Posts by Tummy

For the dvd drive, any notebook optical drive will fit in the Asus. All you need is the drive bracket, which you can't get anywhere that I know of except from buying the stock asus drive. I believe that Asus uses the TSST LS-532A by...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&page=1&pp=25 is the thread I was referring to. I spoke to the author of setFSB. He says he's not sure he can get it to work - he said he thinks the z71v can't set fsb by...

Okay I can try that. I think I had problems with the core that high tho (would reboot itself). Anyway at stock I still only get 4000. about 400-500 pts lower than everybody else (stock 250/400 for me)

Smilepak the unit in the asus doesn't look like that... just fyi

For those who are interested, the GPU cooler is very lightweight. And the cooling between the GPU and the cooler is quite pathetic. Actually even between the chipset. THey use little blue pads that are just squished. I already removed...

smilepak there's a thread about sonoma OC'ing at xtreme forums. Looks like some people have been successful on the Acer 1694WLmi - i915GM chipset. I tried it on my z71v and it detected the chipset but the pll is incorrect. I'm...

Quote: Originally Posted by cward0625 whats the side by side program feature? and does your dvd drive click when it is burning? Mine did. Actually my dvd drive sucked. I made about 20 coasters and had only 2...

Hi everybody. For those of you who have dvd burners with your Asus Z71V, can you check a couple of things for me? 1) what brand dvd burner did you get? I got a LS-532A (TSST - Toshiba/Samsung) but I've had no ends of problems with it...

The second ram slot is under the keyboard. You have to unscrew two screws on the bottom that are listed with "K". Then there are three little push pins at the top side of the keyboard - left, middle, right. Push those in and...

Yup they are both the same. 2x512MB ddr2-533 kingston modules. And yeah, it's weird. Still can't figure that out or why my 3dmark03 scores are still lower than everybody else's - with a faster CPU, too!!