Review: SPK -> Asus Z71V Review!!!! - Page 3

Sounds good B, I can't wait for your review! Congrats on your new baby. I should have known you had gotten it already, your typing isn't improvised anymore.

Asus Z71V
Pentium-M 2Ghz w/2MB L2 Cache
nVidia GO GeForce 6600 w/128MB Video Memory
60GB 7200RPM HD
2x1GB Samsung DDR2-400
Intel Wifi A/B/G
DVD+RW Dual Layer


nVidia 76.50 with OC (Core 300, Memory 500)
2073

smilpak, is your fan on all the time? I think the fan turns on a 55C, but my lappy stays around 56-59C when idling. Does yours too, and if not, how did you get it down?

this is what mine looks like, sparkle?

Alright I have a few other questions besides looking at my screen pic above. These have arisen from using the z71v for a few hours...

Can somone give a detailed explanation on how and where to get and install the 76.5 drivers? I got them from some postings, and I could not get them to work. One said something about not being able to find the file to write to, the other said that there was no hardward compatible with the driver on the computer. Please give instructions. I am going to try the Xtreme G 7590 ones for now but I want the 76.50 if somebody would be so kind.

My other question is about the icons all in the taskbar...I dont want them all there so I want to know what I can remove from the list below:
1) There are two wireless icon one with a computer and green rays coming from the right side (i think this is done by intel)
2) The other wireless icon which is white and has rays going straight up and states "windows is currently managing this device" when the mouse is over it.
3) The touchpad status icon
4)THe blue/yellow sound effect icon

Are all these necessary? I plan on running autoruns, so I want to know what I can turn off, it seems silly ot have to wireless programs running. Let me know thanks.

Oh by the way, whomever asked about the Shinza sleeve I got .... In my opinion being a new laptop owner it is ok, nothing special. It is really well padded but my biggest annoyance with it is that it is like 1.5 inches too deep so it wont fit in my backpack.

If anybody knows of a sleeve thats fits the Z71V without alot of extra room that fits in a backpack let me know!!

Aside from those two dark areas on the sides it looks normal to me.

its very hard to take pictures of any screen w/o distortion of some sort

as long as it doesnt look like a regular LCD at naive resolution and correct drivers, its messed up, thats my 2 cents

and thanks for the shinza review... so the bag isnt snug, that sucks

even when looking at the BIOS, if it looks messed up, you should RMA it

Try a light Green background on the laptop.

you know the surface of a hologram thats what the screen kinda looks like?
Heres light green:


these pictures are not that accurate, not what I see exactly, I have no dark corners. and The sparkle does not look pixelated like it does in that picture. i am trying to describe it the best I can. It shows more on white and the light green screen. If you look at any lcd, look real close at the screen, examine it, notice like a slight "chystallyness/shine/sparkle", well multiply that by like 5 or 10 and thats what my lcd looks like.

I still need help with these too:
If anybody knows of a sleeve thats fits the Z71V without alot of extra room that fits in a backpack let me know!!

Can somone give a detailed explanation on how and where to get and install the 76.5 drivers? I got them from some postings, and I could not get them to work. One said something about not being able to find the file to write to, the other said that there was no hardward compatible with the driver on the computer. Please give instructions.

Heres the best explanation for my screen, it looks like someone with greasy fingers touched my screen all over, you know when you touch an lcd with oily fingers. Should I RMA this?

I returned mine today as I work on white backgrounds much more than games/dvds so it's very important that the background is easy on the eyes. I have seen another 2 units and they all have the same grainy/sparkly screen on white.

I would recommend that you visit some shops that sell this model to compare if at all possible. If you return it it's most likely you'll get the same type of thing back, but then again possibly not.

It seems now that several people have received theirs this seems to be a common denominator on most of them. If it bothers you, you may want to consider a replacement.

Your call.

Could you guys who have DDR2-533 do me a favour?

If you download and load the latest CPU-Z, under the "Memory" tab, what frequency does it say your ram is running at? Mine sayd 400 right now, 2:3 fsb and all slowest timings. I wonder if that's part of the reason my current benchmarks are lower than everybody else.

Thanks in advance.

Sandra says mine's running at 1064.

What about CPUZ? www.cpuid.com

I'm not sure what # in Sandra you are looking at.

In Sandra, I'm looking at Mainboard Info, Logical/Chipset 1 Memory Bank, speed. it says: 4x266 Mhz (1064 Mhz data rate). Under memory/timings/frequency in CPU-Z, it says 199.5 Mhz.

Mine says the same in CPUZ, but in sandra it's nothing close.

4x133 (532Mhz data rate). I have 2 pieces of ddr2-533. Is it possible I'm not running as fast as I could/should be? Any idea how to change that? I'm using the latest version of Sandra. The benchmarks are around 2950mb/sec both read and write. Any ideas?

In further news - I have an interesting discovery that some people might be able to try if they have the right situation.

I built my asus myself (from barebones). And if you look in the CPU socket area, there are two dipswitches that control 100/133 bus CPU speed. If you recall, the z71v supports both 400 and 533 bus dothans. Here's my thought: if you have a 400 bus dothan you SHOULD be able to hard switch it to 133 and get a decent overclock out of it depending on what dothan model # you have. For example, if you have a 1.6/100, you can use 16x133 = 2.13 which I think should be achievable. If you have 1.7, 2.26, 1.8, 2.4. All of thse should be achievable with the given system. Anything higher then that I'd say your bets are off. I have a 2.0/100 bus CPU at home but 20*133 = 2660 I doubt it would work at that speed. So, anybody have a 1.6-1.8/100 bus speed they want to try this with?

Same Sandra benchmark. Are you sure you're not looking at the front side bus reading? you should see it in Logical/Chipset Memory Banks. the front side bus speed is under Chipset 1, which is 2 sections before L/C M B.

Yes, positive - looking at the exact same thing you listed for me just now.