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Great new laptop chip for XG and other bots

Posted By: neilkaz
Date: Sunday, 29 May 2011, at 5:46 a.m.

Ed O'L recommended the i7-2630QM chip to me, telling me that XG1 calibrated at over 1.9 million/sec even though the chip is spec'd at 2.0 GHz. This beats a stock baseline older i7-920 desktop running stock 2.67 GHz !!

Sandy bridge architechure is very efficient for floating point math.

And for those of you in the US I spent only $850 at Best Buy to get a perfectly suitable Toshiba laptop (665 series) that calibrated at 1,922,000 for XG1 and large enough to be comfortable to use noting that I don't have girlie hands and can't even key some modern devices with keys very close and small. Of course the kid/clerk at BB wanted to sell me all sorts of crap I didn't want and don't need but he wasn't sucessful.

The laptop also runs considerably cooler than my old HP from work and is 6 times faster for XG. (If you want to measure core temps use RealTemp 3.67).

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