G55vw questions

I am looking into probably buying the G55vw. My question is, is the GTX 660m soldered onto the motherboard or is it in the form of a card? also, how easy is it to access the heatsink to clean it? Thanks

edit: anothe question, what does the accidental warranty cover, and what counts as accidental? for example i could have accidentally spilled water on my keyboard, send it in and asus could say that i did that willfully. so what constitutes an accident?

Thanks

 

anyone? 10 words

 

I can't comment on the rest, because I personally have no idea, but I am a *possible* future laptop purchaser who has done research on the matter of if the G55VW has an MXM swappable graphics card and it does not.

Proof #1 - Employee from ASUS HQ in Twain

Proof #2 - G55VW Motherboard. Notice the lack of MXM slot.

Proof #3 - G75VW with MXM swappable graphics.

I honestly would like to purchase a notebook with MXM capabilities, but I've found the cooling on most of those laptops to be... lacking.

 

"EASY" next to "ASUS"? Not gonna happend any time soon. These machines are made complicated for no reason, other than make end user life a pain.

If you want easy, go Clevo. Mine is great.

But if you wonder why I got a G55, I like the lack of noise and the cold laptop. It is a laptop after all.

In 3 years if GPU dies, I'll have warranty. After that it would not worth that much anyway. I don't believe in up-grades every year on these, too much trouble for nothing. The GPU for my Clevo is so expensive, I prefer to sell it and buy a new one. Not to mention old CPU, RAM and other stuff.

From what I have read in here, cleaning is no simple task. At first you should use air cans.

 

But if i use an aircan to blow through the vents, doesnt it just blow the dust back into the laptop?

 

Since so many people do it with good results, I guess it is a trade off.

The G55 could have been such an epic machine from Asus.

Instead they went for this stupid design. mSATA, wireless card and half of the RAM modules are in worse place possible. It's a pain to do a proper cleaning. Speakers are a joke. Seems there is no MXM after all.

But this has no throttling at all and I play Max Payne 3 as high as possible to make the game run smooth (most settings are maxed out) and I only get a 64°C on GPU and 67°C on CPU at 33° room temperature. That is insane low after hours of gaming. Laptop is warm and almost makes no sound.

I wish Clevo would be like this.

 

they used to make better designs, like the F8 i am using, it has mxm module, easy access to all the heatsink, ram, wireless card

 

c man hit the nail on the head, mobile GPU's are stupid expensive. At the point you'd want to swap a card it'll cost an arm and a leg, then on top of that you'd have to mod the crap out of the heat sinks to make it run right and pray you can find a hacked BIOS to recognize the upgrade. For now I'll stick with the 660 and if I have the urge to upgrade something I'll slap in a better CPU or the 4th stick of RAM.

 

WoW that mean g55vm is soldered gt660 oh my god !