Clevo W110ER - turbo disabled - dual or quad core?

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Hi guys,

I am looking at buying a new 11.6 inch laptop for light portable gaming when I am with my friends.

I just want some opinions on the processor spec, in this particular bare-bones Clevo laptop the turbo boost is disabled... because the laptop is so small and heat with turbo enabled will be too high.

The processors on offer vary but in my price range I will likely go for an i7 3630m / i7 3632m quad core @ 2.4ghz / 2.2ghz; or an i7 3540m / i5 3380m dual core @ 3.0 ghz / 2.9 ghz.

Seen as I won't be doing a massive amount of encoding etc on this machine (I have an i7 3820 @ 4.5ghz for that ;) ); just want some other people's opinions on whether the higher clock speeds on the duals are going to make a big difference over the lower clocked quads in gaming due to the turbo being disabled.

I like the idea of an op quad core in a tiny enclosure :cool: but it depends in this case; eventually most games will use quad cores anyway so I am also interested to see what people think about longevity over the duals.
 
You need to give us more information. What GPU you have and what games you play most. What other programs you going to use on it?
 
I have a dinky 7850 in my rig for gaming as it does the job easily on ultra settings; which I use mainly for programming and gaming.

My current laptop is a Sony Vaio EB Series with a 1st generation i5 480m coupled with a low clocked Radeon HD5650. I am looking for a small portable laptop to take with me on my travels; with the main objective to play games, varying from the things like Battlefield 3/Metro 2033 all the way through the spectrum to Indie games. I have no problem with playing them on high or lower settings, but I want something that I can continue to use no problem in the future.

I might use my laptop for light programming and graphics design on occasion but nothing serious, and nothing I cannot just switch to my rig for.

I don't really need a recommend on a laptop, it is mainly a question about whether under the situation where the turbo is forcefully disabled, which processor would be better to cope with the rigours of a modern gaming environment. Would the dual core i7 with the higher stock clock speeds be £70 better than the i7 with the lower clock speeds but with the capability to deal with 8 threads as opposed to 4.
 
You can enable turbo with throttlestop to see if the temperatures really are a problem, or just to manually enable turbo when on a laptop cooling pad.

Clevo disable turbo on all their single fan machines. I re-enabled CPU turbo on my Clevo W370ET and overclocked the GPU by 270MHz Core and 450MHz RAM and my GPU only reaches 62C (the CPU didn't change with throttle on/off). Obviously this may vary on a different (and particularly a smaller) laptop.

You can use a Prema Clevo BIOS to overclock the GPU on Clevo laptops too. The 650m in the W110ER should clock nearly as well as my 660m.
 
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