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    Clevo W860CU with 920xm and 6970M in aid of 220W?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by King of Interns, Dec 7, 2011.

  1. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    I am starting to think my machine needs more juice than the current 180W brick can provide! Is this normal. I run the 920xm and 6970M OCed so I think the processor will be using 55W + amd gpu 100W+ doesn't take much to max out 180W therefore.

    Thinking of going up to a 6-51-X8102-010 PM170HM 220W adaptor that I hope I can simply hot swap the tip from my targus adaptor to as it looks like it uses the same 4 pin connector.

    Any thoughts?
     
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    NO!!!

    If you push it any further you will kill it; the board has very weak vregs. Friendly warning. :)
     
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    Bad experience?

    Surely the board will only take the wattage it needs right.
     
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    No, that's part of the problem. Myself, Rev and a few others have killed ours and you can find similar cases on other forums. Anything over 70TDP can be enough to fry it, the weakness is on the CPU side and that applies to all revisions.
     
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    Mine fried too but the cause was a metal staple left loose inside by the previous owner lol it was a short out that destroyed a chip and capacitor and damaged a gpu vreg. That was the feedback the motherboard repair company gave.

    I haven't dared stress test the cpu since though as that is when it went down... ominous!
     
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