Upgrades to Buy for G53SW-XN1

Will be buying this laptop in a few days, $990 is a steal (also considering I just received $1300 for selling the 2 year old hot-running G51Vx-A1).

Question is, what should I do to upgrade this machine for the best performance possible?

Looking at SSD (have a seperate thread for that here), but other than that, what else??

You can see from my sig what "stuff" I have to accompany this new laptop (speakers/mouse and such), so feel free to suggest anything to improve my soon-to-be machine.

 

Swap out the Wifi for either a 6250 WiMAX or 6300 (and run that third antenna)

 

so something like this? I read in a forum something about the wireless card also housing the bluetooth module...would i lose the bluetooth module if i replace the atheros with the intel 6200?

also: what exactly will the difference be between the atheros vs 6200 vs 6250 WiMAX vs 6300 ultimate? For comparison, I had a Intel Wifi Link 5100AGN in my G51Vx that I was extremely pleased with, and if the atheros can measure up to that for throughput at distance/signal, then i probably will leave it stock.

 

The Atheros ones only top off at 150mbit, and no dual band. You can use that 5100AGN if you like, if you still have the lappy.

 

Nope, sold it. I don't think I would ever use more than my service provider limit of 20Mb/s so the speed isn't what concerns me, much more just the signal quality at 100-200feet from source.

 

I got the 6230 BT combo and quite happy with it

 

what about RAM? I've always come within 0.5gb of maxing out my old 4GB DDR2 system, do any of you really see a difference in performance with 8gb vs 4-6gb in games/heavy multitasking?

 

6200/6205/6250/6300 wifi YES. SSD YES

Ram usage: absolutely. I heavily multi-task with 50-100 browser tabs, VM's, games, msg clients, outlook, and more. I find 4gb barely livable. When I was using 2gb on a desktop I couldn't browser/VM EVER! On my g73 the 8gb, windows reports 1.5gb cached and 500 available. This is WITHOUT doing VM's! I got 16gb coming soon, I want to play with esx

I've also started messing around with fancycache. Pretty cool program if I must say. Definitely want to allocate 2-3gb to that program for my hdd's

 

I bought a SSD, new wifi card for my lappy. Thinking of purchasing a 8GB pair of RAM.

It seems that if you want to use all 4 RAM slots on this laptop it would need to be stripped bare

Is it not possible to upgrade the GPU right? :-s, should I consider buying a higher end CPU like the 2720 or 2820? (the 2930XM is too much =.=)

 

i think the i7 2630QM should be fine for my needs, a decent upgrade from the core 2 generation at least

 

you will be extremely satisfied my friend, I too came from a T9600 C2D and well, this beast of a laptop blew me away (and the GTX 460M as well, its far superior than the GTX 260M with less heat)

 

yes im quite excited about the gain in performance with the gtx 460m (with OC it should get 30-35% better performance than the 260m), honestly my G51Vx was dying and the performance had taken a huge hit (as in i could only run window'd mode for most games, the GPU just wasn't performing as it once did. The temps on that machine were appalling, idling GPUs between 75-88C and any type of fullscreen 3d app would make it launch up into a 104C (plus it was really noisy).

 

sorry to bump an old thread, but I was going to install some more RAM and needed some advice.

I have 2GB Hynix in DIMM1 and a 4GB Hynix in DIMM 3, both of which are PC3-10700. I recently bought a Corsair 8GB stick with the same timings, voltage and speed. I've checked that DIMM 4 is open right underneath my keyboard, but DIMM 2 is on the bottom near the 4GB Hynix stick.

First, is there any problem in running a DIMM1 & 3 in mixed channel and either DIMM 2 or 4 in single channel? If not, should I install the corsair 8GB stick to DIMM 2 near the 4GB Hynix or in DIMM 4 which is much more easily accessible? Is there any problem with heat when running in DIMM 2 since it's right underneath DIMM 3? Or would it have been better to buy 2x4GB sticks and return the 8GB stick?

Thanks

 

bump, any help with the DIMM port question?

 

bump again 2

 

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I'm having trouble with a windows restore from backup, the same exact error you had almost a year ago. I really need to know how you went about locating the problem file and if you ever managed to get your files. I've got about 550 zips here and don't know what to do with it.

I'd really appreciate it.