* Asus N61JQ Owners Lounge *

[HBG]

I believe that I did badly the question, it was not like, was where.
Or, all those mini pci - and has it the N61JQ and where they are?

[NEX_SASIN]

How were you able to obtain this information?

From Everest Ultimate, able to fetch data from driver and monitor system buses.

And regard the upcoming Sandy Bridge, anyone excited? Intel Sandy Bridge Comes Out Ahead of Schedule - May debut this year instead of 2011 - Softpedia

Checked on wiki the 2 Cores version TDP is around 20W compare to current 35W TDP. Peak TurboBoost will last longer and normal boost stay 20% high. Still using DDR3 1333MHz and i hope the CPU socket is the same. Too bad the 4 cores is still 45W TDP.

I'm sure some of you read it already but here it is again: Sandy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[ledl2048]

When I put my SSD in and I am going to boot from my usb boot win7 drive, do I need to just go to add new boot option and there will be an option for the usb drive? Right now (sorry the pic sucks, my phone is about to bite the dust), the two options are the hd and the ob.

[NEX_SASIN]

When I put my SSD in and I am going to boot from my usb boot win7 drive, do I need to just go to add new boot option and there will be an option for the usb drive? Right now (sorry the pic sucks, my phone is about to bite the dust), the two options are the hd and the ob.

Add new to boot option, and try to find USB device/driver etc (Not on my N61 atm)

[fabsblu]

All installed after restoring from the partition! Defo not got the Asus DVD stuff but not a big deal as it was crap anyway! Besides it boots faster. Got some interesting windows experience scores. Will post them later.

Great news Risco, now u can throw that iPhone 4 away! .

[LordDavon]

Great news Risco, now u can throw that iPhone 4 away! .

The iPhone 4 is a great phone. I have been playing with my buddies phone and iOS4 and the iPhone 4 are finally making the changes that have been needed for a long time. I was really enjoying his phone. The display is absolutely beautiful.

That being said, I have an EVO4G and can talk to the iPhone4 using Fring. So, Risco, I am LordDavon on Fring. Let's get some video chat going!

[Blackcoyote46]

I am gonna be ordering my n61 in a few days, and I have one question. I am definitely going to get blu-ray and I would prefer slot loading. Replacing the optical drive yourself doesn't void the warranty does it?

And I was planning on getting the bc-5600s from sony/optiarch. This has a sata connection, and I was wondering if the N61 used the sata connection too. (My old lappy uses a different one, atapi I think, so I have to ask )

Thanks again!

[stevedogg]

I just wanted to share something odd, and maybe someone who knows processors or Windows power management can chime in:

I have been setting the "Minimum Processor State" to 5% in my customized Win 7 Power Plan, so that the i7 can throttle down to the minimum multiplier at idle, thus saving power and generating less heat. In benchmark software (Fritz Chess Benchmark, 8 threads), there was a negligible difference in performance, with the 5% setting (as opposed to 100%) netting a very slightly and consistently lower score (< 1% lower).

Well I've been doing a little gaming (bsnes, a SNES console emulator) and noticed that the video had slight choppiness/hiccups in smooth-scrolling parts of games. I decided to try raising the minimum processor state to 100% (like High Performance mode in P4G), and, surprisingly, the video smoothed out!

I investigated further using the Kill-A-Watt, to see if locking the processor at 100% really consumed more power. Again, surprisingly, it does not. The laptop pulls 27 W idling, regardless of the minimum processor state setting (5% or 100%). While running bsnes, the power draw was also the same (~50 W) with both settings. HWMonitor also reports the same power draw for the processor (15 W) at idle, with both settings.

Even weirder: with min processor state set to 100%, TMonitor reports all 4 cores running at the minimum clock (~930 MHz).

So, at the moment, I am running both min and max at 100% for the performance boost.

[protest]

^^Wow, that does sound quite odd.

It's very minor, but I thought I would post this just in case. I was using Chrome scrolling down the forum, and the mouse suddenly stopped. I could click with the button and use my keys, but nothing with the touchpad. AFter a few seconds it started switching back and forth between pages really quickly, and when i alt+tabbed it went into a new tab. I finally got out of the window but it wouldn't move so I wasn't really sure what to do. I tried pause break, and a couple other minor things but even after everything closed it wouldn't move. Restarting fixed it but, any idea what happened?

[NEX_SASIN]

I am gonna be ordering my n61 in a few days, and I have one question. I am definitely going to get blu-ray and I would prefer slot loading. Replacing the optical drive yourself doesn't void the warranty does it?

And I was planning on getting the bc-5600s from sony/optiarch. This has a sata connection, and I was wondering if the N61 used the sata connection too. (My old lappy uses a different one, atapi I think, so I have to ask )

Thanks again!

The N61JQ comes with bluray drive, but is not slot loading type. I do not think it voids the warranty however i'm not 100% sure. (Never reads my warranty)

And i do believe is SATA slot for the optical bay since people been using SSD HDD on that slot. Well, there's no point using SSD on that slot if the speed doesn't reach SATA right?

I have been setting the "Minimum Processor State" to 5% in my customized Win 7 Power Plan, so that the i7 can throttle down to the minimum multiplier at idle, thus saving power and generating less heat. In benchmark software (Fritz Chess Benchmark, 8 threads), there was a negligible difference in performance, with the 5% setting (as opposed to 100%) netting a very slightly and consistently lower score (< 1% lower).

Well I've been doing a little gaming (bsnes, a SNES console emulator) and noticed that the video had slight choppiness/hiccups in smooth-scrolling parts of games. I decided to try raising the minimum processor state to 100% (like High Performance mode in P4G), and, surprisingly, the video smoothed out!

I investigated further using the Kill-A-Watt, to see if locking the processor at 100% really consumed more power. Again, surprisingly, it does not. The laptop pulls 27 W idling, regardless of the minimum processor state setting (5% or 100%). While running bsnes, the power draw was also the same (~50 W) with both settings. HWMonitor also reports the same power draw for the processor (15 W) at idle, with both settings.

Even weirder: with min processor state set to 100%, TMonitor reports all 4 cores running at the minimum clock (~930 MHz).

From a fresh installed W7 it has already set 5% min on power saving. And seems like the hardware is ignoring the software's command at some stage. Do not know what or why yet, but is a good find and i'll look into it. And for the video smoothing that one is quite odd.