rock3ralex

okay, thanks. Can you shut the flashing strobe lights all the way off? I know the Asus ROG doesn't go off but what about the airplane lights.

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Pheatton

Yeah the side lights can be turned off all the way. Its all run by the Direct Console 2 app.

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OfficerMac

Damn, I am looking to get a laptop. This ol' gateway I have no really sucks. This one looks amazing. I'll have to go to bestbuy and see if they have one of these to play around with.

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I bought and am enjoying COD:MW2 for PC!

Pawz2142

If you didn't know already the 9800m GS gpu is easily and safely overclockable to 9800m GTX settings, with some diffrences:

Pipelines 64 instead of 112 (GTX)
Core Speed 530 MHz instead of 500 (GTX)
512mb DDR3 instead of 1gb DDR3 (GTX)

My GPU reaches a max of 85C underload with the GTX settings (besides the Core Speed, i left that one at 530 mhz)

Another note: IF you buy from Best Buy you get 1 year limited warrenty from Asus. If you buy from anywhere else you get 1 year limited + 1 year accidental (2 years total)

Bonz™

I just bought this laptop last week. After careful research I decided on this instead of Gateway.

I love this laptop. I got it for $719 on Tigerdirect with $74 cash back. Couldn't really beat it. A little heavy and low battery life, but it's a gaming laptop. If someone wants light and battery life then they should get a netbook.

Btw, are those golf clubs in the first picture?

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Total Available Storage
Currently: 8,377 GB (useable)

Pheatton

Nope shinny new pots and pans hehe.

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steezy

I just picked up a refurbished one from TigerDirect (Canada). I can put up with the thickness and disgusting cover simply because of the bargain - for the P7450/4GB RAM/Dedi GPU/320GB HDD with room for another simply could not be beaten at that price.

Anyone know where I could get my hands on a 2nd HDD Housing/Holder thing though? Google doesn't seem to be revealing any results, and I just got a bargain on a 250GB 7200rpm Seagate.

Pheatton

Only place I have found was on the Asus parts site.

Asus Parts Store

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garlicman

Hi,

2 questions regarding this great bargain of a laptop:

Can i run an external monitor at a greater resolution than 1366x768 or is there some software/hardware lock on this ?

I have a Dell 1680x1050 LCD display that i would like to use as my primary display for gaming, will i be able to run it at 1680x1050 ?

My main computer right now is a MacBookPro C2D@2.33 2G RAM with a Mobility X1600 w/256megs running Vista 32 under BootCamp. It runs L4D smoothly at low/medium detail.
I just bought Fallout 3 and even at all the lowest settings it feels sluggish and obviously looks like .

How much of an improvement can i expect from this ASUS laptop over my older MacBook Pro ?

Thanks

Bonz™

#1. Yes you can. I run my 1920x1080 monitor over HDMI just fine. Even with the VGA you'll be able to run the external at whatever resolution.

#2. You will see a huge difference in games. The 9800 is pretty similar to a desktop card in performance. It's no 260, but it still makes games look beautiful. I max COD4 and TF2... That's all I play.

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Total Available Storage
Currently: 8,377 GB (useable)