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    Anyone use the 4930MX or 4940MX in the p370sm

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by yotano21, Feb 22, 2015.

  1. yotano21

    yotano21 Notebook Evangelist

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    I wanted to know if anyone had the the extreme processors on the Clevo p370sm or the Sager cousins.

    I just wanted to know what is the max speed people get from this processors running 100%. I am now running a 4700qm but I am coming from a 3920xm at 4.4ghz. Going from 4.4ghz to 2.9hgz is a bit of a let down but I cant complain.
     
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    3.9-4ghz consistent clocks I found.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Feb 23, 2015
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    About that, yeah. You may experience some variance on some cores, but the max turbo on these is what Meaker posted.
     
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  4. yotano21

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    Does the temps get high running this processor to say 4.2 or 4.4? I dont mind going upto 95C at 100%.
     
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    You will need a good heatsink and liquid metal paste for those speeds... and a good chip. I'd even go so far as to say you should use the P370EM CPU & Slave GPU heatsink for that particular CPU. The CPU cooling was worsened from the EM series for hotter GPUs, but the CPUs were hotter too. If you happen to have maxwell GPUs, the EM heatsinks and an extreme CPU are a pretty good tradeoff. Maxwell doesn't heat up; haswell can heat up and cool to its heart's content. But you're most likely going to overheat in a lot of situations at 4.2-4.4GHz with the stock CPU cooler, even with liquid metal paste.
     
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    It seems the cpu heatsink for the P370EM might be hard to find. Searched ebay and nothing comes up. I guess I'll give up on the 4930xm and go for a 4800qm instead.

     
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    Heatsinks are hard to find in general for sager/clevo machines due to their high end nature, getting it from your reseller or places as above is usually the best option.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Feb 25, 2015
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    Thanks but it seems to high for me. I have gotten heat sinks for half of that but with Alienware laptops. I am coming from a m18x r2 that I traded for a p370sm.

    I am fine with trading down on cpu and more than happy trading up on gpu. From 7970m xfire to 780m sli.
     
    yotano21, Feb 25, 2015
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    Well, as long as you're happy. A 4910MQ would be fine if you're not gonna hunt for a 4940MX.
     
    D2 Ultima, Feb 26, 2015
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    Indeed.. It might be a better idea to get a 4910MQ.. They seem to be much better binned then the 4930MX/4940MX and in that sense are more likely to reach 4.2GHz...
     
    TomJGX, Feb 26, 2015
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    Considering the range of frequencies you can reach, saving on the XM CPU makes sense.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Feb 27, 2015
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    Yeah the Haswell Extreme laptop processors are a disappointment.. Honestly the heat generation is absurd!
     
    TomJGX, Feb 27, 2015
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    Well partly that is due to intel adding the +600mhz option on the 49xx series.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Feb 27, 2015
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    Not hard...

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    your UPGRADE base for Clevo & Alienware notebooks - for NBR & Techinferno users always something special ;)
     
    clevo-extreme, Mar 2, 2015
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