Core 2 Duo Upgrade

[dsalyers]

For at least the current Intel 945 series chipsets, they will not take advantage of anything above 3.5GB. This is because the uppermost 512MB of address space is reserved for different devices. I imagine this will be fixed in the Santa Rosa chipset due out later this year.

But with a 2GB chip costing around $600, I don't imagine that many people will notice this yet.

[DavidNY]

Thanks for the SL9SD info, I'd still like to know the part number at Lenovo. Also is there a difference between "T7600" and "SL9SD"?

[csioucs]

What do you think about an upgrade Mobile Core 2 Extreme that is the X7800 or the X7900? In the future...

Will it work?

[brentpresley]

What do you think about an upgrade Mobile Core 2 Extreme that is the X7800 or the X7900? In the future...

Will it work?

Those chips are slated to be 800MHz chips only. Even IF they do run, they will NOT run at full speed (i.e. a 2.6GHz chip will run at a 667/800 = 2.16GHz). The FSB increase really does nothing for performance in a laptop b/c the caches are so big on these chips. This is just intel's way of pushing these chips and motherboards (i.e. by not making any faster 667MHz parts).

[sierra]

@edwin108

Hi, I own a T60 1954 with a Yonah 1,66Ghz and also intend to upgrade to a T7400 Merom, soon . Can you give some benchs, showing how big the improvement is after you chacnged the CPU? I am also interested in the 3DMark05, knowing that a TP is not for playing , especially not those with the integrated GMA 950. But it works anyway. I am just interested in the impact of the new processor.

Greetz

Sierra

[edwin108]

Sierra-

I am sorry, but I didn't run any tests on the old 1.83 GHz Core Duo Yohah processor. To be perfectly honest with you, there isn't much of a speed increase from the T2400 to the T7600. The only reason I upgraded my T2400 to a T7600 was for 64-bit support.

Edwin

[caffemusse]

DB server would primarily benefit from more ram and we clarified that intel chipset would still not support more. Oracle will eat your 3Gb-4Gb for breakfast anyway, why bother.

brent, you know you can just combine your work at the end and do a page numbering and bibliography then ? Might I add this is the first time I hear about a need in a top of the range pc to do word processing. Also I hope you won't have to send your laptop to ibm, since you sold your original cpu, as I understand ?

1) my dissertation has HUGE graphic files
2) combining everything at the END is absolutely NOT practical, particularly when you are under a deadline and need to be able to edit multiple chapters at once without hunting for another file
3) I paid 1/2 price for my T60p and it was built from scratch from spare parts. There is NO warranty on the system from lenovo. And that is JUST FINE with me.

Besides, I know more about the ins and outs of these laptops than 99.999999999% of the techs at lenovo.

Only chickens buy a warranty.

I couldn't agree more, not so much about the chickens, but the processorpower and high end system justifiability for wordprocessing tasks.
Seems that much of the community measures some standard load for word processing, when in fact this is a wide and unclear discipline.
I for one couldn't agree more with BrentP, since my recent thesis 180pp + with heavy graphics and what have you really stressed my machine.
Guess us solid office users (meaning those that explore the potential of office other than 'just' writing emails) can justify highend machines such as the t60p's for exactly these reasons.

cheers