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need a motheroard
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:40 pm
by cheappad
ANy of you guys know a good place to order a systemboard for a Thinkpad 600x 2645-5fu, 650mhz PIII? I found one on ebay but it's iffy.
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:58 am
by Laptop_wizard
any place else other then ebay has insane prices, i use gearmicro,
go to ebay and enter thir id into the community box. tell them rock_hard1991 sent you, they will really help you out.
gearmicro
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:55 pm
by cheappad
I contacted him through his ebay email & told him my situation. He said that I could use a 500 mhz systemboard on my laptop. It has a 659 mhz with speedstep. I was told that if I installed a regular thinkpad 500 mhz systemboard that my speedstep just wouldn't work & that it would just run full speed at 650. GO FIGURE. I'm going to bid on one soon on ebay. There are tons of those on there. Just not many 650 boards with speedstep. Thanks for the info. If you are intrested, read the replay to my other post about 600x motherboard. Later!
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:18 am
by pkiff
cheappad wrote: I was told that if I installed a regular thinkpad 500 mhz systemboard that my speedstep just wouldn't work & that it would just run full speed at 650.
I don't think this information is accurate. If you use a motherboard from a 500MHz model (assuming that it will fit, and you can install it okay), then your SpeedStep CPU will run at its lower speed by default (500MHz), not its highest speed (650MHz).
This is what bhtooefer says in your
other thread about the 600x systemboard and I think bhtoofer is correct.
Phil.