Custom Asus G1?

I'm looking eagerly at purchasing the G1, the only thing that i really would like to change would be the HDD, iv seen current deals including a 5400rpm 160gig. Thing is i would prefer a 7200rpm drive even if the drive has a lower capacity. Is it possible to order a G1 with another drive without having to do it separately later and spending more money?

 

Nope, it comes like that.

 

As coriolis stated, it comes that way.

The only way to get it "customized" is by or through the sellers themselves, if and only if they offer it.

 

Asus won't change their specs. They're set, and that's that. But some resellers will customize the Asus for you, and some will discount your hard drive because they take the one in it to sell and give you a new one.

 

ic, oh well, maybe if im lucky a reseller will eventually do that. I have to wait a while anyway, if worse comes to worse i can live with whats in it . Thanks everyone

 

I would keep the drive

order a 7200 rpm 100 gb hd for $160.

Buy an external case for the 160 gb hd for $30. That would be a better set up and money better spent.

A great computer too. Speed for your installed programs and a large storage area you can fire up or not depending on your needs.

 

I bought $20 enclosures for two spare laptop drives I had sitting around, and both the enclosures and space have been life savers on multiple occassions, you have file space, backup space, file copying abilities, and if you ever have a friend or you yourself have a hardware error and need something off of your laptop hard drive, you can always get to it. Alternatively, you could sell the drive and make the money back.

 

never thought of that. Though i wanted to try and keep the overall costs down. hmmm. Also as well, the g1 comes with 2x512 sticks. For a machine aimed at gamers i would have suspected that maybe 2gig would have been available instead of having to do it yourself

 

It still isn't 2Gig, but my bet most games wouldn't run that fully (I could be way wrong about that), but adding a single 1 Gig stick would put you at 1.5 Gigs, which is still quite a bit for most computers today.

 

well from my experience so far games are becoming more memory hungry, eg bf2 and fear. It was just so i could future proof the laptop just a little bit more and overall i like the headroom.

 

On my desktop WoW and Firefox on XP Pro eats up about 1GB. I'd recommend 2GB if you play newer games and can afford it. Going from 1GB to 2GB made alt-tab to Firefox waaaaaay faster; before it was having to access swap heavily.

 

g1 comes with 2gb here in na

I hate the 2 x 512 set up if they give u 1 gb it should be 1 x gb

I almost see that as them giving you nothing thats what it really is. 2 512 mb dimms that youre going to use for what? sell for what?

 

http://www.milestonepc.com/states/product_info.php?products_id=1399

They have 2gb , im just curious though. MilestonePC includes the WSXGA+ screen and 2gig of ram. While at newegg its only 1 gig? for practically the same price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834220098

 

ur wrong, it's 2gb at newegg also

 

double post

 

I believe the 160gb 5400rpm performs faster then the 60 or 80gb 7200rpm harddrive and that it provides more battery life.

 

out of curiosity...what would you want to customize on this thing? The hard drive/ram are both easy 10 second upgrades for anyone with a screwdriver so there's no sense paying extra and worrying about warranty issues by having a dealer customize those two pieces. Heck if I'm near you I'd do it and it'd only cost you a six pack of beer

The only other thing I can think of would be the processor. But with a 2.0 ghz Core2 Duo processor you will probably only get a 5-10% boost with a far more expensive processor so it doesn't seem worth upgrading yet.

 

See Toms for performance and power consumption
I'm pretty sure Asus use the Hitachi Travelstar discs in their machines for reference.

 

not bad...looks like the Hitachi is a good balance of performance/consumptions.
Some of the much faster drives are hell on the power consumption.

 

I would customize on my own. I've custom built computers and changing the ram/hard drive on the lappy in not much harder. If those results from Toms Hardware Guide are accurate, I wouldn't upgrade the the hard drive at all. The 160 gb 5400 preforms just as good as the 100 gb 7200 in one of the tests, and its power consumption is much lower. As for the CPU, Stamar had finaly convinced me on the error of making such an upgrade. Why void your warrenty for a meek 5 ~ 10 % performance increase? In 2 years, there will be greater processors that the Santa Rosa... I say just keep the laptop as it is and save your money for something better down the road.

 

Oops my bad....some how i was certain i saw 1gb. That was one of the things i was going to change as i didnt want 2x512, but thats all good now . Secondly i wanted to change the hdd because of performance reasons, obviously it wouldnt make much difference i guess in the end thats worth it. My next problem is probably ordering it, no way im buying it from an Australian retailer, the prices would be insane.

 

A lot of people keep mistaking the Santa Rosa as the next processor unit coming from Intel. That's untrue. Santa Rosa is nothing but a platform for notebooks; e.g. compilation of integrated graphics, wireless, cpu, chipset, etc.

The next chipset, in fact, will be the Penryn (for laptops) and the Wolfdale (for desktops). The main feature of both of these is a 45nm die (down from 65). With extra space on the cpu chip, Intel may even throw in additional features.

Penryn is slated to be out in 2007 with one of its major benefits being energy consumption. It's one of the reasons why I am waiting on a future laptop instead of purchasing right now.

EDIT: In fact, anybody has been keeping up with the news, Intel has already began sampling/manufacturing Penryn prototypes. AMD has only just begun to start sampling 65 nm die cpu's.

 

Is inserting a 1GB & leave one 512MB in will slow down my notebook? Just curious? Coz it's a two DIMM slots working together if 2 same capacity RAM r install together.

 

I think you meant to say processor here instead of chipset. As you correctly stated, Santa Rosa platform includes the next chipset.

 

In a desktop, yes. I believe the laptop is the same. When I purchased memory for my desktop, I left the memory old 512mb in the pc. I accidently grouped the 1 gig with the 512mb and I say hardly any improvement, even though I increased the memory by two gigs. I removed the 512mb (slowed overclocking) and put the 2 one gig rams one the same channel and had a great preformance increase. As the G1 comes with 2 gigs already, there won't be a problem for you. If you are upgrading an older system, make sure you get two of the same sticks and try to get them from the same company. If you can't do that, at least make sure that the timings are the same.

 

I thought so, thanks pevelg

Then I will just insert my 1GB & take out the 512MB in my previous notebook.

 

Well I recomend having the 1.5 gb

what is your laptop model?

Im personally noting that we have no evidence that the a8j series runs ram in dual channel.

And apart from that, its not possible for 1 gb stick to be faster than 1 gb stick and 512 together as long as they are same mhz

so dont miss out on your ram lol
Id hate to see u confused by something u read and not use your ram

1.5 gb is better absolutely

 

Acer TravelMate with 512MB RAM.

 

Stamar is correct, having more ram is better, period, even if one piece of ram is slower than the other, more is better, and you may not see the difference in mhz speeds.

By adding a 1GB to your Acer which already has 512mb, you'll end up with a whopping 1.5GB, by the way where are you getting the 1gb from?

PS: If you are needing to purchase the 1GB of ram, get the same speed as your 512 ram, because there's no point spending more money for more speed when your computer will run at the lower speed ram. However, if you plan on upgrading, the 512mb in the future, then go for a faster ram speed and then upgrade in the future, so you'll have the maximum speed and ram.

 

I stand corrected. I believe it is just a rumor that the upcoming Santa Rosa platform will include the Penryn CPU - Intel is lagging behind the manufacturing/sampling process of the Penryn CPU while Santa Rosa is still slated for release within the first half of '07. Penryn release dates have been speculated to be within the second half of '07. So we might have Santa Rosa chipsets that include Merom CPUs before Penryn takes over.

 

Ok, I stand corrected. One of the reasons I saw a better preformance increase with just the 2 gigs instead of the 3 is because the two 512mb sticks ran at a lower speed. My recommendation would be to get two 1 gig sticks at a higher speed (as long as it is compatible with CPU). This way you will utilize the higer ram speed, as well as the dual channels (if your notebook has that).

 

I have heard conflicting things about what processor socket Santa Rosa will have. On one hand I heard it will be a new socket for a new Merom version with the higher FSB, but from at least one source I have also heard Santa Rosa is compatible with older mobile chips. I guess I will have to look through the Intel papers because I'm curious, too.

Although I believe it is confirmed that Santa Rosa will bring the 965 Mobile chipset, replacing the current 945 Mobile chipset.

 

Ok if you don't want to upgrade on your own, here is a company that will do it for you. My advice though is to do it on your own.

http://www.xoticpc.com/

 

check this out http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=91603

 

Same speed as in 667MHz? Sorry to ask a stupid question like this
I bought from a reseller give me good deal, 1GB 667MHz will add to my current 512MB 667MHz then?

 

Yes, that will work. Your next upgrade would be to replace the 512mb with a 1gig.