~GX660(R) Owner's Lounge~

Yeah why the hell you people are CRAZY!!! i say dont use it and what do you do YOU GOD DAM USE IT HAHAHAHA !!!! .

Anyway GL it will melt your diode and reduce Laptop life by 0.2% Each Run.

 

OK, im lying then! the temps shown on the furmark benchmark in 1080p res were in the mid 40's i kid you not!

 

Thanks AsusS and Rob! That's great news. With regards to PM55 vs. HM55, I'm hoping it's a PM55, but only because folks here have flashed a 660 with the 660R BIOS and enabled RAID. AsusS, good point about the higher power requirements for the quad. It's nice to know you have the choice to upgrade if you want, though.

 

Pictures, please.

 

No Problem.

If you do decide to go for the upgrade i would highly recommend the higher PSU adapter the Brick power supply i mean.

As for initial temps you should be fine.

The Wat is increased thus meaning higher heating values the processing units will increase along with your processing cores which will work a lot more faster than IE the I5 processor.

I can only wish you a great and excellent thumbs up on your upgrade to a higher Core if you do indeed perform it come back here for help im always around.

I left you Reputation.

Thanks.

 

I'm considering moving from my Asus G73Jh to the GX660R-060US, (for the smaller form factor), and I was wondering if owners could comment on;

1) SSD Compatibility - I have a Kingston SSDNow V+ Series SNVP325 (which I think is a Samsung controller), and I was hoping that it would be compatible.

2) Heat and Noise while non-gaming

3) Portability

Thanks..

 

1) Not sure on that. Works with OCZ vertex SSD, though.

2) No noise whatsoever when not gaming (unless caining the cpu to 100%), same with heat.

3) Fairly heavy unit and quite a thick deepness to it, although still perfectly laptoppy to me

 

am using it with intel ssd 160gb gen 2, works fine too.

 

Yeah they pretty much traded area for depth.

 

Hi I just bought my gx660 249nl.....I just want to know how to make it so it is as fast as possible....I have an anti virus ready but I can't find a windows 7 disk just a manual. So how do I remove this ''Bloatware'' I tried reading up on it but found it a bit confusing. Thanks in advancce.

 

As requested!

 

The attachment's not working. can you put it onto imgur?

 

bump onto new page

 

I attached the screenshot from my desktop, its showing here as a thumbnail, what i have done worng?

 

the attachment doesn't look like it's working.

Upload it to imgur.com and give us the direct link.

 

try this one....

 

Something's screwed up with that temperature sensor. Just use HWmonitor and leave it open while you use FurMark.

Also make sure it's stability test and xtreme burning mode.

 

(BTW. Thanks very much for your feedback on the heat/noise/portability aspects..)

I stand corrected on the Kingston SSDNow V+ SNVP325, SSD. They apparently utilize Toshiba's T6UG1XBG Solid State Drive controller, which replaces the older SNV225 series SSDs, with the Samsung controller. The reason I'm asking is that some folks have suggested that the only SSD that's compatible with the GX660R, is the Intel controller based ones. Since the OCZ Vertex SSD, which I believe is an Indilinx controller, works in the GX660R, that's proved inaccurate. If anyone else knows of other brands that work, please feel free to mention them.

Lastly, can an owner comment on the RAID features? I'm assuming that there is some kind of RAID controller built in, and I also assume that this is something that can be enabled or disabled. I wouldn't ever want to run any RAID configuration on the laptop, and I would just as soon disable it.

Thanks..

 

Regarding RAID you can configure it at bootup how ever you like. I myself dont find any benefit from RAID so I have it disabled.

 

What Bearclaw said. I'd be careful with your GPU, since it could be burning up and you would have no idea.

 

Hi I just bought my gx660 249nl.....I just want to know how to make it so it is as fast as possible....I have an anti virus ready but I can't find a windows 7 disk just a manual. So how do I remove this ''Bloatware'' I tried reading up on it but found it a bit confusing. Thanks in advancce.



Anyone please I really don't want to use it untill I get rid of this bloatware. I don't know what is useful and what isn't.

 

Download the Windows 7 image from a torrent site and install using your own serial.

 

Could anyone with similar specs give me some recommended settings for the following games please? (playing at 1080p)

1) Black Ops
2) Napolean total war
3) Civ 5
4) Assassins creed (the first one)

in the menu for graphics settings i dont understand some of the options like filtering etc etc and want to optimise the games.

cheers for any help/advice!

 

max for everything.

 

total war is really choppy with everything on ultra, black ops was not too good on max either, i had to drop AA to 2x and everything on high, wish i knew what all the other settings did though, im not experienced with gaming setups

 

Dude in your sig it says 6mb you mean 6GB

 

dOH! changed it

 

Hehe awesome .

I was like D:<

+Rep

 

hi guys, any idea where can i download the vbios so that my memory will be 1000mhz instead of 900?

 

You can easily edit it yourself with Radeon BIOS Editor.

 

ok im totally new to this editing stuff, will it require me to know anything before i start editing it?

 

Hi all! im a lucky owner of the gx660, however there´s som issues, for starter:
1: my led wont work, it says something like the led manager is not supported. i unistall, reboot, install but still having the same problem.
2: webcam doesnt work, windows wont identify it even though i press fn+f6
3: anyone that can change ati drivers, heard that some vendors dont allow user to install from ati webpage?
4: no bluetooth...the bluetooth is not connected windows says.
ok is not the worse problems u could have, but i wonder if a clean install could do the trick...hope somebody could help me!!
Except for those issues the laptop is running more then fine,,,best buy ever.
and one moore thing, easiest way to get a windoes 7 disc,,get a pirate?

 

i found out that led lights works if i start them when u boot up windows,,,thats strange

 

I'm thinking of re-installing Windows 7 myself. I figure, after backing my data up, I run a clean installation and once installed I install all the drivers. I'd also like to set my Raid 0 striped hard drives to 1 partition instead of the 2 it came with by default. This can be done during the installation setup, correct?

Let me know if I'm missing something lol. Thanks!

 

Update your bios and reinstall your graphics drivers.

 

hi all few of u may rember i was in the markey for a gaming laptop and came
to the conclusion that i would wait till the new year...... well i came into a small amount of money in wich i splashed out on a new lappy i.e: gx660r-474uk woo
stupid question time: ive never had a 64bit os soo was wondering what y u guys recommende in terms or virus &malware protection . i normally use avast,malbytes&spybot. with kaspersky on my usb if all else fails.
also what do u use to monitor temps

sorry if i rambled on there thx

 

For the free options, Microsoft Security Essentials, Avira, and Avast are very popular. The newest Norton is a very popular paid option. Malwarebytes Antimalware is a good backup option if the "regular" AVs can't bust an infection.

HWMonitor is a good general monitor. I haven't used HWInfo or Speedfan, but people recommend those, too. GPU-Z is good for GPU monitoring, and progams like MSI Afterburner has an on-screen display that lets you see your GPU temperatures in-game.

 

Avast is my favorite.

 

Has anyone had issues with burning backup media with the BurnRecovery program? I cant get it to burn to discs, keep getting an error.

 

Those are good free options. I swear by ESET Nod32 myself for a paid option. Doesn't always pop up in my face to tell me something's up (Like Firefox)

 

I don't have an active anti virus. I just scan with Malwarebytes once in a while. Anti viruses are too intrusive and don't want them affecting my games.

 

Aye.

I use the free win7 MS essentials to scan every now and then but I dont have the realtime protect enabled as it buggers up a bunch of stuff including games.

 

Microsoft Security Essentials is good enough, just combine it with a script blocker like NoScript for Firefox and you should be good to go.

 

Is there a new Bios out yet ?

 

Hi guys,

Thanks to Forge, I was able to find a program that could detect all my temps, including the hard drives. So far, it seems my hard drive temps have been fine, but I'm a little concerned about the CPU and GPU temps. It's pretty cold in this room and I just turned my computer on after leaving it shut down for about 5 hours and these are the temps I'm getting while only running Firefox with a few tabs and HWiNFO32:



Hopefully I embedded the image correctly. If not, you can see it here: http://d.pr/z2R5

Thanks for having a peek

 

Hi guys

I just got my GX660R-219UK... I have to say... WOW!!!! great piece of machine... really in love with this laptop... My only complain is the flexed keyboard but it didn't concern me much.

I just have a few question for you guys, i've been using lenovo in the past n they have an update software to let us know if there is any BIOS etc. updates. Is there also a software for MSI too? If not, what is the best wat to know if we have any updates?

Thank you guys!

 

MSI Download Center. There's a live update option, although I've never tried it because Internet Explorer is mandatory. You can also just use the Manual Download drop down menus to the right of it or type "GX660" in the search field.

 

I would not worry about the temps its fine and you have 2 years warranty.

+ It has a cooling mode as far as i know.

ATI products get hot my desktop ati 5870 reaches around the same temps and at load can go upto 80-82C among that playing games like BC2 and Napoleon.

 

Your idle clocks are high.

it should be 100/150, not 405/900.

 

Thanks, i saw that but it says it is just for 32bit windows... am i wrong? coz i'm using 64bit...