Asus G53SW Owners' Lounge

[sarge_]

Does anyone know if the Bluetooth on the G53SW supports stereo sound as well? I was thinking of using both my bluetooth mouse and a set of bluetooth haedphones to make my laptop totally wireless, will except for the power cord, lol. Thanks.

It's just a matter of the driver supporting it, and I would definitely guess it does. I have tried streaming sound from my phone to the laptop and it worked perfectly, so the A2DP support is there.

[dragonwolf8504]

It's just a matter of the driver supporting it, and I would definitely guess it does. I have tried streaming sound from my phone to the laptop and it worked perfectly, so the A2DP support is there.

Hey thanks for the heads up. I just tried connecting my iphone 4 via bluetooth and now am jaming to music from my iphone to my computer speakers. So now I know for sure that the support is there as if it works one way, it should work the other way as will. Thanks! Even if it dosn't I know my iphone's bluetooth system works! SO i won't be totally out on a bluetooth headset, now for the next question, anyone have a stereo bluetooth headset they could suggest for this awesome computer?

[asuslaptopfan]

Should I get a cooling pad for my ASUS G53SW at this temperature as seen from the image below?

Should I get a cooling pad for my ASUS G53SW at this temperature as seen from the image below?

Seriously hot now using disk clean up its like 70 degrees Celsius >.<
the rear fans are extremely heated up..

[Guss35]

Should I get a cooling pad for my ASUS G53SW at this temperature as seen from the image below?

That's fine, start worrying if it starts getting above 90.

[asuslaptopfan]

That's fine, start worrying if it starts getting above 90.

Should I carry out preemptive measures like buying a cooling pad then? Since my Cpu easily shot up to 70+ degrees Celsius just cleaning up disk?
Or should I just wait till it gets above 90 and react to the problem?

[sarge_]

It's fine.

[dragonwolf8504]

Should I carry out preemptive measures like buying a cooling pad then? Since my Cpu easily shot up to 70+ degrees Celsius just cleaning up disk?
Or should I just wait till it gets above 90 and react to the problem?

Really you should only go beyond 90C when gaming. Besides, the way the laptop has been designed, a cooling pad dosn't do very much, I've tried an only had a few degrees difference, not much for me to worry about. I've been playing Borderlands on full everything, and the gpu reaches about 73-80C (I'm plying outside where ambient temperatures are anywhere from 75-100F. (23C- 38C) So under probably the hardest I've put this through to date in the hottest ambient temps without a cooling pad i'm not too worried, but yes as stated before if you start playing games and see your temps running at 90C+ under full load you might want to look into some sort of cooling, but as is these laptops already run fairly cool. I wouldn't really worry. And this is coming from someone who is paranoid about my computers.

I'd look into buying CPUID's Hardware monitor Pro the free one dosn't keep logs and it's always nice to have that: CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting

Below is a screenshot of my log information for the gpu only, but the logs record all kinds of things, I can post all of them if anyone wishes me to. Oh yeah, this was while playing Borderlands the other day: Ambient temp was 30C. You can see it spikes at about 81C under load (for me) and cools off pretty quickly too. This was over the course of a 30min session and it sat at about 79C most of the time. No cooling pad. Again if anyone wants all my screenshots of core temps and such, just ask and i'll gladly post all of them. Hope this helps and sets your fears aside.

PS sorry about the water marks, this was the first time i used the program to convert the image from bmp to jpeg so it would fit. I need to register the program.

[kaworu876]

I honestly don't thnk a cooling pad would do much with the G53SW, since hardly any ventilation is coming out of the base at all - it all's venting from the afterburners at the back of the system.

Besides, I really think cooling is one problem that this system will not have, barring something weird going on. It's so big, and has so much space devoted to ventilation, that it's really been a non-issue for me even with Throttlestop running.

[dragonwolf8504]

I honestly don't thnk a cooling pad would do much with the G53SW, since hardly any ventilation is coming out of the base at all - it all's venting from the afterburners at the back of the system.

Besides, I really think cooling is one problem that this system will not have, barring something weird going on. It's so big, and has so much space devoted to ventilation, that it's really been a non-issue for me even with Throttlestop running.

I agree, mine has been running cool even after doing an overclock to 560M GTX speeds (At least according to notebookcheck.net) Only reason I tried a cooler was because of my paranoia, and I already had one from a previous laptop, that's how i found that a cooler really and honestly is a waste of money for this particular laptop, or at least I think it is.

[KernalPanic]

Question:
How annoying is getting to the second hard drive bay?

I'd like to go the SSD path, but would rather add a small one and keep the 500GB data drive.