Gustave wrote:
The Asus ROG G703GI-XS98K, I ordered, ships with 32GB RAM, two 256GB PCIe SSDs and a 2TB SSHD storage drive. There is the possibility to add 32GB RAM and change the storage configuration to your liking as I did with my G752VY in the past.

At the top of the range is the G703GI-XS99K, which has the same specs as the XS98K but with 64GB of RAM and three 512GB PCIe NVMe SSDs at an additional cost of $1.300,- ($4.999,-).

Both of course have the Intel Core i9-8950HK CPU.

Regards.

alienbaby wrote:
Gustave,

Thanks for your feedback. I like what you did by going with the XS98K instead of the 99K and I may do the same if the video card and CPU are identical because I'm going to put a 2TB NVMe into it instead of using the 3x512GB SSDs that come with the XS99K. If I go with the X98K, I'm still going to need to put an additional 32GB RAM in it so that it has 64GB because the kind of work I do is memory intensive. I have a couple more questions about this for you:

1. Did they put the 32GB RAM on the inside below the keyboard or did they install it in the expansion slot that you could easily get to from the back panel?

2. Is there any possibility that you could give me the make and model number of those 2 16GB DDR4 RAM sticks? I want to pre-order a couple that closely match the 32g. Is it the same RAM that is in my G752VY? I have 4 x 16GB of Samsung M471A2K43BB1-CPB DDR4 2133.

alienbaby wrote:

2. Is there any possibility that you could give me the make and model number of those 2 16GB DDR4 RAM sticks? I want to pre-order a couple that closely match the 32g. Is it the same RAM that is in my G752VY? I have 4 x 16GB of Samsung M471A2K43BB1-CPB DDR4 2133.

alienbaby wrote:
Gustave,

Thanks for your feedback. I like what you did by going with the XS98K instead of the 99K and I may do the same if the video card and CPU are identical because I'm going to put a 2TB NVMe into it instead of using the 3x512GB SSDs that come with the XS99K. If I go with the X98K, I'm still going to need to put an additional 32GB RAM in it so that it has 64GB because the kind of work I do is memory intensive. I have a couple more questions about this for you:

1. Did they put the 32GB RAM on the inside below the keyboard or did they install it in the expansion slot that you could easily get to from the back panel?

2. Is there any possibility that you could give me the make and model number of those 2 16GB DDR4 RAM sticks? I want to pre-order a couple that closely match the 32g. Is it the same RAM that is in my G752VY? I have 4 x 16GB of Samsung M471A2K43BB1-CPB DDR4 2133.

• Core i9-8950HK
  
• 2x 256GB Intel 760P SSD's (INTEL SSDPEKKW256GB) in RAID0. Third M.2 slot empty
  
• 1x 2TB FireCuda ST2000LX001-1RG174
  
• 2x 16GB DDR4 SDRAM (Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD)
  

• Core i9-8950HK
  
• 3x 1 TB Intel 760P SSD's (INTEL SSDPEKKW010T8) in RAID0
  
• 1x 2TB Samsung SSD 850 PRO 2TB
  
• 4x16GB DDR4 SDRAM (Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD)
  

​It was a bit of a hassle to get the Windows installation from the original bootdrive to the new one. I made a copy to a Samsung T3 USB drive with Macrium Reflect but I could not get into the new RAID0 I set up in the BIOS. So in the end I copied the boot drive to the one Intel SSD in the M.2 Sata slot. Booted from there and created the RAID0 from within the OS with the extra two NVMe SSD's (as I did with my G752VY back then). This worked.

I noticed that the Crystal benchmark scores for the drivespeed were not what I expected compared to the original setup

Gustave wrote:
Well,

My XS98K has arrived and I upgraded the hardware. But with some questions.

First of all, the spec as the G703GI arrived:

• Core i9-8950HK
  
• 2x 256GB Intel 760P SSD's (INTEL SSDPEKKW256GB) in RAID0. Third M.2 slot empty
  
• 1x 2TB FireCuda ST2000LX001-1RG174
  
• 2x 16GB DDR4 SDRAM (Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD)
  

After the upgrade:

• Core i9-8950HK
  
• 3x 1 TB Intel 760P SSD's (INTEL SSDPEKKW010T8) in RAID0
  
• 1x 2TB Samsung SSD 850 PRO 2TB
  
• 4x16GB DDR4 SDRAM (Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD)
  

It was a bit of a hassle to get the Windows installation from the original bootdrive to the new one. I made a copy to a Samsung T3 USB drive with Macrium Reflect but I could not get into the new RAID0 I set up in the BIOS. So in the end I copied the boot drive to the one Intel SSD in the M.2 Sata slot. Booted from there and created the RAID0 from within the OS with the extra two NVMe SSD's (as I did with my G752VY back then). This worked.

I noticed that the Crystal benchmark scores for the drivespeed were not what I expected compared to the original setup

Clintlgm wrote:
Yes, you doubled your seq write speed but lost a little on the read speed. But you got a 3TB OS drive to back up and keep images of. any kind of glitch on anyone of the 3 drive will cost you all your data. Now for some gaming results. I'll bet it would be a killer fast at rendering 3d Auto Cad files. AQnd Rendering large video files.

Gustave wrote:
Well,

My XS98K has arrived and I upgraded the hardware. But with some questions.

First of all, the spec as the G703GI arrived:

• Core i9-8950HK
  
• 2x 256GB Intel 760P SSD's (INTEL SSDPEKKW256GB) in RAID0. Third M.2 slot empty
  
• 1x 2TB FireCuda ST2000LX001-1RG174
  
• 2x 16GB DDR4 SDRAM (Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD)
  

After the upgrade:

• Core i9-8950HK
  
• 3x 1 TB Intel 760P SSD's (INTEL SSDPEKKW010T8) in RAID0
  
• 1x 2TB Samsung SSD 850 PRO 2TB
  
• 4x16GB DDR4 SDRAM (Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD)
  

​It was a bit of a hassle to get the Windows installation from the original bootdrive to the new one. I made a copy to a Samsung T3 USB drive with Macrium Reflect but I could not get into the new RAID0 I set up in the BIOS. So in the end I copied the boot drive to the one Intel SSD in the M.2 Sata slot. Booted from there and created the RAID0 from within the OS with the extra two NVMe SSD's (as I did with my G752VY back then). This worked.

I noticed that the Crystal benchmark scores for the drivespeed were not what I expected compared to the original setup