Customizing Asus z33a?

I'm definitely new to customizing a notebook.

My prior experience with Sony notebook has pushed me away from expensive brand name notebooks. :noisyfan: verheat:

After some researches, Asus z33a seems to be a good choice.
But the customizing parts from resellers really don't fit my taste, especially Sonoma, the heat, yak...

So I wonder, if I buy a barebone notebook, and fill in all the parts by myself, will there be any difference in term of noise and heat from what merchants customized? I mean cooling structure inside...

By the way, is 6-cell (9-cell is huge) same size as 3-cell? If so, where can I get one?

 

That's an odd post.... I'm not sure what you like or don't like, but the notebook itself is built around a certain motherboard which is built with a certain chipset......... if you want the Z33a, then you get the z33a motherboard which uses a 915 chipset.... If you want an older model with an 855 chipset or something... look around for an M5n or np......

If you'd like the newest model, the Z33ae is on it's way in..... but I'm not sure what you're looking for. The only thing to really change the heat and noise would be the cpu or hard drive you use...... and really the options that anyone should give you are really all that is out there..... or at least the best of what's out there.

By the way.... the 3 cell sits flush with the unit, the 6 cell sticks out a 1/2 inch and the 9 cell sticks out an inch. 6 cell's were never imported into North America for this notebook, but you can get a 6 cell for a black w5 and it's the same battery minus the pinstripes....... that's one that I used on mine for a good period of time and is really the only way to go.

 

I don't think you'll improve heat and noise problem if you do it yourself. Since you're not going to be installing new fan or anything of the such. I use a 9 cell it's great. I'm not bother by the extended battery since i use a Gateway M320XL before with an extended battery also. This laptop is a much better improvement over that one. It's much lighter and battery life is higher too.

 

If you don't need to upgrade the memory, only put the cpu in, it is very simple to assemble. If you have to upgrade the memory for 256MB or 512MB, you have to unscrew first, then put the meory to slot. You also don't need to put the wireless mini PCI as well because this model comes with one.

 

Well, for one thing, I do see one vendor offers Dothan instead of Sonoma.

And the reason I asked about noise and heat... it's rather if one would make it worse or not when building it by oneself.

For a PC, concern of heat and noise is straight on what kind of parts you use, especially the case.

But for a notebook, the case is all the same for a model. So I wonder if there is something in building process would worsen heat and noise even if using better parts.

 

On my own opinion, z33a model is not worth to choose a fastest cpu, a 12" portable laptop almost will be used for general application software(not for a high performance graphics and games). i only met a guy to use a Pentium M 760(2.0) Dothan cpu for this, Sonoma should support this model. Might be i will try to use a 770(2.13) to put it in for testing!!!

 

Dothan is the version of the Pentium M CPU. Sonoma is the code name for the Intel 915 chipset. So the two go together and are not alternatives.

John