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    ASUS G60JX - No Upgrade possible?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by itsfun, Mar 3, 2010.

  1. itsfun

    itsfun Notebook Guru

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    Hi! I am from Germany. I have a new ASUS G60JX with Core i5-430M CPU and GTS 360M.

    I buyed a Core i7-820QM ES from Taiwan.

    Now i changed the CPU's but the only thing it do after pressing the power button is a flicker of the keyboard background light... no boot, no fan spin...

    i changed back to i5, all runs fine.

    Is the bios of the Asus locked to Core i5??? But nearly the same Notebook asus sell's with a i7-720QM...

    sorry for this bad english! ;)
     
    itsfun, Mar 3, 2010
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  2. DCx

    DCx Banned!

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    Yeah, it's the same bios afaik... I would have assumed it was a drop in replacement... it sounds like the processor wasn't seated properly - do you know 100% that it's functional?
     
    DCx, Mar 3, 2010
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  3. itsfun

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    itsfun, Mar 4, 2010
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  4. itsfun

    itsfun Notebook Guru

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    okay, i testet again and it works now! :D :D :D i dont know why, but i am happy! :cool:
     
    itsfun, Mar 4, 2010
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  5. sean473

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    congrats lol... u most probably didn't seat it properly... and i see ur from Weimar... a very significant place in german history lol...
     
    sean473, Mar 5, 2010
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  6. itsfun

    itsfun Notebook Guru

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    Yes. From where you come? Were you already once in Weimar? Obama was here in June 5th 2009. ;)
     
    itsfun, Mar 8, 2010
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    nope nver came to germany... i'm from singapore and came to UK where i'm staying now lol... learnt about 20th century history and germany was in a big chunk of the syallbus...
     
    sean473, Mar 8, 2010
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    Great job.
    Are the temps good with the i7-820?
     
    IKAS V, Mar 8, 2010
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    Yes.....it works now!
     
    jasonyu668, Mar 8, 2010
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  10. itsfun

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    Temps are okay. 65 degrees under full load. :)
     

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    @itsfun
    Under full load those temps are great.
    Can you run some benchmarks and post some temps?
    I would love to see what it gets on 3DMARK06 with the new CPU.
    If it comes with the 1366x768 screen can you run it at that resolution.
    Thanks
     
    IKAS V, Mar 9, 2010
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  12. pugboy9

    pugboy9 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have this laptop, AND I live in the US. I Took a chance and got my hands on the i7 820QM. Slipped it into my laptop, and tried it out. Works without a hitch. I really like the power of this cpu. I still get about 2 hours of battery life with performance enabled, mind you this is just web browsing and not much more, but I feal confident that with heavy load the battery will be eaten up to about an hour or so, still not to bad.

    As far as temps goThe i7 runs about 15c warmer than the 420 i5.I get about 49con all four cores at idle and have seen the cpu max out around 75c on one core and the other three were at 67-69c

    I will post some screens later o the other thread that discusses this laptop and it's heating issues.
     
    pugboy9, Apr 13, 2010
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  13. focusfre4k

    focusfre4k Notebook Evangelist

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    bump ;)

    I would be interested in this. Does the stock BIOS support this, or would I need to upgrade it?

    Also, as far as memory goes, are there 4 slots in this laptop or 2? I want to bump up the ram to 8GB if possible
     
    focusfre4k, May 28, 2010
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  14. dzuchowski

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    the best buy version of the g60jx only has two slot for ddr3 ram. Thus unless you can get two of the 4gb ddr3 ram chips then it will be only 4gb total.
     
    dzuchowski, May 30, 2010
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  15. mguy9

    mguy9 Newbie

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    @itsfun ,
    after you upgrade g60jx,
    do you have "Accuracy of DMI data cannot be guaranteed" from EVERST?
    [​IMG]


    i got that warning from EVERST. i upgraded g60jx by i7 720qm.

    how can i fix that warning?

    Thank you
     
    mguy9, Aug 22, 2010
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