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T420 Socket Type
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:41 pm
by wswartzendruber
What type of CPU socket does the T420 have?
Re: T420 Socket Type
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:50 pm
by blackomegax
Research tells me it should be socket G2
Re: T420 Socket Type
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:37 am
by jaspen-meyer
Can someone confirm the socket type?
Is it a G2 or BGA-1023?
Re: T420 Socket Type
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:14 am
by axur-delmeria
The T420 contains a socketed Sandy Bridge Mobile i5/i7 processor, G2 socket A number of fellow Thinkpadders have upgraded the processor in their T420--at times to a quad-core i7 Mobile---so we know this to be true.
BGA 1023 is for soldered Sandy Bridge mobile CPUs, and is used on the X220, as well as the T420s, which is the slim variant of the T420.