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Does anyone know? PGA socket-M or BGA? If it's PGA, we can upgrade our T60s with Core 2 duo!

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... spx?i=2808

Kel Ghu wrote:Does anyone know? PGA socket-M or BGA? If it's PGA, we can upgrade our T60s with Core 2 duo!

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... spx?i=2808

From what I have heard, on these forums, the T60 series are socketed, not the BGA soldered type, and since I believe the motherboards are all either PM or GM, we should be able to drop in any of the Core 2 Duo chips, as long as we get a BIOS upgrade, of course.

Its worth noting though that its a minimal preformance increase for the price of buying a new chip. Maybe at the launch of the Core 3 Duo

Its PGA but the TDP is higher on the Core 2 Duo so power and thermal wise may cause an issue possible?

snife wrote:Its PGA but the TDP is higher on the Core 2 Duo so power and thermal wise may cause an issue possible?

The fan will just run as much as it needs to, and the system will slow the processor if it gets too hot. Probably not a problem.

jjesusfreak01 wrote:The fan will just run as much as it needs to.

In my experience, the fan already runs a lot more than it needs to!

I checked with CPU-Z - I've got a PM motherboard, so it can use Core 2 duo's. Also, if you check the Thinkpad T60(p) hardware manual, you can see how to replace the CPU.

If you use CPU-Z, it also says : mPGA-479m, so I think we can replace the current core duo's with core 2 duo's..

Anthony S wrote:

jjesusfreak01 wrote:The fan will just run as much as it needs to.

In my experience, the fan already runs a lot more than it needs to!

Have you checked out BIOS 1.09 - it should help the fan turn off more or run slower in certain power schemes