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T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 5:41 pm
by thinkpadcollection
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
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:48 pm
by kony
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?
Nvidia has better performance, so if you want to play games, decode videos etc., then it might come in useful.
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.
Will both T430/T530 run at FSB 1600 and DDR3 1600 using right memory modules?
Yes.
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 7:57 pm
by hhhd1
thinkpadcollection 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?
Yes
the chipset in the motherboard of those laptops support both ivybridge and sandybridge.
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 12:42 pm
by thinkpadcollection
Excellent responses, now what about T420 and T430 heatsink exchange compatibility?
Cheers, thinkpadcollection
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 2:09 pm
by Dekks
Just a note - Win10 can't handle switching optimus graphics from the threads here.
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 2:36 pm
by thinkpadcollection
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
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:44 pm
by Dekks
thinkpadcollection 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
Ahh OK, must have been an issue early on with win 10. Or i'm getting too old for this game
Re: T430/T530 questions.
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 12:19 am
by hansened
Dekks wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:44 pm
thinkpadcollection 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
Ahh OK, must have been an issue early on with win 10. Or i'm getting too old for this game
is there any other issues with non working express cards34 with upgrading to win10. firewire, Networking, usb-c, usb3, etc. ?