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I bought the Intel Centrino 6235 Advanced-N.

From my experience web browsing is possible. But gaming is not, I have extremely high lag spikes on 802.11n

5GHz worked fine in the past. I haven't checked this now, but I am throwing my 6235 away.

Going back to that stock Atheros chip.

Of course it's possible, I'm just not going to waste time on it if nobody is going to use it.

v2.04 updated, corrected something I forgot.

If anyone is seriously interested in going to v2.04 coming from a different version please let me know. Else I won't bother wasting time on it.

I doubt it would be possible. I keep googling until i find something

explanations

BIOS Upgrade - ThinkWiki

flashing EC

http://www.msi.com/html/pdf/How_to_make_a_bootable_flash_disk_and_to_flash_EC.pdf

According to MSI admins you cannot backup EC.

Bios and EC update?

So probably it's not possible at all.

Yeah sure.

If you have a i7 make sure to run prime95 while overclocking and monitor power consumption.

I have read reports that when overclocking too far battery starts to drain. 1000-1200mhz should be fine.

I would personally do 1100 max for daily usage.

If you turn off turbo boost you can overclock further. It's a 20C difference With a i7 probably 30C going from 2.1 to 3.1 compared to 2.5 to 2.9 on my i5

Trust me turning off turbo boost can help greatly with gaming comfortably. You will maybe have few fps less on games like Planetside 2 or ArmA 3.

This is just how I prefer to play games. Most will disagree on these forums. You choose how you play. Remember that

The only i7 models that work are 3612QM and 3632QM.

Longterm you might want a 3612QM. If the VRMs or mosfets have less efficiency you might have a 3632QM only being able to get to 3612QM clock speeds.

The 3632QM and 3612QM are priced the same.

Wholesale - Buy China Wholesale Products from Chinese Wholesalers on DHgate.com is the best place to buy a cheap cpu. Or ebay. But dhgate was cheaper.

The 3612QM is still a big win

I will post within 8 days the VRM and MOSFET model numbers.

Benchmarks ? can you do a speedtest.net for us?

As in it ships unlocked? Definitely not true.

If you use Intel adapters.

Make sure to disable Fast boot or hybrid boot. Because you will have bluescreens of crashing bluetooth adapters. I have this with my Atheros as well.

Killer Wireless N is best choice latency wise.

Like he said. If you are not a hardcore gamer it's not really worth it. Atheros is just fine for counter strike.

Skill matters. Not hardware. trust me

Disable turbo boost when gaming. Save yourself the trouble. This can drop temps from 100 to 75 easily. Turbo boost isn't really meant to be ran all times. It's just if the thermal specifications allow for it. I game without turbo boost and I haven't seen one game complaining.

Use this together with nvidia framelimiter in nvidia inspector. Turn off vsync as you like. And you got a nice quiet and cool system...

Get the cheaper one.

Apparently the 3612QM at 170 was the BGA version. PGA was also prices 230 euros.

I found the cheapest CPUs at Wholesale - Buy China Wholesale Products from Chinese Wholesalers on DHgate.com or ebay

I also ordered PK-1 thermal paste. (5g)

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Between 50 Euros and just .1ghz, I would just say get the 3612QM. The .1ghz won't make a realistic day too day difference and if you ever needed to boost it a little, while troublesome, you could unlock the bios and go from there. There should be only a little difference between the 2, since the 3612QM is already pushing limits that can explain the huge jump in price with the 3632QM.

Hope that helped.

I am really wondering what longterm effect is of the 3632QM being so close to the limit. I will take a picture of my VRMs and mosfets. Temps should be equal to 3210M hopefully

What would you guys pick?

3612QM 2.1-3.1ghz for €170 = 240USD

3632QM 2.2-3.2ghz for €230 = 300USD

Is that 0.1 really worth 50 euros? lol

Knowing the 3632QM is the real limit this motherboard can handle being a 35W mobo.

Maybe I should take the 3612QM also being easier on the mosfets/VRMs?

Can you make a tutorial on how you increase the voltage?

I made a guide for it. He read it.

@ErYani if you want I can teach you over teamviewer how to work with the clock table. Thanks to schranzmaster I have this knowledge. I can teach you how to move the index manually so you have a base clock of 1GHz. There are still few things I would like to go over with

nice guide, but that doesn't seem to work for the vbios of the 660m of the Y580...

It should work. GT650M uses practically the same VBIOS as the 660M with few minor changes.

If it doesn't work you are doing something wrong

Enjoy my kepler BIOS modding guide. I explained how to overvolt kepler cards. You never know when it may come in handy. Don't try this if you don't know what you are doing.

kepler modding guide.zip

kepler modding guide.zip

Mobo's are probably all made to run at 45 and the crappy ones are down volted to 35 to save on costs, you see simmilar things with AMD tri cores and or they want to prevent people from upgrading themselves.

Probably because the motherboard is not putting out 45w. Here's my 3632QM for comparison. Identical basically.

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Googled the 3610QM which topped out at 3.0GHz on all cores.

So yes it is true.

Why just not make 1 motherboard for 45W. It's much more cost effective than having multiple SKUs

Still considering that beautiful i7 over a haswell y510p

I tried already.

I replaced three obvious instances in the vbios of the 650M to match the 750M but didn't work.

I want to log the error message by nvflash but I cannot find how.

nvflash -6 con750m2.rom > log.txt

that was the command I tried.

You're gonna need to send it in for a motherboard or total replacement. Should be completely covered under warranty since it's entirely their fault. Running the battery gauge reset kills these laptops. Many, many owners of this and other IdeaPad models have done this with the exact same results. It's a serious motherboard defect Lenovo has known about for quite a while but never done anything for.

I thought v2.03 owners and later didn't have this problem. That's what I read.

Good thing I read this. I was planning to do this during next week or so.

I'm using the standard (120w) power brick. But it's only a single gpu setup, so I can't imagine it's drawing too much power...

Just go measure how much power you draw from the wall. I don't think it has anything to do with that.

If it were your battery would be draining at the same time you are playing games. At least that's what I read from other users.

Your mobo can support 35W quad-cores (e.g. i7-3612QM/3632QM) at full speed or 45W quad-cores (e.g. i7-3610QM/3630QM) at reduced clock speeds which match those of the 35W ones.

35W quad cores ftw !

Dismantle your Y500

Buy this:

BIOS Chip Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 | eBay

Replace that chip. And you are good to go.

I could do this for you. But I am in no way responsible for breaking things. Although I have experience with this. But there is shipping costs and risk of damage during transport.

This is still your best way.

My country has Belgacom BBOX2 most crappy routers ever. Limited to 802.11g and 100Mb/s I am never able to get my ASUS EAN66 running at 450Mb/s probably because of the 100Mb/s limit. I'm stuck with 54Mb/s

But if u want a supported card. A 6300 Ultimate-N will do from Intel.

If you buy the 6235 you get bluetooth. But this card was kinda unstable with every driver. Partially because of Windows fast boot. Having Bluetooth AMP turned on with this card resulted into BSODs with ntfs.sys. What doesn't make sense. But believe me I found the link after watching it for 3 months.

The 2230 has indeed a very high ping.

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Has someone sent svl7 the 2.04 version already ?

Hey guys I have the Y400 with the GT 750m and I really want to get rid of the centrino 2230, is this method recommended for my y400? I was reading the main post and it said it was also valid for the Y400, but I'm not sure if it'll work with the 750m edition (the method was made originally for the y400 with the 650m onboard)...

You can install a 6235 Advanced-N Centrino if you disable fast boot on Windows 8. Else you will have BSODs.

If I were you I would go with the 6300, which does not have Bluetooth. And it's also officially supported. No need for BIOS mod with this one.

Okay, so I'm thinking about upgrading my cpu in my laptop in a year or so. I have a Y500 with a i5-3230M, and I want to put in an i7-3612QM because it's a quad core. I've looked and it's the same voltage as my current cpu, and the same socket. However, I want to know whether the cpu in the Y500 is socketed or soldered in, can I take it out safely and put a new cpu in? Also, if I do put in a new cpu, what do I have to do to accommodate it? Do I have to get a new bios? Also, can my motherboard support a cpu that draws 45W instead of 35W? There are Y500's with cpus that draw 45W, so will it work the same in my laptop?

Thanks

The only way to know if your motherboard supports 45W CPUs is by dismantling the whole thing and look up the FRU if you find it. I would rather just buy the 3632QM instead. That 0.2GHz wont make a lot of difference.

bios: svl7 mod

vbios (ultrabay): svl7 mod

cpu: throttlestop (is it possible to overclock xxxxqm i7's?)

gpu overclock: nvidia inspector

monitor refresh rate change: evgapixelclockoc

ram timings: ????

any hardware missing or alternate programs to suggest?

Yes, Thaiphoon burner for RAM Timings. One disadvantage, you have to flash the SPD table every time you want to change something. So it's dangerous. I use it to flash known stable RAM timings on my desktop.

So shortly no. It is possible but going one step too far might cause so bad corruption being so unstable you can throw the RAM sticks away. And there is a slight change of the SPD being RW protected.