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1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

I honestly wouldn't even. In that kind of chassis there's not much room for OCs and it'll be TDP throttled to keep it in thermal range. An OCed 970m will outperform a below stock 1050ti. Laptop you have right now is fine.

 

Also all thin and light laptops are LOUD as all hell. What laptop do you have right now? 

Ahh yeah. I currently have a Metabox P650SE, which is basically an australian version of the Clevo P650SE. Think it released quite a while back , maybe two years? It's good but just kinda heavy to bring to uni, and can probably only last 2 hours without a charger.

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5 minutes ago, flamer7 said:

Ahh yeah. I currently have a Metabox P650SE, which is basically an australian version of the Clevo P650SE. Think it released quite a while back , maybe two years? It's good but just kinda heavy to bring to uni, and can probably only last 2 hours without a charger.

 

2 hours??? Are you running on dGPU only? or Optimus? It's a solid laptop. I have the P650RS. 

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(Retired) Zbook 15: i7-6820HQ, M2000M, 32gb, 512gb SSD + 2tb HDD, 4k Dreamcolor

(Retired) Alienware 15 R3: i7-6820HK, GTX1070, 16gb, 512 SSD + 1tb HDD, 1080p

(Retired) T560: i7-6600U, HD520, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1620p

(Retired) P650RS: i7-6820HK, 1070, 16gb, 512gb + 1tb HDD, 4k Samsung PLS

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6 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

2 hours??? Are you running on dGPU only? or Optimus? It's a solid laptop. I have the P650RS. 

Cool! Uhm yeah moderate use would give about 2 hours, I use it very conservatively like bringing down the brightness to 20% etc. Optimus!

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Oh gosh I purchased it. I absolutely regretted it the next second. Oh myyy people!!

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On 29/03/2017 at 4:04 PM, Pendragon said:

I dont see why you would want to upgrade LOL. The CPU is faster AND the GPU is faster. LOL. You're literally spending money on a downgrade. 

 

I'm confused? Is the 6700hq a downgrade from the 4720hq?

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I'm confused? Is the 6700hq a downgrade from the 4720hq?

yes

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(Retired) Alienware 15 R3: i7-6820HK, GTX1070, 16gb, 512 SSD + 1tb HDD, 1080p

(Retired) T560: i7-6600U, HD520, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1620p

(Retired) P650RS: i7-6820HK, 1070, 16gb, 512gb + 1tb HDD, 4k Samsung PLS

(Retired) MBP 2012 Retina: i7-3820QM, GT650M, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1800p

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Just now, Pendragon said:

yes

Care to explain?

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Just now, ramo55 said:

Care to explain?

read the thread

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(Retired) Alienware 15 R3: i7-6820HK, GTX1070, 16gb, 512 SSD + 1tb HDD, 1080p

(Retired) T560: i7-6600U, HD520, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1620p

(Retired) P650RS: i7-6820HK, 1070, 16gb, 512gb + 1tb HDD, 4k Samsung PLS

(Retired) MBP 2012 Retina: i7-3820QM, GT650M, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1800p

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1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

read the thread

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10 hours ago, Pendragon said:

Not at stock, but your 4720HQ can OC. the 7700 is better cause it's a 3.4ghz 4 core boost so you'll need some around 3.6ghz on the 4720HQ to match it but it blasts the 6700HQ out of the water at a moderate 3.5ghz. 

 
 
 

 

If you are incapable of reading i really can't help you. 

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(Retired) Zbook 15: i7-6820HQ, M2000M, 32gb, 512gb SSD + 2tb HDD, 4k Dreamcolor

(Retired) Alienware 15 R3: i7-6820HK, GTX1070, 16gb, 512 SSD + 1tb HDD, 1080p

(Retired) T560: i7-6600U, HD520, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1620p

(Retired) P650RS: i7-6820HK, 1070, 16gb, 512gb + 1tb HDD, 4k Samsung PLS

(Retired) MBP 2012 Retina: i7-3820QM, GT650M, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1800p

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3 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

 

If you are incapable of reading i really can't help you. 

 

Relax lol, had the thread open from yesterday and was reading through it now and didn't refresh it so your comment on the speeds didn't show up.

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5 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

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How are temps on the 4720hq? Would it run cooler than a 6700hq?

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16 minutes ago, ramo55 said:

How are temps on the 4720hq? Would it run cooler than a 6700hq?

God no. Haswell is probably the hottest generation on the mobile side. These chips require intense baby sitting with tier 1 repasting and undervolts. Also the 47xxHQ series are notoriously flaky in terms of whether additional voltage actually applies to them. In addition there is a HUGE variance in silicon lottery on good and bad Haswell chips with some allowing for undervolts + 400mhz and others not even being able to hold stock clocks at stock voltage. So good luck. Silicon Lottery for the win here. They also had problems staying at it's turbo clocks but if you know how to tinker it right the 4940MX chip from the Haswell mobile generation is still literally the best mobile chip around (bar the 7920HQ, the extra 3% IPC increase from Skylake and higher OC potential pushed it past the 4940MX). 

 

BUT tl;dr even stock clock 4720HQ is WAY faster than the 6700HQ and a SLIGHT oc will push it past the 7700HQ. You can see why people who know laptops hate the Skylake and Kaby Lake generation here now hmm? 6700HQ's issues extend to Skylake's 6820HK where it's extremely power hungry and terribly binned with the BEST 6820HK chips barely being able to do 4.3ghz 24/7 usage (not benching here). My 6820HK runs at like 68-72C at 4.0ghz which is higher than I want it. I know with like perfect LM and repadding it can hit around 55-60C on good chips but no time to spend 8 hours bending a piece of metal. 

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(Retired) Zbook 15: i7-6820HQ, M2000M, 32gb, 512gb SSD + 2tb HDD, 4k Dreamcolor

(Retired) Alienware 15 R3: i7-6820HK, GTX1070, 16gb, 512 SSD + 1tb HDD, 1080p

(Retired) T560: i7-6600U, HD520, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1620p

(Retired) P650RS: i7-6820HK, 1070, 16gb, 512gb + 1tb HDD, 4k Samsung PLS

(Retired) MBP 2012 Retina: i7-3820QM, GT650M, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1800p

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I'm running a MSI GE60-2PE with the 4700HQ and loving it, sadly its combo'd with a 860M which is starting to show its age but trugging along. but yeah these things do get very loud and hot when running both gpu and cpu maxed. That been said nothing some headphones didn't fix :P 

I really can now see the point in typec/Thunderbolt for an external graphics card as with my system its purely the GPU holding it back. 

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as the owner of an xps 13 i high recommend it. and i came from a laptop with a i7 6700hq 16gb ram and a 960m to an i5 7200u 8gb ram and intel hd 620! and its just as fast with its nvme ssd and the battery is amazing

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