Looks like it... almost makes you wonder why they made two so close!!!

https://www.game-debate.com/cpu/inde...enom-ii-x4-b50

 

Thanks for the link, I looked for that.

Ahhh, someone prob squeezed another mega baby out of it....just before employee evaluations wer due I expect.

 

Been looking at going from an i5-3337U 1.8GHz to an i7-3520M 2.9GHz in the laptop. It appears the Toshiba did not solder the CPU to the board

 

Nice, hopefully it can displace the heat fast enough, or perhaps a fan upgrade. Keeping it cool and quiet without much sacrifice in performance (via settings) would be the need for me ..in a laptop anyway. You check all that out yet ?

 

Yeah.... it runs hotter. Uses 51% more power (17 watts vs 35 watts). I don't have a lot of option with a laptop CPU fan though, lol. I'll look and see what mods I can make there.

 

I noticed with the most laptops , you have and abundance of power and performance settings. U know, to mainly preserve the battery. You can manipulate there and save multiple settings set ups, comparing benchmarks while monitoring both heat and noise to sorta tweak it in. Battery life wasn't that big deal. Heat and noise though. Bumping the processor can be challenging in that aspect imo.

 

You may be able to upgrade the heat sink as well. Yea I haven't looked for fan upgrades for laptops lately, not in a long time anyway.

 

I was under the impression I could tune it with Intel's XTU - but I just looked, and the 3520M is NOT on supported CPU list. Damn it.


https://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...ity-Intel-XTU-

 

Haha yes you would, I'm referring to software laptop manufacturers throw on there, they all have some sort of power management manipulation that covers more than just the CPU alone . Yea, it doesn't over clock or anything lol.

Huh, yea I don't see it.

 

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