AnandTech Sandy Bridge 2820QM review

Jarred also thinks the Asus G73 is the best thing since sliced bread. No doubt these will turbo boost better than clarksfield due to running cooler and slightly more efficiently but they'll still throttle back quickly in notebooks with mediocre cooling like the HP Envy and Macbook.

 

he is only talking about the cooling you can still have your m17 without causing a nuclear war, incredible isnt it?

and the envy 15 gen2 had a great cooling solution 3 fans on 1 inch thick laptop? are you kidding me? The kind of cooling that the AW laptops gets is impressive, the clevo chassis are also really great, but how thick those beasts are? how heavy they are? if they didnt pack that kind of punch that they do, they would be the more expensive paperweight in history.

the envy 17 and envy 14 are the major let downs of the envy line, although they are quite popular for some unknown reason

 

thats what i don't understand. envy 15 was a great laptop but it faded into obscurity for some reason. loved the 4 ram slots and dual cpu fans. wish they bring it back with USB 3.0

 

Well they're at it, they should resurrect the 20" HDX. That thing was a masterpiece.

 

wat the hell? Seriosly 16k on vantage with the integrated graphics solution? Something is not right about that.....

 

I loved the envy 15, dual fans for the cpu 1 fan for the GPU although not extreme beast gpu that you find on the desktop replacements, it was powerful enough for a lot of people.

The screen was marvelous, but I think it was too expansive to produce, and people demanded dvd drives, then we got the huge let down of the envy 14, which had it all but had nothing, a downclocked gpu, a dvd drive (they couldnt fit the sensible choice of blu ray, at leat with it you can have the excuse for storage) a great screen that lasted for a month, then they got the same screen that they use for their budget line

 

I would wait for Q3 SB Socket 2011, quad channel memory and six core to me its worth the wait. Its suppose also to share socket with Ivory bridge so its seems a platform worth investing, at least on the desktops.

 

What you need 6 cores for Abula?

 

Video Encoding and i kinda want to get into live broadcasting.

 

which laptops feature 2820QM now?

thanks

 

You do realize this is not true dont you?

The Sandybridge K series processors are about 15 to 20 more then their non K versions. PLUS, You cannot ever beat a sandybridge with an overclocked 920. The 920 clocks to about 4.2ghz favorably on air cooling(most users cooling) and the Sandybridge runs at 3.7Ghz STOCK. And at that speed it beats the 920 clocked to 4.2ghz. Some reviews you see are misleading. They did this way back when AMD made the Quadfather to compete with Intels Q6700 double dual core Quad. The Reviewers(all of them) had the Intel system beating the Quadfather. I was able to prove beyond a doubt that the Quadfather with 2 FX-74 processors beat a similar Intel based system with a Q6700(Highest intel CPU at the time) by 33%.

There is far too many advancements in Sandybridge fror the 920 to beat it. A 2600k Is the fastest processor right now. period. And it only costs 15 to 30 more then a 2600. And the 2600 also beats the 920 in most benches and if the bclk is raised to 110(which it can be without issue and without raising voltages with a premium video card) it will beat the 920 in every benchmark. It simply is a better chipset. Good thing is that the X79 will have unlinked BClK again. Intel did take away the ability to get a lower end chip and clock it to have better performance then the upper end chip sure. But they also made the prices a mute point!

I know I am a bit late repsponding to this post but I couldnt resist!
Also, the 2700k is right around the corner!

Take care

 

You do realize he posted that almost 10 months ago? Also, the post was before the review went out, look at the dates.