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Top-specced X200/X201 questions
Top-specced X200/X201 questions
I am just digging in X20x area lately.
What I have found is a top X201s and a couple of mobos for X201. The boards I can source are i5-580m i5-560m and i7-620m (so all the 3 best non-51nb units).
And here comes the question: what impact do those have on battery life or heat? I've found i5-520m unit very hot; way more than P8600/P8700 in X200, and am digging if i5-580m or i7-620m are even worse.
I was thnking the low voltage in X201s will do any better. Well it does not, it runs hotter than X201 while for some reason performing worse than i5-520m in the terms of GPU. This is most likely de to reasonably higher GPU clocks on the non-low-voltage chip. Some may ask: why do you need graphics on X201? Well, the answer is, because I like to play some older games when having some spare time
Another thing: is it possible to check whether X200 LCD is CCFL or LED using only machine type?
What I have found is a top X201s and a couple of mobos for X201. The boards I can source are i5-580m i5-560m and i7-620m (so all the 3 best non-51nb units).
And here comes the question: what impact do those have on battery life or heat? I've found i5-520m unit very hot; way more than P8600/P8700 in X200, and am digging if i5-580m or i7-620m are even worse.
I was thnking the low voltage in X201s will do any better. Well it does not, it runs hotter than X201 while for some reason performing worse than i5-520m in the terms of GPU. This is most likely de to reasonably higher GPU clocks on the non-low-voltage chip. Some may ask: why do you need graphics on X201? Well, the answer is, because I like to play some older games when having some spare time
Another thing: is it possible to check whether X200 LCD is CCFL or LED using only machine type?
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Re: Top-specced X200/X201 questions
No, the MTM program gives no indication.
Use this PSREF for withdrawn laptops: http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF ... k_2013.pdf
According to that PSREF, some X200/X200s have CCFL, some have LED, but all X201/X201s have LED-backlight.
Use this PSREF for withdrawn laptops: http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF ... k_2013.pdf
According to that PSREF, some X200/X200s have CCFL, some have LED, but all X201/X201s have LED-backlight.
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Re: Top-specced X200/X201 questions
Question: Have you performed any heatsink maintenance on that X201 i5-520m? If you've already done so, and the temps are still bad, then the possibilities could be narrowed down to:wujstefan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:42 amI am just digging in X20x area lately.
What I have found is a top X201s and a couple of mobos for X201. The boards I can source are i5-580m i5-560m and i7-620m (so all the 3 best non-51nb units).
And here comes the question: what impact do those have on battery life or heat? I've found i5-520m unit very hot; way more than P8600/P8700 in X200, and am digging if i5-580m or i7-620m are even worse.
I was thnking the low voltage in X201s will do any better. Well it does not, it runs hotter than X201 while for some reason performing worse than i5-520m in the terms of GPU. This is most likely de to reasonably higher GPU clocks on the non-low-voltage chip. Some may ask: why do you need graphics on X201? Well, the answer is, because I like to play some older games when having some spare time
1. bad heatsink (heatpipe failure or contact issue)
2. inadequate heatsink -- toss-up between design flaw in Lenovo (under-spec heatsink) or Intel (TDP computation was too optimistic)
3. some fault in CPU or board that causes higher power consumption (and consequently higher temps),
In any case, I remember an older thread about an X201 exhibiting unusually high temps. If you are able, you can try using the X201 heatsink on an X201s board, if it's possible.
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Re: Top-specced X200/X201 questions
It's not overheating. Just sporting casual temps for this system. It is simply way hotter than super-cool running X200
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Re: Top-specced X200/X201 questions
To be fair, the Core 2 Duo CPUs were very mature at that point. Arrandale (all Gen 1 mobile Core i series with integrated graphics) seemed like an interim design (patchwork might be a better word)-- while the CPU was die-shrunk to 32nm, the memory and graphics controllers were on a separate silicon die that's still on a 45nm process (!!). I can't believe Intel would actually do something like that.
But I'm glad that the X201s with an X201 heatsink isn't overheating. I have a conceptually similar Frankenpad-- an X60s Core Solo U1300 (1.06GHz, 5.5w TDP) with a regular X60 heatsink. It's known that the original X60 heatsink isn't that good (esp. when compared to ones for the X61), but it keeps the CPU temp around 50c-- it's actually a struggle to push the CPU temp to 60c.
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