Make your A8Jm an A8Js

I am really pissed at myself lately on my decision to buy the a8jm which i received a month ago. I keep on telling to myself that i should of wait another month, only just one another! and buy the a8js.
Anyways, I questionned myself if there is a way i can make my a8jm an a8js in a way. here are my questions:

1. Is there a way to buy a 7700go chipset and replace the 7600go chipset I have in my laptop with it without touching the video ram (512mb) because its the same amount for both cards? And if so how much would that cost?

2. I really liked the higher resolution in the a8js, so is there a way to replace the screen of the a8jm with the screen of the a8js? If so, how much would it be?

3. Finally, thats not as much importante as the vid card and the lcd, but is there a way to put the processor chip of the a87js (t7400 i think) with the one of my a8jm (t2300 i think somthing like that)? Is so, how much?

aigh', peace

 

1. Replacing the GPU is not possible.

2. Replacing the screen is possible...but quite difficult. You should really know what you are doing, in order to attempt this.

3. Replacing the processor is possible, but probably not for every notebook. You will also need a BIOS update to replace the processor.

 

The easiest way to do everything that you want to do is sell your A8Jm on Ebay and use the money to help buy an A8Js...

FWIW: I waited for the A8Js cause I didn't want to feel like you do now...

 

Possible but it'll cost you at least half of the A8js - definately not worth it.

 

Sell it and buy the A8JS, easiest solution.

 

The loss you'd take on selling it at this point is less than what you'd spend to do this....... screen, gpu, cpu..... plus voiding the warranty and perhaps needing new parts for things you break during the swap...... and having those extra parts which you'll likely have no use for... not a good idea.

 

replacing the gpu is possible.

estore.asus.com

If the 7700 is ever available from asus you can buy it and replace it. it should cost around 200. Eventually you should be able to it uses a mxm gpu card.

yes you can buy the lcd used its the auo optronics screen.


replacing the cpu is possible.

So yes you can definitely do it. The gpu is not available right now but I think it will be.

 

As Stamar pointed out, all those components (except GPU at this stage) are available, but as everyone else has pointed out it'll be cheaper in the long run to sell your A8Jm and buy a new A8Js instead.

 

I think you should sell your A8Jm now, and get the A8Js, or just live with the A8Jm for like, two years, until you buy your next notebook. Its not THAT bad.

 

Haha, seriously. What are you going to do when Santa Rosa comes out and your behind yet again?

~ Brett

 

Kirk out?

 

The post-purchase dissonance of some members of this forum, particularly of the more frenetic (and otiose) posters, is hilarious.

 

Other than benchmarks, there is no way you will ever be able to tell a difference between the 2 in use. If you want to do something you will actually "feel", add another gig of RAM and put a 7200rpm hard drive in it. Relatively cheap and actually helpful.

 

Well said! I don't see any problem in running that A8Jm until late 2008 -by then there will be even more cool toys out...

 

I can understand replacing the cpu in the a8jm definitely.

I think though that the longer you wait the better cpu you are going to get.

Wait 6 months and you may have a 3 ghz quad core for $300.

In reality I dont think youre going to replace the lcd ever though.

The $200 or so to buy the 7700 go, i mean its not worth the 200 3dmarks. So far we see around 10% difference.

however I would like to see someone replace the gpu.

other than justin or danny or another dealer who of us is ever going to have the parts to replace the gpu? I mean wed need to own a a8jm and an a8js just to test this mxm lol.

and contrary to what I may have said, the a8js actually has a different motherboard part in the estore. I dont understand why but there might be something else thats different about them we dont know yet.

 

There may be more differences, but the A8Jm has a PATA hard drive controller and the A8Js has a SATA one...

 

lol honestly...theres no difference between the a8jm to really care about...

i bought my a8jm 2 months ago and i dont care anymore...you'll get over it after the first week.....its like that with everything...

i babied my laptop the first week of classes...now i get scratch marks and i dont even care anymore....i mean things will get scratched....so who cares?

my next real upgrade is to get a huge external hdd that connects firewire.

 

is this true?

Can you think of any reason why the a8jms motherboard is MORE expensive?

 

Why would I lie to you?...

It's new...

 

7700 for a8js is identical in form factor to the 7600 in a8jm. will it work? i dont know but i am not going to try it.

 

no its the old one thats more expensive.

 

Lower cost of components or supply has outpaced demand...

 

1. GPU: seriously as everyone else pointed out, you will never be able to tell the difference

2. CPU: I'd wait a few months until the the C2D prices are slashed if you really want to upgrade

3. LCD: This one I understand becuase I would have liked a higher resolution on my w3j as well. Its going to be up to you, but id suggest letting professionals do the installation as its not simple.

I would say that you should not be having any buyer remorse. Its as every1 here said, there is always going to be something newer, and potentially better, than what you currently have. I bought my laptop when I needed it and im glad i did, even though there is a newer refresh coming out soon. Learn to appreciate what you have.

Good luck

 

This is HUGE reason why the A8js is so much better then the A8jm.

 

...it was the only reason why I didn't buy an A8Jm...

 

Is there really noticeable difference in speed between PATA and SATA right now? At least for the average user, I don't think there'll be too much performance difference (PATA is something like 133Mbps and SATA 150 ?)

I would venture to guess that 5400 to 7200 rpm and amount of cache would make more of a difference....

But in any case.. the A8Js is of course better than the A8Jm since it's the newer version

 

Im almost positive there is no difference at all for any notebook drive available today.

Eventually notebooks should see the sata drives that go 10,000 rpm, or 7200 rpm ones that are faster.
So far as I know it is something that will only come into play in future drives.

its extremely possible the hybrid drive needs sata.

The hd manufacturers do some tricking of the stats by making their sata drives better with higher cache etc but in general the ide max speed has not been exceeded in laptop hds yet.

in desktops it has though.