Posts by proles

Ummm you mean you can't use the optical drive and a PATA drive without cutting performance in half, right?

Hrm interesting, I wasn't aware of that. That pretty much seals it for 5400RPM SATA then, because 7200RPM SATA is only quasi-out from what I can tell and will be prohibitively expensive for awhile yet. Out of curiousity, how do other...

Thanks for the replies. Regarding the hard drive, from what I've been able to find (though I'd like to find more) 5400RPM SATA offers better performance than PATA but doesn't have the noise/battery/price premium that a 7200 RPM drive...

Attempting to be short to contrast with my other behemoth threads: 1) Has anybody installed Win2000 on one? Should it generally work? Any known driver/wireless issues? 2) Does it come with a "travellers drawer" (empty...

Unfortunately that's not exactly how overclocking works. You need a 400mhz FSB chip (7x5 series) and a notebook with the chipset capable of 533mhz (I think it's the Intel 915-something chipset, the one that most new Centrino notebooks...

Sorry for starting yet another thread on the Z71V, but after the answers from my previous thread I decided on the Z71V. My reasons: Price SATA HD (from my research, I think 5400rpm SATA would be best for price, performance, heat,...

Well thanks all, I'm now leaning much more strongly to the Z70V/Z70VA series. In fact, I went ahead and researched the "pin-modding" a bit more in depth and think I might be comfortable doing it and overclocking regardless (I...

Thanks for the info, yeah I was kind of afraid that the Z71V wasn't as high build quality. The Z70Va is looking better and better, though whether it'll be out in time for me to figure out some birthday shenanigans remains to be seen. I...

Yeah, 8 is unclear. I guess it's just general unease/curiousity about how much this'll cost and if there's easy ways for monthly financing that don't have unreasonable interest and such. And also the question is whether you save much...

Hey all. I've been lurking this forum for about a week, and after a bit of a delay due to my email account sucking and blocking the activation email, it's high time for me to post and ask a few questions about Asus notebooks in...