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    New Lenovo bios bringing ivy bridge to Ex20 series?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by noric, Aug 22, 2013.

  1. noric

    noric Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,
    I stumbled upon this auction on the eBay and it seems there are others similar. It appears to be a Lenovo E520 featuring an i5-3210M and it's not a typo, since the seller explicitly states that's ivy bridge and not sandy and comes with the HD4000 graphics.
    Could this be related to the newly released (March 2013) bios update from Lenovo?
     
    noric, Aug 22, 2013
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  2. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Well, OEM's were shipping HM76/77 equipped notebooks with Sandy Bridge CPU's to keep prices down. Those are easily upgradable to Ivy Bridge.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Aug 22, 2013
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    noric Notebook Consultant

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    Well, this is something different: this is a Lenovo E520, i.e. a sandy bridge platform notebook. It features the HM65 chipset and always came with a SB cpu up to now.
    Ivy bridge cpus are compatible with SB chipsets, but a bios update is required from the manufacturer's side.
     
    noric, Aug 23, 2013
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