Asus C90

Asus C90 is a 15.4-inch gaming barebone notebook, designed for easy upgrade and can be easily overclocked. With the assistance of ASUS’ “Turbo Gear”, CPU can be overclocked up to 20%. It's made for users who want to combine mobile computing with top-of-the-line performance.

Asus C90 uses Intel’s desktop processors compatible with LGA775 socket, and supports up to Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU at 2.93GHz with 1066 MHz front side bus. It has 4 operating modes: Overclocking, Gaming, Standard, and Power Saving.

The notebook has a standard MXM graphics module for “high compatibility of different graphic processors from the industry”. This barebone laptop supports up to NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video card and its 15.4-inch widescreen display provides 1680-by-1050 pixel screen resolution.

The whole system is built on Intel 945 G chipset and enables a maximum of 3GB DDR2 system memory at 800MHz (two SO-DIMM slots) and features support for SATA hard drive and DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray optical drive.

This gaming barebone laptop has 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless, a Gigabit Ethernet, an optional built-in Bluetooth and it alsomhas a 56K modem.

A variety of ports and slots is corporated in C90: HDMI, S-Video and VGA outputs, a MCX connector for TV-RF, an eSATA connector, three USB ports, FireWire, ExpressCard slot and 8-in-1 media card reader.

It also has a built-in web camera, and optional factory built-in fingerprint reader, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2, and a hybrid TV tuner.

If you include a standard 6-cell battery(which has 1-2 hours run time) it weighs approximately 6.8 pounds.