ASUS U35Jc: Jogging in Place
by Dustin Sklavos on September 30, 2010 3:00 AM ESTGaming on the U35Jc
The NVIDIA GeForce G 310M at the heart of the ASUS U35Jc is already a known quantity in our gaming suite: just 16 of NVIDIA's "CUDA cores" strapped to a paltry 64-bit memory bus. Knowing that bus is already going to strangle the meager number of cores on the 310M, it's not unreasonable to expect that the reduced video memory clock in the U35Jc is only going to exacerbate things. The 310M was never a very good gaming option to begin with—barely a passable one—but mercifully its time with us is almost up. NVIDIA's GeForce 400M series should be trickling into the marketplace soon, and with that hopefully ASUS will have a better option than this for the next refresh. We'll start with the 3DMarks.
In each of the Futuremark benches, the U30Jc and U35Jc fall in line exactly where we'd expect them. Note how massive the gulf in performance is between these two (and the HD 5470) and the mainstream-class GPUs, though.
And there you have it. Outside of Mass Effect 2, which may have the benefit of the newer video drivers in the U35Jc, the crippled memory speed has a measurable impact on performance in every game, and actually brutally curtails performance in the otherwise hardware-friendly Left 4 Dead 2.
These results all prove something we already knew, though: the GeForce G 310M is barely adequate for anything but the most basic gaming. It's a definite improvement over Intel's HD integrated graphics, but these games are just on the cusp of playable at our lowest settings and the laptop's native resolution. The reduced clock on the 310M's memory in the U35Jc just exacerbates an existing problem. We need faster hardware; the GeForce 400M series can't arrive soon enough.
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Evleos - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
I believe the 84wh battery belong to the black model, which also got a 640gb harddrive. The model you got (cheaper, different product number) got an 8-cell 64wh battery.Evleos - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
U35JC-RX040V = the one you got.U35JC-RX070V = the one with 84wh battery.
JarredWalton - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
http://images.anandtech.com/galleries/795/asus-u35...jonup - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
The battery on the picture says 15V*5600mAh => 84WhWhen I first looked at the spec table it says 11.1V => 11.1*5600mAh=62Wh<84Wh
Either way something does not make sence. I see other people caught up to that too.
... continuing reading...
JarredWalton - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
I see. Fixed the table now.XiZeL - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
here in portugal all u30jc models come with a i5 450m CPU , wouldnt that reduce battery life (8 cels: 5600 mAh)neoflux - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
I think you mean Intel Wireless DISPLAY (http://www.intel.com/consumer/products/technology/...:D
SteelCity1981 - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
1gb of Ram on that GeForce 310m card that only supports 64bit bus is nothing more then a marketing gimmick towards novice gamers that don't know alot about gaming hardware.JarredWalton - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
Sorry... blame the editor on that one. I usually say "WiDi" and somehow got the wrong words when I typed it out. :)Tros - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
I disagree:Right-arrow key smack-dab next to "End".
Enter, a slip-away from Pg-Dn.
That entire "scroll-control" section needs to go back to IBM-style, in the upper-right corner, where it's guaranteed the same feel-based-clarity as the lower-left side of the keyboard.
Or they could borrow the idea of using fn and the arrow-keys as scroll controls.
I really don't see mimicking the right side of the keyboard as the right-side of your trackpad as intelligent.