Ivy Bridge Zenbook with FHD IPS screen UX21A UX31A UX32A UX32VD

Hi. Cool it's nice to see someone from the same country as I am...I'm from Denmark too... I also ordered 32VD on komplett.dk and I've been waiting for days now till launch! I'm getting the 8GB RAM from Corsair and Samsung 830 256GB aswell since everybody is hopping onboard with that. Actually I have the same dilemma as you with the SSD/HDD swap running on Win7 and hopefully these two creative geniuses (Jedighost n dunces) can come up with great step by step solution that will give us newbies a user-friendly guide... crossing fingers!

I got a real dumb noob question.. If I wanna run a clean Win7 install onto the SSD i100 Sandisk, do I have to purchase a new Software, or can I use the Asus' Win7 that comes included?

 

Quoting Jedighost as above -
" Originally Posted by jedighost Cool, Dunces, your guide is nicely shaping up! I'm gonna chime in on some details:

Windows defaults to MBR unless specifically told to use GPT. This is why after your Secure Erase, either Gparted in PartedMagic, or Windows Disk Management will create an MBR partition table on an empty disk. (Gparted asks, but he lists "ms-dos" type of disk as deafult, which is MBR in other words.)

Windows cannot change MBR to GPT or vice versa with any partitions on a disk. But with an empty, unallocated space, sure it can. Just right-click on the Disk itself in Disk Management, and you have the option: "Convert to GPT" or "Convert to MBR" depending on its state. As long as you have partitions, this is greyed out. Also, on the same list, the lowest option is Properties or something, in the new windows it opens, everybody can check the present partition table style of that disk."

Now I'm going a little off topic but bare with me. I bought a 3TB drive recently. It was to be the boot drive in an HP Micro server. Didn't need to be so big, but it was $10 more than the 2TB at Best Buy, so I thought "what the hell". Thing was, I couldn't install the OS (Windows Home Server 2011 in this case) because the drive had to be setup as GPT to use all 3TB, and I'd never done that before.

So if during a MS OS install, if you delete all the partitions on a drive, and then can right click and convert a drive from MBR to GPT, well... you've taught me a VERY important feature, and I appreciate it!!! Tempted to format the boot drive on that system and do it. But is would be much easier to ghost the 3TB drive onto the brand new 160GB drive I got with another system recently, and save the 3TB for later. But the Seagate free tools wouldn't copy a server OS drive. So if anyone knows a free tool that DOES...

Not only have I been keeping. With this thread, I've been checking Amazon, New Egg, and others for availability. Since Amazon charges Washington State sales tax, I'd prefer New Egg for the 32, but if its not available...

Keep up the great, positive posts folks. Tony Stark would be proud.

 

As far as I know the UX31A-AB71 comes with a 128GB SSD, and the DB71 with 256GB SSD. And the general proven consensus is that an ADATA SSD would generally perform better than a Sandisk SSD, at least as far as the models that have been shipping with the current crop of ultrabooks (Asus, Samsung, etc.)

 

O, and to clarify. Does the disk change work when booting the drive from a DVD or USB stick to INSTALL the OS? Or do you need to be in the fully installed OS and use Disk Manager to switch from MBR to GPT or back?

 

The quickest way is to delete the two partitions on the SSD in Windows Disk Management, and then Initialize it by selecting "Convert to MBR" (thanks jedighost and merkman!) from the unallocated space.

BUT, you can also do this easily even if the laptop has no operating system to boot to. I converted it to MBR by booting from a Parted Magic CD, letting it load into Linux and then Secure Erase it with the guide over at overclock.net. This only takes a few minutes. Expand the Written Guide, and you'll see how to do it. Keep in mind that it requires the latest Parted Magic iso listed as 6_19.

 

By perform better, what do you mean? Like what exactly? Is it just transfer rates or does it deal with system performance and every day tasks as well?

Can someone please clarify what exactly an A-Data would have over a Sandisk?

I had spokent to someone before and they basically said that the A-data is just better for things like photo editing/mp3/video that type of stuff...but when it comes to actual launching applications and every day tasks there is no actual difference.

Could someone confirm this for me and break it down? Just a bit confused.

 

Italiansoda, you do NOT have to buy Win7 again! You have bought it along with the Zenbook already, you have a win7 sticker on the charger. You can use that key (25 characters) to activate the type of win7 on your machine that is written in the sticker (for example: win7 64 bit Home Premium), even if you reinstalled a fresh copy, even if you have changed the HDD or RAM.

That key is bound to *your* Zenbook's unique hardware parts' identifiers, and can be used again and again, even if you make new reinstalls on the same machine, with the same type of win7. This is a long story but just remember: if you have a sticker, then within limitations of hardware changes (HDD and Ram upgrade is okay) that guarantees win7 activation and legal use on the same machine forever. There are many little details that can be known about this subject, but this should save you the cost of a new win7.

Nvidia Optimus is running in the background, somewhere in the Nvidia settings you can turn that tray icon on/off. Even if you don't see it, it does its job well, knowing which card to use when, CPU integrated HD 4000 or the discrete Nvidia GT620M.

You can run any program with a right-click, and select "use this GPU" or something, to force them to use that card for graphics.

TPM=Trusted Platform Module, you could have used Google.
Trusted Platform Module - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basically it is a special chip on the motherboard that helps securing access to your Zenbook and the data on it (with passwords for example, etc), but on a hardware level.

You definitely do not have to buy a new win7, you bought one already with the Zenbook, that you can use again and again for fresh installs, in case.

 

As for the Crucial M4, make sure you look for CTXXXM4SSD1 for the 7mm version. The ones with BAA endings have desktop mounting brackets, and the CCAs have USB transfer cable/data transfer kit.

As for Samsung, I believe all their drives are 7mm (I have the 256gb and can confirm). Their naming scheme is MZ-7PCXXX(B/WW) for bare drive, MZ-7PCXXX(D/AM) for desktop, and MZ-7PCXXX(N/AM) for notebook version with USB and transfer kit.

Has anyone put a Samsung 830 into the UX32VDs? I bought both the M4s and the Samsung 830s, but have not opened either one yet. I prefer to use the 830 if it will fit properly into the UX32VD space as it is a faster rated drive than M4.

I know the Samsung 830 is a 7mm drive, but for some reason, when I convert the specs from Newegg to millimeter, it's coming out to be 71.1mm, so I am just concerned if the tolerance level is so tight that this would result in the Samsung drive not fitting?

 

Well I'm basing my opinion on what I've been reading in these forums across various manufacturers, as well as some online reviews. Check out the following review for instance, hopefully it sheds more light on the situation.
ASUS Zenbook SSD Review - Not Necessarily SandForce Driven Hits A Speed Bump - The SSD Review

Note that I haven't yet performed any benchmarks on my system. But my W.E.I. index shows a 7.9 score (which focuses on disk transfer rate) for the ADATA XM11 256GB that shipped with my UX31A-DB71.

In terms of real-world performance, I guess that would be based on end-user perception and experience as system usage would vary.

 

Is there any online reseller that offers some type of "satisfaction guarantee" with ZERO restocking fee if the UX32VD does not meet our expectations and we return it?

 

There is a misunderstanding: setting an empty drive up to GPT style partition table is possible easily within Disk Management in win7, NOT during win7 install! During install it is possible too, but complicated, here is a good read for you:

Creating an EFI GPT Boot Disk, http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1584795

Okay, I'm a bit confused here, but let me try to understand, although it is really off-topic.
You have a 3TB drive in a server and you want to clone the system to a 160GB drive, and you need a free tool to do it.
Try if any of these work: Easeus products: Disk Copy, Todo Backup, Partition Master (they are either free or 15 day trial fully operational, check on their websites)
Acronis Disk Director Trial (for cloning), Acronis True Image Home 2012 trial (for backing that OS partition up to an external HDD, and restoring it to your 160GB drive afterwards).
I haven't tried myself, but it should absolutely possible to backup a GPT partition and restore it to an MBR-type partition table HDD.
If not, then there are softwares that do the GPT-->>MBR conversion on a disk while retaining all data, but you need Google to find them.
I hope one of these help you.

 

An update on the Sandisk i100 Windows 7 install experience. I've ran into a couple of issues while testing that will be needed to sort out before the guide is written.

- First, the regular HDD will go into sleep way too quickly. It basically powers down a few seconds after having completed a task. Changing HDD power settings doesn't affect it. The Power4Gear power options doesn't affect it. It gets very annoying when working in Photoshop for example, every time when changing a tool after a few seconds or doing something the disk needs to spin up again. This needs to be fixed before I can write a guide for this method, unless you're planning to get an SSD in exchange for the Hitachi HDD that is.

This might be because the Hitachi firmware is written so that the disk will power down quickly (hope not as this probably won't be fixable then). Or it might be because some driver/or the 206 BIOS update doesn't work properly.

- Secondly, the fan still works pretty inconsistent. It still sometimes go on and off in a seconds notice. Like a brief spin up and down. It doesn't sound that high, but you can still hear it work. It didn't seem to change behavior after installing the drivers. IT's mostly completely silent while browsing or writing though. I don't know if it's because of some driver is missing on my Windows 7 install, if it's a hardware fault with my unit or if Asus simply haven't fixed the BIOS yet and will probably do so soon. My guess is it's because of the BIOS.

Can anyone report how their fan behaves using the stock Win 7 install? Does it sometimes spin up and down in a seconds time span?

I also found out that Windows 7 will boot even when the SSD is the only boot device listed. I disabled the Windows Management boot option that was on the Hitachi HDD (the leftover from the previous Windows 7 install even if C was formatted) and it still boots just fine. It's probably safe to format the entire Hitachi HDD then, even removing the EFI Partition.

 

Specifications Sheet PDF says:

"Product dimensions (HxWxL)
• 0.28 x 2.75 x 3.94 inches
Only 7mm thick to accommodate ultraportables and netbooks"

You will be fine, 0.1mm would not matter anyway. If you convert 7mm back to inches, it is 0.2756. I think Samsung just rounded it up. Would they have used 0.27 in the spec sheet, it would convert to 6.86mm and everybody would be asking: won't my SSD wiggle as it is too thin?

 

Thanks for the site and info.

However a crucial element that the actual benchmark reviewer wrote as a comment was that

The review displays the most realistic method of 'true user experience' evaluation seen today with PCMark Vantage and, as well, AS SSD Copy Benchmark is also a true copy test benchmark. There is nothing defective about the U100 whatsoever and in typical use, it would be difficult to differentiate from any other. The difficulty lies in anyone purchasing a system with this ssd for specific uses such as photography, movie editing and whatnot. It took 47 seconds to move a file....those are back to HDD days!

Personally I dont really care about these...so I guess that means a sandisk wouldnt affect me as much I hope

 

Lol. Good point. Thanks for the response. I will post updates and let everyone know once I get the laptop. It's coming in Monday! Love Newegg.

 

Hi Dunces, good to see you online! I can see the pioneers need to do some road-building for others to follow...
Few questions: Power4gear has 4 different power profiles that can be seen in win7 Control Panel/Power Options, did you check that you are using the Profile where you set the HDD sleep time for a longer period?
BTW I did notice the fast HDD sleep thing, i just had no data on it to use, didn't care about it at that time.
Fan: tricky... Aida64 has a logging function. It can create a log of the sensors with time stamps, so you can check what the CPU the temps were when the fan speeded up. Great way to debug, used it for troubleshooting power supplies (voltage fluctuations), etc.

1 more thing: with EasyBCD you could check which partitions play a role in booting, that can confirm your suspicion that the entire HDD can be formatted.

 

well i want to inform you guys that i got the ux31a config is i7 with 256 ssd and the ssd is ADATA xm11
the one i got is called ux31a R4003v over here in hong kong is called that way and asus gives you 2 years international warranty, i think i heard it was 68 countries supporting it, this are the first batches to land in hong kong

 

Glad to hear. Nothing like an informed decision

 

Which model are you referring to? I can vouch for the UX32VD. It has a full sized HDMI and a customl mini port that uses a dongle for VGA.

 

can someone please verify if we plug an mic/earphone to the 3.5 jack does the mic works?
seems that jack is just for headphones?
please somone clarify if its just a headphone jack or headset jack?

i figured that i have to continuosly press the controls in my headphone/mic the volume up or down so it will work, anyone experiencing same problems?

 

Well I was offline for 8 hours and 18 new pages were added
OK, I installed Win 7 on the SSD for the VD.

First time it went a little weird I had to reinstall.

(Because it was so snappy I accidentally had two programs trying to install at once.. I was used to kicking one off while another downloads and expands... whoops... 30 second task dropped to 3... nice surprise though)

I also discovered that some of the ASUS stuff won't install because it doesn't think it is an ASUS computer anymore.

To fix that I did this:
Installed chipset first, video drivers, then I did: ATKPackage_Win7_64_Z100016

That seemed to fix the issue and allowed the ASUS software to see it was an ASUS computer.

(First botched install I didn't realize that so it contributed to the issues I think).

Other than turning off system restore and disabling hibernation any other tweaks to do to Windows for the SSD?

I'm going to redirect My Documents, etc... to the 500 GB HDD.

I'll post a script file later so other folks can just run that to make all those tweaks automatically. (or instructions, either way)

 

Wait so since you guys are experiencing all these driver issues installing a fresh copy of windows 7, would we expect the same issue if we chose to upgrade to windows 8 when it's out?

 

Hi all

I wound up getting the UX32VD and purchased an 8Gb memory upgrade (Crucial Vengeance) and a 500Gb SSD upgrade (Crucial M4, 7mm).

Both went in happily although I have to say that finding the T4 Torx bit proved to be a problem - finally found it at Sears. Radioshack, Best Buy and various computer stores had nothing.

Once the system was opened - you have to carefully pry the back off because they've used some sticky tape on the cover - you have to remove the screws from the battery so that you can remove the HDD. The HDD slides out quite nicely once you remove the retaining screws, and replacing it was trivial (apart from the 20 or so tiny screws you have to deal with).

Putting things back together was simple, and booting up for the first time the system recognized my 10Gb RAM and 500Gb HDD.

I elected to install a fresh copy of Win 7 ultimate from a USB drive (get Microsoft's free USB/ISO writer and use that, it makes life easy). I downloaded all the drivers from the Asus web site, and if things went south I still have the original, completely untouched HDD.

The WiFi driver is the intel version, as is bluetooth. Sound, etc. all works fine. I've got the intel chipset installed, as well as all of the various Asus utilities. It took several hours to go through the install, but it worked pretty much flawlessly.

I've managed to install all the drivers with no problem, but the one minor, niggling issue that I have is that Windows performance reports the business graphics at 4.7 (gaming graphics at 7.2), which isn't what I expected. I've got both the HD 4000 and the nVidia drivers installed, but don't see any Optimus option to run this using the dedicated graphics chipset.

Has anyone else seen this problem? What are other people's windows aero graphics numbers?

 

When I formatted the internal SSD I just told the BIOS to boot off it and never boot off the HDD. I never had to do anything beyond that, just told the BIOS this drive is bootable, and nothing else (except USB port) is.

I also notice I seem to have missed a driver or something device manager shows: "PCI Simple Communications Controller" hmm not sure what that is?

 

Received my UX31A today that I ordered via Amazon. It has the ADATA SSD.

 

Hmm. Mine doesn't show that - I have PCI Controller and Xeon Processor E3-1200 v2/3rd gen core processor PCI express root port - 0151.

btw: have you managed to get your aero performance numbers both looking good?

 

Hmm, ran the Windows performance score, noticed it was using the HD4000 not the dedicated video:
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Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3517U CPU @ 1.90GHz 7.1 5.9
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.9
Graphics Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 6.3
Gaming graphics 1696 MB Total available graphics memory 6.3
Primary hard disk 10GB Free (30GB Total) 5.9
Windows 7 Ultimate

System
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Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model UX32VD
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

Storage
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total size of hard disk(s) 470 GB
Disk partition (C 10 GB Free (30 GB Total)
Disk partition (D 146 GB Free (186 GB Total)
Disk partition (E 240 GB Free (254 GB Total)

Graphics
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Display adapter type Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
Total available graphics memory 1696 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 64 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1632 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.17.12.9644
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Network Adapter Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Network Adapter Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6235
Network Adapter Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
Network Adapter Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter

 

btw. Here's what my performance numbers look like after the memory and SSD. Note the difference between "Graphics" and "Gaming Graphics".

 

Seems people have gone for either a Samsung 830 drive or Crucial M4 to upgrade their UX32VDs. At the 512GB capacity, the 830 is a full $300 more expensive ($399 vs. $699). Anyone know if there is a meaningful difference for your $300, or if this is just due to 512GB being a rare capacity on the 830 series? Seems like a no-brainer to grab the M4, just want to make sure I'm not missing anything...

 

Mine is doing the same, except my numbers are different. Odd. Here's the detail (I changed the dedicated graphics memory to 512Mb in the BIOS):


System
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Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model UX32VD
Total amount of system memory 10.0 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

Storage
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total size of hard disk(s) 477 GB
Disk partition (C 415 GB Free (477 GB Total)
Media drive (D CD/DVD

Graphics
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Display adapter type Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
Total available graphics memory 1760 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1248 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.17.12.9644
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Network Adapter Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Network Adapter Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6235

Go with the M4 - it's plenty fast enough.

 

Ha anyone installed Windows on the 20 GB cache SSD in the UX32VD ? How fast this small SSD is and does it support TRIM? Does anyone have any benchmarks?

 

I have been monitoring the prices of these 2 SSDs fairly closely. It seems like the M4 gets discounted more often than the Samsung, especially at the 480-512GB range. But the discrepancies for the lower capacity drives (128GB) has been fairly negligible. I picked up a Samsung 128GB for $90 from Newegg. Also got a few 256GB for the desktop (the desktop ones I have seen around $200 at the cheapest range), while the M4's 256GB I have seen $180-185 range.

 

Question about resellers.

Anyone purchased from ExcaliberPC? I've never heard of them.

I'd prefer to buy mine from NewEgg (no tax in NY), but I'm not sure when the UX31A-DB51 will be offered (if at all?).

Does anyone have experience with the extended warranties from NewEgg/Amazon? Do these only cover hardware failure, and not accidental spills/drops? I would like to get this laptop with a solid 3 year warranty.

 

Read back at page ~100 or so and skim around there going forwards.

Several of us have done that already and it SEEMS to be working well, we are just sorting out the random oddities.



----****Graphics***---

I still find it odd that it never listed the Nvidia card on the results there, it only listed the Intel integrated.... maybe I missed a driver setting somewhere when I reinstalled?

RAM for the UX32VD:
So I pulled this together, but which is "the best"?
Crucial now has this page up after I asked them about it:
Computer memory upgrades for ASUS ZENBOOK UX32VD Laptop/Notebook from Crucial.com
$86.99 (OUCH!)
Part Number: CT3340957
Module Size: 8GB
Package: 204-pin SODIMM
Feature: DDR3 PC3-12800
Specs: DDR3 PC3-12800 • CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V • 1024Meg x 64 •

New Egg has these two:
Newegg.com - Patriot Signature 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model
PSD38G16002S
$54.99
Patriot Signature 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model PSD38G16002S

and this one for $2 more that APPEARS to be slightly faster, but once mixed with the 2 GB onboard may not matter anyway...?

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model CMSX8GX3M1A1600C10
$56.99
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model CMSX8GX3M1A1600C10


Looking back, I know many people ordered the CORSAIR and it seems to work fine, however, did they have to modify it in any way at all, I thought I saw someone say they had to mess with a foil wrapper or sleeve?

Either way, we really should start posting some YouTube How To videos

 

Good to see another one for the A-Team -- this thread is getting dominated by these crazy VD folks.

Mine is still in box, kinda scared to open it haha...

 

Everybody is getting the A-data now so I just re-ordered it with one day shipping in the hope that all in the current batch have that drive.

 

Yeah, there are still some rocks to climb before we got it all clear.

The HDD immediately goes to sleep regardless of Power4Gear and Windows Power settings. I have it on AC, running High Performance mode and have it set to never allow the HDD to sleep. Still it does.

I'll definitely look into Aidas logging function and EasyBCD. Thanks for the tips man

By the way, is it possible that the fan of the 620M is what's causing the erratic spinning? I've noticed that prime reports that the nvidia card sometimes turns on and off while not being in use.

 

Custom mini port ? Not a mini DisplayPort?

 

Have you tried installing MSI afterburner and checking exactly what the GPU is doing? Try seeing what the clock speeds are doing while running the packaged stress test (Kombustor)/prime 95 or both. I've seen a few machines which had problems where, for no good reason at all, it's GPU(s) will jump between two different clocks are regular intervals of only a few seconds.

This strange behavious comes and goes depending on the exact driver revision and running software in my experience. Afterburner also has direct fan control for many desktop GPUs, although I know on my laptop it can't do anything.

If many people are having this, I would guess its some kind of software clash, possibly between nvidia drivers, win7 intel drivers, bios or maybe Asus's power management software fighting over fan control.

 

What Hard drive model is it? I have some western digital green drives that I could disable the "green" nature of them using a utility. Depending on what your drive is, you may be able to use SimpleTech Legacy Downloads | Index files

 

Try logging the Gpu temp too, to see if it has anything to do with the fan.

 

MSI Afterburner doesn't seem to work on the UX32VD. It reports that some components are missing and won't start. I tried running Furmark and the GPU jetted up to 90c while the fan was slowly bumping up in speed, but at 90c it seemed to hit a wall and perhaps even throttled? This was only running it for a couple minutes. But I'll try to find another test program.

Edit: The non-beta 2.2.1 version of Afterburner works, but only shows very limited info.

Yeah the fan behavior is definitely not optimized yet by Asus. I mean it's still silent, but you DO notice when the fan turns on and off in silent environments and that's what's slightly annoying.

Thanks for the input. I'll look into this.

I think I'll open the bottom lid and see for myself which fan is spinning and in which scenarios. Only way of knowing for certain

Hey, the HDD model is Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 HTS545032A7E380.

That link is very interesting! It seems like the Hitachi Feature Tool can change the power scheme of the disk drive like you say. And since it's made by Hitachi, it might be compatible even if the disk is very new on the market.

 

Has anybody with a UX31A or one of the older versions tried a mini to normal HDMI adapter to see how well they work?

 

When I get my UX32VD, should I install my RAM before I turn on my laptop?

 

Could someone with either the UX31A or 32Vd plug a SD card in and see if the card is flush with the slot or the card juts out. Thanks!

 

Also found this on SD Crucial 512GB SSD 345.00

512GB Crucial M4 2.5" SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive SSD (CT512M4SSD2) $345 + Free Shipping - Newegg Deals, Coupons and Promos

 

No turn on first to see everything is alright

 

On my UX31E it worked just fine. Haven't recieved my ux32vd yet.

I don't believe that is a 7mm model. On Newegg it says 9.5mm height. So to use it you would have to take it out of the case, voiding the warranty.

 

@dunces http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/downloads/FTool_User_Guide_215.pdf

Page 12... leads me to believe that if your drive doesn't support the utility, that it just won't let you change it. I have a feeling because it's a newer drive it does indeed support it.

The problem you're going to have is that you would have to boot one of those utlities, and since your brand new Zenbook doesn't have a floppy or CD, you might be SOL. An external CD drive might work and you can download http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/downloads/ftool_215.iso

 

Well, that article is about the IGPU (Intel 4000). Im thinking of the CPU clockspeed.

the i7 ulv is clocked at 1.9 ghz, but it can be turboboosted to 3.0 ghz for single core or 2,8 ghz for dual core.

The thing is. say you want to play a game, but it requires a minimum of a Core 2 Duo at 2,2 ghz to play. How can you be sure the CPU in the UX32VD will turbo boost itself accordingly to meet the specifications?

if the UX32VD is a really warm machine, wont some people just face that it wont turbo boost itself for very long (or at all) if they are unlucky and have a hot machine?