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Thinkpad 600E & 600X parts interchangeable?
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:14 am
by beecee
Does anyone know if the Cpu & fan assembly from a 600X will fit straight into a 600E to upgrade it before I strip it down ?
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:41 am
by tfflivemb2
I believe the answer is yet to both. I know that CPU will fit, physically, as both the 600E and 500X are MMC-2.
You should read through the sticky in this part of the forum, where whizkid performed some upgrades on a 600E, I think.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:27 am
by whizkid
Not me... or was it? :)
I know the 600E uses a PII running at 66MHz FSB and the 600X uses a PIII with a 100MHz FSB. I never tried a PIII in a 600E.
Not to mention the system boards are complete different. I don't have a 600E any more, but I wouldn't be surprised either way... that the fan assembly either does or doesn't fit.
You can get a rough idea from the HMM's as to how the parts look, but I'm sure others have tried this, so I'll wait for their answers.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:34 am
by tfflivemb2
OK, my mistake. It must have been the 600X that you upgraded beyond the original limit. I didn't actually read through the thread again before posting.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:42 am
by tfflivemb2
Try searching for both terms 600E & upgrade, in the Thinkpad 770, 600 Series & Transnote portion of the forum and you will some info on this upgrade.
whizkid...sorry for the confusion, I believe now from performing the above search, that it was Laptop_wizard that did the upgrade. I think that you commented on something along the way, and it stuck in my head.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:10 pm
by 440roadrunner
I have a 600X, and recently found a heat sink/fan on ebay by itself advertised as for one of the 600 series--I've forgotten.
The point is, the assembly looked NOTHING like the one in my 600X---I recently enstalled a 700 mhz module in it.
(Still haven't got it sorted out, either.)
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:26 pm
by ChrisL
Bottom line is YES, the 600X fan and cooler will fit perfectly into a 600E assembly. It offers better cooling capacity than the 600E heatsink.
The 600E heatsink is meant for the PII CPU which has a lower wattage consumpution than the PIII
The 600X heatsink is meant for a PIII.
The 600X cpu and cooler will drop right into the 600E chassis and screw right in.
The real question is...Do you even need the PIII(600X) cooler? I am running a PIII mmc-2 750Mhz overclocked by 8% which runs at 810Mhz everyday with no problems and guess what its using the PII 600E heatsink for cooling!!
But when I use 100% of the CPU for long periods of time...boy you should watch the tempetures climb! My CPU idles at around 50 degrees and when you use 100% for extended periods of time it will reach histeria temp (98 degrees) and turn it self off or freeze.
Answer to do you need the PIII 600X heatsink for a PIII in a 600E thinkpad is probably yes if you are doing CPU intensive tasks. But I don't use one, I'm happy with the 600E heatsink...even when I run openGL screensavers and the CPU is mostly busy running the directx software rasterizer it still won't shutoff.