Time for some savage memes.
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Dad has finally let me operate on his laptop he bought in 2013. I put in an SSD and upgraded the ram in there a few years ago but he hasn't allowed me to open it up and do maintenance because it was the laptop he used to do all his confidential stuff like bill paying and buying/selling shares etc etc. Started complaining that it ran like ass which didnt surprise me since the thermal paste on it was harder than stale block of cheese.
The spec...
It doesnt say here but the CPU is an first gen i5 430M thats supposed to turbo to 2.5Ghz with a 2.27Ghz base clock but i found out that even in idle that it was thermal throttling to 1.1Ghz....
He sick of how slow the laptop is now and even more sick of it since Windows 7 is dead and he wants to upgrade to Win 10. He's left it in my hands.
I was cleaning out all the defunct sony bloatware on it and never saw it turbo to its full spec. It didnt even like touching base clocks. Ive updated to win 10 and ive managed to talk him into throwing £10 for a new CPU -- i5 560M which should be a 1:1 swap and should turbo to 3.2Ghz. I had a look at some of the i7 arrandale CPUs for the same era but even i7 CPUs were crap from back then. They were exactly the same CPU but with 1mb extra cache and binned slightly higher.
Cant find i7-620M's on ebay and the i7-640M costs almost £50 and comes from china for a 14mhz extra base clock and 26mhz turbo clock over the 560M that cost £10 and free shipping. I think i know whats more vfm.
Anyway. Trying to bench the tits off the laptop at the the mo but benches keep crashing because i think theres some sort of trouble with drivers - I did an 'upgrade' from win 7 to get the free upgrade to win 10.
I'll give driver reinstalls a go and see what happens.
