*Official ASUS W90Vp Owners' Lounge*

[dondadah88]

the m17 has 1gb 4850 crossfire. not 512mb.

[harmattan]

have you tried crysis? there is a lot of screen break when running at 1920x1080. i have to have Vsync on in order to play game smoothly. otherwise the game play looks choppy. even though it's running at 30-40 FPS.

Seems to run ok for me. If by screen breaking, you mean tearing, I'd don't see any. I do run it at 1680x1050 at mostly enthusiast settings, no AA...
I do see some stuttering, but this is the same as on my desktop.

If we had 9.6 working, they would give Crysis a nice boost. I can play at 2560x1600 all enthusiast (still no AA) on my desktop with them.

[Mazdaspeed_6]

man it must just be my dam laptop that is RMA right now.

[WankelRotor]

The 4870 with GDDR5 doesnt exist so u all stop dreaming about that. It was just a pure marketing on their side. same happened with 3870s and we all know now that they suck. Ati is good with hype, but never delivers the goods.

[ichime]

I yet have to see proper QX9300 + 280m GTX benches. alienware section is a joke. bunch of small kids with rich parents. lolz. I wish johnkss could get his hands on one of those. To this date his 9262 is ... well the fastest laptop out there. I m not sure about the w90 quality but if someone spends $3-4k on his laptop, I m sure another $300-400 is nothing to him so price isnt really on asus side anymore. I love the OC options and still remember that 20k with 4ghz qx9300. lolz

Fastest laptop to this date is the Alienware M17x at least synthetic benchmark wise. From what I've seen lately, the W90 is still winning some tests, namely in newer games.

As for GTX 280M + QX9300 benches, they're around in the AW section, just gotta look.

[dondadah88]

I would love the w90 but I wouldn't want to go threw all the stuff everyone is having. and after using nvidia. so far I really like them. I still like ati but I will make my choice if I see that they have a lot of choices for the sli like ati has for crossfire.

[ichime]

Only thing to not like about nVidia honestly is (was) their pricing. I know it's typical of a company that is dominating the respective market, but boy they gone Intel on us. If it weren't for AMD, we'd probably be paying close to $4000 for notebooks that would normally go around for $2500, thanks to Intel and nVidia.

I just wish that AMD would come out with competent x64 hardware so we wouldn't have to be paying $1000 to purchase a brand new QX9300 or a high end i7 975. Wouldn't mind seeing some Radeon cores running as CPUs if that's what it takes

[fishhawk]

A1 owner and am extremely pleased with it. Occasional lockups that happen are due to not waking up from sleep. Pretty trivial issue. Gaming has been nothing but rock solid with no OC, stock everything.

There have been some bad apples no doubt, but find a manufacturer that doesn't. It's the risk you take with this stuff. Also keep in mind, you are more likely to see someone come to NBR to complain and seek assistance if they are having problems than to see someone just drop in and report everything is fine. Certainly satisfied users don't call tech support to report no problems.
No regrets at all whatsoever on purchasing the W90.

[dondadah88]

I know what you mean about the intel cpu prices and I'm glad nvidia dropped there price as well. I guess but I haven't seen amd release something to even challenge intel's core 2. I have read recent reports about amd focusing and having the best overclocking cpu but they need to improve the cpu first.

[Kcissem]

I yet have to see proper QX9300 + 280m GTX benches.

If you would learn to search you would see that there are proper benchmarks done.

alienware section is a joke. bunch of small kids with rich parents. lolz.

I'm definately not a kid with rich parents, i happened to have worked damn hard to be able to afford my toys

I love the OC options and still remember that 20k with 4ghz qx9300. lolz

This was never proven to be real. Beside 3dmark06 is not the be all end all of benchmarking anymore. Vantage is where it counts now. Can the w90 hit 12k gpu test? no but the M17x can, was hit just the other day. My personal best of 11609 still beat the current w90 high.