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    good price for i7-940XM

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by usmc362, Jun 8, 2011.

  1. usmc362

    usmc362 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah looks like a good price. They used to be $1000+ a few months back (before SB came around).
     
    circuit, Jun 8, 2011
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    I'm sure you could find a lot cheaper one in these forums.
     
    Sacred_User, Jun 8, 2011
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    Good price but I believe that someone in the market place is selling q barely used 920xm for 549 or so shipped. If your looking to save some money I'd buy it from em.
     
    GallardosEggrollshop, Jun 8, 2011
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    Thanks for the post!
     
    TheHighlightGuy, Jun 9, 2011
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    faiz23 Macbook FTW

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    I have my 920xm for sale on ebay that I got from laptop monkey. ES chips are solid chips and the top bench-markers on this forum and others have been using ES chips for a long time. Laptop monkey has good chips that I have used in the past. Only thing is shipping time and possibly issues at customs to clear. Once you get the chip in your hand you should have no problem with performance or stability.
     
    faiz23, Jun 10, 2011
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    The 940xm has a higher binning, thus you can usually push it further than a 920xm. Most 940xm are capable of 27x multi on all cores whereas most 920xm can "only" handle 26x on all cores.

    But since you probably won't play games on such high clocks it doesn't matter, but it makes a difference in benching :D
     
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  11. faiz23

    faiz23 Macbook FTW

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    Plz do not waste money on the 940xm. I would buy the 920xm and a SOLID SSD. That exact combo would run circles around a laptop with only a 940xm. The chips are so similar in performance and you can see how easy it is to play with multipliers. YES you are right you might get a small bump in benchmarking performance but all that does is add .8421567" to your E-pEEN size and nothing else. :p

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/520311-multiplier-manipulation-xm-processors.html

    920xm benching at 4.205ghz on regular cooling no fancy AC, ice or other crap.

    CPU-Z Validator 3.1
     
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    Thanks guys, I gonna buy 920XM from laptopmonkey on ebay.
    Maybe keep money for upgrade GPU.
    BTW which graphic card is the best for P/P atm?
     
    dragonthl, Jun 10, 2011
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    The 5850m or the 6970m, depending on your needs.
     
    svl7, Jun 10, 2011
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    The only task I do that ever pushes my CPU to the limit is converting video files... During most other stuff(gaming for instance the CPU use never goes beyond 25-30%). For other tasks it's usually my 4GB RAM or the HDD(or the GPU if we're talking gaming) that bottleneck the performance. So if you have loadsa RAM and an SSD - a processor such a mine would almost never hold you back.
    Only hope I'm not totally wrong there...
     
    toltek, Jun 13, 2011
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