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    Anyone seen the W520 170w brick?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by halobox, Mar 5, 2011.

  1. halobox

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    I'm curious if Lenovo managed to reduce the size of the brick associated with the W5x0 15" machines.

    Have any of you seen the 170W brick that will ship with the W520 and associated dock? Is it actually bigger than the 135W brick for the W510?

    I hope not. :eek:
     
    halobox, Mar 5, 2011
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    chupacabras Notebook Consultant

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    The W520 has a 170w brick? This can't be good, they probably are just using the W700 170w bricks then. And you can imagine what those are like if you haven't seen them before--just a scaled up regular 90w brick that weights two pounds!
     
    chupacabras, Mar 5, 2011
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    According to the dimensions posted on the lenovo page, the new W520 AC adapter is in-between the size of the old 135W and the W700 170W AC adapter.
     
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  4. halobox

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    #FAIL or rather #EPICFAIL

    I thought Sandy Bridge was less power hungry.
     
    halobox, Mar 5, 2011
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    yeah after someone posted that in other thread about 170w first thing came in my mind why new chipset need more power???
     
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    More powerful GPU?
     
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    That's a shame, the 135W is plenty big already.
     
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    GPU's are the same. They've been done with an 32nm or 25nm displacement.

    Renee
     
    Renee, Mar 5, 2011
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    The Quadro 2000M has 55W TDP in contrast to FX880's 35W. Quadro 2000M uses Fermi Architecture which is at least one generation more advanced than FX880. Hopefully the power draw will translate into performance. Higher end Quadros have 75w to 100W TDP
     
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    yeah the GPU has a much higher TDP. I suspect the dual core and lesser GPUs could use less power and smaller power supplies.
     
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    Which also translates into more heat and more fan noise.
     
    halobox, Mar 5, 2011
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