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Sold: T420 MB 63Y1989 w/ Coreboot -- accepts Ivy Bridge CPU

#1 Post by jaspen-meyer » Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:42 am

This is a nice upgrade for anyone with a T420. It's a standard motherboard whose bios has been replace with 'Coreboot', an open source bios. With this motherboard you can upgrade your T420's cpu from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge. The benefit is 25% better graphics performance and better processing performance. Also, you can run 35W TDP quad core processors (i7-3612QM or i7-3632QM).

The board has been tested with a quad core i7-3610QM, a dual core i5-3210M and a standard i5-2520M.

Other perks this motherboard offers:
- unlocked ram speeds (1866 MHz possible)
- unlocked wifi hardware (can use any wifi card)
- uses Seabios, so it should be able to run windows. I haven't tested it with windows.

Included is the original bios rom, a working fan and heatsink (FRU 04W0627) and an Atheros AR5B225 wifi card.
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T420 i7 3612QM seabios; T420 i7 3630QM; T400 Q9100 seabios; T61 P9600; T60 libreboot; x62; x60s libreboot, led; x24 xiphmont led

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Re: FS: T420 MB 63Y1989 w/ Coreboot -- accepts Ivy Bridge CPU

#2 Post by JohnD. » Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:29 pm

PM Sent. Thank you, John
Too many machines!

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Re: FS: T420 MB 63Y1989 w/ Coreboot -- accepts Ivy Bridge CPU

#3 Post by jaspen-meyer » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:47 am

Sold to JohnD.
T420 i7 3612QM seabios; T420 i7 3630QM; T400 Q9100 seabios; T61 P9600; T60 libreboot; x62; x60s libreboot, led; x24 xiphmont led

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