K53TA.. The best deal ever... could be!

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

Install and it is good to go. Should help some under-utilization problem if you did not have this previously.

 

Ok, just one more question: do I have to do anything other than installing the cap profile (and restarting) or will it be good to go?

 

Nope, install and restart then just test/game away.

 

It's installed, but TW2 still doesn't utilise the GPU, and the first Witcher caps GPU load at 60%. Is there anything that could affect the profile's performance, or could it not have solved the issues for these two games?

Edit: Been looking into it, apparently you also need to configure the Catalyst AI. Will try.

 

If the game doesn't use dGPU at all, then try manual add the exe/client to high performance. I have no experience with the game so I am not sure.

 

No, nothing so far. I think it might help later on with profile supported games, so thanks for pointing me to it, but TW and TW2 don't seem optimized for xfire. One running at 60% and the other doesn't run at all.

 

Personally, xfire is useless most of the time, rather turn it off to shave some heat.

 

When you turn off XFire instead of defaulting to the dedicated GPU it uses the ty integrated one.

 

Ok, one common suggestion is to force the Dirt 2 profile to run with The Witcher 2 game (instead of TW2s profile) - apparently using RadeonPro. Anyone have any idea?

 

Disable ULPS AND Crossfire guys!!!!

I received few hours my k53ta with new motherboard ,top and bottom case.Asus`s service in .RO rules!!!

 

last time I sent mine to replace top case also get a new motherboard. I've no idea why.

 

Strange,my windows 8 is still activated after replacing the mobo...

 

there was a aperture on my case near the ac in, than i got 10 bad sector on hdd cause of hdd i got windows problems
1st service changed hdd , wd to st and laptop came back , i called and mailed ,and told about case problem which sevise hasnot repaired than they wanted it back
i sent to them again
2nd the bottom case changed
fast service but customer services suck , cause i call them to have infos about my laptop , they say '' its not registered , waiting for repair '' and next day ding dong , door rings who is this ? '' cargo service'' here is your laptop

umm not all parts changed , they put some old working parts on new board

 

Also...

1) Download Catalyst Application Profiles, absolutely necessary for crossfire games.
2) In CCC, set the standard settings under the 3D settings tab as 'High Performance'.
3) CCC > Power > Switchable Graphic Application Settings: if the game you're playing doesn't have XFire support (a lot of older games won't run well in crossfire), add them to the list and change their setting to 'High Performance'. Whenever you play one of these games, disable crossfire and the computer will opt for the dedicated GPU.
4) Crucial, but a lot of people forget: change your power plan to a high energy-consuming one that's good for gaming.

Always check the FPS on a game with and without crossfire. If running on the dedicated GPU only gets you equal or higher FPSs, play that game with XFire disabled (after searching for a solution, obviously).

In any case, for closure: got 'The Witcher 2' to run on crossfire, it had to do with tweaking the CCC AI. Impressed with how it runs at 25 (cities, taverns) - 40 (caves, forests) FPS. There is the occasional 'stutter' (it looks like the game skips a frame, so even if it's at 35 FPS if you're, for instance, running, you can see that Geralt 'twitches' occasionally). Deus Ex: HR, Batman: AC and Borderlands 2 run at ultra smoothly (max. settings @ 30+ FPS), Metro 2033 and Crysis 2 at high and The Witcher 2 at 'low' (a few of the settings are at medium, like texture memory and drawing distance). Haven't encountered any unplayable games yet (TW2 being the most taxing).

 

anyone of you able to play far cry 3 smoothly?
mind tell me what setting do you guys set?
my game performance super poor.. totally unplayable
the short clip before the gameplay is already lagging.
I clocked 4 core @ 2ghz .
Disable crossfire.
on windows 8 64bit.

 

Have you set the game to high performance mode in CCC? Do you have the GPU buffer set to 2 in game settings?

 

with this dirver AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 9.01.8 – 7900 MOD – BenchmarK3D
crossfire off
8gb ram
oc 2.3ghz
no cooling mod max 85C
playable but i didnot try to find max settings for our laptop , u may want to try some settings to max it out

 

On Win7 64bit, I'm running Farcry3 on latest AMD 12.11 beta 11 with cap2 and it helped to smooth things out over older drivers. After setting game as high performance I had to play the game 2 or 3 times before it registered as high performance.
I still don't know the best settings, but here's mine: (still a little laggy but playable)
Video: Vsync off, GpuBuffer 2, widescreen off, DirectX11(but try "9" to see if it's better), MSAA off, Alpha enhanced, SSAO HDAO, Field 73.15

Vid quality: Text high, Amb light High, Shadows Medium, Post Fx Low, Geometry Ultra, Vegetation veryHigh, Terrain High, water VeryHigh, Environment High.

Continues to be a work in progress (if anyone else has better settings then feel free to share them).... As JoonasL mentioned the boldprint items make the most difference.

 

It is also worth mentioning that the Post Fx setting along with the gpu buffer has the biggest performance impact at least it had for me. So if you are having trouble try lowering that setting first.

 

Haven't been to this thread in awhile, but I tried something that I would you guys thoughts on.

Like most everyone, crossfire seems to have a negative impact. So I thought I would try radeonpro
and was messing around with some settings. For a crossfire mode I switched it to supertiling, and
battlefield 3 looked a lot more 'smooth'. I couldn't find much info on this setting, maybe one of you
could enlighten me. But based on the name I would guess that both integrated and discrete work on
the same frame but in portions. Once the frame is complete then it is sent to the screen. Logically
this would eliminate microstutter as the frame times would be a lot more consistent versus alternate
frame rendering. The results for battlefield 3 are encouraging, but I will try out more games before I
get too excited.

 

Need some help here. I have my os freshly installed on a Mushkin Chronos 120 GB SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (MKNSSDCR120GB), and flashed to the modded 214 bios. I can see in HWinfo64 that its a sata 6gb/s hard drive, but when i test it with HD Tune 2.25, it's only giving me 170 mb/s average, 230 max. Why am I getting such low speeds???

 

Hi. I am thinking about getting an SSD for this laptop. I know some of you have managed to do it and some of you have had problems. Can anyone who has successfully got it working describe what needs to be done.
Is a modded bios needed? (The post above me talks about the 214 modded bios. What does the mod do?)
What kind of drive bay works with this laptop?
Do some SSD`s not work for some reason or should they all work?

 

Try using ATTO to benchmark it. The chronos drive is one of the slowest (and cheapest) possible sandforce SSDs you could have bought, it won't ever see SATA3 speeds on uncompressable data and those speeds are actually about right (I get in the neighbourhood of 230mb/s on crystal disk mark, ~550mb/s on ATTO). ATTO's results should reflect proper results and give you above 300mb/s reads with SATA3 enabled. It's also a drive that uses a type of NAND that will run slower the more the drive is filled - freeing up space from the drive can improve results also. On uncompressable data, your drive is actually performing as expected.

Setting your power profile to "High Performance" should gain you a bit of speed, but either mirror the balanced profile or set the processor minimum states back to 0-5% so the CPU can clock down, or it will run hotter and have worse battery without much benefit.

 

It's not any different than a normal HDD. Buy SSD, unscrew your old drive, install the new SSD, install your OS to it as normal. BIOS mod isn't needed, but will improve performance if you have a SATA3 SSD. I've yet to see a laptop that hasn't been able to fit whatever SSD of choice, the size is standardized and anything that doesn't fit is because sloppy / off manufacturing.

If you want to use both your SSD and HDD, you should be able to use any 2.5" SATA drive bay with this laptop to replace the optical drive bay - the bay is standardized.

 

--Bios MOD 214 has been made allowing SSD hard drives to be unlocked at faster speeds eg. SATA3 6gbit
klarghmon posted Bios mod 214 link earlier: (Bios flashing is YMMV)>> http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/601808-k53ta-best-deal-ever-could-350.html#post8630217

--asusk53 posted this earlier:
SSD INSTALLATION GUIDE with pictures >> http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/601808-k53ta-best-deal-ever-could-313.html#post8515244

 

I am selling my K53TA due to the fact that i need some money fast. It looks like it was bought yesterday. It has warranty until december 2013. I kept it most of the time on a laptop cooler on my desk.It works and it looks great. Give me a PM if you are interested. Btw, i;m from Romania, but i will ship it everywhere its needed via DHL,UPS or whatever you want.

Also i can send any tests you want, pictures and stuff like that.

 

I have a problem- my computer sometimes is having "clock interrupt is not received on secondary processor" BSODs lately (sometimes BSOD doesn't show, but computer just reboots). I tested my system and I know, that CPU OC and GPU aren't responsible for these BSODs. It isn't RAM eather. Interestingly I'm never getting these errors, when playing Alan Wake for several hours (when not playing running in background), but when I play NFS The Run or when I open some flash heavy sites in chrome I sometimes get this this bsod within few hours time (now I have been working in chrome for 7h without any bsod)

Could someone tell me which part of my computer is secondary processor?
What should I do to prevent this from happening?

 

whiteeye, if you haven't done so already, I recommend updating your BIOS.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download K53TA

If you are still having trouble, it is probably related to having unstable overclocking of your CPU, after all. Mess with your voltages some more and it should fix the issue.

If you don't want to mess with your BIOS, which is perfectly understandable given the slight risks involved with BIOS flashing, then just attempt to find the problem voltage. I'd bet that's the problem.

 

Looking for some help in getting a new keyboard for this laptop at a decent price (in Canada), or maybe some advice if I'm missing something.

Original laptop I screwed up when I spilled water on the laptop, things just went all sorts of wacky. I got a new keyboard, but now all of a sudden, the CTRL keys don't want to work. It seems extremely odd that just those 2 keys don't want to work, so maybe it's something software related? I'm confused regardless.

If I need another new keyboard and the one I bought ended up being some cheap knockoff or something, links to get a new keyboard would be much appreciated. Thanks.

edit: just tried again, and the CTRL keys work when I have one of the screws out. it's quite strange...... and just a few minutes later now they're not working again.

 

the orjinal ram is this x PassMark - Kingston ASU1333S9-4G-ECEWG 4GB - Price performance comparison

and this i bought PassMark - Kingston 9905428-071.A00LF 4GB - Price performance comparison
i realised that the ram which i bought, seems bad in benchmarks :s , should i get this one below ?or continue with kingstons
PassMark - Patriot Memory (PDP Systems) PSD34G13332S 4GB - Price performance comparison

 

It was the voltage . I did Intelburn Test on every voltage and corresponding frequency- problem was on 1000 mhz. Raised voltage to 0,7625v and now everything works perfectly. Thanks for good advice!

 

This- PassMark - Kingston 9905428-071.A00LF 4GB - Price performance comparison and this- PassMark - Patriot Memory (PDP Systems) PSD34G13332S 4GB - Price performance comparison have only 1p difference in benchmarks on similar AMD systems ( PassMark Software - Display Baseline ID# 26209 PassMark Software - Display Baseline ID# 21185 ) it looks like this benchmark isn't optimized for AMD apus, thus RAM on AMD systems has very low score.

 

so which ram does give more (and max) performance than mines ? shoud i stay with these kingstons ?

 

These last couple of weeks my laptop has been reaching up to 98* when gaming. It even shut down once. I haven't changed anything in regards to my overclocks in the last 6 months, and this has been only recently. Even if I put k10stat on my underclock/undervolt it still won't idle below about 65. I have some paste coming in the mail and will be reapplying that.

Any other possible reasoning for this behavior? Ambient room temp hasn't changed much. During summer it was over 100 here outside and my temps remained in the low 80s...


Update: Repasted and blew out all dust. Now it won't go past 74c when gaming and idle is about 42c. Im happy with these numbers.

 

amd a6 3400m cpu overlock underclock lowest possible voltages

 

Mines is slightly lower than that. O/c at 2ghz with 2.2 boost, 2ghz at 1.0000 and 2.2boost at 1.05. Always been rock solid for me.

 

These should only be taken as a rough guide to setting your own clocks. I for example get a BSOD in games if I set the 2200Mhz voltage lower than 1.100 even though this says the minimum is lower than that.

 

i agree with you u can find lower voltages for example 2.3 with 1.075 , u can try lower voltages, test them with intel burntest, but i just wanted to show the main voltages for each ghz

i am using these profile

 

Guys, what fps do you usually get in games? I noticed, that when I play games I'm having less that 30 fps in NFS the run, Alan wake, Far cry 3, NFS Hot pursuit (NFS11), Max payne 3 and other. Changing settings (form all Ultra and high to all low) usually don't help or gives only 1-5 fps boost. And other thing I noticed- when I plug in 42" 1080p TV via hdmi game FPS do not change, but on TV's screen I can see that game is rendered in resolution that is same or higher than TV's resolution (individual pixels each can show different details- text and other staff is really sharp, without blur, that is usual if resolution of signal is lower than resolution of screen).

 

I cant flash 214 moded bios over 214 officia l why? It says the file is older than already flashed one... any suggestions. I'm under W7, flashing via original winflash,

 

try other way ,install via bios ,
put bios file in to the usb drive ,
restart pc
press f2 and go to bios
search about update bios(or smthng like that)
select ur usbdrive
and flash
ths way is better.

 

Thanx, works great.
Now I've installed W8.. what about graphics performance? I used to play WOT... it runs not as smooth as under w8..

 

so how does this bad boy work with win8, there are no win8 drivers on official page, and this thread has 400 pages, way too much for searching. are there some useful collection of links?

 

Well video drivers you can get from the AMD website for windows 8.
The Fn+F* keys you can get working by installing the ATK package for a slightly different laptop that has windows 8 support:
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download K53E
works fine for me.
I have not tried any touchpad drivers because I don't need any additional functionality.
No other drivers are really needed.

 

Hey all. Haven't posted in a while. Still have my K53TA going strong but some of the plastics have broke recently. The left hinge and the related screw mounting points have basically disintegrated. I took it apart today to evaluate the damage and do a repaste. I believe if I could find the case plastics it would be an easy fix as the actual hinge itself is fine.

I seem to recall at one time there were some sites where you could buy case plastics and whatnot for these models but I can't seem to track them down. Anyone able to help?

 

Asus 13GN7110P020 1 Brand New Bottom Case for K53TA | eBay

I found this, I don't know if that will help..

EDIT: Also this. http://www.asusparts.eu/partfinder/Asus/Notebook/K Series/K53TA#Cover

 

Awesome, thanks. Thats what I was looking for. Pretty expensive for what I would need though...

I'll wait a while and see if anyone else has some outlets for this stuff.

 

Yeah it is quite pricey, I actually went ahead and ordered those two parts, I'll post back here when I get them

 

Hello Everybody!

I just would like to ask somebody to collect how can I switch between the two graphics cards. I am sorry but I don't have enough time to read through 435 pages. And I think that also more people would appreciate that.

Thank you!

 

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_1_whql_download.html
Finally the 13.1 driver. And it fixes my problem of the switchable graphics settings not opening. Happy already