Asus K55N Laptop: AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M (1.9GHz),15.6" (1366 x 768) LED, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, Radeon 7640G, HDMI, USB 3.0, 6-Cell, Win 7 Prem (Refurbished) $284.99 + Free Shipping

Quote from ctsinc : 90 days You can get a 2 year warranty from Squaretrade for $42, or a 3 year for $49. If they won't cover the laptop from where you buy it from, then do what I did. Post a private auction on Ebay and buy it from yourself. ALL laptop purchases from Ebay qualify for Squaretrade warranties. I googled Squaretrade coupon codes and grabbed one of the very common 30% off codes.

lol what!!! guessing you used two different accounts? hmm

Quote from Maschil : lol what!!! guessing you used two different accounts? hmm

used a friend's account to buy it from myself

Be careful with that fraud - it's against ebay policy (and some laws) to set up a shill auction, and probably similar with the squaretrade agreement.

Quote from alchemista : Be careful with that fraud - it's against ebay policy (and some laws) to set up a shill auction, and probably similar with the squaretrade agreement.

shill is for bidding... not Buy it now for the record.

Quote from jacobsta811 : These come with 1x4gb DDR-1600. (or least my model of K55N, which had windows 8 but otherwise identical hardware specs, did). Make sure you add another stick if you plan to game with this. Like all AMD APU systems memory bandwidth determines framerates, so you need two sticks of RAM to get into two channel mode if you want the max framerates this is capable of.

THANKS...i couldn't find what the ram is..gonna go pickup my asus on monday

anyone got any good recommendations on what ram i should buy..looking at newegg...any specific brand better then others..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...2012800%29

Quote from ecnica : NO, but I'll rep you for asking for reps.

Thank you!!!!

Quote from bitachu : anyone got any good recommendations on what ram i should buy..looking at newegg...any specific brand better then others.

I bought this gskill RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6820231483
and it fit fine and worked ok for me. Edit to add, that isn't my newegg review that says it works in a K55N, but that review was one of the reasons why I bought this stick in particular.

Just got the Asus in the mail and it's really nice. Nice firm build, but I do see 2 scratches near the Asus logo, nearly a centimeter long each. Other than those, nothing else seems wrong. I only set it up in another language for parent, but so far a good deal.

Quote from jacobsta811 : I bought this gskill RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6820231483 and it fit fine and worked ok for me. Edit to add, that isn't my newegg review that says it works in a K55N, but that review was one of the reasons why I bought this stick in particular.

I haven't gotten the laptop yet (so for those that already have it and can get cpu-z to check the RAM brand/timings that would be helpful) but if they used a cheaper ram or one with relaxed timings they're usually going to be 4GB, 1600MHz at cas 11, or 11-11-11-28, if they used one with more tighter timings then it would be 9-9-9-28 or so. Will having cas 9 or cas 11 be drastic with this laptop? not really, just helps with overall response time and its already running at a good bandwidth, now if it was cas 9 1333mhz vs cas 11 1600mhz then yes i would go with the 1600 lol. So with that aside:

If the stock stick is cas 11 then buying a cas 11 would be fine, if it was a cas 9, it would relax both sticks to run at 11 (if you're doing dual channel) and since ASUS laptop bios lack advanced memory timing settings then most likely it will revert to cas 11 for compatibility. (most of the time this can be changed on a PC with advanced settings but going by prebuilt laptops they usually don't have these so you're stuck with whatever they have preset or changing them while in windows)

TL: DR, pretty much doesn't matter as much if you buy cas 9 or cas 11, if the stock is cas 9 it will still revert to 11, if it was cas 11, your cas 9 you bought will revert to 11 (granted if asus bios auto configs this). For me personally I bought the gskill 2x8gb kit cas9 because it was $50 free shipping anyway as opposed to $30 for just one stick hehe, on the other hand if you want to squeeze a little more out of it and spend a little extra you can buy the 1.35V versions which should run a little cooler and use a little bit less power (not drastic +hr) but it helps some. As long as you get that dual channel with the APU you should be good.

got the computer today.. one odd thing, there was a password set for the administrator. i just reformatted the computer to bypass this. atleast now all the asus junk/spam programs are off.

not a bad computer for the price. good for people who just surf the web and do light word processing, which is typically 98% off america.

Quote from rpabla1 : got the computer today.. one odd thing, there was a password set for the administrator. i just reformatted the computer to bypass this. atleast now all the asus junk/spam programs are off. not a bad computer for the price. good for people who just surf the web and do light word processing, which is typically 98% off america.

If you think this can just be used for surfing the web and light word processing, you're a moron.

Quote from alchemista : If you think this can just be used for surfing the web and light word processing, you're a moron.

You have to forgive people a bit, it really is mindboggling the amount of power you can get in super cheap notebooks these days. Hell there have been deals on here where you could get an i7 processor, quad cores with hyper threading, in a <$500 notebook. With this deal, for $285 you are getting a notebook that can play any game out there today (albeit at low settings, but still). What you really sacrifice going cheap these days is not processor performance but rather you get a shitty screen and a slow 5400 RPM drive. But heck, for $600-700, which was not too long ago the price of ultra budget notebooks, you can get a notebook with an SSD and 1080p display if you catch a great deal. The market is ridiculous

Got the laptop today. The report about the memory configuration is correct, it is a single 4GB stick. Speed is DDR3-1600 and its CAS 11.

Given that this notebook is running single channel out of the box, GPU performance is very constrained. I was able to overclock the GPU to 1300MHz, basically double the stock frequency, and at least got through 3DMark 06 at that speed. But the performance is barely better than stock, as single channel is just way too much of a bottleneck.

A quick comparison with a 2nd gen Core i3 notebook in 3DMark 06:

**Asus K55N (A8-4500M w/ Turbo, GPU @ 1300MHz, 4GBx1 DDR3-1600)**
-SM2: 1553
-SM3: 1926
-CPU: 2439

**Acer Notebook (i3 2310M - 2.1GHz, HD 3000, 2GBx2 DDR3-1333)
-SM2: 1519
-SM3: 1839
-CPU: 2608

So if you aren't upgrading the memory, it seems graphics performance is at about the level of HD 3000, so probably considerably slower than what you'd get in a newer notebook with a 3rd gen i3/i5 with HD 4000. I'll test in the future how dual channel changes things (I would expect performance to improve by 50%+).

Quote from Extelleron : Got the laptop today. The report about the memory configuration is correct, it is a single 4GB stick. Speed is DDR3-1600 and its CAS 11. Given that this notebook is running single channel out of the box, GPU performance is very constrained. I was able to overclock the GPU to 1300MHz, basically double the stock frequency, and at least got through 3DMark 06 at that speed. But the performance is barely better than stock, as single channel is just way too much of a bottleneck. A quick comparison with a 2nd gen Core i3 notebook in 3DMark 06: **Asus K55N (A8-4500M w/ Turbo, GPU @ 1300MHz, 4GBx1 DDR3-1600)** -SM2: 1553 -SM3: 1926 -CPU: 2439 **Acer Notebook (i3 2310M - 2.1GHz, HD 3000, 2GBx2 DDR3-1333) -SM2: 1519 -SM3: 1839 -CPU: 2608 So if you aren't upgrading the memory, it seems graphics performance is at about the level of HD 3000, so probably considerably slower than what you'd get in a newer notebook with a 3rd gen i3/i5 with HD 4000. I'll test in the future how dual channel changes things (I would expect performance to improve by 50%+).

Or you could get a newer notebook with an APU that would be even faster...Richland is in the wild...