kahlo08 :
Hi, I would like to buy the newest razer blade laptop. When I was looking at their website I saw that the cpu's speed is 2.2 GHz with a Quad Core Processor with Hyper-Threading and a turbo boost of 3.2.
I want to buy this laptop for gaming. Maybe not hardcore but I want to play all games on max settigns with a decent resolution and good fps. Here are some games I will play. Guild wars 2, terra, blade & soul, battlefield 3 and future coming games.
But this isn't what I really want to talk about. When discussing with my father he said overclocking is not good, it can burn the processor, blah blah. But I did my researches and I saw that intel have a (fail safe) system that stops/slow the processor to not burn. I have never overclocked a cpu before. I want to know if cpus overclock themselves too if I need more power or speed.
In no particular order:
1. There's more to gaming than CPU muscle. Typically the GPU has a much larger influence on game performance -- but ideally you want a good balance between CPU/GPU. You appear to be talking about a pretty high-end processor (the
i7-3610QM?), so I wouldn't worry on the CPU side.
2. Overclocking is generally safe on desktop chips as long as the user's responsible. Overclocking's a little iffy with laptops; high-performance gaming laptops tend to have heat issues to begin with, and so adding more heat probably isn't a good idea unless you find that you absolutely cannot run a given app without the extra CPU horsepower. In your case, that problem shouldn't arise for several years.
3. Modern CPUs do have temperature/voltage failsafe mechanisms, but they don't represent perfect protection. Sometimes just the stress from constant and large temperature swings can wear a component out before its time. Consider a typical drinking glass: if you repeatedly take it directly from a hot dishwasher and put it under a cold faucet, the glass might not break the first time, or the second time, or the fourth time or even the tenth -- but eventually you will find yourself holding shattered glass.
So all of the above is basically my way of saying that your father (or your summary of your father's opinion) may not be completely correct, but he's more right than you think. You shouldn't need to overclock that CPU to play games adequately. The GPU is another question; I'll have to look up the razer blade ....
Aaaand is
this it? If so, you're looking at a pretty solid GPU, capable of giving you performance in the same general ballpark with a desktop GTX 550 Ti, if my go-to
notebook GPU source is accurate. You can check out Tom's review of the GTX 550 Ti
here. Keep in mind that the article is a little dated.
Edit: This GPU is incapable of giving you max settings in every game at your screen's native 1080p resolution. Most every current game should be playable at fairly pretty settings -- but pretty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.
All of that said, by the look of it, the Razer Blade is a little on the pricey side, at $2,500. If you really want to max your gaming performance bang for the buck, you might be better off buying a $700 or $800 (Edit: or even $1,000+) desktop machine and supplementing it with a cheaper notebook so that you can do schoolwork on the go or whatever.
Gaming on a battery probably isn't going to be all that practical anyway.
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