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    150EM CPU Compatibility?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by J¤n, Dec 9, 2012.

  1. J¤n

    J¤n Newbie

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    Are all Socket G2 CPUs compatible with the Clevo 150EM? If not, where can I get a list of compatible CPUs?
     
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    jaybee83 Biotech-Doc

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    here u go: Socket G2 (rPGA988B)

    basically all CPU´s from the sandy bridge generation onwards are compatible with ur machine :)
     
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    They only officially support the core series though. Not the pentium or celeron chips.
     
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    then lets just hope the OP wasn´t going to "upgrade" his machine to a pentium/celeron :p
     
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    He may also be building is own system from a barebone shell.

    In some cases it can make sense to get a very base machine (low end cpu/4GB stick of ram/small HDD), access the majority of the benefits of the new platform and add to the machine over time as your budget allows.
     
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    I am planning to buy a barebone and use a Pentium B950 at first, along with an SSD from my PC and a memory stick from another laptop.
     
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    Be aware then that the pentiums are not officially supported so you may run into issues. I have not personally tried it, so it may be fine.

    Anyone else tried?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 9, 2012
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    well if push comes to shove, we could ask prema to manually add the required cpu microcodes into the P150EM bios :)
     
    jaybee83, Dec 9, 2012
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    Never trusted a pentium. :S

    Fun fact: we've got some office PCs with Pentium D's and Pentium 4 HT's.
    Guess what.
    A Pentium 4 HT performs better than a Pentium D with similar clocks.

    ...and both can barely cope with more than 6 tabs open in Firefox. CPU usage 100% and a slight chance for a sudden blackout hang.


    This of course applies to the old machines, probably not the new gen laptop pentiums.
    But pentium...thats not something worth buying. Not to speak of celerons....
     
    b0b1man, Dec 9, 2012
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  10. Meaker@Sager

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    The current pentiums are not terrible CPUs, they are just cut down core series, a bit like an I1, less cache, no turbo and cut down integrated graphics mean they are not the fastest chips in the world, but combined with a dedicated GPU, reasonable memory and then compared to the likes of the A10-4600M they don't seem so bad.
     
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    Yea, AMD should stick to video cards only. Their CPUs are nowhere near the performance of the Core series.
     
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    They need to execute the same as piledriver two more times at least.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 10, 2012
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