Sony Vaio AW11Z - Support for Quad CPU - Request

[lala2025]

Yes it could be because of the wire as it provides GTLREF voltage to the 2nd die (the extra 2 cores). Does it show up as 2 or 4 cores? Could also be the power adapter too, I believe the FW shipped with a 75w adapter which wouldn't be enough for a core 2 quad, could consider switching it with a higher wattage one like 90w or the 150w charger which is the most powerful. I did actually upgrade another AW (AW37GY) to a QX9300 from the T9600 and the 3dmark06 score was quite low, maybe because I am using a non original charger.

it shows 4 cores in the CPU-Z working together, the power supply is the original of the notebook and has 90w I don't think it's this problem, I did a test on youtube running 1080p 60 fps and it had the same performance as the t9600 running with some crashes being the q9000 quad core shouldn't have these crashes... At least it should run smooth on this youtube resolution...

[BootlegScarce]

it shows 4 cores in the CPU-Z working together, the power supply is the original of the notebook and has 90w I don't think it's this problem, I did a test on youtube running 1080p 60 fps and it had the same performance as the t9600 running with some crashes being the q9000 quad core shouldn't have these crashes... At least it should run smooth on this youtube resolution...

Q9000 does have very similar single core performance to T9600, so the main improvement is in tasks that use multiple cores like games. I would use h264ify chrome extension for YouTube, it forces YouTube to use the h264 codec which the GPU supports, and is also less stressful on the CPU