T60p CPU upgrade

[txe5502]

I have a ThinkPad T60p with a core 2 Duo CPU. Recently, I have noticed that intel has come out with a new Core 2 QUAD CPU. Would it be possible for me to upgrade the cpu to the core 2 quad? I have noticed that the quad cpu is not listed on intels website as a mobile processor, but I know non-moble cpus will work in laptops, because I put my desktop cpu in my Toshiba laptop one time just to see if it would work. The only difference in the moble cpu is it has power-save functions. The only problem I had with the cpu swap on my old laptop was an incompatible front side bus speed. Would I be able to find a Quad core cpu that would have compatible bus speed and would be compatible with my chipset?

[cchsiao]

No. You cannot swap the CPU in T60p this way since the socket for mobile Core 2 Duo is totally different from the one for desktop Core 2 Duo/Quad. The reason for you can do this before is that few years ago, mobile Pentium III and Pentium 4 are pin compatible to desktop Pentium III and Pentium 4, but it's no longer the case now. Moreover, the "new" Core 2 Duo (the one used in platform Santa Rosa, or T61/R61) is also pin imcompatible with the one you can use on T60p. When you upgrade the CPU on your T60p, please make sure that you are not buying T7x00 for x an odd number. In other words, the only CPUs you can choose to upgrade for your T60p are: T7200, T7400 and T7600. (I don't think T5600 is an upgrade, isn't it? )

[wswartzendruber]

And here I am thinking I'm the man for putting a T7200 in my machine when it had a T2300.

[perry_78]

Hmm, you sure about that? I would have thought the 945 chipset can handle 800fsb, but I'm not really all that into notebook chipsets.

[brentpresley]

Not EVER going to happen with current chips.

1) Mobile chips have 478 pins (in a 479 hole socket). Desktop chips don't HAVE pins (pins are now on the motherboard) and instead have 775 "pads" to connect with the pins on the motherboard socket.

2) Quads pump out TWICE the heat. There is not a cooling solution MADE for laptops that can adequately handle the heat produced by these.



It is REMOTELY possible that when Intel shrinks the process for the Core 2 chips later this year, you MIGHT see a Quad core for laptops (process shrink = smaller, faster chips that produce less heat). But there has been NO public disclosure that this is going to happen.