How come none of the Asus gaming laptops have a nVidia 260M or 280M???

the best card i see is a 9800GS.... and they still cost like $1500+ for them.... but Sagers have the 280M fully loaded for $1700+??? im kinda lost here, does the Asus build quality or anything else make up for the high price?

 

No it's just that no one can compare with Clevo/Sager in terms of production price and Tech advancement... they always stay one step ahead

 

The GTX 260m and 280m are still new cards. As such, they have yet to be used by pretty much every manufacturer other than Clevo. Asus is going the release the G71Gx sometime in the near future and it will have the 260m.

 

They dont yet, but im sure they will come out with one shortly.
They do have the W90 with dual 4870's. But its like 2400 bucks.

 

its a new card and not many notebooks are built around it yet

MrButter as much as i would like to agree

the Sager's already have it because the current notebooks it had were capable of supporting it and cooling it not many notebooks could at release

 

are sagers running them at a cool temp or are they having issues with it?

 

they are running perfectly except the guy who put a qx9300 and a 280m gtx in a 15 inch but he just undervolted and it runs fine now

 

good to know, are they running at really hot temps by design?

 

the 280m gtx was not made for that laptop he was just testing to see if it worked....quite amazing it actually does though

no those card run quite well, he had to undervolt it since it is a 15 inch laptop with the fastest single gpu out so far

the cards run hot ( but not over heating) since they are powerful.... but the laptop that have the 280m gtx will cool it just fine for use. In that case it was not designed for it so it took some modding

 

Your right sorry I'm just a Sager fan, for the longest time I was like Oo Alienware or Oo Dell or even Asus.... But until I joined this site I'd barely heard of Clevo or Sager, now I'm enamored with them

 

The new 260m and 280m also have a max temp of 108C compared with a 98C max temp of the 9800m's. This means that it takes a lot more to overheat them.

 

sounds really well built, looking forward to owning one soon

 

Most Asus models are poorly designed to distribute air flow well. My g50vt overheats and all I did was flash my gs to gts. You feel the one and only fan unde neathe the left side of the keyboard spin rapidly. I recently bought a zalman cooler and ripped out the piece of plastic which blocked the gpu vent and now I barely feel the fan anymore. This design would explode with a 160 and 280 lmao

 

wonder why they would design a gaming laptop in such a way.... odd.

 

some time people r retarded?

 

Lol, maybe. But it appears the vent cover is intentional this time

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=291251 (bottom of the first post)

The vent is covered to force airflow over other things like the HDDs, RAM and chipset. There is probably a small sacrifice in CPU and GPU cooling, but everything else stays cool. Opening the vent may look good on paper, but it is probably not advised if you have a stock cooling setup without an external cooler (yeah, they design them for people other than us enthusiasts who live at NBR ). Before I bought my G50, I was considering the Clevo M860TU, but got nervous with several reports of HDDs at the mid 50s when doing stuff like websurfing. I think the eventual consensus was insufficient airflow, but I don't know whether this has been resolved as I haven't been following that forum since I became an Asus owner.

It would be interesting for someone to do a comparison of component temps with the vent covered/uncovered and with/without an external cooler.

 

that is pretty funny

 

also, K series with the 4860 from ATI/AMD

 

The vent is coverd on purpose to push out al of the heat in the laptop but the ram and hdd really do not need to be cooled much especially if you have a laptop cooler that will push the air through. For instance my old laptops had the hdds hidden completely away from any cooling feature.