WOW and G73 cpu overclocking and effects info

(Disclaimer- I am not responsible for anything that happens to your computer from over clocking, I am merely reporting my results and nothing more)

I am using a G73 laptop with an intel i7 720qm and 1333mhz Kingston memory.

Highest stable speed achieved was 1940 mhz, 160 fsb, ram overclocked to 1600, this was done using the guide from the g51 post. GPU was stock clocks.

Under a four core load cpu sits at about 2100 mhz across all cores, jumping up and down slightly on the first and second cores (HWinfo), average temps sit at around 58 to 62 max c under load sitting on top org bank with average of 80 plus people, non load and raids usually about 55 to 56 degree c (icecrown 25)

Using msconfig and dropping the cores down to 2, cpu speed does not throttle, and hovers around 2.9-3.0 ghz under load, average temps sit at around 65 to 68 c under load, non load 63 to 64.

Framerate info - In an overclocked state max framerate is lower (150 from 200 fps), but there is a huge boost to minimum framerate

Non overclocked 4 core on org bank with 80 plus people- average minimum framerate sits at about 17 to 21

Overclocked 4 core to 1940mhz average framerate sits at about 35

Using 2 core frame-rate sits at about 41

On another interesting note using 2 core actually shows the cpu using 55 to 56 tdp max power based on hwinfo, where as with 4 cores even in an over-clocked state the cpu never goes about 46 tdp.

Hope this helps for those of us that got this laptop to play games similar to Wow. Wow and Starcraft II both only make use of 2 cores max, even though it may show the load spread across multiple cores. (yes some streaming is done on other cores but the heavy processing is only done on 2, see Toms-hardware, Wow forums for further clarification or feel free to disable affinity cores and test it yourself). Using 2 cores only, these games minimum frame-rates run about the same as the desktop 920, 930 versions stock. (Server used was Illidan, which is usually max to locked with a 300 person que). Also note that in the afternoons or morning Dalaran fps are usually around 45 to 50 using 2 cores(at the busiest point) which is a little more (2 to 3) than I get on a I7 920 stock on that server. Running around Dalaran frame rate in less crowded places jumps to about 70 or so (surface not sewers).

For 3dmark06 benchmark with the higher cpu speed, please feel free to check out the Asus benchmark thread. Max for the 1600x900 LG screen (which I feel is a hell of alot better than the 1920x1080p) is 15130 at (1280x768 res), for a 1920x1080p bigscreen tv, after running only 1 test (1280x1024) score was 14440s although hdmi cable was causing some errors.