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    My Clevo W230ST is retiring soon, but its CPU is too good to just die.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by alucasa, Oct 21, 2015.

  1. alucasa

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    My 2 year-old Clevo W230ST is retiring soon. It will be replaced by Asus Zenbook.

    But the thing is that its CPU, i7-4700MQ, is just too good to simply retire.

    I know there are some motherboards for mobile cpu, so I am looking for those. I did find a few but the price was ridiculous, ranging from 250 ~ 350.

    As long as a motherboard has HM87 chipset and Socket G3 947, the cpu should work.

    Anyone got any recommendations?
     
    Last edited: Oct 21, 2015
    alucasa, Oct 21, 2015
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