920xm purchase

[iemie]

To make a long story short.
If you need the power and if you have the cash. Do it coz my opinion in a few words: "These baby's ROCK". Its as simple as that.

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[Yiddo]

What are you using to max out your turbo mode on that screenshot?

Im still considering it and think I will buy it once the benchmarks are available.

[DCx]

Likely throttlestop.

[iemie]

Throttlestop it is as DCx just said (",)

[ValkerieFire]

Here is the thread I was considering before others helped me see the CPU was not the problem. HERE Mr Fire has quoted the results on page 2.

I kid you not, I spent an hour yesterday looking at 920xm's on ebay. I feel like a hippocrite I didn't get one, I cannot really afford it, I'd have to to save my spending cash for a good 2 or 3 months to get one, even factoring in selling my i7-720 for $120-150. I still think there is no practical reason to get one, but it is cool and after YOU got me thinking about it, I feel the temptation strongly. I still stand by my earlier statements that the CPU boost is mostly useless, but I completely understand anyone who wants or gets one.

Now another issue I have with the 920xm is how reliable it is. It is 10 watts more than our 720s 45 watts, will it burn out the power brick or any other components? 10 watts is no biggy, but 10 watts over hundreds of hours might be bad. I would really like to see a 720qm vs 920xm vs 2630qm benchmark, that would really help my decision making. I think the 2630qm is faster stock, but 920xm is faster overclocked. So the question is, how stable is the overclock? If it is pretty much the same as a 2630, then I would rather wait till I could upgrade the whole laptop (GPU and all), but if the 920 is faster (and our 5870s are pretty good), then it could be an interesting combo, even if it is mostly all ego.

In conclusion, I blame you Dallers for bringing this up and making me want one!

[Yiddo]

I kid you not, I spent an hour yesterday looking at 920xm's on ebay. I feel like a hippocrite I didn't get one, I cannot really afford it, I'd have to to save my spending cash for a good 2 or 3 months to get one, even factoring in selling my i7-720 for $120-150. I still think there is no practical reason to get one, but it is cool and after YOU got me thinking about it, I feel the temptation strongly. I still stand by my earlier statements that the CPU boost is mostly useless, but I completely understand anyone who wants or gets one.

Now another issue I have with the 920xm is how reliable it is. It is 10 watts more than our 720s 45 watts, will it burn out the power brick or any other components? 10 watts is no biggy, but 10 watts over hundreds of hours might be bad. I would really like to see a 720qm vs 920xm vs 2630qm benchmark, that would really help my decision making. I think the 2630qm is faster stock, but 920xm is faster overclocked. So the question is, how stable is the overclock? If it is pretty much the same as a 2630, then I would rather wait till I could upgrade the whole laptop (GPU and all), but if the 920 is faster (and our 5870s are pretty good), then it could be an interesting combo, even if it is mostly all ego.

In conclusion, I blame you Dallers for bringing this up and making me want one!

hahaha glad to be of assistance I just mentioned this on the other post honestly its destroying my life and as ive chosen to repaste with IC7 so it gives me more reason to go through with it, its really starting to affect me. I have so far spent around 10 hours looking at it and researching it and all the Pro factors say I should do it. On the Con side its around £100 after the proceeds from my 720QM for only 2MB more cache and 400MHZ more clock as base - but the overclocking ability is massive. I also love keeping my G73 as cool as possible and if I threw in this bad boy it would run far from cool as I would want it pounding away the Hertz. Lastly it will be an engineering sample and not an OEM so resale and reliability will be tested as you mention the 10 watts over the period I want to keep my laptop could be detrimental.

Overall I have so far not gone through with the purchase however I have retracted so many bids on ebay im now banned from bidding for 48 hours.

LOL!

[Yiddo]

Aaaatttchooooo 'cough'

Ah damn I just bumped this random thread again posted by.... oh me

Its late at night here in the UK I have a credit card with a 3k limit and I haven't upgraded anything recently...200gbp should I.... shouldn't I.....

[kurtcocaine]

where in the UK can you get it for those prices?? link..

[Yiddo]

Here.

Its on for 234GBP but I have had a bid accepted for 202.

[kurtcocaine]

^ cool well congrats if you decide to go ahead and get it!