940xm QS's on Ebay

3.33 turbo mode, thats some speed, anyone thinking about getting one?

 

i was planning to in the next month or two, maybe sooner, i just dont know how big of an improvement it will be

 

These have been on Ebay for about a month now, they do look pretty awesome. Would be a good upgrade but you will not see a big boost in performance over a 920XM.
Still any performance gain is good in my book.

 

any one got some benchmarks vs the i7 720qm? heck even a 920xm vs 720qm

 

here you are
Tests - Intel Core i7-740QM, 840QM, 940XM - Neue Intel Core i7 Prozessoren im Test auf notebookjournal.de

 

would be nice if the cpu upgrade was no so risky and difficult on the G73.

but its all good, I managed 1.8ghz overclock on the stock i720QM and will save my money to upgrade my desktop to the new 6core i7 cpu when the non extreme version comes out later this year.

 

Can you Please link me to a thread/post how exactly to overclock a cpu on the g73jh (setfsb + which pll?)?

 

I cant because I have no idea where it was buried.

You have a few choices

1.) The manual way with the free version of SetFSB by using the PLL diagonisis tab.

2.) Pay $5.00 for the shareware version of SetFSB and it has the G73 PLL on it.

3.) Somebody made a PLL to import into the free version of SetFSB that works fine, this is the method I am using but that person removed the download and edited out all of his posts. Not sure why.

I wont repost or redistribute his file without his permission, he may have a good reason for removing it.

 

Just to let you people know.
OEM 920XM's are now dropping in price, I've seen new ones for $699 which are cheaper than the 940XM which are QS/ES samples found on like eBay.
If it was up to me I would go for slightly slower OEM CPU that would still give more power than you'll ever really need in gaming.

 

According to the benchmarks it would be a complete waste of money to upgrade the CPU for just gaming. Money would be better spent on a fast SSD.

 

It should be fairly common knowledge that most games are not cpu bound but gpu bound.

That said, it would also be a waist of money to buy a SSD for gaming as well as it has no effect on performance at all.

But if your doing cpu based tasks the upgrade is great

 

It has nothing to do with the fact of the games being GPU bound or CPU bound, its the fact that the 5870 is maxed out with a 720qm with almost any new game at 1080p and doesnt scale at all with a faster processor at that resolution. This is a laptop, theres only a couple things you can upgrade in it to improve performance. IMO load times are part of gaming especially MMO's where the world is constantly loading as you enter new zones as well as some other games, so an SSD would have an effect on performance, I didnt say framerate.....

 

I agree SSDs improve load times, but youre dead wrong the G73jh is maxed out with the i7-720qm...
Just look at the game benchmarks HERE.

 

Thats exactly the website I was referring to in the first place, look at all the 1080p benchmarks they are all within a 1-3fps of each other, that means it doesnt scale at 1080p with a faster CPU, its maxed out the 5870 is the bottleneck, not the CPU. Granted thats only 3 games and I am sure you will get different results from different game engines but now to say we could couple our i7 mobile processors with a faster graphics card like a desktop geforce 480 you would see significant increases in framerate going from a 720qm to a 940xm even at 1080p, why because the CPU would be the bottleneck not the GPU.

 

Up to 4 fps at 1080p and even more at lower resolutions is a noticable increase, so dont say its pointless to upgrade. You cant upgrade the gpu in the g73jh, but you can upgrade the cpu to gain a few extra fps.

 

I will say its pointless for gaming, if it was SLI 5870 then that would be another story, but its not. The fact is that the single 5870 in the G73 is a bottleneck for the system and no it cant be upgraded, but for you to say theres a point in spending 1000+ dollars on a CPU upgrade for up to 3fps increase is rediculous when you could sell that G73 and put that 1k$ towards an AW with SLI 5870 and gain way more than 3fps in games.

 

Depends on what you want - i dont want a thick, heavy and extremely LOUD system, so AW is not an option for me.

 

hehe that is why in the 1st place why you sold your 9280 with ati 5870 on it, right

 

That is a really bad example, your example is one of the few that the SSD wont even help. Because the game is loading in the background seamlessly the entire time you never have to wait for loading even with a hard drive.

When you go into an "instance" like on world of warcraft most of the wait is when your client is going to a new server not the stage loading. Plus like most games even if you get there 25 seconds faster than everybody else, it does not do you any good because you have to wait for them anyways.

So SSD only helps with loading on single player games really, and most games dont take that long to load.

Also performance = frame rate and you just said a CPU is a waist of money because it wont help with performance. So when you say a SSD is a good idea its kinda pre-indicated it was a good idea because it would help with performance because you offered it up as a counter argument as to why a cpu is a bad idea for game performance.

I knew you were talking about load times, but it was not implied. Still though you cant go about saying a SSD is good for the money anyways, they are still incredibly expensive and not worth it for a lot of people. Id rather get one of those $110 500GB HDD's with the 4GB SSD hybrid thing built into it. I can keep my storage space and get 70% of the SSD benefits or so, most SSD benifits are application and windows load times mroe so than game load times anyways.

 

Well i was done toying with it, i had a D900F since at the time i had no desktop and i wanted a real desktop replacement with a desktop cpu, but now since ive finished building my desktop rig i dont have any further use for it.
I just want something a bit lighter, slimmer and quieter, something with similar performance but at the same time something i could actually use on my lap - a laptop
And the only one that fit my needs was the g73jh - still top performance (i know build quality is bad, but since i take care of my laptops im pretty certain i wont brake anything), much quieter (the fans that had to cool the desktop i7 in the d900f were pretty loud at load, but dont missunderstand, still much quieter than the AW M17 i had and as i hear the current AW laptops - those are loud as hell), lighter and can be used on the lap

 

You plan on doing an SSD drive upgrade? g73 with SSD = pure .

 

You can see what ill have in my sig.