ASUS Z70Va Review (pics, specs)

[flaxx]

coriolis, can you start up a program called everest, click on sensors, THEN run speedfan? You will see a sensor called Remote2 in speedfan and that is your GPU. Then play a game for a while, and return to speedfan and hover your mouse over the temperature and it will tell you the minimum temp, the average temp, and the highest temp. I want to know what your highest temperature is, and what your clock speed is (GPU and memory). I want to know exactly how your x700 compares to my 6600go (and i'm thoroughly impressed so far).

[::2dFx::]

Hey! New to the forums i've really got a burning question:

On the review of the Z71v it showed the existance of an MXM slot for potential video upgrades...thats the only thing holding me back from getting the z71va...does this model have that slot? What about the dipswitches for easy 400fsb Dothan overclocking?

[coriolis]

The z70va's GPU is soldered onto the motherboard. The z71v's 6600 CAN be taken out but you will need to modify something to physically fit inside and then do some heavy underclocking.

flaxx - I'll do that ASAP

[coriolis]

edit: LOL I replied to the wrong post haha

I played FFXI for about 30 mins, then logged out and took this screenie, hope it helps

[flaxx]

okay, but what was the peak temperature? you have to hover your mouse of the remote2 temp in speedfan. often when i get back to speedfan, my temperature has already reached the mid 70's or lower... but i see my peak was at 92-93 deg C because the temperature is from an on-die diode.

but i see you have a 350mhz clock @ 600mhz memory. So it appears that clock for clock, the they're almost identicle... however our z71v comes stock at 250/500. I can do 325/650, but then i start hitting temperatures in excess of 100 deg C within 10-15 minutes (and i once hit 108, but i don't dare go higher, though i know people hitting over 110 and its still stable but i don't want to risk it!). I think Asus should spend a bit more money on better heatsinks, cuz there is such an amazing potential for overclock. I'd be interested to know the heatsink design on your x700 and how far it has been pushed. I personally think our 6600go's are actually underclocked 6600GT desktop processors).

[coriolis]

Allright, gonna do that again

Appraently when I alt+Prnt Screen the hovering data disappears so I can't take a screenshot.

Just finished an hour of FFXI, Remote 2 is at 67 degrees, min 35, max 75, mean 63.8

[flaxx]

Allright, gonna do that again

Appraently when I alt+Prnt Screen the hovering data disappears so I can't take a screenshot.

Just finished an hour of FFXI, Remote 2 is at 67 degrees, min 35, max 75, mean 63.8

**** man! that's awesome! i'm so jelous! either there's a much better cooling solution, or just plainly, the x700 is superior to the 6600go. I know Whiteheat over at z71forums made a custom heatsink that let him have temperatures as low as 77 deg C (peak) and with that, he was at 325/650 (he was unfortunate to not have a system that overclocks as well) and with that heatsink i'd probably get around 375 to 400 on the GPU, which would give me between 2700 and 2900 points with 3dmark05.

The stock cooling solution on the z71v is really pathetic. I'm curious about he x700. So if you ever open it up, do take some pictures of it at several angles. You mentioned that it was soldered in, so that may also give more room (ours are actual 16x-PCI express cards).

[coriolis]

Maybe, but it was so nerve-wrecking when I switched mini-pci wireless cards heh

edit: Just checked my Gigabyte Atheros Wireless Utility, I've detected 5 SSID's, normally I'd only find 3...

[robber98]

Nice review Coriolis! I have a question regarding to FF XI running on z70va. Have you try to run Vanadiel bench 3 on your machine? I wonder if x700 can handle something like Dynamis... etc.

[coriolis]

I'm still new to FFXI, I've died about 14 times today, I'm halfway to level 6 LOL!

I have no clue whats going on, and the Camera angles are killing me, is there a way to make it stay still? haha thanks