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Thanks for the welcome Not ever, I want a rockstable and long running system, that is capable to work on VM's or some emulation. But I think it aims in the same direction I used the latest drivers available at the Intel page for my test but this could vary if someone uses another OS than Windows 7 X64 or has more services running than me. I don't think this is becaus of the used WiFi card, but because of the used OS. Maybe I will have time this month to get OS X 10.9 up and running on the machine to test the battery time under OS X. This would be my first step before buying a card which could not work or consume more power than the card before I did understand this and that's why I wanted to do this as one of the next tasks. But I wanted to know if there is anything else you would suggest me to do I think the quadcore and eGPU has to wait because I use it only as a mobile replacement for my native 8-core Desktop PC I will sacrifice the RAID capability for more storage instead, this goes handy with the allready applied (and extended by myself) battery tweaks. As I mentioned, I read the whole thread before asking something which was asked 200 times before If I made any grammar or spelling mistakes I apologise for that but I'm not a native english

Hello everyone, After reading the hole thread (took me 2 days) I'm sure that this is the right place for me as I'm as techy as you are ;-) since a few days I'm a proud owner of a 2570p, Atm it's a redundancy for my 9470m, which has more advantages for me (higher resolution display, msata SSD, core i7 (even if it's an U mobile), WWAN, WLAN AC), but I already did some testing of what is possible with my new machine. the 2570p is set up with an Intel 520 SSD, 16 GB of RAM and an Intel Centrino 6235 WiFi card. The WiFi card comes from my 9470m, which has an Intel 7260 AC right now. I put it into the 2570p to test if there are any differences in power consumption and I was right. When you swap the stock 6205 against the 6235 you'll save 0,5W in idle and under "load" (surfing and downloading some files) the difference goes up to a maximum of 1W. I also tried the 7260 AC from my 9470m and it works too, but there was no better result in battery time. Also the HP un2430 EV-DO/HSPA card is working, but I was expecting this. Have to investigate which BIOS version I have, that was something which wasn't neccecary for me at first. Next steps I want to change on the machine: - Order an Intel 7260 AC card, just because it's AC and will give me some advances in the future - I have some heavy copper coolers which originally belong to some HP server blades, I will try to modify and apply them on the 2570P heatsink - Modify the Heatsink, I have ordered a second one from ebay. I will try to grind as much aluminum as possible from the cooler and want to apply cooper instead. This would deliver a better cooling I think - apply a cooper shim below the heatsink, I think about a 40mmX40mmX1,0mm piece. That's in my head for now, any suggestions what I could do next?