G74 Upgrades

[Retired]

I recently purchased a G74SX-A1 and would like to at least upgrade the empty secondary HD slot into a decent SSD. I also heard that the wireless card for the G73 wasn't great and should be replaced, not sure if that still holds true for the G74 series. Here's what I was considering doing:

• Add a Vertex 3 120 SSD for the OS and games and use the existing 750 HDD for data
  
• Replace the wireless card (haven't researched which yet)
  
• Add another 4 gigs of RAM to get to 16
  

Any suggestions for these upgrades or general recommendations about something not mentioned here? The user reviews for the Vertex 3 vary from phenomenally fast to completely unstable, so I was curious if you folks had any experience.

Thanks much!

[TribalLink]

I recently bought a g74sx-A1 very recently as well and i love it, i bought the Vertex 3 120 SSD Max IOPS and i absolutely love it, its all this laptop needs, but i also have to say that i would love to upgrade the wireless card as well but i cant find any guides on how to do this... i want to buy the bigfoot wireless 3x3 cause i heard from a few people that its a great wireless card , you lose bluetooth with that card but i dont really use bluetooth anyways, as for RAM unless you love to multi task and open many many programs then 12 GB is way more than enough, im a huge multi tasker and 12 GB is still more than enough for me 😄

If you find a guide how to replace the wireless card in Asus G74sx please link it here >.< i've been searching and searching but im a bad searcher lol 😞

[JRd1st]

The wireless card is supposedly REALLY easy to replace on G74sx; just one screw and 2 antenna connections. On another forum someone had problems with the Bigfoot card. But the Intel 6300 is always spoken of highly. Or the Intel 6250 if you wanna keep bluetooth.

[grungeboy2]

spending extra money on more ram is probably a waste.

maybe spend it on a good bag or a nice headset.

[Retired]

Thanks for the advice. I figured the RAM would barely be noticeable, but it's so cheap nowadays.

[Chastity]

Adding the extra stick will allow the 2nd bank to operate in Dual Channel mode, for the small boost.

[TribalLink]

edit: better if i make my own post ^^

[Retired]

A cheaper option to keep bluetooth would be the Intel 6230 (that's the one I bought). I believe the only difference between the 6230 and the 6250 is WiMax (which I don't need).

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/wireless-products/centrino-advanced-n-6230.html
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/wireless-products/centrino-wireless-n-wimax-6250.html

[JRd1st]

Actually, 6250 was a typo and I also have a 6230 coming.

[Retired]

Ah ok cool haha. Mine's on the way as well