Asus N53SV & N53SN SandyBridge Owner Thread

[mattstermh]

Anyone here have any experience overclocking the 550m (96 shaders)?

I want to know what temps you guys get with which clock speeds.

Also, how important is a cooling pad for OC'ing?

On another note, sometimes a little red line will come across the screen when I'm playing Battlefield...looks like an artifact.

[Lemos1990]

Thanks everybody for the help with my keyboard issue, I'm gonna decide either if I put the backlit function on or not.

Anyone here have any experience overclocking the 550m (96 shaders)?

I want to know what temps you guys get with which clock speeds.

Also, how important is a cooling pad for OC'ing?

On another note, sometimes a little red line will come across the screen when I'm playing Battlefield...looks like an artifact.

Never had any problems with the 550M

I'm not really an expert on Overclocking but I can tell you this, never had problems with it and that red line while playing Battlefield 3 never happened to me, I have Battlefield 3 too and I play it smoothly, I run Crysis 2, Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim without any issues, the laptop doesn't even overheat (of course it's not on max settings, but most of my games are on High settings) sometimes I use a cooling pad because I'm cautious about that, I had a Toshiba Satellite L550 that overheated like crazy and shut down, with the Asus N53SN I don't have that problem.

Sorry I couldn't be of any more help, I'm sure someone will help you out

[empire177]

Hi guys... I have a problem here.. My N53SN is having white light instead of blue light despite me not running any gpu intensive programs at all... What's wrong with it?

[ankhazam]

Temperature gadget? GPU status gadget?

[johntortn]

when overclock my N53SN Nvidia 550m (96 shaders), core temp is about 71-73 °C when playing (core clock: 865 MHz, shader clock: 1730 MHz, memory clock: DO NOT CHANGE THIS! ), using Evga Precision with enabled onscreen display server (I can see temps, actual fps ingame) and when temp is too high (over 73 °C) I downclock to original with shortkeys. Its quite easy and when I overclock I get + 3-12 more FPS it depends on game which played, drivers used, and also actual temp.

[PapaSean]

Hello everyone Im new to the forum and Im a new, first time owner of an ASUS N53SV DH71. I love everything about it except the screen resolution (1366-768). Being impatient to buy I didnt realize it until I got home. I would really prefer the full HD experience but every store I go to only sells the DH71 and not the other models claiming to have full HD (1900 x 1080). Does anyone know if they have been discontinued? Can have the same specs but a higher resolution? Any info is appreciated

[Lemos1990]

Hello everyone Im new to the forum and Im a new, first time owner of an ASUS N53SV DH71. I love everything about it except the screen resolution (1366-768). Being impatient to buy I didnt realize it until I got home. I would really prefer the full HD experience but every store I go to only sells the DH71 and not the other models claiming to have full HD (1900 x 1080). Does anyone know if they have been discontinued? Can have the same specs but a higher resolution? Any info is appreciated

It depends what country you live in I guess.

I bought mine in December, a N53SN with FullHD Resolution and very good specs (I don't know if they are the same as yours) and as far as I know they are still for sale.

[mattstermh]

Thanks everybody for the help with my keyboard issue, I'm gonna decide either if I put the backlit function on or not.



Never had any problems with the 550M

I'm not really an expert on Overclocking but I can tell you this, never had problems with it and that red line while playing Battlefield 3 never happened to me, I have Battlefield 3 too and I play it smoothly, I run Crysis 2, Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim without any issues, the laptop doesn't even overheat (of course it's not on max settings, but most of my games are on High settings) sometimes I use a cooling pad because I'm cautious about that, I had a Toshiba Satellite L550 that overheated like crazy and shut down, with the Asus N53SN I don't have that problem.

Sorry I couldn't be of any more help, I'm sure someone will help you out

What settings do you play BF3 on and how many FPS? Also, what driver are you using?

Hi guys... I have a problem here.. My N53SN is having white light instead of blue light despite me not running any gpu intensive programs at all... What's wrong with it?

The blue light is the integrated graphics card, and the white one is the dedicated GPU (540/550M)

[Vital_viper]

I've got the asus X5MSV, wich is very similar and I'm running into a lot of problems when i'm using more than 4GB of RAM.
Whenever I add 4GB to make a total of 8GB I get random BSOD's, usually with the error code: pfn_list_corrupt.
I've ran memtest to verify that it was not a faulty RAM-stick and even replaced it with other memory but to no avail.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I really need help with this.
4GB works just fine, no BSOD's in sight...

Thanks for any help,

Vital

[Sleepy Buddha]

Hey guys. I've had a N53SV for a little over a year now. Love it but I'd like to get a bit more speed out of it's GPU. Usually software is used to overclock but I don't want to have to deal with software maintenance every time I update drivers and other SW overclock hurdles.

Do you think flashing an N53SN or an N53SM BIOS on to it would work? Isn't the NVIDIA VGA BIOS included in the NB BIOS? If so, would the N53SV GPU use the N35SM GPU clocks for example? I ask this because the 540, the 550 and the 630 are the same GPU with different clocks.