upgrading the G51vx to keep it for another year

Hi
My friend was the owner of this laptop and he just bought a G53sx
and gave me this one for 350$
its the bestbuy RX05 now i will keep this for a year or a bit more
I dont play heavy games mostly COD, EVE online, Metin2
I was planning to make a cpu upgrade for him before he sold me this lappy in very mint condition never left desk.

now I am willing to upgrade cpu, ram, HDD ( may add another 330 to raid0) and finaly GPU if possible.

my current budget for the upgrade around 300$
1- was looking at E8435 for aroud 85$ shipped i'v been told its the same as X9100
2-planning to upgrade to 8GB of ram 2x4gb @ 800mhz for another 85-90$
3-get a 9 cell exteded battery for 60$
4-the rest for the gpu may able to add 50$ in a week
5-get another hdd same brand to raid0 or wait for a month and get an ssd insted.

what i need is some help if there is better opitions for me or not.

 

yeah the intel e8435 will work fine it is just a tad hot, so keep it in mind.

8gb is not really needed , maybe use the money on a notebook cooler.

9 cell battery will be great , the 6 cell is pretty weak.

Gpu cant be upgraded, though can be overclocked.

Though there is another guy may try quad core again, but with 150watt adapter, so may get quad core inside, i am waiting for him to test , then i will throw a quad in mine also.

 

thanks for reply
so the E8435 will work but much more heat hmm maybe undervolt will solve it as long i dont overclock it and a bit of AS5 and i do have a notebook cooler

may consider to cancel the 8gb ram but the quad core cpu that will rock
is that guy in this forum?
did he make a thread of that test?

another thing the P4G isnt OCing my CPU is there something wrong?
I am running Win7 64.

 

hmmm my win7 64 bit works fine for it. put on extreme inside the program.


http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/403860-g51-quads-final-verdict.html

guy posted there , hope he tries it soon.

and another thing do your g51 have gigabit lan? as specs say its got 100mb lan though mine have gigabit think i just have a1 mobo inside mine or all the specs is wrong :/

ya as5 should keep that cpu cool, with tad undervolting.

 

@@ there is no extreme in the program. only max performance and intertainment
quit office and power saving. is there something wrong?

 

should look like the pic i added

 

this is mine

 

ummm yeah don't know how to fix that, maybe download it again from the asus site, remove the current one.

 

actually i just downloaded it from asus site.
can you upload yours?

 

ummm yeah i deleted the install files sorry

 

i tried different version of p4g but still no turbo i also installed all of the ATK drivers just to be sure i didn't miss anything but still no luck.

 

Best is then to manual oc it.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/401345-optimization-guide-asus-g51.html

use that guide to help you, the stock cpu should do 2.3ghz-2.4ghz

 

got it fixed ^_^ yeah it was one ATK i didn't download from the site.

BTW what is the use of the ROG button that beside the P4G button?

 

not sure never use any of them

 

it changes the splendid color profile.