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    G73 CPU upgrade to i7

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by lastat, Feb 26, 2011.

  1. lastat

    lastat Notebook Consultant

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    Hi All,

    I have G73 with CPU i5-520 and I have been thinking about CPU change to i7.
    Do you think it is possible? Anyone tried to do this?

    Lastat
     
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    dont do this, your i5 should be powerful enougth.

    or wait for the next generation, so the performance gains up more as from the i5 to the i7.

    i think ingame it would change nothing.
     
    Rückenmark, Feb 26, 2011
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    lastat Notebook Consultant

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    Thx for advise, but I would like to know if it is possible or not.
     
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    should be able
     
    Rückenmark, Feb 26, 2011
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  5. schockie

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    There are some people on this forum who had their CPU's exchanged for a i7-920 or 940, so it is possible.
     
    schockie, Feb 26, 2011
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    A quad core will definitely help in some CPU demanding games, he can't wait for the next generation chip as they are not compatible with the motherboard.


    It's totally possible as long as the BIOS supports the CPU (your mobo definitely does) and afaik you can put a 920xm in it and it works perfectly (about 400 bucks on ebay... and its really a powerful CPU)

    ... but for exchanging you have to almost completely disassemble your machine...
     
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  7. DCx

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    I thought there were different mobos for different processors. Like the g51 JXs, if you got an i5, you had a different mobo than an I7...
     
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    Or thermal limits, I wonder if the i5 gets warmer then the i7,side note 920 to 940, is there much performance gain, or is it neglectful?
     
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    Difference from 920 to 940 is that the 940xm has the standard multi one value higher, but the 920 can easily be pushed to 940xm level with throttlestop. Both chips are highly overclockable with this program (3.2 Ghz across all cores easily!)

    The xtreme chips have a higher TDP than the standard i7 chips, 55W as far as I remember. If heat is an issue don't get an extreme chip. Also the i7 probably run hotter than the i5 chips.
     
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  10. daranik

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    Im assuming throttlestop is a program right? Now ive heard of throttling on this forum used in many different places, how would one know if they were experiencing throttling lets say when playing a game?
     
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  11. svl7

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    Check out this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/531329-throttlestop-guide.html

    With an extreme processor you can use throttlestop to highly overclock the CPU...
    Throttlestop was developed to fix the throttling issue of some systems, thats right, but that's not the right thread to discuss this. If you want some infos and graphs about throttling you can for example take a look at this thread, this should give you a little background information.
     
    svl7, Feb 26, 2011
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