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    Can a G75vw with i7-3720qm use the +400 MHz

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by TANWare, Sep 13, 2012.

  1. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Title asks the question. This also should apply to 3820qm and 3920qm as well. Even if the bios is not able to do this or run XTU can say Throttle Stop let you run the higher settings?
     
    TANWare, Sep 13, 2012
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  2. tijo

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    I don't see why the CPU wouldn't run at it's rated speed. I do not have a G75 to test unfortunately, but my G73 handles the 920xm just fine and clocks at ~2.2GHz when i'm not using TS which is what is the stock clock for that CPU so i don't see why it should be different for the G75.

    It's likely that a reseller knows, hopefully we'll hear from Xotic, Gentech or another reseller.
     
    tijo, Sep 13, 2012
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    I know it will handle stock but the 3rd gen i7's from 3720 on can supposedly support +400 over stock clock. So my question is will this work on the G75 or is it some how locked out? As an example the system I have can run an extreme CPU, such as I do, but there is no way to OC it without TS. The bios is also not XTU friendly either. I just do not want to get stuck with another system that will take forever, if at all, to open up the overclocking options...............
     
    TANWare, Sep 14, 2012
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    Not positive, Performance Tuning Module that's required for XTU is missing in G75VW's bios, both the 207 and 210. Uncleweb said that he planned to add XTU support to ThrottleStop version 5.10 around 2012 fall but without the Performance Tuning Module in the G75VW BIOS it probably won't work on the G75VW.
     
    hackness, Sep 15, 2012
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