Posts by darilon

1) Do you prefer to build your own PC’s or buy a branded system? a) Prefer to build my own 2) How often do you replace or upgrade your PC? d) 2 – 3 years (but I often will build a second system for myself in between) 3) How important...

I've had my Z71V for almost 4 years now and the hard drive started to pack it in. I got a new drive and tried a number of methods to copy my existing windows install to it but no joy - get interesting errors like crc errors and the...

The Z70va has a great build quality. It's what I'm recommending for my brother right now. I'd probably have bought one if they were out in June when I got my Z71V

I had the same great experience with Canadasys. No CC option. I opted to deposit funds directly in their account and that worked out great.

Quote: I noticed in the Owners Manual it stated that the battery will stop charging if the voltage is too high or the battery pack gets too hot. You might be on to something here - at least for my situation. My...

Welp, after a few days of looking like there was a problem, my laptop went back to working the way it did when I first got it. Battery appears to be 100%.

Frankly for Linux I'd go with the Z71V - at least if you need the proprietary 3D drivers for gaming under Linux. I've had terrible luck with ATI Linux drivers in the past.

I'm happy with my decision. I prefer the 6600go over the X700 due to nvidia's better support for linux drivers - ATI is making an effort, howeve they really aren't where I need them to be yet.

Wow, madmike23, that thread looks like it might explain any problems at this point in time.

Recently mine's started to act up too. Battery charge light stays on all the time but battery claims to be 99 or 100% (no CHC, just the windows tools and whatever asus stuff got installed). Says 100% in the system tray, and 99% and...