*Official ASUS W90Vp Owners' Lounge*

LOL!!! YOU MUST B CRAZY!!! what? WAIT. YOU HAVE HAD 4!?!?!? what happened to them?

 

seriously though...i would be more concerned about the laptop working than voiding the warranty. before you go modding any new computer you always make sure the computer works first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this should be a given and not have to be mentioned 50 times a day.
and last time i checked...not allot of cpus causing damage to a laptops, but more so the user installing it wrong. bending pins/getting the paste on the pins or socket. if you do this, then you deserve not to get your unit refunded! so take care in doing so. there are always going to be ways around a system and not everyone is 100 percent legit in here!!! i m sure if you ran a red light or a stop sign, your not about to go turn your self in for it!!

so with this in mind. if your going to customize your laptop, be sure to take all the necessary precautions first!!! before alliterating anything. make sure it works!!! and you can always put all your parts back then ship it off.

and the flip side

this covers those that have bought brand new machines that came back with fingerprints and smudge marks in places where a brand new machine should never have any.

and if need be, buy an extended warranty through someone else, since you can do this now a days, to cover your product.

pay the premium and get the machine built right the first time and quit cutting corners! and that way...you never have to worry about the warranty.

(personal opinion is all)

 

Striker that's mighty nice of you. This will help quad with his W90 withdrawal.

 

Well thanks for all the kind words and ill try to help as much as humanly possible on my end without actually having the machine in hand. When i brought up the fact i had to sell it Mugenski messaged me and said he might be interested so when i decided i had to let it go i told him and the next morning he was at my door . Im glad that the whole process was smooth and painless for both of us other then him having to travel god knows how far out of canada to come and get it. Im sure it was worth it though .

 

Striker

Have you heard of any "official" problems from any sources about the W90's
I've been checking from time on the net to see if these problems we've seen on the forum are widespread.

 

Broke in what way ? I am really cureious about this, I have herd it mentioned several times, yet I havent herd anyone say HOW they are borke, as I owuld like to check if mine is.

 

Yes Striker can be a bit cryptic at times so its best to just read between the lines . One way or the other if you got a W90 and have issues your covered, so who ever owns one and is concerned there machine may take a crap on them dont worry . Asus has you covered period. I put there warranty to the test already and it passed with flying colors . These people handling this stuff are top notch.

 

Yep thats the honorable thing to do even if you cant disclose all the particulars . If i had a machine with GPU issues i would do just what Striker is suggesting and just wait a few more weeks till the new batchs have shipped and then call it in. Most of the issues are not where people cant use there machines but just anomalies that they can live with for the time being till they know Asus has a handle on things. Then i wouldnt hesitate to ship the machine out for even the slightest issue, After all thats why you have a warranty and your machine should be as close to perfect as it can get.

 

ok nice to hear that. does the 90 then needs a bios update or something? you just put it and it is recognized?

 

No bios update needed , just a drop it in and its ready to go . Its been said that asus is working on more Turbo gear profiles for the Qx9300 so hopefully down the line youll be able to overclock it with there software beyond the 5% they allow now but you have set fsb available which will allow you to run it around 3.0ghz comfortably.

 

can you please draw a picture to show where is the cpu exactly ? you can use this picture here

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?b83860443d.jpg

 

Forgive the handwriting but im writing with my mouse .

 

haha, awesome!

 

Haha i tried

 

Quad, Man can you draw!!

 

You forgot to sign it. It may become a collectors item!

 

Lol the sad part is i can but not with a mouse . Just not accurate enough atleast for me .

 

ok so we have to remove one cooling system and the fan too. its not so easy as i thought. thanks for the pic my friend.

 

k i edited it above and i did use the snippet tool the first time

Bah next time ill just it explain it and let everyone use there imagination

 

Np and its easier then you think . I think i read you replaced a motheboard in your old machine well that would be about 200x tougher then this job . the cooling system consists of 2 screws and lifts right out so no brainer there. CPU 4 screws and a few wiggles and its out.

 

Lol yep im all for the wiggling and the jiggling and not in any particular order

 

Don't be so hard on yourself you have artistic flair, LOL

 

hehe yeah it was. you can only tell if you have seen the structure of an hp dv9000. you have to remove almost everything. and the most of it i changed the motherboard which worked and stopped working again after a bios update (for unknown reasons related to hp f..... bios). it was outside warranty anyway.


its easier for sure. its just that this machine is very expensive and you know how it feels if you want to open a wholy new laptop of this class.

 

I need to have my work Copyrighted tm

 

Best thing to do when cracking open a new machine is to not get all panicky about it and just "GIT-R-DONE!!!" .

 

Oh ya my tongue is draggin on the ground when thats going on.

 

Ya im a closet larry the cable guy fan

 

yeah, that way you can start charging royalities and give me some of the profit because i suggested it.

 

Now that sounds like a vacation to me Where i live everyone is pretty uptight and you can hear a faint squeak when they walk past you .

 

I can do that . Hows this sound, for everyone Thousand dollars i make youll get a dollar ? So im really going to have to make a ton before you start seeing some profits but alteast i cut you in . Of course youll also have to handle all the legal stuff and paperwork .

 

Ya i can see everyone living it up like the show Mama's family down where you are .

 

Lets just say I only had 3.5 hours of sleep last night LOL. Was about 300 miles each way then i kinda took a wrong turn once my gps died going over the border >.< haha but it was definitely worth it I just hope all works out for you quad.

Once im able to catch up on some sleep and wrap my head around this laptop ill be here to help all i can to

 

300 miles ? each way ? holy moly man no wonder you kinda skirted the issue when i asked how far lol .

 

That squeak is not from gas but because of how tight they are in other places

 

Well the good news in all this is i can pay some bills now which were becoming overdue sadly and if Striker hits the lottery he said he'd buy me a W90 so its a win win for me /Prays for striker winning the lottery

 

Ya man i hope things do pick up in due time . Doubt much will be happening though till the economy gets back on its feet(whenever that is) but ya cant stop hoping and praying regardless.

 

but you have to wait for stock coming to receive your prize. hehe


-=$tR|k3r=- how did you install 8gb ? i think 3 identical rams of 2gb are better in performance

 

Well im sure the W90 will be instock long before Striker wins the lottery , but hey stranger things have happened .

 

That's cool news!
Now only if we could put DDR3 in it too... (Yeah I know that's not happening).

Any word on possible DDR2 1066MHz ever seeing the light of day?

 

Well thats awesome news man and it looks like money well spent already . No more pagefile ever , Or atleast till games require more then 11 gigs of ram, need to leave a gig for the OS after all .

 

So now when people say "why the heck do you have 12 gigs of ram" you say "because i can " ..

 

Wow i noticed ken used to do custom paint jobs on laptops . Might be something else youll have to inquire about . Get the full harley theme goin on that bad boy VRoom Vroom

 

I have a question that is probably stupid (well I'm more a desktop guy ) but i saw some vantage scores of the W90 and i noticed that the cpu score is pretty low (even a A64 x2 get a MUCH better score), is this a bug or something or the mobile processors are that much weaker? .

 

well, seeing as G.Skill has a 16gb kit compatible with the X38 chipset on the desktop side of things, this comes as not much of a surprise, yet it's a much welcomed development.

 

Not sure its a bug but the best way to tell if it was a bug is jump over in some other forums like the sager ones and take a look at there CPU scores on vantage and then compare them to the W90s so youll know for sure . Are you thinking of buying one and thats why your concerned ? or is this just a general question ?.

 

I'm gonna switch my desktop for an DTR and I'm between a D900F or the W90, but the CPU performance in the W90 worry me (and I'm not going to spent 1K in a QX9300 because i don't think it worth ). I like the D900F but Christ this thing is UGLY and i plus i never had problems with asus in my desktops .

 

Well first off what are you going to be doing with the machine ? i think thats the best question to be asked right now . If its purely gaming then the W90 will have you covered in spades. If its hardcore encoding then go for the D900 and i7 . Thats not to say the W90 and a Qx9300 cant do it , infact it will do it quite well , but no where near what an i7 could ( afterall i own that CPU and just had a W90) . As for the 1k Qx9300 you dont have to pay that amount , you can find them on ebay OEMs for 600-700 bucks and toss that bad boy in yourself.

 

Make sure your not looking at a physics enabled nvidia based system score to compare against.

 

Well I'm a programmer and a competitive player so basically i play a lot, do lots of heavy compilation (sometimes 7 hours++ in a desktop C2D) and I'm totally tired of moving my desktop (what is a behemoth of 88 lbs lol) to practice with my team (and i travel a lot to attend to lan championships and have a portable pc with more power than my Eee pc should be awesome ).

 

Id go for the W90 for sure unless encoding was my only goal, and for that I would build a cheap micro atx shuttle box or something for less than a D900F.

The W90 obviously looks much better and is designed nicer, and it comes with much more at the stock price/setup.

I am a video encoder myself but still would prefer the w90 its a bit cheaper and style is important to me, but also I feel it would be a waist to buy this big high end laptop and a powerfull cpu that cant do gaming on par with the W90.

I guess really I would rather be able to game on the go than encode faster on the go, as I can leave the W90 doing an encode job for awhile and if it takes longer it takes longer. I'll go do something else or let it run in the background. However in a game if your hardware is not good enough or your fps is too low, you cant just wait it out, you cant play the game or you have to turn down the settings, so the compromise is more severe.