Review: 5 Years With the Asus Z71V - Page 7

Been a while since I"ve seen this review. *sigh* the good 'ol days of thinking the Z71V has one USB 2.0 and 4 USB 1.1's

Heh, nice to know about the durability. Mine hardly ever moves from my desk, so I don't think I will have too many problems with that.

How about a comparison between 3DMark 06 and 3DMark05 on those drivers? Nice job btw

Now only if you could figure out how to replace the gfx card on this baby like they did on the DELL. hehehe

personally I found the fn key in the lower left corner some what annoying, especially when playing games that uses the ctrl key extensively such as HOmeworld 2. Also the other thing that annoys me a lot is the fact that it's impossible to use the function keys without both hands since you'd need one hand to hold down the fn key while your right hand goes to the top

As far as my laptop keys go I've only had it for a couple of months, but I've found that compared to my standard keyboard some keys are not as touch sensitive as I would like, and I think I definitely noticed problems such as having to press harder on certain keys after some extensive gaming sessions on the laptop involving the use of arrow keys etc.

cool.

I was looking at your screenshots, are you running vista? If you are, what/where drivers are you using? Big thanks if you can help me out.

Yea, this laptop is over 2 years now! Wow!

The Z71V runs quite well with Windows Vista Enterprise version. World of Warcraft seems to be smooth during game play with the max / native resolution

The touch pad problem I had with scrolling seems to be resolved with Windows Vista. The GPU fan doesn't go crazy when scrolling in Vista, like it did in XP environment.

Right now, using AC power, the CPU hover around 55c. When playing WOW, it hover around 68-69c w/o under volting.

What I dislike about it is the nVidia in it. Thought Window Vista rate it 3.7 out of 5, which is impressive giving a laptop that is over 2 years old, it does get rather hot to a point of unbearable to be on ones leg while playing game. This sucker output tremendous amount of heat it is unbearable on the leg. The performance is outstanding, but I think nVidia needs to scale down on the power. I am not even overclocking the video card too...


I have a WUXGA LCD I just purchased off ebay for 130.00 which came from a Dell 8200. It should fit perfectly. Made by Samsung. I will be replacing it in the coming weeks to bring it up another notch.

As for Z71V running vista, Most of the devices are compable with Vista w/o needing a special driver. There is a sticky in the Asus general of this forum with the link to all of the vista drivers.

For the nVidia driver to work under vista, go to http://www.guru3d.com. There is a vista compable drver which work nicely. The other driver you need would be the on the sticky mentioned earlier. I only had to install 3 device drivers not already existing out of the box from the Vista OS.