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    Safe to temporarily use a smaller PSU on a G74?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Wolfpup, Sep 12, 2011.

  1. Wolfpup

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    Umm...so here's a dumb question. I kinda, sorta forgot to bring my spare 150 watt PSU...so for the heck of it I plugged my 90 watt Asus in, not even knowing if it would fit. It lit up the battery indicator...and the system clearly thinks its getting power.

    I won't do any more than playback video on this...was going to try some Modern Warfare 2 on it today, but obviously I'm not doing that when I'm missing 60 watts!

    So...am I risking the system or PSU doing this, so long as I don't play games or encode video or anything that's going to tax the CPU/GPU? It's just for another another 6.5 hours...

    Just sort of curious I guess!
     
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    You will be fine. It would only throttle if there is not enough juice you should be able to use it as normal only high 3D performance games may suffer performance wise.
     
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    Cool! Thanks! Well, let's hope I remember the spare 150 watt PSU tomorrow! :-D

    So far it's performed beautifully...noticeably faster than my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo at day to day stuff!
     
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    150 will just make sure you have enough for anything that pushes the load up high.

    2 threads vs 8 threads. No contest ;)
     
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    What's amazing with this system too is the cooling is good enough that it seems able to hold an automatic overclock (as in the CPU is doing it, I don't overclock) to 2.5GHz under continuous load to all four cores.

    I was NOT expecting it to be able to maintain that kind of overclock-honestly I wouldn't have been surprised if it stuck to the default 2GHz under load.

    So that means I've got double the cores, each core is what, probably 20-40% faster minimum, AND each is clocked a bit faster too :-D

    Nice system so far! :)

    (Loving my Intel 320 SSD too!)
     
    Wolfpup, Sep 12, 2011
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