Razer Blade Owner's Lounge

[Vergil_Sparda]

Perhaps they are still optimizing the drivers. Looking forward to more performance details.

Oh and how do you like the touchpad so far? What games did you use it with?

[johnnobts]

OK, a little ballzy, but I opened up the bottom panel of the Blade, remembered where my micro-torx screwdriver was. Will show a couple photos later. Good news is the SSD is easily accessible and looks to be a simple (though expensive) possible upgrade. Only other thing fairly easy to get a hold of is the wifi card. Actually removed it (6230) and placed my 6300 inside it, until I realized the 6300 doesn't have bluetooth... Put the original wireless card back in grudgingly. Not brave enough to tamper with the rest of the internals at this point, such as flipping it over and removing heatsinks. Pretty sure Razer, unlike Dell and some other companies, knows how to apply thermal pads and/or paste. My temps are fine as is anyway. Only real thing I'd like to get a look at is the memory, to see if its removable/upgradable underneath... 16GB RAM couldn't hurt. And maybe one day putting another 35watt Intel CPU for kicks. Won't attempt any of that in the short term.

Hoarding pennies however for a larger SSD.

[johnnobts]

additional comment: It appears if you really wanted to you could probably fit a standard 2.5" laptop drive in here, if you remove the rubber bumpers.

[johnnobts]

nevermind on upgrading the CPU, think this is the most powerful dual core sandybridge available.

[Star Forge]

nevermind on upgrading the CPU, think this is the most powerful dual core sandybridge available.

Not that it is practical or anything, but you could see if it can go quad.

[johnnobts]

any cpu upgrades have to be bios supported, doubt it will be possible to upgrade. also, quads use more power, dunno if the laptop/psu could do it.

[too456]

(For anyone who knows how to mod drivers)

The Nvidia driver provided by Razer differs from the Verde drivers in that it uses a new .inf file, nvgb.inf and in the inf file, rather than using nv_disp.cat, it uses nvgb.cat. I tried modding the inf file to point to nv_disp.cat as well as inserting nvgb.inf to ListDevices.txt in 285.62 and 295.51 but according to johnnobts it doesn't work. I haven't really tried modifying any other inf files or .msi files a la AMD Radeon and that's what I'll try to do next, but does anyone have any idea what to try to mod other than these and the .cat file?

[Kevin]

Its an AU Optronics B173HW01 V5

Very nice. That's a huge plus.

I'd do anything for a 90% gamut matte option.

[xinquisitor666x]

Hi, I am really considering this machine due to its size. Would it run SWTOR on highest resolution with highest settings at a decent frame rate?

Thanks

[johnnobts]

Hi, I am really considering this machine due to its size. Would it run SWTOR on highest resolution with highest settings at a decent frame rate?

Thanks

Dunno. Don't own SWKOTOR. I did just pony up and buy Kingdom of Alamur last nite, will install it later today. Looks too fun to pass up. SWKOTOR is the only game thus far that has customized LCD icons that were sent to me via the Switchblade update. My guess is if the game runs smoothly on the M14X it will fare pretty well on the Blade. Sorry can't actually run the game myself at this point.