Recommend RAM: Asus G60

[PwrGetter00]

Hey guys,

I just bought an ASUS G60 at bestbuy for $899, and it's quite beautifully powerful for the price. I do a lot of video editing, and the 4GB it comes with is great, but not enough for my needs.

Any recommendations? This laptop is expandable to 8GB's, price is not an issue.

Thanks!

-Randall

 

[jjmIII]

Good thing price isn't an issue

EDIT: you need DDR3....not sure why the link won't work right?

 

[PwrGetter00]

which of those would you recommend? The crucial seems to be getting decent ratings/reviews @ $388

 

[Brainonska511]

Personally, I'd go with the cheapest and best rated.

You might be better off getting a faster hard drive (SSD) since you already have 4GB of RAM. Video work is very hard drive intensive and that's probably going to be your main bottleneck at the moment.

 

[PwrGetter00]

Personally, I'd go with the cheapest and best rated.

You might be better off getting a faster hard drive (SSD) since you already have 4GB of RAM. Video work is very hard drive intensive and that's probably going to be your main bottleneck at the moment.

You're right, I am currently looking into getting a SSD as well, and just using an external-SATA drive for storage, but the RAM is quite important to me as well. I do indeed do standard video editing - but I do motion graphics with it as well, so fast and abundant ram is required for to preview my work before rendering.

I'm still looking around for RAM

 

[PwrGetter00]

while we're on the subject...

Asus puts a partition on the included/onboard hard drive incase the customer wants to re-install Windows 7.

What do I do if I were to switch to a SSD drive? Would I have to actually purchase Windows 7?

 

[Brainonska511]

while we're on the subject...

Asus puts a partition on the included/onboard hard drive incase the customer wants to re-install Windows 7.

What do I do if I were to switch to a SSD drive? Would I have to actually purchase Windows 7?

They didn't give you a set of restore discs or a way to make restore discs?

If you have a copy of Windows 7, you could just download the drivers off their website...

As for the RAM, whatever Newegg sells that matches the speed your laptop can use and is cheap/well rated should be fine. I don't think laptops are too finicky about the brand of RAM they use.

 

[jjmIII]

If you have a copy of Windows 7, you could just download the drivers off their website...

Ya, do you have a Win7 DVD? Just install fresh with the Code on your laptop. You could clone it too.

 

[PwrGetter00]

I didnt receive any sort of DVD/CD's with my laptop. It came with manuals, cleaning cloth, ac adapter.

 

[Brainonska511]

I didnt receive any sort of DVD/CD's with my laptop. It came with manuals, cleaning cloth, ac adapter.

There is no program on the laptop to create recovery CDs?

If not, you should call Asus' support and ask them to send recovery discs.

 

[melek-taus]

the newer laptops from asus and any other brand dont come with recovery disks. As they have a secret partition on their hdds.

We do not sell recovery disks. U can only buy these in stores or from microsoft.

So the only way u can instal windows on a fresh hdd is buy using ur own windows dvd. Or u should make ur own recovery disk.

There are tools on the internet for making ur own recovery disk from our partition but we (ASUS) do not support this. So we cannot give u advice on how to do this.

edit: hmpf just heard that it might be possible to make a fresh install on a new empty hdd with a recovery disk. Can someone verify this as for me this has never worked before. And i never heard of this.

 

[Brainonska511]

the newer laptops from asus and any other brand dont come with recovery disks. As they have a secret partition on their hdds.

We do not sell recovery disks. U can only buy these in stores or from microsoft.

So the only way u can instal windows on a fresh hdd is buy using ur own windows dvd. Or u should make ur own recovery disk.

There are tools on the internet for making ur own recovery disk from our partition but we (ASUS) do not support this. So we cannot give u advice on how to do this.

edit: hmpf just heard that it might be possible to make a fresh install on a new empty hdd with a recovery disk. Can someone verify this as for me this has never worked before. And i never heard of this.

That's kind of dumb. My Asus laptop (though 4 years old at this point) came with both recovery discs (to restore to factory image) and a secret hard drive image partition. The former came in handy when my hard drive died in a book-falling accident.

AFAIK, Microsoft does not sell recovery discs.

At the very least, if discs are not provided, a tool is usually available on the laptop that allows you to burn your own discs.

 

[melek-taus]

I thought it was strange aswell but almost all laptops have this lately. No recovery disk and u need to download a tool to make ur own disk. Reason for this is piracy and misuse of the service centers. Dunno why though but thats what they said here.

I know asus has a tool on our support.asus.com site but ull have to find it and learn how to use it yourself as we arent aloud to help with that as copying a windows cd/dvd/recovery tool isnt supported by us we only give the tool to do it with.

Strange i know. There are more things that doesnt make sense.

We dont support biosupdates. But we are alowed to tell people to do a biosupdate. And we also have the files to do so. but we do not support it. Its also not in our warranty.

Lol strange right. I can tell u to do a biosupdate but i cant tell u how to do it i can give u the files but if u do it its on ur own accordance. HMPF

well i know the reason behind this but still it sounds kinda contradicting to me.

 

[keeleon]

Howdy, I found your post, because I too bought the G60 from best buy and have recently gotten into video editing, and I thought I'd ask what you ended up doing. Money is a BIT of an object for me, but I don't mind spending it. What would you recomend my first upgrade be, since I probably can't do it all at once?

I'm kind of new to video editing and still trying to get the hang of what upgrades increase what performance. So will I see a better increase based on hard drive speed or on more memory? Is it better to store the video I'm, working on on the SSD or is an external SATA HD fast enough?

Also, I believe the version I have has a Dual Core processor. Does that play a big role in my editing performance? Is it even possible to upgrade to a quad core on this laptop, like are the chips compatible?