Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM Turbo question

6644kp · 21 Jun 2011 at 14:26

The standard clock is 2.0GHz but the Turbo brings it up to 2.9GHz but now question is do all 4 cores go to 2.9Ghz or only 1 core.

paradigm · 21 Jun 2011 at 14:42

Max turbo core frequency usually relates to one core.

DragonQ · 21 Jun 2011 at 14:45

4 cores = 2.6 GHz
3 cores = 2.7 GHz
2 cores = 2.8 GHz
1 core = 2.9 GHz

This is all on Wikipedia...

6644kp · 21 Jun 2011 at 14:57

i see that is pretty bad

Redmint · 21 Jun 2011 at 15:18

How is it pretty bad? Still get a 600MHz increase if all cores are being heavily utilised, which isn't that often.

6644kp · 22 Jun 2011 at 10:54

i'm just saying desktops easily have 4 cores run at 3+Ghz that was in like 2008/2009. Laptops still struggle to get 3Ghz 4 core cpu

paradigm · 22 Jun 2011 at 11:07

6644kp said:
i'm just saying desktops easily have 4 cores run at 3+Ghz that was in like 2008/2009. Laptops still struggle to get 3Ghz 4 core cpu

Try having a think about a few things:

Heat dissipation/thermal envelope/space for heatsink
Battery life
Longevity of components

Sin_Chase · 22 Jun 2011 at 14:05

How often do you need the performance of all 4 cores at full tilt on a laptop?

...never?

cmndr_andi · 22 Jun 2011 at 15:03

paradigm said:
Try having a think about a few things:

Heat dissipation/thermal envelope/space for heatsink
Battery life
Longevity of components

+1 With a 45W TDP mobile chip, you can't expect it to be able to hit the performance level of current gen 95W/130W TDP chips.

Also, bear in mind that a 2.0GHz quad core Sandy Bridge CPU will give a desktop core 2 quad or phenom II X4 (which is clocked much higher at stock) a good run for it's money in terms of performance and uses much less power (plus it fits in a laptop).

6644kp · 22 Jun 2011 at 19:49

Sin_Chase said:
How often do you need the performance of all 4 cores at full tilt on a laptop?

...never?

When your playing a demanding game such as Crysis or Bad Company 2.

Sin_Chase · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:22

6644kp said:
When your playing a demanding game such as Crysis or Bad Company 2.

Neither of which will max out 4 cores.

paradigm · 22 Jun 2011 at 21:57

6644kp said:
When your playing a demanding game such as Crysis or Bad Company 2.

Buy a desktop?

Never seen the point of "gaming" laptops.

6644kp · 23 Jun 2011 at 22:09

Sin_Chase said:
Neither of which will max out 4 cores.

acually bad company 2 uses up to 6 cores and crysis will defentivly benefit from a powerful quad.

plus i agree that gaming laptops are largely irrelevent but for the person who has to move about or just want something he move about the house then a powerful laptop can be quite useful

Redmint · 24 Jun 2011 at 16:00

Yes it can use 'up to 6 cores' however it will run quite fine on a Sandy Bridge laptop.

oweneades · 24 Jun 2011 at 21:34

paradigm said:
Buy a desktop?

Never seen the point of "gaming" laptops.

Start a thread stating exactly this over at Notebookreview.com, I dares you

Seriously though Gaming laptops have their place, if you don't see the point that is fine but others do. I enjoy nothing more than having a couple of rounds on BFBC2 at lunch on my M11x.

subbytna · 25 Jun 2011 at 12:33

6644kp said:
When your playing a demanding game such as Crysis or Bad Company 2.

who would play those games on a laptop anyway? Gaming is possible yes but laptops are generally for non gaming stuff... Internet etc...

Desktop PC's are still the way forward for gaming

...but I digress

Helios1234 · 25 Jun 2011 at 19:53

6644kp said:
acually bad company 2 uses up to 6 cores and crysis will defentivly benefit from a powerful quad.

plus i agree that gaming laptops are largely irrelevent but for the person who has to move about or just want something he move about the house then a powerful laptop can be quite useful

Clevo do laptops that use proper desktop CPUs, maybe he should have got one of those.

6644kp · 25 Jun 2011 at 22:48

subbytna said:
who would play those games on a laptop anyway? Gaming is possible yes but laptops are generally for non gaming stuff... Internet etc...

Desktop PC's are still the way forward for gaming

...but I digress

the poster right above you does

ofcourse desktops are much better at gaming but to each his own

ninja2000 · 27 Jun 2011 at 16:12

also the 2630qm is the base quad cpu. I have the 2720qm and it turbo's upto 3ghz under load. The performance is amazing. It blitzes the 740qm I had in my previous laptop and I feel more like I am using a desktop cpu than a laptop cpu.

Also the idle power consumption is amazing on these new quad cores

Hopnut · 12 Jul 2011 at 10:15

I just purchased a Dell laptop with i7 2630QM, but the specs for it on the Dell site did not mention Turbo.

Do all i7 chips come with turbo, or is it possible this machine will not have it when it arrives?

I thought the former was true, but am beginning to question my belief.

Cheers.