios fix for this, I'll up my payment to 10 bucks.
     
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    i dont see that problem. but i have been running 258 and stuck with g210 on all the time.
     
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    yeah, with g210m there shouldnt be any problems. It's the stupid intel driver, which has never been updated cuz we're stuck with this archaic proprietary graphics switch tech.
     
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    Hi - ncc1701k

    The problem you are writing about is intel contrast/brightness management technology (battery saving) it actually saves ~700 mW

    You can disable it in intel control panel.