i want to buy a 920xm?!

HI,
I want to buy a 920XM. how big is the difference between a 740qm
and a 920XM with Throttlestop. the clock rates are known to me. how big is the difference in games, eg Crysis 2. make the change meaningful?
Which provider is better, Laptopmonkey or extremeprocessor?
Thank you.
Greeting Treffnix
PS: sorry for my english

 

The major difference with the 920xm is the fact that it can be overclocked considerably due to unlocked multipliers, making it potentially much faster than the 720qm.

I personally purchased my CPU from Laptopmonkey, as have many others here. I cannot comment on extremeprocessor personally, but he has no negative feedback with over 1300 sales. I'm sure both are reliable.

 

I brought one from Laptopmonkey, excelent seller.

I'll be home in 3-4 days and i'll be installing it asap

 

and benchmarks?
How great the difference is in games?

 

I bought a 920xm from laptopmonkey last week and the difference from my 620m is quite noticable. BFBC2 in particular has gotten a huge minimum and avg frame rate boost. The 620m used to hover around 46-58fps and rarely peak in mid 60's, now with the 920xm im seeing it stick at 60fps most of the time due to v-sync and without v-synch it regularly hits high 70's/mid 80's.

It really does make a big difference in cpu intensive games but games like crysis etc which are more gpu bound wont see as much of an increase. But generally it does boost minimum frame rates across the board making for a smoother gaming experience.

 

Do you use Throttlestop for 920XM?

 

For everyday use no because it runs fast enough already for me generally so i dont see the need to have it running that fast (given the heat increase). I do use it for benching however i havent had much chance to do any serious benching with it yet. So in regards to my impressions of gaming performance in my previos post... that is based on just the 5% bios overclock.

 

Going from a 740QM you probably won't see a big difference; for most games the graphics card usually makes a much bigger difference unless your processor is too slow. Considering you already have a quad core, and the clock rate of the 920XM isn't much higher (unless you overclock it very far) the difference will be at most a few frames a second in most games.

In Crysis 2, I don't think it would make a difference. I haven't ran any benchmarks at different processor speeds, but I couldn't notice a difference between 1.6GHz and 2.0GHz on a quad core.