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- jjeffaamoon (2572)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGood customer 👍
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04 Oct, 2016
T420 running like the terminator
7 of 7 found this helpful Swapped out the 2520m. Expected some heat problems, also was worried about power difference (2520 was 35w, 2760 is 45w) but neither of those ended up being issues. The power issue was possibly helped by swapping ram with the lower voltage, and the heat was likely alleviated by swapping hdd with ssd, but even when running a movie off of the 2tb hdd in the ultrabay, temps don't rise much more than 5 degrees C. CPU hasn't ever had to throttle so far, even when running benchmark progs (highest temp reached was 90C after about one hour running CPU at 55-60%. Throttling doesn't occur til 100C from my understanding, but it hasn't gotten there yet.
Overall, i am very satisfied with this CPU. I used arctic silver #5. The laptop i pit it in is a lenovo thinkpad t420 with the nvidea GPU, which i should mention did NOT end up being a heat problem. The t420 also has an evo850 256GB ssd, 2tb hdd in ultrabay caddy, 16GB of 1600MH 8-8-8-24 ram, usb 3.0 expresscard adapter, 1600x900 screen, 3G wwan card, and now the i7quad so this 5year old laptop should be relevant for atleast a couple more years. My next and probably final upgrade will be an AC wireless card.
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