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    G72GX cpu upgrade

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by UnknownCode, May 19, 2012.

  1. UnknownCode

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    Seeing as i cant get the search to work atm, i figure i may as well ask here. I'm looking to do a slight *cough* cheap *cough* cpu upgrade to my G72. It's the dual core version so I know im only limited to those. Can anyone recommend the best bang for buck and would there be any extra configurations needed such as bios updates etc?

    Asus G72 CPU upgrade with battlefield 3 - YouTube

    This gave me the inspiration, I NEED to get my bf3 running like that lol, it runs okay but may dip when there is heavy action, livable, but if i'm able to overcome this I would.
     
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    So whats the difference between the two might i ask? (apart from overclock ability i assume)
     
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    That is it I would think both are 2 cores 2 threads running at 2.8ghz as stock but with the XM you could easily clock it over 3ghz.
     
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    On that note anyone else getting issues with the search? While the X9000 does look tempting, its just wayyy too expensive to spend on a laptop with 3 later generations out there.

    I been trying to search to see if anyone else has used the E8235, E8335 or E8435 but no luck getting the search to work. If anything the T9600 seems the way to go atm.
     
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    T9600 sucks its not worth money, get a q9000 if you can.
     
    LakeShow89, May 20, 2012
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    Won't work, i bought the dual core version so that's what i'm limited to from what i understand. Whats so bad about thee T9600? Won't it give a good boost from my P8700?
     
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    not really, your p8700 has a 25watt tdp that means that it has more OC room than my 35watt t9600. So unless you want to do cooling mods you should just sit tight or get a p9700.
     
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    The 260m runs hot enough as is, bf3 on stock clocks get me up into the 90s so i usually run on the asus default, overclocking isnt for me lol
     
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    Well i would say that you need to cool it anyway if you plan on play games in the future. I wouldn't game on anything running over 78C
     
    LakeShow89, May 21, 2012
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    Maybe in the future, if i do go for a 35w tdp cpu. It idles on 64c normally and when i game goes up to about 87-88c (stock clocks) but these things never worry me. Thats apparently normal for this machine.

    Ideally i would love to get a used/refurb G73 off ebay but at those prices IF i did have the cash i would just get a G74.

    Now i do like that P9700 but i see no reason why a few generations old cpu should be in the triple digits (unless its a quad). Do those things really sell well? o.o
     
    UnknownCode, May 21, 2012
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    Try a Core 2 Extreme X9100 or the Core 2 Duo T9900

    TurboGear won't work, though you'll have 3.06GHz of dual core processing to play with...
     
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    X9100 e0 with throttlestop to oc.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 11, 2013
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