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    question about changing wireless card on asus g74sx

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by stevae, Nov 24, 2011.

  1. stevae

    stevae Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey guys,
    just got an asus g74sx, and want to replace the wireless card with an intel ult n 6300. the thing is that this notebook doesn't have the third antenna wire. so if i want to add a third antenna wire, is the tyco the wire to get? and how hard is that third antenna wire to install? anybody got any pic's, tutorial, video...?
     
    stevae, Nov 24, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I can't say specifically for the G74SX, but I did a WLAN upgrade on my brother's M5030, it was a weak 1x1. I bought a Tyco 3x3 WLAN antennae upgrade on Ebay for about 3 dollars shipped. It requires you to remove the keyboard, palmrest, LCD bezel and you just route the WLAN antennae through the pre-existing grooves. The one I bought had way too much extra antennae, so I just zip tied the excess and tucked it in the extra space in the bottom cover.
     
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  3. tijo

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    The hard part will be doing the cable routing just like Tsunade Hime described, if it is anything like the G73, it will take quite a bit of disassembly to do it properly. One thing to take note of is that if you get something like an Intel 6300 to replace a stock Atheros card, even using it with two antennas will be better than the stock Atheros card.
     
    tijo, Nov 25, 2011
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