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    Will Overheating occur in X505-Q8100X

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by depakjan, Jun 26, 2011.

  1. depakjan

    depakjan Notebook Enthusiast

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    i am going to buy a X505-Q8100X laptop, but i have read in many forums that it is having overheating issues and stuffs.. i like the laptop very much only that this overheating is my main concern and the repairs take 2 months .. WTH after spending 1200 $ , i cannot end up facing such issues.. so i am in dileme between DEll XPS 17 or this ... please help me with this
     
    depakjan, Jun 26, 2011
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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    Overheating was a problem on the Qosmio x505 q870-880 series. The problem was the inferior nvidia GTS 360m GPU; the GTS 360m is an overclocked GTS 260m [hence the problem]
    Actually, just about any laptop that had the GTS 360m GPU had overheating problems, hence why Toshiba quickly launched the GTX 460m versions [q890s and q8100s].

    The current offerings of x505s are very good. The GTX 460m GPU maxes out at 70-73 degrees Celsius; which is still very cool [I run HWmonitor while gaming; keeps tracks of highest temps reached]. I reached those temps after playing games like Crysis 2 and Dead Space 2 on very high, to MAX detail settings, for a couple hours at a time.


    HOWEVER, why not buy a Qosmio x770 series ? They just came out and have an even faster GTX 560m GPU. The i5 version is also $1199.

    Toshiba Direct | Qosmio Laptops & Notebook Computers


    Good luck
     
    alexUW, Jun 26, 2011
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    depakjan Notebook Enthusiast

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    OMG thx a lot for this info... i did not go for x770 because they are 17.3 and i thought 18.4 will be lot cooler :) ...
     
    depakjan, Jun 26, 2011
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