ASUS hooked me up.

So, I was the owner of a G51 for 2 years before it finally died. I called Asus the night it died after after talking to the CS rep for about an hour, he agreed to extend my warranty for the time it may have sat on the shelf (i no longer had receit). I live wok very close to the Milpitas repair center (1 mile) and dropped it off the next day....

Fast forward 3 weeks, after a new CPU, HD, keyboard and display, Asus still hand't address 2nd issue, the system would reboot itself constantly.. They decided to replace the board! But, I am sure how many system boards for a 2 year old system they have laying around. After calling support and commenting how a part ordered from around the globe wouldn't take 2 weeks and it was clear they had nosystem boards, I received an email the following day. Asus offered to replace my 2 year old G51 with a refurbished G53!

Fast foward to today. I received my G53 today and its awesome. Honestly I am not super familiar with model. Seems to be a G53-SX? It has a 2gb 560GTX, 8gb ram and a 3D display? So, since it is a refurished model, I get 90 days warranty.

Having saved a pretty penny on a new laptop, I want to toss this one some upgrades. Any suggestions, 16gb ram for sure, it doesn't have the blu-ray player. Any idea where I can get that? I haven't opened it up, assuming it has 1 drive bay? Thinking a fast SSD. I have seen keyboard LED mods on youtube, those generally DIY?

Thanks Asus for sending me a free upgrade after having my previous one for 2 years. Truley amazing.

Cheers!

 

nice upgrade!!
enjoy

 

You dont need 16gb RAM that is just a waste of money if anything upgrade the RAM speed with some 1600mhz PnP but the only real upgrade that you will benefit from with that model is an SSD.

Very nice upgrade indeed especially to get the 3D version of it even with the 128bit GPU it will own your G51 260M. Asus being generous? The world has gone mad

 

Yes I don't need 16gb of ram, but I will do it because I can. ;P Definately going to get an SSD. I was looking at the chassis last night, I have to take a part the keyboard to upgrade anything? Why would ASUS do that?

So, which memory and ssd should I get?

 

Do it cos you can sure but unless you intend to abuse a graphical editing facility or 3D Artwork you will never brush past 6 or 7. I even attempted running about 10 programs at once while converting a movie and burning a blu ray disc and still only brushed 6 it is just not needed. Faster RAM is better than more RAM.

The only thing you need to upgrade is to buy an SSD and you cannot change the GPU and it will require a disassembly to change the CPU but both are not needed it is powerful enough as it is.

 

I think everything needs to be upgraded. First because I can, 2nd because you tell me I don't need to. ;P

 

What kind of gains will you see with running 1600MHz memory? I thought the chipset only supported 1333MHz? Serious question because a friend wants to upgrade his 8GB 1333 to 1600 because he says his laptop will be faster. He has the G73 and unless I'm mistaken, it has the same HM65 chipset as well. I can understand doing it because it isn't that much more expensive than 1333MHz.

 

I assume you have the 2630m cpu? If this is the case 1333mhz is your ceiling. It would be like putting 16gb of ram in a gaming rig...pointless.

 

Yep I thought what you just said is true as well but it is not.

Any Sandy Bridge CPU with PnP RAM will run at 1600mhz.

I found this out only a few days ago myself as I thought my 2760QM is able to but a 2630QM cannot but not when it comes to PnP RAM and a HM6x chipset.

The gains you will see are not going to be major but still they relate to speed rather than amount upgrading to 16gb RAM will have no effect unless you intend to use it faster RAM will have an effect. Similiar to GPU VRAM more is not necessarily better but faster is for instance DDR3 vs GDDR5

Sure, I highly recommend you do not transfer me your life savings.

 

Since when has 'overkill' stopped anyone when it comes to their system? ;P Besides, its the same price for me either way. ;P

 

This encouraged me to to asus about my ty g73jh and hope to get an upgrade.

Best thread I've read today.

 

Hey, if you want to throw your money away, go right ahead. But people are trying to suggest that maybe (just maybe) there is absolutely nothing except bragging rights that you'll gain from 16gb @ 1600 ....