Thinking about buying a G750JM, some quick questions!

[Scionyde]

I'm still doing my research, but I'm definitely leaning toward the G750JM (the one that comes with 12 GB RAM and the 860M 2 GB). If anybody could answer my questions, that would be great!

1. The JM comes with 3x 4GB RAM, but it has the potential 4 RAM slots, correct? I know two of the RAM slots are easily accessible by removing the plate at the bottom of the laptop(the other two slots require near-disassembly of the laptop) - are these two easy-accessible slots the ones that are populated first?

2. What is the CAS latency on the RAM that comes with the JM?

3. I'm aware the laptop exhausts hot air through the rear vents, but where is the intake? I though read somewhere that it also intakes from the back vents, is this true? Does this make having a cooling pad a little useless with this laptop?

4. Asus only covers bright dots instead of dark, dead pixels in its 'Zero Bright Dot' policy, right? But I know they also have a 15 day return policy, so theoretically, one could return the laptop for dark pixels within that 15 day window, right? Also, this is kind of a stupid side question, but what is the original ship date? Is it the date when it leaves the vendor's facility, or the date I receive it? (I want to know whether it's 15 days minus whenever they send it out.)

5. The 860M 2GB that comes with the JM is Maxwell architecture, right? (laptops from other people that may come with 4GB VRAM are Kepler?)

6. I've noticed that to get at the fans for potential cleaning, one nearly has to disassemble the laptop. How do you guys usually go about cleaning your fans with compressed air?

[hmscott]

Scionyde wrote:
Heh, yeah, it seems like the G750 series has some of the best cooling available in a laptop, so I suppose it lends itself well to overclocking. Speaking of which, since you already own one of these laptops, perhaps you could clear something up for me about the airflow. Having the air intake on the bottom is what's most commonly done and would seem to make sense, but after watching some videos of people removing the bottom plate, it seems the grill is primarily over the storage drives and RAM to allow them to breathe a little. I have trouble seeing how sufficient airflow reaches the fans that way.
I've seen one person claim the intakes are on the back, as part of the rear vents. Looking at a picture of the G750 from the rear, it seems like there is a 'top' and 'bottom' vent on both the left and right vents. I suppose that's possible, but I've never seen a design quite like that.Any idea? 🙂

Scionyde, someone a while back did a smoke test, to see where the draw points were located, and they are indeed the bottom vents. The keyboard is a sealed design, and the rear grills on top are actually the speaker vents.

Here are some nice interior shots of the G750:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/726296-asus-g750-disassembly.html

That is why I recommend removing hot HD's from the drive bay's, and either leave them empty or put in an SSD drive.

That is also why you want to have something under the laptop to provide some lift up from soft surfaces like couches, beds, etc. A simple plank of wood, or a nice coffee table book work nicely.

[Hegemon]

Guys,

probably a stupid question but what would happen if I just disable the Intel GPU driver from loading on start-up in msconfig or similar?

There will be no Intel GPU on the menu any more 🙂

G750JS here running on win 7

[hmscott]

Hegemon wrote:
Guys,

probably a stupid question but what would happen if I just disable the Intel GPU driver from loading on start-up in msconfig or similar?

There will be no Intel GPU on the menu any more 🙂

G750JS here running on win 7

Hegemon, you can always give it a try to verify, but the Optimus enabled G750's are wired differently than the G750's without Optimus, it is a hardware difference that can't be fixed with software reconfiguration. The situation can be improved, perhaps, with improved Intel / Nvidia drivers and control, but the built in hardware difference remains.