* Asus N61JQ Owners Lounge *

[NEX_SASIN]

Anyway, what do you guys thinks better for gaming?

i7 720QM @ 1.6ghz 6MB Cache/Hyper Threads
Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 4.03Ghz 6M Cache/Dual Core

Really depend how the game engine utilize the threading. Some complex games run better with more threading then high speed while some is another way. Well you have both CPU for both types of game engine so is grat.

[sonofcrake]

Is anyone having issues with the touchpad not working? I've tried reinstalling multiple versions of the drivers from different websites including Asus, And even half disassembled the laptop and had a peek inside to see if the ribbon cable was damaged. But then it occured that if that was rooted then the buttons might be still working, but they are not. So I'm left with a problem. The touchpad is coming up in Device manager as a hidden item with a yellow exclamation mark. In the system tray the Elantech icon has a red cross through it. I've tried enabling and disabling the mousepad many times to no avail. Is there something I'm missing? It just stopped working one day, while I was using the computer.

had such problems earlier, stevedogg helped rectify it.
you might want to look through this forum to find his posts
the first page has links to various touchpad driver updates.
but first find the post in the thread.

good luck

ASUS N61JQ Driver Thread

[sonofcrake]

hey Matt, NEX_SASIN,

i'm off on a two week trip to thiruvannamalai (i am going to be farming and doing sound art)

you are the two keeping this thread alive.

i hope to come back to at least 14 more pages of dialogue.

[Matt-Matt]

hey Matt, NEX_SASIN,

i'm off on a two week trip to thiruvannamalai (i am going to be farming and doing sound art)

you are the two keeping this thread alive.

i hope to come back to at least 14 more pages of dialogue.

Nice! Hope you enjoy your stay away!

Heh, you probably will find at least 10 more pages

Really depend how the game engine utilize the threading. Some complex games run better with more threading then high speed while some is another way. Well you have both CPU for both types of game engine so is grat.

Yeah well i'll have two Intel quads soon so i won't really need my laptop at all

[NEX_SASIN]

Windows 7 hates Turboboost, it would always find a way to keep all of the cores from being idle even though only one core is loaded at 100%. As a result, the highest the processor is ever clocked is 1.73 GHz. I could've sworn my old laptop with the C2D T7200 (2.0 GHz) rivaled my laptop when running SC4.

I tried forcing all system processes onto a single core. Yay for BSOD!

Hmm, that sounds like being run on Power Saving mode. The only time i know CPU will go 1.73GHz at max performance is when 3+ cores are active. Sounds like OEM Windows issue to me again

hey Matt, NEX_SASIN,

i'm off on a two week trip to thiruvannamalai (i am going to be farming and doing sound art)

you are the two keeping this thread alive.

i hope to come back to at least 14 more pages of dialogue.

Have an awesome trip there. For 14 pages, wow that gonna need some spams!

Yeah well i'll have two Intel quads soon so i won't really need my laptop at all

A desktop always wins. Wish i have one one day.

[Loney111111]

Hmm, that sounds like being run on Power Saving mode. The only time i know CPU will go 1.73GHz at max performance is when 3+ cores are active. Sounds like OEM Windows issue to me again

It maxes out at 1.73 GHz even at "performance" setting. I ran SC4 in windowed mode and had the Resource Monitor opened next to it. Anti-virus wasn't running

Not one core was ever parked for more than five seconds in the one hour of running SC4's time simulator at full speed, despite the fact that only one core was at a constant 99%-100% load. The other cores had 0%-3% load. I think Window 7 is constantly bouncing the threads around and not allowing the cores to park even though only one core is sufficient for the background tasks.

[Shpati]

Sup guys,

Have a little problem with my GPU. It is running like it usually runs, but I am getting some lag spikes with it. And I noticed it usually happens when it involves things like, smoke, or some heavy particles.
-For instance, Call of Duty. I will get 60 FPS, then suddenly someone throws a grenade, and when it explodes (dust fly's, the ground blows up), my FPS will drop to 40 FPS, then go back to 60 FPS.

For some reason, I am having trouble getting the new ATI driver to work, so I am thinking perhaps a factory restore and a fresh driver installation might fix the problem. What do you guys think?
-BTW, when I install drivers, do you think it is all right if I just run the installation, instead of uninstalling my old one first. Does this really make a difference?

[NEX_SASIN]

Not one core was ever parked for more than five seconds in the one hour of running SC4's time simulator at full speed, despite the fact that only one core was at a constant 99%-100% load. The other cores had 0%-3% load. I think Window 7 is constantly bouncing the threads around and not allowing the cores to park even though only one core is sufficient for the background tasks.

Have you tried other benchmark programs? I'm thinking you might get different result then using SC4 to compare.

Sup guys,

Have a little problem with my GPU. It is running like it usually runs, but I am getting some lag spikes with it. And I noticed it usually happens when it involves things like, smoke, or some heavy particles.
-For instance, Call of Duty. I will get 60 FPS, then suddenly someone throws a grenade, and when it explodes (dust fly's, the ground blows up), my FPS will drop to 40 FPS, then go back to 60 FPS.

That's normal tbh. Because smoke/particle (as well liquid but differently) render with multiple textures together for the effect. If the game is using PhysX then it stresses the CPU even more as AMD card doesn't have hardware support on PhysX. By using Catalyst AI on Advanced might help. I find Advanced setting is meant for environment render optimization, by reduce some render to free up some process cycle for other need.

For your AMD driver, you don't need to uninstall to install the newer version. However if you wish to rollback using older driver then installed then that need uninstall + driver sweep using 3rd party program like DriverSweeper.

[Matt-Matt]

Hmm, that sounds like being run on Power Saving mode. The only time i know CPU will go 1.73GHz at max performance is when 3+ cores are active. Sounds like OEM Windows issue to me again



Have an awesome trip there. For 14 pages, wow that gonna need some spams!



A desktop always wins. Wish i have one one day.

Yeah, it's gonna be a struggle

Eh my laptops ALOT faster then the school PC's...
Anyway, my new (used) Core 2 Quad flattens my i7 720..

I can ALMOST max GTA IV now. Excepting draw distance and "Night Shadows" which require 2GB Vram and 8GB ram respectively..

Well with EVERYTHING in my desktop it's costed me a bit over $1200.. :s
That includes my mouse etc. (Woo free keyboard )

[NEX_SASIN]

Yeah, it's gonna be a struggle

Eh my laptops ALOT faster then the school PC's...
Anyway, my new (used) Core 2 Quad flattens my i7 720..

I can ALMOST max GTA IV now. Excepting draw distance and "Night Shadows" which require 2GB Vram and 8GB ram respectively..

Well with EVERYTHING in my desktop it's costed me a bit over $1200.. :s
That includes my mouse etc. (Woo free keyboard )

Lol not like the institutions can afford that many N61 similar performance comps for public use. Office and school always get integrated graphic and low end CPU as part of energy saving. Sure those PC can do everything except graphical games

And congrats on the GTAIV performance. I only set texture med, shadow med and rest low or off on N61 to play it at acceptable framerate. But really i think GTAIV max out requires no more then 1.2GB, that's really where nVidia comes in with their 1.2GB VRAM cards to fit games like that. Gonna love nVidia in the future.