Bog's Asus eee Review

[bogusar]

Well I'll be damned. I won't be installing WoW in any case. *sigh* Maybe when the new expansion comes out .

--bog

[bogusar]

I installed my 2nd gig of RAM a few minutes ago. I'm testing to see if it's any faster.

--bog

[Liniya]

The thing is, a lot of computer games and whatnot don't exceed using 800 megs of RAM. I think Hellgate: London didn't even take a lot of RAM, but still ran choppily on my high end laptop.

What you may end up having to do if you want more speed is overclock it a bit. http://www.gatzet.com/overclock-asus-ee ... 1000h.html That and SetFSB work, from what I've read.

Adding more RAM when it's not necessary can also be a drain on the battery, not much of one, maybe take about twenty minutes of life or so, but depending on it's speed.

Anyways, run some tests, do some benchmarks, tell us what happens. :3

[bogusar]

It seems like it runs Runescape better with the 2 gigs. I would have to swap back and forth between the 1gig stick and the 2 gig stick to do serious benchmark testing. I don't want to do that. I can only give some anecdotal experience. It ran RS fine to begin with, except when I went to a crowded area like the GE. Now it doesn't lag in the GE.

Don't you get less swapping when you add RAM?

--bog

[Liniya]

Usually you do, but the thing is how much of the RAM gets used to begin with and the speed of said RAM. In the BIOS I think you can overclock it a bit. From 667 to 800. I may be wrong on that, but that might help you get similar performance out of one gig so it doesn't all bottleneck on you.

[bogusar]

I've read that you can toast your computer if you overclock too much. I'd really hate to break my new toy.

I checked in the BIOS. On mine I can't adjust the FSP speed. It's greyed out and set at 667MHz. I did install the Ubuntu version of Super Hybrid Engine called eee-control. When I run it at "normal" things go ok, but when I set it at "performance" my computer gets pretty hot on the left side. It has a third setting called "powersave" that I'm guessing is to make the battery last longer, but I haven't tried it.

--bog

[Liniya]

Basically it has normal, overclock and underclock. Nice options to have. Powersaver really works well.

Yeah, overclocking CAN fry your stuff if you do it wrong, but the older EEE PCs were UNDERclocked, so you needed to fix that up a bit. I dunno what it's like on yours, but it might help ya. :3

[bogusar]

Regardless, I like my little eee. I give it 5 out of 5 stars. It runs Ubuntu, Skype, and Runescape just fine.

--bog