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T430/T530 questions.
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T430/T530 questions.
If I purchase any T430 or T530 regardless, will they take i5 or i7 based on sandy bridge or ivy bridge without worrying about knowing correct mainboard to support ivy bridge CPUs?
Worth buying "Discrete NVIDIA NVS 5400M with Optimus Technology" and power management works well to get good and long runtime even with 9 cell battery?
Will both T430/T530 run at FSB 1600 and DDR3 1600 using right memory modules?
One more time, can I use T420 and T430 heatsinks and vice vesa? I know better 2 heatpipes T520 heatsink can be used on T530 notebook for improved cooling over original T530 1 heatpipe design.
I like to to be sure since many information sources can be fallacious.
Thanks and cheers, thinkpadcollection
Worth buying "Discrete NVIDIA NVS 5400M with Optimus Technology" and power management works well to get good and long runtime even with 9 cell battery?
Will both T430/T530 run at FSB 1600 and DDR3 1600 using right memory modules?
One more time, can I use T420 and T430 heatsinks and vice vesa? I know better 2 heatpipes T520 heatsink can be used on T530 notebook for improved cooling over original T530 1 heatpipe design.
I like to to be sure since many information sources can be fallacious.
Thanks and cheers, thinkpadcollection
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Nvidia has better performance, so if you want to play games, decode videos etc., then it might come in useful.thinkpadcollection wrote:
Worth buying "Discrete NVIDIA NVS 5400M with Optimus Technology" and power management works well to get good and long runtime even with 9 cell battery?
If you get Nvidia, then you get both integrated and dedicated, hence battery life in idle shouldn't be affected much, but only when you use your Nvidia card.
If you use linux, you need to use Bumblebee to allow switchable graphics, if you use Windows, then you only need Nvidia software.
Yes.Will both T430/T530 run at FSB 1600 and DDR3 1600 using right memory modules?
My T430 with GTX 560 Ti (Now with GTX 670)
T430: i5-3320m, 8 GB, SSD + HDD, 1600x900.
T430: i5-3320m, 8 GB, SSD + HDD, 1600x900.
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Yesthinkpadcollection wrote:If I purchase any T430 or T530 regardless, will they take i5 or i7 based on sandy bridge or ivy bridge without worrying about knowing correct mainboard to support ivy bridge CPUs?
the chipset in the motherboard of those laptops support both ivybridge and sandybridge.
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Re: T430/T530 questions.
Excellent responses, now what about T420 and T430 heatsink exchange compatibility?
Cheers, thinkpadcollection
Cheers, thinkpadcollection
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Just a note - Win10 can't handle switching optimus graphics from the threads here.
Home - Win 10 MSi GF63 Gaming Laptop /Arch GNOME 3/X230 Tablet /X61 [Korean] - Debian 10/T60p - Ubuntu 20.10 Helix 2
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Re: T430/T530 questions.
Really? I have T410 with optimus running windows 10 very nicely that power management in win 10 is some better.
display driver is: driver provider: NVIDIA, nvidia driver is 6/29/2015, version 9.18.13.4174, digital signer: microsoft windows hardware compatibility publisher.
Cheers, thinkpadcollection
display driver is: driver provider: NVIDIA, nvidia driver is 6/29/2015, version 9.18.13.4174, digital signer: microsoft windows hardware compatibility publisher.
Cheers, thinkpadcollection
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Ahh OK, must have been an issue early on with win 10. Or i'm getting too old for this gamethinkpadcollection wrote:Really? I have T410 with optimus running windows 10 very nicely that power management in win 10 is some better.
display driver is: driver provider: NVIDIA, nvidia driver is 6/29/2015, version 9.18.13.4174, digital signer: microsoft windows hardware compatibility publisher.
Cheers, thinkpadcollection
Home - Win 10 MSi GF63 Gaming Laptop /Arch GNOME 3/X230 Tablet /X61 [Korean] - Debian 10/T60p - Ubuntu 20.10 Helix 2
Work - Win10/Thinkpad X1 Tablet Gen 2
Work - Win10/Thinkpad X1 Tablet Gen 2
Re: T430/T530 questions.
is there any other issues with non working express cards34 with upgrading to win10. firewire, Networking, usb-c, usb3, etc. ?Dekks wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:44 pmAhh OK, must have been an issue early on with win 10. Or i'm getting too old for this gamethinkpadcollection wrote:Really? I have T410 with optimus running windows 10 very nicely that power management in win 10 is some better.
display driver is: driver provider: NVIDIA, nvidia driver is 6/29/2015, version 9.18.13.4174, digital signer: microsoft windows hardware compatibility publisher.
Cheers, thinkpadcollection
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