Bought An ASUS X53E-BH71-CA (K53E?) On Boxing Day....

[Slider1]

I updated my Bios to the most recent one.
You can find the utility and BIOS version here.

My version was BIOS 216 and the newest being BIOS 217

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download X53E

Not a bad idea to see if any of the drivers might be newer for your machine too.

I agree for photo editing an external monitor is a must.
Beyond that the power of this PC is awesome. Even with the stock 6GB of ram, it fly's through everything I through at it so far.

Installing applications to using them by far beats my old HP.

[rossbertoloni]

Any comment on why bestbuy.ca is now priced this laptop(X53E-BH71-CA) for 649.95 while it was 1099 a week before boxing day?
Also anybody noticed that it blanks out as soon as i remove the charger for 2 secs!!

[Slider1]

in regards to the blanking out, what do you mean?
does it go into sleep mode or the monitor just turns off but the computer is still on and functioning?

This does not happen with mine.
Although I did a fresh install of windows home premium and don't have a lot of the asus utilities installed such as the power4gear.

Maybe see if you uninstall the power4gear if this still happens.

[andyca]

Confirmed that 16GB runs like a charm Especially when teamed with Corsair Force 3 SSD. No more waiting to boot or resume, after 4 weeks it still catches me by surprise how quickly this thing loads.



So far spent £480 for the original machine, £120 for the SSD and £75 for the memory -£15 for selling the 4GB stick that came in the machine. = £660
or 1,035 USD.

£5 for a USB 3.0 caddy and the hard disk I took out is now my lightning fast 320GB backup drive!

I don't think you can get more for your money anywhere else! (although always annoyingly about 20% more expensive for stuff in "Rip Off Britain")

[DougeY]

Thanks for the note about the 16gb!
Good to know.
What size of SSD are you using?

[andyca]

Thanks for the note about the 16gb!
Good to know.
What size of SSD are you using?

120GB, more than enough for my needs

Just an FYI though Win7 Will automatically set the page file size to 16GB... If you would rather have that space on your disk then you might want to consider lowering that value and putting it back up in the unlikely event where you need to get a memory dump.

[coastingwest]

Confirmed that 16GB runs like a charm Especially when teamed with Corsair Force 3 SSD. No more waiting to boot or resume, after 4 weeks it still catches me by surprise how quickly this thing loads.



So far spent £480 for the original machine, £120 for the SSD and £75 for the memory -£15 for selling the 4GB stick that came in the machine. = £660
or 1,035 USD.

£5 for a USB 3.0 caddy and the hard disk I took out is now my lightning fast 320GB backup drive!

I don't think you can get more for your money anywhere else! (although always annoyingly about 20% more expensive for stuff in "Rip Off Britain")

Hi there.... What RAM did you use? I see Corsair 8GB sticks but I'd like to know what you're using (since your system is working fine with 16GB)