ASUS Z70va (RAM, a wireless card)

Going to buy a ASUS z70va and interested in your recommendations regarding brand of RAM to buy and wireless card to put in the machine. Range is an important issue with the wireless card.

Thanks

 

If range is more important than price, you'll want to look at some of the MIMO cards. Personally, I'd get a card that supports B/G for now, as those are less expensive. Upgrading to the new wireless standards (which are supposedly on the way within a year) won't hurt so much if you haven't dropped $200 on current best tech.

 

Corsair.......

Wifi - I'd have you consider Asus' b/g card....... Asus made the intel b/g card and that wasn't even as nice as their own... In a clear, level field, I can get 200 yards out of a centrino wifi card (intel's pro wireless 2200) and with Asus' own card I could get 400 yards. Asus' card uses more battery life as it's amplified more, but it's got awesome range. In retrospect, I can't see many people needing more than 200 yards of wifi... or even having 200 yards that they can travel without having to go around walls or trees or something. This was all tested using Asus' 500g, 530g wifi router and a Linksys WRT54G wifi router..... If you need more range, I would suggest getting a high gain antenna for your router... placing it higher in your house or whereever you live ... or even getting some professional grade exterior access point or repeater (something maybe from d-link.... only the professional d-link stuff)... this way you won't lose any more battery life and always have a great signal.

I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but I hope that helps answer some questions.

 

Which new wireless standards are you refering to. I am not familiar with the changes. Is there a review or any information I can be refered to.

Thanks

 

802.11n isn't set to be a standard till when, summer of next year? I wouldn't worry so much about the future at this point as the equiptment is cheap and will only get cheaper. If you're buying a router now and want to try to future proof yourself you could buy a "pre-n" wifi router and just an intel b/g miniPCI card for now and for $25 replace it next year when Intel's next card comes out.

 

Go with the Atheros CM9 Mini PCI WIFI card it has better range then the intel wifi cards, supports a/b/g. It also uses about 50% less power and is thinner. And cost about the same as the intel 2915 at $45

Atheros CM9