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I present to you, the 14" T60/1p Frankenpad with 15.4" T61p motherboard:

Specifications:

'09 Penryn motherboard from T61p with Middleton BIOS
Intel Core2Extreme X9000
4 GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia Quadro FX570m (4.8K in 3Dmark '06 with a gentle OC)
100 GB @7200 RPM HDD (i should get a SSD, i know)
Intel 5100 WiFi Card (could be better, i know)
14" 4:3 screen with the resolution of 1400x1050
SD Card reader (i haven't cut a hole for it..)

Things that can be upgraded:

HDD => SSD..
WiFi Card.
8 GB RAM

I thought it would be fun to try, and it worked. I had to do a lot of small-scale cutting in the frame, but nothing that really weakened the machine. SO no problem there..
It is hot, however. The Core2Extreme is a Little too much for the thermal system of the T61p. So i will try to decrease the voltage, since the X9000 have unlocked multiplier (i suspect the processor to have a higher voltage than it really needs, to help when using the unlocked multiplier)
I still dont have anything to cover the hole, where the HDD is (and the ultrabay used to be). Any ideas would be appreciated.

It costed me around 600$ to build, everything included. I have a T60P motherboard, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, T60P cooling, T61p structure frame and some minor parts for spare. These could be sold too, to bring the cost further Down!

Pics of the monster:



Note the missing wall here:





Its alive!



The specs:



A post of the laptop inside:



The disk setup:



So thats it. The worlds fastest 14" 4:3 laptop.

Link to build thread: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=110323

UPDATE; Here is a photosession with my W500, showing the difference in size, ports etc:































I hope you liked it, and i really like my new laptop Even thought it wont replace my W500.

That's a beaut!
I have a lovely T60p myself with the highest specs (speed-wise) one would come with, to the best of my knowledge, but these specs (especially the 2.8 GHz processor), and the whole package are really quite impressive!
Very nice!

P.S.
What do you run on it?

thomase13 wrote:That's a beaut!
I have a lovely T60p myself with the highest specs (speed-wise) one would come with, to the best of my knowledge, but these specs (especially the 2.8 GHz processor), and the whole package are really quite impressive!
Very nice!

P.S.
What do you run on it?

I run Windows 8.1 Pre-Release. It runs quite well actually, no issues whatsoever.

Im quite happy with the speed of this machine, since it can handle my favourite games with some good FPS (when having this "gentle OC"). However it have a tendency to throttle when i run both Furmark and prime95 at the same time - however it doesn't throttle in games and such (at least i haven't noticed anything). So to some degree speed come at a Price.