Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
Forgot to add that a friend of mine overclocked his ssus g73 core i5 430M to 2,9Ghz (turbo mode freq heh lol, or else it's making some 4.5ghz turbos lol) by using SetFSB as bronsky said. He got some instabilities so he went back to 2,8 ghz peaking and it seems fine. Anyway the overclocking margin will depend of how good the envy cooling system is.
Just fyi on asus laptops the feature of overclocking called "turbo33" is obtained by the very same means : increasing the fsb from 133 to 143 for example on a i520 gives a boost to a 3,1 ghz peak. But don't go raising the fsb by 33% it will not work as the fsb increase is not linear with the clock speed of the cpu, just use setFSB and raise the fsb ONE hz per ONE hz untill you reach the level of the 540m for example. Then check the temperature loads under a heavy benchmark, then play some game for a few hours while monitoring temperatures (cpus shouldn't go past 80°C, 90°C at max), and if nothing goes wrong there, you've managed the o/c.
But as said previously there are concerns with the envy 14 cooling system which is only one sided. I doubt it will be overclockable by more than a couple of 100hz at peak frequency because heat will be an issue. That said 430m to 520m or 520m to 540m should be easily reached. If the cooling system is good enough for HP to give 620m as an option I guess 540m => 620m will be possible.
But there again, the perf gain between a 520m and a 620m is rather small, and if you want a lot more 3D power, its easier and way more performance productive to overclock the graphic card instead of the CPU. (Rivatuner does wonder for that, it only overclocks the graphic card when you're in the game, a Alt-Tab or anything and you're back to stock/standby frequencies.)
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I hope so, did not found anything which sais otherwise.
Yes, you are right, I forgot to add. But since Yingiz Cashback inherits to the person who invited you (which was my wife actually
), I will earn another 7% of the 5%:
1.299 EUR price
-5% HP coupon
=1.234,05 EUR
- 0,76 * 5% Yingiz cashback (41,34)
Total: 1.192,71 EUR
I know, this is not terribly much discount, but better than nothing.
Here is an even cheaper store: http://www.aibach.com/_fenster.php?...&sortierung_hersteller=&sortierung_kategorie= (1.188,95 with shipping costs)
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HP sais within 4 weeks, cyberport.de sais "available from july 1st" and a third shop sais "week 27", which is the week after july 1st. So I guess the Germans will be lucky to hold this baby in hands in the first few days of july.
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12 days...the finish line is in sight. Come on, turtle!
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Just wow on taiwan prices, less than price 10% difference for i7 QM over i5, +2gb of ram and slice battery ? just wow altough 1,857.36 USD = 59.000 Taiwan dollars
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Worse yet, they don't offer an I7-620M. The fastest dual core offered on the Envy 14 is the I5-540M. If you look at the DV6 CTO, the upgrade from the I5-520M to the I5-540M is $100. From the I5-430M is $150.
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I am also a bit confused, 2GB is very little, especially with the advanced processor..
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The Acer 3820TG owners who have I5-430M processors in their units have been trying to OC the CPU with SetFSB. What they need is the the clockgen to use in setfsb or the dev to support it. I'm assuming that your friend's computer would have the same chipset as the Acer. Does your friend have this information? If so, would you pass it along. I'm sure the Acer owners would be very grateful.
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Hahaha. Hilarious. I so concur. +rep for the smile value
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Well, it doesn't have an impact on performance, but it can still cause issues. Lowering the voltage lowers the switching speed of the transistors and if you lower it too much the switching time becomes longer than the clock rate and bad things happen. But luckily this goes away if you reboot usually. Undervolting is exactly the same as overclocking in terms of running the CPU/transistors out of spec, but people think it's safer for some reason. I guess it is safer though because you're most likely lowering the power/heat dissipation (although I'm not sure whether the lower switching speed might increase consumption a tiny bit).
Funny things, the more I learn about hardware the less I am inclined to tinker with my own hardware.
Oh, and for the guy looking for adapters for HDMI to VGA:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428#1042801
The displayport to VGA should work for you. Note that because HDMI and Displayport are all digital signals, you need an ADC to convert the signal to analog VGA, which is why these converters are more expensive than the $2 or $3 DVI<-->HDMI and Displayport<-->HDMI adapters.
Does the Envy 14 have both Displayport and HDMI? I can't remember if it does.
Oh, it's mini displayport. In which case you want this:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5107&seq=1&format=2 -
HP Envy 14: Availabilty, etc.
Discussion in 'HP' started by exi, Mar 30, 2010.
