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maoli · ‎10-02-2012

Hi guys! My first post:)

I was trying to find a way to contact the ROG team and I thought I did... turns out I sent a msg to the forum admins:( Sorry guys! It was a noob mistake.

Just wanted to post a msg of pleading & praying that maybe someone could send one of these 14" babies to AnandTech for review. I'm sick of reading their Alienware reviews and not a single ROG review! Also, love the fact that notebookcheck.net does reviews of the G series.

Anyway, good luck with the launch and I hope I can save up the money to get one sometime in the next 12 months!

Thanx
maoli
(Incurable seti cruncher, among other things...)

Edit: While I'm still in begging mode, would it be too much too ask for an eGPU (thunderbolt) sometime in the next 18 months?:)

Zygomorphic · ‎10-02-2012

eGPU...I wish. Don't worry about such things, if something bad happens, we'll PM you...if you spam ("buy iPad cheap"/"buy cc #'s")...we ban. Otherwise, we fix anything that goes wrong and try to help you out. 🙂

I am disturbed because I cannot break my system...found out there were others trying to cope! We have a support group on here, if your system will not break, please join!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=16
We now have 178 people whose systems will not break! Yippee! 🙂
LINUX Users, we have a group!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=23

chrsplmr · ‎10-02-2012

G45 ??? Where did you find the name ?
So far as I know G45/G43(new intel chipsets) on new Motherboards due to be released.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5QEM/
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5QVM/
MarshallR loves to taunt and tease .. he had us drooling all over our keyboards for the CH V F-Z ..
well .. not the intel guys .. hahhaa
I trust so will be true of the new 14" ...

Im root'n for an AMD/ATI ... (hey, im allowed to dream ...) Welcome to ROGforum.c.

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pillowpants · ‎10-03-2012

I think the new Asus ROG 14" notebook will be called the G46VW, according to this post on some Vietnamese site (with specs, video and pics):

http://www.tinhte.vn/threads/1548572/

Here is a copy and paste of the specs:

Intel Core i7-3630, 2.4GHz
NVIDIA GTX 660M discrete graphics card
Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics chip (auto switch with GTX 660M)
12GB RAM 1600MHz bus
Screen 14 "1366 x 768pxl
128GB SSD (mSATA, install OS) and 750GB HDD
Connectivity: 3 USB 3.0, mini-Display Port, HDMI, LAN, Bluetooth, WiFi N. ..
No official price

Everything sounds great except for the resolution. I really hope there's an upgrade option to at least 1600x900. If not then I'll have to pass. 1366x768 is such a letdown. C'mon, Asus, don't let me down!

Shawnnepc · ‎10-03-2012

pillowpants wrote:
I think the new Asus ROG 14" notebook will be called the G46VW, according to this post on some Vietnamese site (with specs, video and pics):

http://www.tinhte.vn/threads/1548572/

Here is a copy and paste of the specs:

Intel Core i7-3630, 2.4GHz
NVIDIA GTX 660M discrete graphics card
Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics chip (auto switch with GTX 660M)
12GB RAM 1600MHz bus
Screen 14 "1366 x 768pxl
128GB SSD (mSATA, install OS) and 750GB HDD
Connectivity: 3 USB 3.0, mini-Display Port, HDMI, LAN, Bluetooth, WiFi N. ..
No official price

Everything sounds great except for the resolution. I really hope there's an upgrade option to at least 1600x900. If not then I'll have to pass. 1366x768 is such a letdown. C'mon, Asus, don't let me down!

I've yet to see ASUS come out with a optimus supported laptop (that actually works)

If I had to guess that went for the performance not so much the screen quality.

I'm also kind of suspect about that GPU. That's a pretty high end GPU for such a form factor. I could see maybe the 650m GDDR5 as the likely candidate

USA ASUS Reseller
http://www.neteffectspc.com

pillowpants · ‎10-03-2012

Shawnnepc wrote:
I've yet to see ASUS come out with a optimus supported laptop (that actually works)

If I had to guess that went for the performance not so much the screen quality.

I'm also kind of suspect about that GPU. That's a pretty high end GPU for such a form factor. I could see maybe the 650m GDDR5 as the likely candidate

I also thought this would launch with a 650m. Kind of like Asus's version of the Alienware m14x. Who knows, maybe those specs up there are just made up. I really hope that resolution is wrong.

noneone · ‎10-04-2012

Shawnnepc wrote:
I've yet to see ASUS come out with a optimus supported laptop (that actually works)

If I had to guess that went for the performance not so much the screen quality.

I'm also kind of suspect about that GPU. That's a pretty high end GPU for such a form factor. I could see maybe the 650m GDDR5 as the likely candidate

There is almost NO difference between the 650m and the 660m. same chip, same bus, same shaders, slightly lower speed clocks on the 650m than the 660m.

Shawnnepc · ‎10-04-2012

noneone wrote:
There is almost NO difference between the 650m and the 660m. same chip, same bus, same shaders, slightly lower speed clocks on the 650m than the 660m.

That's not exactly true.

The 650m GDDR5 can be clocked to about the same speeds as the 660m

650m GDDR3 cannot hold a candle to the 660m or even the 650m GDDR5
(ASUS N76 series has GDDR3)

USA ASUS Reseller
http://www.neteffectspc.com

maoli · ‎10-04-2012

Shawnnepc wrote:
That's not exactly true.

The 650m GDDR5 can be clocked to about the same speeds as the 660m

650m GDDR3 cannot hold a candle to the 660m or even the 650m GDDR5
(ASUS N76 series has GDDR3)

I think you may have those numbers the wrong way around. Like I mentioned in my first post I do a bit of Seti crunching and have been staring at these two chips for nearly 6 months now... AFAICT it's actually the DDR3 that has the same clocks as the 660m and to make matters worse the 650 DDR3 is slightly better at compute while using a a few less Watts!?

I could be looking at bad data but I think it might be a bandwidth bottleneck that makes the 650m DDR3 worse than the 660m at gaming.

Shawnnepc · ‎10-04-2012

maoli wrote:
I think you may have those numbers the wrong way around. Like I mentioned in my first post I do a bit of Seti crunching and have been staring at these two chips for nearly 6 months now... AFAICT it's actually the DDR3 that has the same clocks as the 660m and to make matters worse the 650 DDR3 is slightly better at compute while using a a few less Watts!?

I could be looking at bad data but I think it might be a bandwidth bottleneck that makes the 650m DDR3 worse than the 660m at gaming.

That's actually pretty interesting.

If I get some time i'll try and get some whitepages from NVIDIA on the DDR3 vs DDR5 versions of the card.

It also might be a driver issue.

It's possible that NVIDIA hasn't fully optimised the 650m GDDR5 for CUDA* support and instead focused on it's gaming aspects. I could see them doing that because the mobile series GPU's (and even GeForce) aren't designed for intensive computing tasks.

*generally CUDA support also plays a factor in the hardware design of the card

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http://www.neteffectspc.com

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