g50vt-X5 at Best Buy

BAM!!!! 3dmark06 score went to 9k HAHAHA!!! nice thanks!!

 

I got this laptop a few days ago and the GPU is idling at 71-73 degrees Celsius right now...should I be worried?

Also, if I am going to use this laptop to take notes in university, how long do you guys think the battery life will be?

 

Battery life should be around 2 hours.

GPU idling temperatures are way too high. What is your ambient temp? What are the temps after a cold boot?

 

Thanks for the reply!

Um, the GPU temps seems to be lower now, ranging from 57 - 60 degrees Celsius. I think after playing some games yesterday the temps stayed in the low 70s range. I don't know why.

For the battery life, its 2 hours of continuous typing right?

 

Battery-life wise, probably yeah. That is with the brightness turned down too...

I suppose your new GPU idle temps are better. After gaming they should be warmer than normal. Next time you boot up after it has been off for a night, check the temps. They should be in the low 50s

 

Would it be at all possible to upgrade the 9800M GS to a GTX 260M?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=408163

 

Thanks so much.

 

I have another question. What would be the best upgrade for this laptop from the following (I can only do one currently):

- G.Skill Falcon 64GB SSD
- Intel X9100 @3.06GHz

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

The X9100 would be my choice. You can get one of those for cheap on eBay.

 

While the CPU would be a very good upgrade, you won't see that much performance increase unless you do video encoding or something like that (or just want really high synthetic benchmarks).

With a SSD, the computer should just feel alot faster overall. It won't give you much gaming performance increase but outside of it, you should definitely notice a big difference.

 

I'm idling at 50deg Celsius. Max temp is 70 while playing games...

 

Hmm the temps seem to be OK right now. I'm idling at 52 degrees right now.

Now I have another problem...im using Windows 7 x64 and right now when I plug in my AC adaptor the battery indicator says "Plugged in, not charging" even though the battery is at 95% charge. How do I fix this problem?

 

Ummm, i've heard about a battery calibration that consist in just fully emptying the battery and recharge it up. Because, Windows is showing fully charged but at <100%.

Run your laptop on battery until the battery is showing 5%, then reboot and go in bios and leave it there until it shutdown. BTW, press F2 at the ROG boom intro to go in bios.

 

Thanks for your help, but the battery indicator somehow fixed itself when I unplugged the AC adaptor from the outlet and then replugged it.

 

Hi i want to buy G50VT-X5 at circuitcity reading all the pages of this thread i think that the g50vt will be exactly what im looking for a notebook but im worried about that the one that circuitcity is selling is refurbished and has a 3 months limited warranty :S so anyone of you have bought this notebook from circuitcity or another store that is selling it refurbished ? does it has some issues? do you recommend me to buy it?
Thank you very much

pd. sorry for my bad english

 

Are you looking at the G50vt because of budget reasons, or because you like the specs better?

If for budget reasons, then the G50vt is probably the best deal you can get for that money.

 

yes its because is the best that i can get for 740 dls but im worried because its refurbished and if buying this refurbished product is not safe i can pay 100 bugs more to buy another laptop with similar characteristics.... thats why im asking what do you think about buying the G50VT-X5 refurbished

thanks

 

well, there is a review and lounge of the G50VT-X5(refurbished) right here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=400240 that you can look through

 

hey what kind of batery do you have?6 cells or 9 cells?

 

well all the reviews that i saw were good and i fall in love with the laptop the first time that i saw her so im gonna buy it tonight.. i live in mexico city but my brothers are american so i will ask them to bring me the laptop so i will have to wait for christmas i will buy it this nigth because it says in circuitcity that remains very few laptops and they are gonna be sold out..
I hope to dont have problems because the warranty ends in 3 months and christmas is in 3 months too :S


thanks for all the help this forum rulez!

 

Does anybody know if i can upgrade the graphics card on this and what would be the best that was compatible? and cpu too but graphics card is biggest hype

 

CPU is upgradeable, GPU is not.

 

Well got an easier one now maybe the tray that came in the express card slot has a spot to put your sd card or memory stick, but when i put one in there nothing happens, doesnt even read that anythings been put in, any ideas?

 

The tray is just for storage...the card reader is below that. (at least on the G51)

 

Ah thats so brutal i was hopen to keep a sd card in there for readyboost at all times
thanks though

 

Hello everyone, i've had an asus g50vt-x5 for 2 months and now i have a problem, i was messing with asus copy protect software and locked everything on my laptop, then when i unlocked everything my dvd-rom was gone, only my virtual hd-dvd is present (daemon tools), i uninstalled asus copy protect and daemon tools, but didn't fix the problem, any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance

 

is there a way to add a internal modem for dial up? not one for the express card though. one that hooks to the existing back phone jack