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upgrade from Yonah to Merom question
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:26 am
by EricRC
Anyone here has successfully upgraded a Yonah on a T60 to a Merom? Does the current version of the BIOS 2.09 from lenovo support the Merom? or only the 2.01 version surports it? I'm planning to replace my T2300 with a T7200, and i'm using the 2.09 version BIOS, is it possible for me to do the upgrade?? Thanks
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:29 pm
by edwin108
Hello,
I had upgraded the T2400 Yonah procesor in my T60 to a T7600 Merom processor. You need to have a revision 3 motherboard or later, you can find the revision number through CPUz (
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php). The BIOS version 2.09 works fine with it.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:59 pm
by EricRC
edwin108 wrote:Hello,
I had upgraded the T2400 Yonah procesor in my T60 to a T7600 Merom processor. You need to have a revision 3 motherboard or later, you can find the revision number through CPUz (
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php). The BIOS version 2.09 works fine with it.
thanks for your info,by the way my chipset on my motherboard is 945PM, that should be no problem, right?
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:43 pm
by edwin108
Yes, the Intel 945 chipset series supports Core Duo (Yonah) and Core 2 Duo (Merom) processors
R60
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:13 am
by Rizo
I have a Rev. 3 motherboard
With the proper BIOS update would I be able to go to T7200 or T7600? or does the R60 restrict this in any way?
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:21 pm
by edwin108
you shouldn't have any problems if you have the latest bios, a rev3 mothermoard and a core duo processor already installed
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:55 pm
by Tony Chan
What's the main reason for you guys to swap cpu? Is it 64bit vs 32bit? Because I find that the small margin of performance gain on a new c2d does not justify for $300 or more.
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:28 am
by perry_78
Some of us just want say a faster processor if our T60 came with a slower one
I would consider swapping it in, if it didn't voic the warranty (mine is valid until late 2009, and the CPU runs at 1ghz for most of the time anyway), as I do happen to have 'extra' CPUs here.
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:23 am
by edwin108
i did it for the 64-bit vista support and to have the fastest processor
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:40 pm
by Rizo
I was researching on virtualization and thought my T2300 didn't do it. Turns out T2300 is fine its just the fact that I had an R60 instead of a T60. They disable the technology in BIOS.
Now I am not so hot on upgrading to 64 bit C2D since I am a linux user and that would mean another install for little performance increase.
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:55 pm
by dsalyers
Tony Chan wrote:What's the main reason for you guys to swap cpu? Is it 64bit vs 32bit? Because I find that the small margin of performance gain on a new c2d does not justify for $300 or more.
I just ordered mine with a Core2Duo. But, I wanted it because I perform research where having the 64bit registers is advantagous. Not that I can't do it with 32bit, just 64bits is nice. I run Fedora Core 6