Asus G46vw Upgraded with I7 3820qm - working good so far

[JwPwns]

Good news guys 😄 I've installed my I7 3820qm today in my G46 and it's working at stable temps of 36c-46c along with some awesome benchmark but I don't think the CPU is on it's full potential since i saw benchmarks on I7 3820qm scoring somewhat higher than mine

[Hasuko]

G46vw with 3820QM full load and temp cpu just 36-46*C o.O

[JwPwns]

yeah i was surprised too! i expected it would go to 50 - 60s, but rather it stayed same as my old i5, i will try other temp and benchmark programs tmr to make sure it's right

[be77solo]

JwPwns wrote:
yeah i was surprised too! i expected it would go to 50 - 60s, but rather it stayed same as my old i5, i will try other temp and benchmark programs tmr to make sure it's right

You should be getting higher temps than that, my i7-3630qm will hit upper 70's across the cores after a good hard gaming (Crysis3,X-Plane10,BF3,FC3, Planetscape2, etc) or benchmark (3Dmark11 or the new 3DMark, Intel burn test, etc) session that pushes the CPU to 90%+ utilization. I'd be curious if you are throttling or aren't getting full potential or might be voltage limited... I was told that our motherboards lack the third power circuit when I posted pictures of my upgrade over on NBR and the gentleman that noticed and commented said he would be hesitant of putting in the higher end i7's.... but I have no idea why.

What is your CPU physics score in 3DMark11? If I recall properly mine almost doubled from the i5's performance. When I compare my results online in the benchmark my CPU is right where it should be, it's a good gauge as to if its running properly.

I'd recommend loading up HWinfo64 to monitor temps and load/utilization/voltage and do some more testing during benchmarks and gaming... I'd be curious how it compares to mine, I've got some screenshots of my runs. Mine idles in that range, upper 30's-lower 40's, but under full load it's well into the 60's-70's, occasionally hitting about 80 when maxed out stress testing. Performance is great though speed wise.

Keep us posted!

[shadowguardian0]

Hasuko wrote:
G46vw with 3820QM full load and temp cpu just 36-46*C o.O

How did you get that picture in your sig?

[rewben]

nice 🙂

may i know where to get the cpu? im gonna get one soon

[JwPwns]

rewben wrote:
nice 🙂

may i know where to get the cpu? im gonna get one soon

I got mine off a friend who took it out of his laptop, but before this i have been looking at ebay

[ggBanks]

How many watts does that CPU use?

[rewben]

ggBanks wrote:
How many watts does that CPU use?

45w from what i've learned.

[rewben]

wow; nice 🙂