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    Newly Purhcased ASUS UX32VD - upgrade advice please.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by swooph, May 15, 2013.

  1. swooph

    swooph Notebook Geek

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    Just pulled the trigger on my ASUS UX32VD. First things first. I'm getting a SSD and more memory for it. Thinking Samsung 840 for the SSD. Any particular RAM I should buy?

    A couple of other things. Are there any set instructions on a tidy clean windows 7 install or is it pretty much normal procedure. Any driver issues etc?

    Finally, is there a way of removing the msata or at least making it appear as a useable hard drive in windows (I won't be installing windows on it)

    thank you
     
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    I would skip over the Samsung 840 due to the newer technology (don't be a paying beta tester!). If you want to go with Samsung, I'd go for either the 830 or the 840 Pro. Other good SSD brands to consider would be Crucial (M4, M500), Plextor (M5 family of drives), or Intel (any). RAM is RAM is RAM; I'd just go with whatever RAM is on sale and is the same as the stock (DDR3 1600MHz).

    As for a clean W7 install, this may be of help for you: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...ow-install-windows-7-integrated-32gb-ssd.html
     
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    I got the 830 and a fine SSD but I bought a while back at a great price. If you can swing an 840 Pro I would go for that.

    On RAM as said RAM is RAM is RAM. All I did was get a lower voltage. Not sure if it even runs on that as info on the soldered RAM not so easy to come by. $40 for 8GB just buy any brand you trust or have even heard of with a good return policy.
     
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  4. swooph

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    Thanks guys. Im gonna crack on and buy those bits. While they arrive, a question about the mSATA. Can I disable this, or have it show up as a spare hard drive in Windows? I'd rather install Windows to a partition on the new SSD.
     
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    I have my 24GB SSD show up as a drive.
     
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    with any modifications or settings? Does it just show up in the bios etc as if it was a normall HDD?
     
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    Just had a set back with my 32VD -

    ordered it - waited two weeks, queried the long delivery... they told me it was coming from Europe - with a German Keyboard. cancelled it.

    Anywhere i can be this with UK spec?
     
    swooph, May 21, 2013
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    Where are you from and what was the cost you were OK with before the keyboard issue?
     
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    In London. I was OK with anything really...
     
    swooph, May 21, 2013
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