4 Questions about TP 600x (HDD, TV-Out, OpenGL, CPU)

[mordoch]

Hi all,

i have 3 questions about the TP600x (2645-4EG). I could not find any answers elsewhere...

1) Does the Graphiccard support OpenGL? Do I need special drivers perhaps?

2) What Harddiscs are supported? Does the board support UDMA-66? Is there a size limit?

3) What Video-Out-Module do I need? Is it equal to the 600E's one?

4) Am I right about this: The 600x supports MMC2-CPU's (Intel Pentium III) up to 800MHz with a FSB of 100MHz?

I hope thats too much for my first post
Thanks in advance,
grz
mordoch

[JHEM]

i have 3 questions about the TP600x (2645-4EG). I could not find any answers elsewhere...

1) Does the Graphiccard support OpenGL? Do I need special drivers perhaps?

Not sure.

2) What Harddiscs are supported? Does the board support UDMA-66? Is there a size limit?

Anything presently available.

3) What Video-Out-Module do I need? Is it equal to the 600E's one?

If you mean which TV-Out card, there's a separate one for the 600X series.

4) Am I right about this: The 600x supports MMC2-CPU's (Intel Pentium III) up to 800MHz with a FSB of 100MHz?

Yes, except the max processor in an MMC-2 module is a PIII 850MHz.

(BTW, that's 4 questions! But there's no extra charge. )

Regards,

James

[mordoch]

Anything presently available.

U mean even UDMA-5 etc. is supported?

If you mean which TV-Out card, there's a separate one for the 600X series.

If so, what about this one: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... eName=WD2V


Thanks a lot for your quick answers!

Grz, mordoch

[JHEM]

U mean even UDMA-5 etc. is supported?

Ja.

If so, what about this one: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... eName=WD2V

Ja, das geht, aber es wahr fur den 600E. The newer one for the 600X series is: 10L1352.

Let me know if you need one of the TV-out cables, I've got a few extra.

Regards,

James

[mdbrown]

To the best of my rather meager knowledge, all 600x machines came with the Neomagic MagicGraph256ZX. This chip has no opengl support. It is not a 3d hardware accelerator.... not a gaming chip at all.

[Guest]

You answered to my harddisk-question:

Anything presently available.

i bought a 30gb samsung HD, but it only runs on UDMA-33...

i'm using windows xp, and tried to install the intel chipset drivers. but they did not install, saying there's no need to update chipset drivers.

can s.o. help me?

thx
mordoch

[Bruce Guttman]

wrt your disk ...

JHEM was correct in that you can use any hard drive in the Thinkpad 600X, but it only recognizes UDMA-33. Much like SCSI, the IDE drives operate at the lowest common denominator so the fancy drive works at the pedestrian speed of the computer.

Hope this helps.

[mordoch]

Ok, thx...
i was just a little confused as JHEM answered 'yes' to my question, if UDMA-5 is _supported_. That's why i thought the 600X is capable of the UDMA-5 mode.
It works fine with my new Harddisk (Samsung MP0302H), though it's in UDMA-2 mode.

System summary tools like 'SiSoft Sandra' or 'Aida32' report UDMA-4 as the highest possible mode. I suggest thats not correct after what you said?

I'm sorry for my bad english, i hope you understand what i try to say

grz
mordoch