Anyone interested in an XPS 15 9550 mobo?

I'm thinking of buying a motherboard off ebay with the i7. This means I'll have an extra, perfectly fine i5/gf 960m motherboard lying around. Anyone here interested in such a thing?

 

Are you seriously doing that to "upgrade" from a Core i5 to i7????

And the reason I ask that is because the differences between the core i5 6300HQ and i7 6700HQ are hyperthreading, and about 300Mhz clock speed. You're not going to notice any performance benefit. As in zero. Zilch. None whatsoever.

It will force you to do a complete disassembly and re-assembly of a thin-and-light laptop. On top of taking several hours to do, there is a good chance you will damage something in the process, like one of the very thin & delicate ribbon cables. And unless you are a sub-contracted Dell technician repair shop, getting a replacement component isn't easy.

Furthermore, you're not changing the serial number of your laptop. That means that any future warranty repairs that require a motherboard replacement will be repaired using a Core i5 motherboard model (because that's what Dell's records show as being installed in that laptop).





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Ah, I didn't know that about the warranty... Hmm

I'm aware of the performance being almost equal at the moment, but I was thinking of doing it as a long-term thing for when games make more use of hyperthreading and it would perhaps bottleneck an external GPU...

 

If/when games start using multiple threads (or more threads than they do today), Hyperthreading won't make a difference. They aren't true "cores", so you don't actually do more computational work than a non-hyperthreaded CPU model.

The eGPU market is still VERY young. I think that the best move is to just keep whatever hardware you have now; wait for eGPUs to come out, and become readily available. And at that point, if you're looking for improved performance, consider buying a new laptop, eGPU dock, video card, etc. Because buying (and replacing) a motherboard for a simple Core i5 --> i7 "upgrade" isn't worth it at all.

 

Yeah by the time you need hyperthreading to run games your hardware will already be in need of an update. Save the $$$ and put it towards a new laptop a couple of years down the line...

 

What he says.

You're better off buying a I7 model and flogging yours tbh. Should you really want to do it now.

 

Does anyone on here know if the Thunderbolt port will support external GPU's? IE, Razer Core?

 

no one knows for sure. Lots of conflicting information from Dell

 

Yes it will, something to do with eGPU is in the BIOS but I can't remember what

 

The heat on the I5 are better too, I am not sure why but I am not getting as great of temp as the guys in the thread, and we cant undervolt as much as the I5 guys, generally around -155 while I see some I5 guys go to -185 that definitely help with temperature.