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Debian for me is the only one I've tested on ROG hardware. I used Scientific Linux (an RHEL based distro created by particle physicists at Fermilab and CERN) for 6 years before that. Second best to...

Wow...lots of slack users! I'm in good company here! I stayed with slackware to kernel 2.0 and later but in 1999 I fried my Pentium 60 and everything in it (I touched my CRT screen and the...

@boofsterb: No rudeness detected or meant, my friend. :) ...always great to chat up another linux guru on these forums. Your mention of slackware just brought up alot of memories of my first dayz of...

My very first linux distro back in 1995 was Slackware 3.0, with the barely-out-of-beta Linux kernel 1.2.13. It was the only one for sale in my local computer shop on a CD ($5), but I needed linux to...

Yeah; I try to keep all a**le software **OFF** my wife's N53SN, because once its on there it infects the win7 registry to such an extent that getting it totally uninstalled is impossible. A manual...

Good decision mate. Can't fix a bricked G74 @home. ;)

I did some reading about this tonight, and all I gotta say is "wow". That level of privacy invasion is a new level of desperation for any company to take to drum up revenue; I would expect this sort...

If you are not experiencing any problems, a new BIOS will not gain you anything, especially performance, and flashing is a big risk to take for nothing gained. My advice: don't f with things. And if...

Yes, this...one day I hope for a microsft-free pc. So far I've let go of everything except Excel. Love it too much.

I have read of others doing this with a G74 and being successful, but the G74 is not designed for the TDP=55Watt CPUs. You will stress the cooling system, and your processor will likely throttle back...

Check out this thread:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?10749-Linux-drivers-and-atk-for-linux&country=&status=
Works perfectly on my G74 running Debian.

Ever try Knoppix? Its a great live distro, and Klaus Knoppers (the maker, and columnist for Linux magazine) is truly a guru among gurus. Knoppix seems to run all kinds of hardware (as it is based on...

Thank you very much @Zygo! I will try this later this week (probably on the weekend) when I am running my G74 at home. During the week I run it at work as my primary work machine, but its locked away...

@zartan: I am very sorry to hear of your persistent woes with your G74s. I am at a loss to understand what is happening...however, memtest not only tests your memory, but also the northbridge (memory...

I second that; this is how I have my G74 configured, though I so seldom boot into Windows natively anymore, since I also run a tamed Win 7 in a VM under linux as a host. I am thinking about...

@Zygo: I would really love that tutorial! Wonderful idea!

My record low RAM usage in Linux is ~230 MB while running gdm and X-windows (using the minimialist TWM for my window manager), which is my...

High speed (i.e. >1333 MHz) RAM is meant for competitive overclockers, as it will boost synthetic benchmark scores. Unfortunately it is targetted at performance enthusiasts (most of whom aren't...

I started using the commercial (non-free) VMWare back in 2002 when it was fairly new. It was amazingly stable and ran XP flawlessly under linux; in fact I remember XP behaving better when managed by...

Yeah, I too run a VM of Windows 7 under Debian. I really like Windows that way: controlled. When it inevitably corrupts itself after a few months use, I simply restore the VM using a snapshot and...

Can't be done mainstream...yet. I'd give it 6 months until single 16GB SODIMMs are available. Then, well maybe....

Yes, if it ain't broke....flashing BIOS is always a risk, and ASUS does not believe in putting Dual CMOS on their laptop boards to get people out of a bad flash. I hope one day they will, as most...

You have 94 processes running at idle? What on earth for? I suspect you're being microshafted by windows' tendency to allow any new application to run itself as a TSR. Windows is the pig; not...

NCIX Canada has the VX here -> http://ncix.ca/products/?sku=77456&vpn=G75VX-RH71-CA&manufacture=ASUS

and it has the 670MX chip.

In the case of the Kingston HyperX PNP sticks, it is well documented on these forums that the older G74 series indeed runs it at 1600 or 1866 (depending on whatever speeds you put in...), but only...

+1 for this. Unless you *routinely* fill *all 8GB* (say, to keep a pile of applications running) then going to 16GB will create no performance improvement, either real or perceptible. You WEI score...