* Asus N61JQ Owners Lounge *

[2MNY]

And assuming both ports are the same speed, I would actually put the SSD in the optical bay, since the HD bay is specifically designed to help put a damper on the vibrations and such of a normal hard drive, whereas the optical bay is not, but an SSD obviously doesn't need to have any vibration dampening.

I think I'm going to have to call BS here unless you can back up your claim that the HDD bay is designed to dampen vibrations. Frankly I don't see anything that would support this conclusion.

On the other hand, as the SSD is going to be a systems drive and the magnetic drive for data, it would make far more sense if the data drive was in the optical bay. In this case, you could easily swap the data drive and DVD drive and still have a fully working system. Since SATA is hot swappable, you could even do it while the laptop is on and running, though your OS might not be happy about the change.

[Deathwinger]

Newegg is a great warehouse to order pieces-parts from. They have always been fairly good to me as long as everything was done online. They also have decent prices. They have a fantastic selection.

I have called them a couple of times and both times the person on the phone was irritated when they picked up the phone. One was pretty rude. I was only calling to find out how to get a receipt for the ADW on my N61. She came across like I was bothering her.

After coming to the forums and having personal assistance from PowerNotebooks and XoticPC while not even buying from them and finding out that I could have purchased the A1 for only $35 more with the customization options they provide, I don't think I will be getting another system from Newegg. Just pieces-parts.

We don't really hate Newegg here and some of it is playing around but, they are just an impersonal warehouse discussed in a forum full of people giving personal attention -- some of which are resellers. We also tease eachother the same way. ;-)

Newegg is like a fast food chinese restaurant. Its meant to just get your stuff for cheap and get out. Warranty? what dat? Customer Service? Why you call so much and no make order?

Perfect for small part for systems you would not even think about warranties for but not good for full on investments like laptops.

[Deathwinger]

Another performance video of the N61JQ

This time its for a gamecube emulator and Zelda: Wind Waker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMyxxRcO_x4

[vostro1400user]

I don't understand what you mean by "power adapter throttling" so I am going to post some observations:

I have not used the system that heavy but, I have played WoW and Oblivion for around 5 continuous hours and while the system blew out some very hot air, the system was only warm to the touch. I am sure I dropped a few cores during that time. Power management was set to performance so power throttling was minimal. The power adpater didn't get any hotter either.

Hope that helps a little.

thanks for the info. +1 rep.

[superjojo]

Another performance video of the N61JQ

This time its for a gamecube emulator and Zelda: Wind Waker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMyxxRcO_x4

Deathwinger you should fix your sig....N61JQ

[Adamal]

I don't understand what you mean by "power adapter throttling" so I am going to post some observations:

I have not used the system that heavy but, I have played WoW and Oblivion for around 5 continuous hours and while the system blew out some very hot air, the system was only warm to the touch. I am sure I dropped a few cores during that time. Power management was set to performance so power throttling was minimal. The power adpater didn't get any hotter either.

Hope that helps a little.

How does Oblivion run on this laptop. I've had issues with running Oblivion on Windows 7 and Vista on my older machines. Are you able to crank up all the graphic settings?

[Adamal]

I think I'm going to have to call BS here unless you can back up your claim that the HDD bay is designed to dampen vibrations. Frankly I don't see anything that would support this conclusion.

On the other hand, as the SSD is going to be a systems drive and the magnetic drive for data, it would make far more sense if the data drive was in the optical bay. In this case, you could easily swap the data drive and DVD drive and still have a fully working system. Since SATA is hot swappable, you could even do it while the laptop is on and running, though your OS might not be happy about the change.

I always thought it was the drive itself and not the drive bay that deals with vibrations, bumps and drops.

[stevedogg]

thanks, rep +1. how is its GPU power consumption? for some dell models, if power adapter is less than 120W, it will have throttling issue due to a 55W GPU power consumption.(from http://www.amd.com/uk/products/noteb...730-specs.aspx , it shows ATI 5730 TDP is 26W but i'm not sure if power consumption is different.)

The max power consumption with normal use will be something near that number. However, it is not an absolute max (if all heat dissipation components were designed to dissipate max power, they would be overkill for normal use). If you had a stress tests (power virus type program) that was driving both the CPU and GPU to draw max power, it would probably be more than 45+26. I don't know how much more .

[PantsOnFire]

I have a blu-ray player on mine. The movies definitely look amazing on the laptop itself, but I output it most of the time on the 1080p tv to take advantage of everything blu ray movies have to offer.

What blu-ray player did you put in it?

[brochiller]

Try recording onto an external hard drive or a separate hard drive to which would are using the game on. Its a technique film makers use with separating application from data as reading from both can slow down the video or editing feed.

Yeah I would do that, but unfortunately I don't have another HDD right now. Oh well, I guess no game videos from me.