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    My new T430. Now what?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by icecream12345, Jul 6, 2012.

  1. icecream12345

    icecream12345 Notebook Guru

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    I just got my T430! woohooo! And now I'm wondering what my first steps are.
    I'm making my factory pre-load recovery disks right now.
    I've been recommended to do a benchmark test but I'm not sure where I can find one. Can you recommmend me a good free benchmark test I can use?

    Are there anything else that I should be doing?
     
    icecream12345, Jul 6, 2012
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    Nrbelex Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    If you want to run benchmarks, perhaps run these: Lenovo ThinkPad T430: Performance

    Otherwise, you'll probably want to remove any bloat that was included and just start using it!
     
    Nrbelex, Jul 6, 2012
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  3. PatchySan

    PatchySan Om Noms Kit Kat

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    If you haven't done so, with the Power Manager you can setup charging thresholds to prolong the battery life. I set mine 35% to 95% personally but feel free to tweak to suit your own preference.
     
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    icecream12345 Notebook Guru

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    Hi, I just did two benchmarks so far.
    wPrime 32M Score 16.412sec
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    SCORE 2731 PCMarks with Generic VGA(1x) and Intel Core i5-3360M Processor

    Processor
    Intel Core i5-3360M Processor
    Processor clock 2793 MHz

    Are these what I should be getting?
     
    icecream12345, Jul 6, 2012
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  5. icecream12345

    icecream12345 Notebook Guru

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    bump
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    icecream12345, Jul 7, 2012
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    Those look about right, although for PCMarks it depends which version you ran. I assume you benchmarked using PCMarks 7? In any case, don't worry and just start using your computer!
     
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    Do a couple drop tests and if it dies it's defective. :p

    All joking aside, if you want to run a few stress tests for a few hours to make sure the hardware can actually take it (I like OCCT Linpack + Furmark). I would also inspect it physically for anything weird. But yeah, aside from that, it should be good to use aside from uninstalling or installing stuff.
     
    kirayamato26, Jul 7, 2012
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