*Official ASUS W90Vp Owners' Lounge*

TBH if i get one that was tested over and over to make sure its rock solid IE used, but not really "used", i would be just fine with that .

 

Heh..yea that was me asking. Now to follow up, mine shipped and will be here tomarrow. Got a UPS tracking number and all

 

Turns out USPS takes a little longer to ship because they have to come and pick it up. I'll be getting my laptop shipped in a day or two.

 

Mine is out on the truck for delivery .

 

Good on you Quad!!!I did thee same and BAM, got it.Just a word of advise.Take a good look on your W90 that Newegg is selling randomly now.My W90 have 2 stuck pixels on the left hand side.Onee red on the bottom and a blue on the top left side.I am wondering if i got Striker's one,LOL
Fair enough ,i did not have much time to do testing because i was on my way to Brazil so i just open the box ,put everything in the backpack and to the airport i went.
Here in Brazil i found the bad pixels.Been running the UDPixel on it for 1 day already and no bueno!!
Anyways ,is no big deal but i know i can get this replaced in the first 30 days but been here in Brazil will be a pain in the but.
Other than that the w90 is awesome,is huge ,big and powelful.the screen is gorgeous and is the first notebook screen that i can match with a desktop one.My Gateway FX Lg 1920x1200 looks like a crap next to the w90 one.My first 3dMark score was 14494 without any mods.

 

Sorry to hear about the bad pixels, i have my fingers crossed i dont have any cause that will make me Nutz, but as you said i can always send it back if need be and its great to have the option from Asus. Very nice score from 3dmark as well .

 

Wow strikers back and this thread just exploded haha. Congratz quad and please find away to manually OC that beast

 

Ya im praying i can find away . Im thinking there is probably a way to hack to the Asus software to OC i just have not spent anytime looking into it yet. Babysteps till i make sure everything is solid.

 

@GTamega; does your media bar on the top have some "flex" I think I said "bounce" before when you touch the pad say to reduce the screen brightness?

I don't recall my prior W90 (RMA'd) having so much flex/bounce when I used the touch pad as this "new" replacement. Its annoying and takes just a weee bit away from the overall solid feel the W90 gives one.

Im not sure ASUS would consider that grounds for a replacement or fix but everyone has their quirks.

 

Yeah I figured ASUS was being crafty about it. I PMed kinc too actually and he didn't respond to me either -_- . Arg I actually bought this laptop under the assumption I'd be able to oc the out of it as I have access to some LN2. Quite disappointing.

 

UPS is delivering something to my office from XOTICPC on Friday.

Pretty sure it's a W90.

 

Oh you lucky man...Friday. If only!

Also, dead pixels...I have a cluster of 3 on my Vaio, I rarely notice them though. I guess it's all relative to the eye of teh beholder. Also, every time I hear that phrase, I think of an actual beholder. Nerd alert.

 

Well i ordered mine. Hopefully it comes before i go back to Camp Lejeune

 

The Marine Corps is so non conducive to ordering fine electronic equipment. YOU, CHESTY PULLER AND YOUR MILITARY ADDRESSING POLICIES.

 

FWIW if you're overclocking, you should disable SpeedStep/Intel TM/etc. In my P5Q Pro BIOS there's 3 settings I disabled but I can't remember which 3. It's a stability issue, when you're FSB overclocking there are a lot of system components that are affected, and when you factor in the multiplier stepping that SpeedStep does, it's just not a good mix.

 

Very true, i have the same on my p5w. Its just an extra factor thats best to leave out of the equation until you have a rock solid overclock first.

 

Quad, congrats on the purchase! Now maybe someone can push the rig a little I look forward to your feedback on it.

 

ok i will keep that in mind

 

Lol just turned on my desktop because the W90 is doing its thing with that whole setup thing so ya its here i got home about 20 mins ago .

The thing is a beast

 

Congratz Quadzilla!!!!!

 

Well i placed my order in with xotic and now my order is delayed because of "verifying" my shipping address since my billing address in in the states while i am in in the USMC in Afghanistan AKA Camp Lejeune FWD

 

Blue tape with white lettering along top and bottom . the way this thing was packed i can tell it was never touched thats for sure. It also came in some huge box filled with packing peanuts followed by the actual asus brown box then the black box inside that .

 

thanks i sent him an email through my nipr account

 

Any word on when this Newegg exclusive is going to come to an end or if Asus is going to ramp up the apparently slow production of these units because man the wait is killing me! Ive emailed around to all the local distributors and Ive got bubkiss. What happened the the 1 or 2 week delay for a Canadian release

 

Quick question here, I wil be recieving my W90Vp-A1 from XOTIC tomarrow, assuming UPS is right, and was wondering if its worth wiping it and doing a clean Vista Ultimate64 (which I own) install to get rid of the bloatware. I am makeing the assumption that all the drivers I need are avaliable either 1) online at ASUS's site or on a seperate CD in the package. Never owned a ASUS so not sure if it comes with mass bloatwatre or not. Thanks

 

Do I have the option of makeing a "Backup dvd set" ? I do plan on backing the system up before I do anything, just in case, but being paranoid that I am can I also make a recovery dvd(s) ?

Does it come with a 'Driver cd/dvd" where I can load the drivers from. I know in a HP laptop you have a C:\swsetup directory that includes all the drivers/extra programs etc......I useally save that off and can pick and choose drivers/programs from there. Does ASUS have something like that ?

Or, I notice on ASUS's website there is a Download area for W90Vp , does that have all the drivers I need ? Not that I really NEED Ultimate, but it was a door prize...

 

Did anyone buy from NewEgg today? I'm on the site since 9am.

 

Thanks for the help....actually, thats what I use for backup/DR....

 

Well their still the only one selling the variant that fits my budget

 

Right now i just updated windows and im making a factory OS image with acronis(which btw is free if you own a seagate drive which is whats in the W90),
After that ill be removing the bloat which does not look to bad as others have said, then create another image of that one, then i will start to dump some games on there and start tinkering .

Oh and thanks to everyone for all the Congrats's on the new system

 

Ya i just removed those you mentioned as well . One thing that is shocking is how much software is Asus branded, it seems they have a tool for everything in the uninstaller. I doubt ill remove all that stuff as i havent toyed with it enough yet to see if its good or bad .

 

I'm tired of refreshing.....

 

If your using Firefox get the plugin Reloadevery and you can set it for how often you want it to autorefresh makes life easier.

 

Lol i just saw noseguard20s review on newegg for the system and look what he wrote

Reviewed By: noseguard20 on 4/1/2009
Rating + 5Rating + 5Rating + 5Rating + 5Rating + 5
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

Pros: It plays Crysis on Very high settings at 1920 x 1080 at 80fps and it never dips below 60. It also maxes out Gta4 on the highest settings between 75 - 80fps. This thing is faster than my desktop, which has the gtx 260 in sli and the core i7 965. I'd definitely recommend this laptop. Its the fastest gaming machine period. It faster than 99 percent of the strongest desktops
Cons: None

 

Suprised you dont remember him coming to these forums demanding benchmarks ? he would make a new account then get banned an hour later etc.

 

Lol i would never honestly post one there that is just not my style.

 

I'm off to gym, I can't do this anymore...

 

:rofl:



I don't understand why Newegg allows people who don't purchase from them to write reviews. It never fails that anytime a review does not carry the "purchased from Newegg" tag, it will contain some ridiculous bullcaca.

 

Alright well Asus pre sales said they aren't currently shipping to anybody in Canada and he doesn't know when or if they will at all. Best he could give me was call back at the end of the month. Im really starting to think that Asus isn't turning out very many or was expecting such popular demand with this laptop. Seems like Newegg gets maybe 5 or 10 in every couple days with the a-1s going to xotic and gentech.

Looks like i need to find someone In a non Newegg state (Michigan?) to receive it for me, then I can drive and pick it up. Thats if i can catch it when it comes up 0.o

haha! and no i wasnt inferring you goth, you just managed to sneak in there lol!

 

Well get strong than

 

Crappy iphone pic just for proof

 

Where in Canada are you located?

 

Hey!... That look's like my X1...
You sure you didn't come over and steal mine???


... Oh, wait.... my baby is still here

 

Just ordered this stand for ma W90 : http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/notebook_products/stands/devices/3064&cl=ca,en

Also ordered the Logitech illuminated Keyboard and some AS5 (I'm planning to replace the thermal gunk Asus uses on the W90)

 

I promised you a crappy Iphone pic yesterday and you got a crappy Iphone pic today, as i am a man of my word

 

Oh i guess Hw monitor does not monitor ATI cards so need to find an alternative

 

I was going to ask you guys that.A temp monitor for the w90.

 

HWMonitor works fine on ATI cards, it just doesn't read M98 cards yet. They might be using a different temperature sensor.

 

But messing with thermal paste is fun


Lol. yeah it could indeed dwarf the stand, but Logitech does state the following:
"Works with virtually all notebooks: Use it with your current notebook—and your next one."

So, we'll see

 

You might need 2 of them for this thing