jtesq wrote:
Cman, any rumors of if and when Asus might offer the gtx 675M or gtx 680m options?
Kepler based GTX 675m's are starting to show up so maybe in 6 months well see it in a G75 amusing Asus is started on them for the G75's since they are non MXM card's and the G75 can handle a gpu with a 100 watt TDP. Thats why you will never see a GTX 680m in a G75. The price alone would push the laptop into a price range where it could not survive. A G75 with a GTX 680m alone would run about $2,000 and for this price you have now entered Sager, Origin etc.
Asus found a nitch in the marker. Low end gaming laptop. Some people consider GT 640m's to be considered low end but i consider anything under a GTX 675m to be low end. Single GPUs greater then the GTX 675m is mid range and dual GPU "GTX 680m's" are high end.
Now from a engineering stand point i have seen the power circuitry of the mainboard in the G75. It can handle a 100w gpu. But that's about it you dont get much room after that before components start to fail. Asus wont just slap the card in because if someone overclocks the gpu and puts a massive current draw on that circuit it can burn out the motherboard "They will be out of money on a RMA since they can not prove the card was overclocked" Or worse it can cause a fire. Thats why they put in pretty some head room in stuff like this so if the card does suck a massive amount of current it wont damage the components. Some people may thing well they can just replace those parts. That would require a big motherboard revision change something that they don't do until a model change.
Personally i would love to see a GTX 680m in a G75. But way more other things they can do to improve the G series to fill the nitch its in. I dont know why they haven't done some of these as a few are as plain as day but the one thing i want to see on a G series before anything else is a unlocked Bios. Its Asus "ROG" it should have a unlocked bios since ROG is your flagship branding. Having a gimped bios makes the whole ROG thing a joke. Just give us a few advanced option even if it means voiding the warranty.
I had a guys G75. He did some overclocking on it with the intel utility that changes bios setting. System was bricked and would not boot. No way to reset the bios memory timeings as well as the cpu clocks. Issues was with the stock ram not able to pull the clock at the timeings it was set up for. If it had the ability to change these in the bios it would of been a 2 sec fix reset some timings and multipliers and its done. To fix this i had to pull the mobo out. Remove the stock ram and put in some better ram boot the system go into windows and return the timeings to default then put the stock ram back in. Its not even that we need overclocking features just gives us the normal memory options because taking the laptop apart to get that ram out is a pain.
Also to add to that my domanator kit had some messed up timing when i put it in. It worked but the timings were much higher then it should of been. I had to use the intel tool to change the timings. You but good ram and then this laptop will turn around and run it like stock do do dell oem ram.
