Asus W3J Pics and benchmarks etc

ah.. okay, thx for the info coma.. =P

yeah, looks like david is having too much fun with his w3j that his not doing anymore updates for us now..
T-T

 

NP! i wont be ordering one till mid May probably. Im waiting for all the reviews and stuff to come in first

 

lol yeah, kingdavid must had a hell of time last night with his new toy

 

Maybe instead of running benchmarks he is checking out how good the screen looks with a scantily clad woman on it

 

I just got an email from Proportable, first shipment has sold out! darn, will have to wait till mid May now

 

I'm in the same boat. The w3j will come just as the last week of school is ending. Thankfully I am in a discipline that is mostly just writing intensive so as long as I get all my papers done I shold be fine. If not, I'm effed bad.

 

haha..

i guess thats wat you'll be doing huh?

=P

well.. at least you guys know that the w3j still be in our hands in less den 2months..

don't even know if its coming to singapore, thou dys said that some resellers told him it will be coming, but still no eta..
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Nah, My wife would kill me. I plan on using mine for school and lan parties (got a great desktop rig to play games on ). I am suprised he hasn't showed back up on the forums I would like to hear some more about his W3j !!

 

lol. tt's why u need pple like me to clear W3V first. LOL.

 

haha.. tuyuit.. ^^;;
ok, thx mate for helping 1 reseller clear 1 w3v yeah?
keke.. =P

 

Just wondering, what kind of battery life are you getting out of the laptop with wireless on, screen brightness at ~80% and doing office work?

 

Hi everyone

Sorry I haven't been giving you all updates lately, but I have been playing with the computer.

The battery life is not great at all. When having the screen at 80% brightness and laptop in battery saving mode doing web browsing you get around 3 hours. That is with wireless and bluetooth on.

I will be doing more battery tests soon.

Can someone please tell me how to find the speed of the graphics card and also how I might overclock it. I tried to ati tool but it did not seem to work.

Thanks
David

 

Also I forgot to mention I got the splendid sticker off. It comes off easily and leaves no mark.

 

aww, but that's to be expected since thats one helluva card. I look forward to your tests! have you considered making an official NBR review? you get $60

 

What drivers are you using, David?

 

I have considered doing an official review, but abaxter told me that there were already a few people working on a review. He did say however that if I don't see one posted in the next couple of weeks I should contact him again

 

I have ATI Catalyst Installed if thats what you mean!

 

3 hrs battery life with just web browsing sounds alright for me. I've purchased the modular bay battery as well, so hopefully that will bring me up ~5. I had assumed that battery life would be sacrificed for the power in the laptop, and I'm comfortable with the trade-off.

 

The battery life isn't overwhelmingly impressive by any means but I don't think 3 hours is that dissapointing either (in my opinion anyway). I think the SZ gets 3-4 using the integrated card and about the same with a 7400 and 13 inch screen- if thats the case then I don't think 3 hours very bad at all.

 

Does anyone know how I can overclock my X1600 as ATI tool does not seem to work, maybe I am doing something wrong!

 

Personally 3 hours w/ wireless on is sweet...not to mention w/ 80% brightness.

Shut off wireless (to write) and I'll prob. get another 30-mins to an hour I figure.

 

thekingdavids download this

http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

 

If you could run 3DMark05 (the free version is fine) I'd be very interested in the results. You can download 3DMark05 frpm the sites listed at:

http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark05.shtml

I'm hoping the score will be close to 4000 (typical for the the Acer Travelmate 8200) and higher than the 2950 for the MacBook Pro (which likely has an underclocked GPU for less heat).

I've heard that RivaTuner is a good overclocking tool. Haven't used it myself but you can probably find it through a web search.

 

hi hemlock
he did the 3d05, score is 3920 - acceptable imo

tkdavids, sorry cant help u w any of those oc
i think he needs help with the atitool,
like where to go

 

he said he got 3 hours with Wifi and BT on and with 80% screen brightness.

For a fact we know wifi will give you roughly 12 mins, but no one has calculated how much batterylife BT uses.

I got a question what level of brightness can you decrease it so that you can still read and type on it, to incraese batterylife? also with wifi on and BT off plz.


Thanks,


MysticGolem

 

So the battery life is with the stock battery? If so, what bigger battery is available?

 

there's a modular bay for another battery.

but as far as finding battery life.. how bout just recharging it to full and see how many hours it says you have left.. or run battery eater pro. should give you the "max" and them from there estimate things down when you factor in other uses. i.e wifi, etc.

 

Well CCC should be able to tell you what the clock speeds are.

 

I personally think 3 hours is pretty Darn good under those circumstances and with the X1600 running untouched! Lowering the brightness and playing around with a few things, people should be able to get over 3 and a half hours easy...I think that's really good for what this machine is packing. And then you could always add the optical bay battery like other's have mentioned...and/or buy and carry around an alternate main battery for situations where the added power is really needed.

Thanks for keeping us informed...with the latest delays, that makes thekingdavids even luckier to have this beauty in his hands already. I still can't believe the UK already has them distributed to consumers and North America is being delayed even further!!!

 

I agree 3 hours with the 8 cell under those conditions is great especially with an X1600 in it. I will add my 6 cell optical bay battery and I will be Golden.

 

That doesn't sound too bad to me, if you undervolt the GPU, would probably increase battery life.

Did you have any usb devices plugged in? there is an issue with microsoft and the new Duo processors, if you have a USB device plugged in it can stop the CPU from going into powersaving modes.

May not be the case with the W3J but worth doing a test with and without a usb device attached, see if there is any difference.

read this:

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/01/28/toms_hardware_uncovers_power_drain_issue/

I dont know if this has been the fix has been rolled out yet? there will be one, (it will come out as a microsoft windosw update, but I did see a recent review (last month) of a W5 that had this problem, can drain the battery life by up to an hour! (in some cases)

 

how much does the 6cell optical weight? i think im interested and how much time does it extend.

 

There are more datails of the bug, and a preliminary fix, at http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=2693 .

John

 

I have got ATI Tool working now, I had to download the latest version that supported the ATI X1600.

The Default core speed and memory speed are both 450mhz.

I overclocked each to 499.50mhz and I got 3Dmark05 4388! The laptop still feels very cool.

Does anyone reccomend a maximum speed that I should overclock it to? I dont want to burn up my laptop. It does seem very cool though.

 

Wow that's pretty incredible. 3dmark05 score of 4388!

I am so jealous right now.. thank you so much for keeping us updated. Does it only run warm under intensive / semi-intensive tasks or even during web browsing / word processing?

 

WOW what an overclock!! Man.. that's like a 500 point increase, ****, you should use everest and speed fan, and run test over long periods of time, to see how active your fans are acting, and see how high the temps are going as you overclock, and then find the middle point.

the middle point being giving you the most increase in performance without having too much of an increase in temp and increase in fan use.

Also try something to undervolt the GPU if you can and test how much you can overclock it. This would be interesting too.

And please do another battery test with a lower but useable screen brightness and with wifi on, so you can browse the net and type on a word document.

Thanks,

MysticGolem

 

use the artifact tool in ati tool. If you get any thats bad. I would call stable passing the test for >1 hour

 

4300 in 05 is good score for a x1600 overclocked, you can go higher, but might not be a good idea, I would if it was a desktop cause then its just a matter of replacing one thing if something goes wrong, but I laptop is what it is, and everything is so close! the heat would be getting a bit much if you go too high. I am curious what it gets in 3dmark06? anychance of you running that?

also, anyone know of a canadian seller that will be getting these in?

 

CanadaSys will be getting them sometime around the same time as ProPortable. I've also heard Canada Computers will be getting them, and there are a few others. Check in the FAQ in the sticky to see a list of stores that carry asus products.

Jay

 

I checked those sites, I cant find a place to order... I searched te site for W3J and nothing comes up

 

Because its not out yet. The user KingDavid is from Europe.

 

Sweet! I'm Jealous.

 

killerjay's sig has that he preordered his from canadasys... so I thought I might try, and that is what didnt yeild any results

 

3 hours is pretty good i think. My sager only lasts 1 hour tops at 75%+ brightness with wireless on

 

I've got a question, What make and model is the optical drive in your W3? I travle some and if i can flash it to be region-free that would be great.

 

King, there's software you can get called "AnyDVD" ( http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html) that will allow your dvd drive to play from any region, and also has some other nifty features.

 

According to Proportable's website, w/o the optical drive, the system weights 5lbs. How much will the notebook weight with the 8 cell battery and the 6 cell cell battery that goes into the optical drive? Approximately the same weight as the preconfigured system with the optical drive?


Also will undervolting and decreasing the processor speed, slow down the fan?

 

Not to be rude... but if you saw the weight at proportable, all you had to do was look down one line and see the "5.4lbs" with optical bay....

 

^ He's asking w/ the addl. battery in the drive bay...I'm not sure the answer though.

It is like 5.0 pounds with the travel drawer in the drive bay.

 

I went down the high street in London at lunch time today and found the W3J in stock!! and because I am heading to the US in two weeks, I can claim the tax back, even with not having to pay postage, paying cash and the tax back it is still 100 usd more than in the states.... dilema wait or buy now.

I actually prefer the US keyboard layout, but after matching a picture from thekingdavids and an image listed on Proportales web site, both keyboard layouts are identical!

What is the difference in keyboards?? is threre any??