Asus G53SW Owners' Lounge

[Ballen]

There are two possible explanations:

- your CPU is throttling, or your gpu doesn't stick to 3d clocks.
If the problem is your CPU, you can easily fix it by downloading ThrottleStop by our almighty UncleWebb. You can find it on TechInferno. Download it, launch it and keep it open, there's nothing else you have to do. Then run 3dmark06 and see what score you get.
If it's your gpu the problem, download Msi Afterburner and install it. Under settings configure these options: Core Clock,Shader Clock,Memory Clock and Temp to show in OSD. Now when benchmarking keep an eye on the OSD and see if temp goes over 92c and if clocks downclock to 203mhz (core) instead of staying to 675mhz.

- second hypothesis could be that your gpu is defective. If thats the case and I hope not you'll need to RMA the laptop to Asus.

Ps: I'm a victim of CPU throttling as well and I need to launch TS at least once everytime I cold boot.
Not a problem anyway, create a shortcut to the exe and put it I to windows startup items folder under start>all programs.
You may want to edit the .ini file of TS and add the line ExitTime=5 to make the program auto exit after 5 seconds. TS needs to be launched once to be effective so you can even close it.
Hope it helps.

Thanks. I will try ThrotteStop when I get home tonight. If I overclock my GPU though, won't that void my warranty? If it will, then it seems like I need to admit defeat and mail it in if ThrottleStop doesn't work :-/

[~~Tito~~]

So my choices for a backpack have come down to these two bags

Buy the Mobile Edge 16 MEEV01 EVO Laptop Backpack at TigerDirect.ca

Buy the SwissGear GA-7306-06F00 Pegasus Computer Backpack at TigerDirect.ca

Ive heard alot of good things of the mobile egde bag in this thread, though nothing on swissgear. Its a bonnified name in backpacks, and i like the lifetime warrenty. Anybody ever use swissgear before?

Swiss Gear makes high quality stuff, but the mobile edge back feels just as high quality, for cheaper.

[Kingpinzero]

Thanks. I will try ThrotteStop when I get home tonight. If I overclock my GPU though, won't that void my warranty? If it will, then it seems like I need to admit defeat and mail it in if ThrottleStop doesn't work :-/

Overclock is done by software, and since you can't touch voltages you can't really harm your gpu at all.
It gives a free boost in performance with just a small amount of heat.

Anyway run TS and check how it does, since most i7 2630qm users are subjected to throttling, me included.

[dragonwolf8504]

I thought I'd do a report on my issues since last time. As most of you know I was having USB issues, not working upon startup and taking about a minute to work after boot. After finding out that there WAS some driver updates, I installed those and that fixed the problem. Been running problem free ever since. Asus doesn't update their drivers and that can really hurt them on potential buyers. Keep this in mind when buying from them. I will probably buy from them again, but I will be keeping my Driver Genius program close at hand. Anyhow, all's well now.

[grackling]

How is this laptop ?
Amazon.com: ASUS G53SW-XA2 Republic of Gamers 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop (Black): Computers & Accessories

[Netherwind]

Hey guys, just became a member of the G53SW owners club, mine should ship out tomorrow, anything I should do immediately once I get it? Besides installing W7 on my SSD?

[checca]

Rid the thing of its bloatware and check/fix throttling issue

[Netherwind]

Rid the thing of its bloatware and check/fix throttling issue

Is there a list somewhere of what Asus software is important/what's not important? And it seems like only a few of them have the throttling issue, is there a common cause for this?

[checca]

Is there a list somewhere of what Asus software is important/what's not important? And it seems like only a few of them have the throttling issue, is there a common cause for this?

Im a recent g53 owner too so im not sure of whats good and not. From what i see most of it is useless but grab the opinion of everyone else first.

For throttling: ATTENTION: G73/53SW Owners - CPU Throttling to 798mhz and how to fix it

Throttlestop will fix this with no downside

[long2905]

I thought I'd do a report on my issues since last time. As most of you know I was having USB issues, not working upon startup and taking about a minute to work after boot. After finding out that there WAS some driver updates, I installed those and that fixed the problem. Been running problem free ever since. Asus doesn't update their drivers and that can really hurt them on potential buyers. Keep this in mind when buying from them. I will probably buy from them again, but I will be keeping my Driver Genius program close at hand. Anyhow, all's well now.

for now im more than satisfied with my G53SW, however as for future machines, unless ASUS makes it easier to access and upgrade the GPU, I'd have to opt for MSI or Sager with the GTX 570M and standard MXM3.0b slot