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ThinkPad X140e *** Mobile Gaming Netbook *** $300 NEW - Quad Core

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Hello fellow TPU friends!
I have not posted in a VERY VERY long time.
On my adventure to find the best bang for the buck gaming netbook, I stumbled across the 11.6" Lenovo ThinkPad X140e on sale brand new for $300 from "antonline".
Sadly the price is back to the normal $400+ but this model goes on sale all the time across online stores so keep your eyes open.



Stock Specs:
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CPU: AMD A4-5000 Quad Core @ 1.50GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD8330 @500MHz Core
RAM: 4GB PC12800 1600MHz DDR3L ***UPGRADED TO 8GB***
HDD: 500GB 7200RPM SATA III ***REPLACED WITH 128GB SSD***
OS: Windows 7 Pro

I spent $90 total for the above listed upgrades.
The SSD has to have a 7mm elevation to fit and the model comes with 2 ram slots, which is GREAT.
The chipset limitation limits memory OFFICIALLY to 8GB total, but 32GB have been tested and found to be working.

As soon as I received the laptop, I fresh installed Win7 Home and updated all drivers.
I was very VERY pleased, with the snappiness of the Quad Core AMD.
I felt like I was on my i7 4710!
Together with the 8GB RAM and SSD everything ran lightning fast.

CPU:
The A4-5000 quad core clocked @ 1.5GHz in this high end model (a slower 1.4GHz dual core model for $100 cheaper is available) is full of life. It handles multi tasking great. Surprisingly even single threaded applications are handled decently. AMD claims the new design gives an extra %15 performance per clock rate V.S. the previous generation.
CPU heavy games like Resident Evil 5 and GTA IV are handled with ease. Resident Evil 5 for example can utilize all 4 cores very effectively. At maximum resolution and texture quality and whopping average of 55FPS are achieved. GTA 4 on the other hand ran great only on all low settings with a great average of 41FPS. 1080p and flash is also no problem for the APU.

GPU:
Packed on the APU comes an AMD Radeon HD8330.
Clocked at 500MHz and 128 shader cores it is a real rocket for such a small netbook.
Scoring higher on benchmarks than the fast Intel HD 4000 (which is rarely found on a netbook under $500) makes this one of the fastest, if not the fastest GPU available for netbooks under the $500 price tag.
The new AMD APU chipset now allows faster PC12800 DDR3 ram to be utilized, allowing much faster transfer rates between the GPU and the main memory. (new 1600Mz v.s. 1066MHz DDR3 used on the previous netbook APU's)
GPU heavy games were also tested:
Tomb Raider ran on max resolution and texture and everything else set to minimum at an amazing average of 43 FPS.
All the call of duty games from 2013 and before run at 60+ FPS with max res and texture.
Skyrim also runs on all low except resolution @ an average 38FPS.
The GPU performance can be easily crippled if slower than PC12800 DDR3L RAM is used.

RAM:
Since most modern games are going to be running on very low settings, the 8GB RAM limit will not be an issue. I had company of heroes 2 and war thunder running at the same time and was able to switch back and forth with ease. Sadly no dual channel controller is offered with this AMD model, which could have given an even greater GPU performance. The faster PC12800 alone gives a noticeable boost in GPU performance.


Internet browsing and office is childs play for this hardware.
I thought of sharing my experience so far, incase there is some body else out there looking for budget entertainment. Lets not forget that this is not some cheap acer netbook either! It is a legendary ThinkPad with uncommon netbook features like Power-USB, USB 3.0, HDMI+VGA, touchpad + thinkpad trackpoint, a rubber bumper all around to protect from scratches and falls, a high resolution screen for its size that is matte (1366x768) and a world class keyboard.

Can't find a better bang for the buck :)

 
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Nice notebook... Lenovo does make some nice ones.

Your post, almost, seems like a cross between a "look at what I got and did", hints & tips, a review, an advertisement, and an antonline/Lenovo sales pitch.

You got it covered in a concise little ditty.
And, easily understood. Nice write up.

All you needed was some before and after benches on that SSD and memory.

I like pictures.:)
 
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Nice short review. Would be nice to also see some benchmarks like 3DMark, Cinebench or Unigine. One thing I am missing is battery life.

On a side note what i don't understand is why can't I find any 19W kaveri A10 / FX in a 11-13" laptop but only in 15.6". That cpu would be in a nice sweetspot of CPU/GPU performance and price when compared to an intel ULV
 
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The battery life is INSANE!
5 hours of Tomb Raider on high performance and max brightness.
The SSD, low voltage RAM and APU are EXTREMELY economical.

Which benchmark would you like for me to run?
I have a full version of 3D Mark 03 on hand.
 
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The battery life is INSANE!
5 hours of Tomb Raider on high performance and max brightness.
The SSD, low voltage RAM and APU are EXTREMELY economical.

Which benchmark would you like for me to run?
I have a full version of 3D Mark 03 on hand.

I have tested my Acer v5-131 with:

3DMark 06 - 3490 | 3DMark 11 - P374 | 3DMark Vantage - 1579 | 3DMark Ice - 20664
3DMark Fire 245 | 3DMark Could - 1877 | CB11.5 OpenGL 9.88fps | CB11.5 CPU Multi 1.23 Single 0.60

So any one of these would be nice. 3D Mark and Cinebench 11.5 for example :) You can download these benchmarks for free from TPU
 
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will do 3d mark 06 :)
what are the specs of the V5?
 
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will do 3d mark 06 :)
what are the specs of the V5?
Intel Celeron 1007U 2x1.5GHz, Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge), 2x4GB DDR3 - 1600 and i put recently a 256GB SSD but the benchmarks have been done with a HDD. I expect that the intel wil be slighlty better in single threaded benchmarks but slower in multithreaded and the gpu about 50% faster (maybe not in 06 but in the newest 3DMark). I bought it for about $280 refurbished 1.5 years ago
 
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ok I downloaded 3d mark 11 instead and got a 784 with a 1366x720 resolution.
is that considered good for a 11.6" $300 netbook?
 
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ok I downloaded 3d mark 11 instead and got a 784 with a 1366x720 resolution.
is that considered good for a 11.6" $300 netbook?
I think that's actually great. Twice the score my Acer got :)

Edit: That is actually a really high score. On the 3DMark website the highest for that gpu is about 600. Care to share a screenshot? :)
 
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Hmmm....that is weird...I do have the AMD beta drivers installed (v.s. OEM Lenovo drivers) and everything performance optimized ranging from bios settings all the way to catalyst control center settings. But thats almost a %30 gain!
 
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crappy video - just meant to show the high fps you get in those modern titles
 
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I did a few more tests:

3D Mark 2003 scores are MORE THAN DOUBLE that of a current
15" HP with a 2.35GHz Celeron Dual Core and Intel HD Graphics selling for around the same price.

Following additional games run with at least a minimum 30+ FPS:
-Company of Heroes 2 (very low settings)
-Battlefield 4 (very low settings)
-Street Fighter 4 (medium settings)
-Dead Island Riptide (low settings)
-Left 4 Dead 2 (medium-high settings)
-League of Legends (medium settings)
 
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GTA 4 on the other hand ran great only on all low settings with a great average of 41FPS
So... No problem for The Sims then?
You gave me an idea for a passive pc for my Sister ;)
 
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the sims should run on high settings just fine.
slower ram can cut FPS almost in half so just make sure you got PC12800 :)
 
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Damn, I got an older model (X121e) and was held back by the tpd of the chip to game with the HD3000.
 
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A4 5000 ftw
very underrated
 
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I would say that also for the kavery 19W APUs. Why cant i find the higher end models in a chassis like this lenovo or my Acer V5-131 with a 6 cell battery that lasts 6+ hours and for about 300$ :D
 
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I would have happily paid an extra $200 for maybe an extra 300MHz and a dual channel memory controller.
That would have been PERFECT.
 
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What you want my friend is a kaveri A10-7300, the thing i was bitching about :D

Edit: And i cannot imagine that cooling extra 2W when compared to my 1007u or 4W when compared to you A5-4000 is that much difficult so i really dont get it why I cant find that thing in a 11.6" laptop
 
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YEP it doesnt make sense to me either.
This is about as fast of a GPU as you can possibly find right now in netbooks.

Little update:
Left 4 Dead 2 runs almost MAXED OUT (2xAA and medium shader - everything else maxed out)
I forgot to enable multi core rendering lol.
The quad core is a killer when the game engine supports it properly.
I am hitting 60+ FPS in L4D2 almost maxed out.
8x AA and High shader causes 30 FPS.
 
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I just noticed a problem:

After adding a second 4GB PC12800 RAM stick, the system memory only runs @ 667MHz (1333) V.S. 800MHz (1600).
Both sticks individually run at the proper 800MHz (1600)
I took out another 4GB PC12800 stick from another laptop and same thing.
With 2 sticks in the memory slots, RAM speed is throttled down to 667 (1333).
My 2 ram sticks are identical to the model number.

What is going on?
Anybody have any idea?
Any software to maybe force 800MHz (1600)?
 
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I just noticed a problem:

After adding a second 4GB PC12800 RAM stick, the system memory only runs @ 667MHz (1333) V.S. 800MHz (1600).
Both sticks individually run at the proper 800MHz (1600)
I took out another 4GB PC12800 stick from another laptop and same thing.
With 2 sticks in the memory slots, RAM speed is throttled down to 667 (1333).
My 2 ram sticks are identical to the model number.

What is going on?
Anybody have any idea?
Any software to maybe force 800MHz (1600)?
Maybe it's because the controller is single channel or a limitation by lenovo itself. This behavior was also found by corsair

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2014/november/entry-level_laptop_upgrade
 
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so....many.....BADGERS!!!
Thanks I ended up finding that as well....
well...only 1 thing to do:
Get a 1x 8GB PC12800 stick instead.
I hate seeing unused memory slots, but until a modded bios/bios update is released, I prefer faster data transfer rates over anything.
Using AIDA64, except for memory write (increase of %3-4) the other memory performance tests dropped by %1-3)
Some CPU tests had definite improvements and some did not change at all.
I expect great results with the single 8GB stick.
 
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