Thanks guys.
After a few months I'm very happy with the mod.
Murphy's law struck though. My hard drive developed problems and when I contacted Asus's repair contractor they wanted my entire laptop. I tried to offer to give them just the drive from my laptop, but they weren't interested. I've still got 2 more of their contractors I can ask.
Regarding performance. The difference is amazing.
My CPU usage graph used to look like spaghetti, now it can peg at 100%. I've been compiling HHVM now for a few minutes with 8 threads utilized, and CPU temp is sitting at a safe 75C.
After a few months I'm very happy with the mod.
Murphy's law struck though. My hard drive developed problems and when I contacted Asus's repair contractor they wanted my entire laptop. I tried to offer to give them just the drive from my laptop, but they weren't interested. I've still got 2 more of their contractors I can ask.
Regarding performance. The difference is amazing.
My CPU usage graph used to look like spaghetti, now it can peg at 100%. I've been compiling HHVM now for a few minutes with 8 threads utilized, and CPU temp is sitting at a safe 75C.
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