Official X500 Owner's Lounge!

[a4500435]

Yeah, I also wish there were detailed pictures/disassembly instructions for the X505. There's nothing wrong with mine, but it's always nice to have just in case.

Update from me and my X505-Q893: still running smooth as silk, only minor problems I've had have come from bad software. There were a couple of days a month ago when the CPU fan started making weird knocking sounds; I was sweating bullets, but it went away on its own and hasn't come back, so I guess it was just some dust that got in.When I first got this thing, the 18.4" screen size astounded me; after many months, I've gotten used to it, and now when I go to Best Buy and see the laptops there, they look so feeble, haha!

(related: I'm very disappointed Toshiba downsized the new Qosmio to 17.3" and slimmed it down to dv7-size, which makes cooling a huge problem, not to mention making it ugly as hell. My Q893 has never even come close to the temps I'm seeing in the X775 topic, and I'm constantly rendering stuff and playing games for hours. Seriously Toshiba, there's a reason the 17.3" G74 is as big as the 18.4" X505.)

I recently decided to try overclocking the GPU, and I was amazed at how easy and painless it is! Using Nvidia Inspector, overclocked to 800/1480/1600; I never had problems with performance, but I definitely noticed an improvement, not just in games but regular computing. Best of all, there's little or no change in temp.!

Complaints? Well, really not many TBH. USB3.0, but there's little hardware that supports that anyway. Additional audio jacks would've been nice (there's some electronic noise from the headphone jack, but that's true of every laptop) and they would've been better on the left side instead of the right. Would've been nice if the touch controls could be mapped to user programs. Extra RAM slots would've been great. The screen could be better, the 1080p HANNSTAR screen in the G74 beats it; however, my 1680x945 panel looks better than the G74's 1600x900 one, so I guess it all evens out.

Well actually, ONE MAJOR COMPLAINT: TOSHIBA, GO BACK TO 18.4", FIRE YOUR DESIGN ENGINEER, AND DON'T MAKE THE NEXT QOSMIO BUTT-UGLY!

[Drag SGT]

Ah, you're lucky enough to have GTX 460M in yours, whereas I'm stuck with the GTS 360M. Although it's able to run everything I play at a high level now, I'm afraid that won't be the case much longer! I'd really like to put a 460 in but they cost 450 bucks and I have yet to see anybody "parting" one out. This is the only reason I've considered gathering parts for an eGPU.

Thing one thing that I do like about the X775 is that the media buttons are no longer on the left hand side where I can brush against them with my hand constantly! I hate that and I turned them off once but it didn't stay that way. There's nothiong like summoning three instances of Window Media Player when you're just trying to clean off your keyboard.

[Rekka]

Hello all,

The X500 owners lounge looks like it's pretty dead right now but I thought as a new user I'd drop in and quickly introduce myself.

I love my X505-Q870 and hope to keep it for as long as possible. From this forum I was able to find a copy of the X500 series maintenance manual and think it has a lot of useful information in it. I've already done a few upgrades on my laptop and am considering trying eGPU x2 or x4 since i can remove the SD card reader on slot 4 to theoretically make a 1/2/3/4 connection. Trying to install a GTX 460m card is also on the table but the cost is near even for either.

On a completely unrelated topic though, it occurred to me that there doesn't exist (maybe it just hasn't been found and made available online yet) a maintenance manual for the latter X50/5 laptops with Sandy Bridge motherboards & CPUs. Has anybody considered swapping in an SB motherboard? The newer models used the exact same chassis as the older ones after all so why shouldn't the motherboard be the same physically except built with a 6 series chipset. If this could be done it would open up 5 GB t/s lanes vs. 2.5 on the series 5 (for any eGPU enthusiast) in addition to the faster processor options. Although a higher end SB i7 chip is still north of the $500 mark, the MB can be had for $240 and the price on chips will eventually fall to affordable levels just as the first gen i-series did.

I'm perfectly happy with the 940XM I've swapped into mine so I'm in no hurry to do this but I ask just for future's sake as I think it would be great to keep this thing around for another 2+ years while maintaining at least some form of competitiveness with the newer units. On top of that it's much easier to bleed 3-400 dollars at a time instead of $1500+!

Hey Drag, I noticed we are running the same setup. Doesn't your laptop reset if you play a game? Mine does . Please let me know asap if there is anything that you know of that I can do to stop this ANNOYING issue! Thanx and hope you love yours as much as I love mine!

[NeoGeek]

Hi,
I am trying to run CS 1.6 on my Toshiba Qosmio x505-q893. Although it seems to have enough specs to run the game very smoothly, it is still not giving me a 100 fps. I know the screen wouldn't go beyond 60 Hz, but the game should run at 100 Hz at least but it runs on 59Hz. And when someone throws a smoke grenade, it drops even further. I need a fix!

Also, is it possible to override the screen default fps and make it run on 100Hz somehow?

[SEVEN-UP]

Hello everyone! how are you

im sign in this forums from long time after watch it duble long time xD

but i lost my membershib then i sing up again xD

however.. the Qosmio X505 it's my dream laptop so i will buy Q8102X soon

but i wonder if i can upgrade GPU from GTX460M to GTX560M or higher.. so:

Yeah, I also wish there were detailed pictures/disassembly instructions for the X505. There's nothing wrong with mine, but it's always nice to have just in case.[/b]

im search looooooong time about any disassembly pictures until my head it's exploded but never find

but my luck still alive! becaus i find this Chinese page about Qosmio X500-01R !

it's have same spec like Q81XX series.. but the special it's have a fingreprint reader!

however.. let's see the disassembly pictures!
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now for my question

the GTX460M for qosmio X505/X500 ( it's not MXM )



if i find GTX560M or higher like this card.. i can upgrade the Qosmio GPU?

aslo.. if GTX560M of Qosmio X770 has same shape for part of X505 GPU.. will be work perfectly in X505?

thanks for all in advance and sorry for my bad english xD

[alexUW]

I don't think the x500 GPU can be upgraded to the GTX 560m found in the x770 Qosmio; since not MXM and the GPU is probably a different size/shape.

Great pictures, very helpful I bookmarked it !!! BTW, it's a Chinese page, not Japanese.

[imglidinhere]

Totally into this! I'm a minority over at OCN (Overclock.net) since nobody cares about a laptop over there. :P

I've had mine for a while now, just under a year actually, and have since upgraded the RAM to 8GB and primary drive to the Vertex 2.

I plan on further upgrading to the 840QM too.

On a lighter note, I had the 940XM in it for a short time. Took that out day three I think it was. Too hot for me. Even with the U3 it peaked at 95*C, might have been a reseating problem but the i5 now runs cooler than it did before so maybe not. :P

[imglidinhere]

The stock drivers on the Qosmio line are a little dated. Update to the latest beta driver and you should be fine after that. Just remember it has to be a beta driver or else the install won't see your 460M.

[imglidinhere]

Many of you may or may not have seen the GTX 460M in action. Stock settings are decent for a mobile solution, however they are not stuck there. According to notebookcheck.net, the GTX 460M scores around 6700 points in Vantage at stock. However after overclocking, my scores have jumped up to over 8500 points! Beyond the 560M and matching the GTX 470M!

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i5-460M Processor,TOSHIBA Qosmio X505 score: P8243 3DMarks

Overall score is P8243 which isn't bad for a year old laptop with a modestly overclocked GPU I think.

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How's that for making the most of things huh?

I used Nvidia Inspector 1.9.5.5 to push the memory farther. Afterburner only allows for up to 1500 (3000). Inspector allows up to 3000 (6000) though I doubt it would ever grow close to that. :P

[SMOKE_SKULL]

I leave mine stock and find I can play any game at near max settings and fet great FPS and image quality. I hate it when somewhere down the road a video card starts having issues and then your sorry you ever messed with it.