Question 1

What video cards are compatible with this setup if we were to change nothing else but put in a better video card?

Accepted Answer

The reason why I am asking is because my wife is playing some games on it and the first thing that we did was check and update all the drivers but when we were playing some older games like Bioshock and Half-life 2 the games would have trouble playing. We would have to turn the screen resolution down to medium and turn off the Anti-Aliasing to make the screen come out correctly. Otherwise the screen would glitch with lines and shapes randomly appearing/disappearing before the game would crash. Also the water would have a texture of giant black and white pixels.

Than when we played newer games like the new Tomb Raider game, the game would crash a few minutes after the game was started and there would be the same pixel affects on all objects even on the lowest settings and resolution. I am open to other ideas on ways to fix this if anyone has any suggestions.

Question 2

Does this have the QI charging?

Accepted Answer

Follow up answer if not too late.  I noted before that the manuals say the M51AC has Qi charging via a tray on top, but I had not actually used it since I have no compatible device.  However, I later found that this feature is not necessarily on all M51AC models.  So, it's worth double checking whether this is included on the particular build of the machine you are looking at, if it's a feature important to you.

Question 3

Is Win 8 64 bit or 32 bit ?

Accepted Answer

Windows 8 @ 64 bit

Question 4

What version of Windows 8 does it come with? Can I get Windows 7 Pro instead?

Accepted Answer

This bundle comes with Windows 8.1; I don't think this offer will include a Windows 7 option. You could definitely install Windows 7 yourself if you own a copy of the product, but Windows 8.1 is benchmarked at faster performance than 7.

Question 5

Is this a quad core processor?

Accepted Answer

The Intel Core i7-4770 is a quad core processor.

Question 6

Can someone tell me if this takes an internal or extrnal ssd?

Accepted Answer

internal

Question 7

Can I buy a computer and get office installed on it? Or, is there a discount to buy it with the computer?

Accepted Answer

Sorry, I bought this machine without Office; I am not interested in it. Always use Libre Office (or Open Office)m which is free and does the same thing. At any rate, there are deals with Office installed on it, which you need to activate (and pay for). But I've never heard of discounts by Microsoft. To my knowledge, they have different price structures (students, home, etc) but then the package contains more or less features. Hope that answers your question.

Question 8

What is the maximum ram memory allowed?

Accepted Answer

ASUS website says up to 32 GB RAM, using 4 DIMMs.

Question 9

What is the maximum memory capacity? (16 or 32gb)

Accepted Answer

32GB. There are three additional slots available to install 8GB modules.

Question 10

does this system include onboard wireless? 802.11 b/g/n...

Accepted Answer

No, this computer does not include wireless. Wired connection only.

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