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R60 CPU Upgrade

#1 Post by Harryc » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:09 pm

I don't read about too many R6X or T6X CPU upgrades here..I suppose because folks are worried about their warranties. As we see these recent machines go out of warranty though (in the next year or less for some T60's) hopefully some experimentation will begin in earnest. Anyway, I just put a Core 2 Duo in my R60 after flashing the BIOS to the latest version. It works great!

From: INTEL CORE DUO T2400 1.83GHZ/2MB/667MHZ (FRU41W1134)

To: INTEL CORE 2 DUO T7200 2GHz/4MB/667 (SL9SF)

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#2 Post by beGi » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:17 am

Thanks for info, I'm considreing for a while to upgrade my CPU. Glad to know that everything went "painless", since my model is very similar to yours....

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#3 Post by Harryc » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:40 am

Good luck beGi. I forgot to mention that you need a revision 3 systemboard. Use cpu-z to verify...
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#4 Post by Brad » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:41 am

On a T60p I went from a T2500 to a T7600.

I had used the T2500 for 8 months and now the T7600 for 3 months. The performance boost is nice. I am still wondering if it is a worthwhile upgrade economically. The only reason I even thought of the upgrade was Flexview availability.

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#5 Post by Harryc » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:43 am

Not sure Brad, I guess it depends on how much the T7600 cost. I paid less than $150 for the T7200 on EBay. Prices are slowly coming down on the older mermon C2D's.

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#6 Post by beGi » Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:10 am

According to this, the big price drop is to be expected on all "older" Intel's CPU in next month or two. I guess Intel is preparing for new AMD's CPU (and Puma, which might be interesting), and Nehalem is comming soon.... The new battle is almost here, the longer it lasts, better for all of us. Intel has weapons and ammunitions, time will tell what AMD has....

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