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I posted this also to sticky thread, but if someone wants to get rid of performance problems with SelectaDock III&PCI graphics cards, it would be interesting to try one of these in TP600X:

http://www.interfacemasters.com/product ... index.html

or

http://www.interfacemasters.com/product ... index.html

I'm not sure if they will work or not, and I guess they are not very cost-effective, but... If someone wants to max his 600X this would be worth trying

Hello,

It seems interesting, indeed. I suppose you can stick every type of PCI graphic card (or, even an AGP card, using a PCI
/AGP riser ), for example, but you still must have an external screen.



W.

Yeah, it's too bad you can't send the PCI video card output back through to the ThinkPad...Would be so great...

Possibly, if I really get into hardware hacking, I could maybe... Nevermind. By the time I figure out how, the ThinkPad X60 and T60 will be 10 years old, just like my 770 is now.

spikex34 wrote:-Processor: 918 Mhz from a PIII 850Mhz overclocked to 918Mhz with FSB overclock to 108Mhz with a resistor; non-speedstep mobo (500mhz proc) made compatible via a resistor
-RAM: 576mb: 2x256mb Crucial PC133 running at 100mhz + 64mb built in
:
Is there anything else in terms of cooling I should know about?

Did you overclock the MMC-II, or the 600X motherboard? I recall looking at the schematic for the MMC-II and I thought I saw a way to overclock the P3 from the MMC-2.

In terms of cooling, the 600X doesn't have a good design to keep the CPU cool. I don't use a dock, my 600X sits on top of a magazine that is perpendicular to the 600X. The left underside of my laptop is exposed, which gives proper cooling.

BillG wrote: Did you overclock the MMC-II, or the 600X motherboard? I recall looking at the schematic for the MMC-II and I thought I saw a way to overclock the P3 from the MMC-2.

I ended up not doing overclocking, as I was afraid of messing up hardware that is both (relatively) expensive and often hard to come by. But, I was going to follow the guide here: http://www.katch.dsl.pipex.com/mtb/mods.htm
This was to sort of indirectly oveclock the proccessor through FSB overclocking on the motherboard. If you think you have an idea on overclocking the processor from the MMC-2 area, not actually on the mobo per se, I might be interested in that, as I have an older P3 MMC-2 (the one I swapped out) still lying around.

BillG wrote: In terms of cooling, the 600X doesn't have a good design to keep the CPU cool. I don't use a dock, my 600X sits on top of a magazine that is perpendicular to the 600X. The left underside of my laptop is exposed, which gives proper cooling.

I put some Arctic Silver in, but as I'm having mobo problems at the moment I can't really say how big of an issue cooling has ended up being. I'm looking in to ways of trying to use the dock with the laptop such that cooling is still feasible. I was thinking of just elevating the front of the laptop slightly off the dock with something, but that's obviously pretty kludgy and a pain for whenever one wants to undock the laptop.

WarMachine wrote:Hello,

It seems interesting, indeed. I suppose you can stick every type of PCI graphic card (or, even an AGP card, using a PCI
/AGP riser ), for example, but you still must have an external screen.



W.

You are apparently refering to this:
http://www.interfacemasters.com/product ... index.html

Are you sure that an external screen is required? If yes, why is this so?

Thanks for any answers.

pianoforte wrote:

WarMachine wrote:[....]but you still must have an external screen.

You are apparently refering to this:
http://www.interfacemasters.com/product ... index.html

Are you sure that an external screen is required? If yes, why is this so?

Video cards are not designed to send the video signal back to the motherboard, they are designed to process a raw signal and then send it out to an external monitor through one of their video out ports. The Thinkpad 600X LCD is attached to the built-in Neomagic video card, which is designed to pump the video out to that specific device. There is no way of accessing the LCD without passing through the built-in video card.

On a desktop computer, it would be like installing a new video card into your computer to replace your built-in video, but then leaving your external monitor attached to the built-in VGA out port instead of moving it to the VGA out of the new video card. Some specialized MPEG decoders or video accelerators might work like that, but regular video cards won't work that way.

Phil.