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Older ThinkPads.. from the 600, the 7xx, the iSeries, 300, 500, the Transnote and, of course, the 701
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Hot Buy Alert!!!

#1 Post by JHEM » Thu May 27, 2004 11:34 am

There's a guy selling PIII 800MHz MMC-2 modules on eBay for $45!

Yes, only Forty Five Dollars!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3483660219

I don't know how many he has, but I've already bought 6 of them and he's still putting more up for sale as I type this.

These will work in many Thinkpads, particularly the 600X.

No connection with the seller, etc, etc.

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for 600e?

#2 Post by mmthomas » Thu May 27, 2004 4:15 pm

Can these modules be used in all 600e motherboards?

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Re: for 600e?

#3 Post by JHEM » Thu May 27, 2004 5:58 pm

mmthomas wrote:Can these modules be used in all 600e motherboards?
No, 600Es need not apply. For the 600X only.

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#4 Post by danparkcityut » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:03 pm

:oops:

Hey James, if you want to sell one of the 5 you got at a fair profit, let me know!

He doesn't have any more on ebay (that I can find), though I did email him to see if he might have more...

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#5 Post by JHEM » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:32 pm

Dan,

Trust me, he's got more! You'll probably hear back from him after the weekend.

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#6 Post by danparkcityut » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:52 pm

Wow James, you are quick! I thought I was the only one pining away on topics like this on a Sunday afternoon!

Thanks, and I'll keep my fingers crossed!

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#7 Post by tselling » Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:30 pm

I am going to try one of these in a 390x I purchased for my husband to replace the 380ED he leaves in his 5th grade class. Will post here to let you know if it works ok.
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#8 Post by JHEM » Sun Jun 06, 2004 8:13 pm

Should be a slamdunk Teresa. I've upgraded a lot of the PII 390Xs to PIIIs, although admittedly not a Speedstep one.

All the 390Xs use the same motherboard, should be an interesting test case.

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#9 Post by tselling » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:26 am

I successfully replaced the 400mhz PII in a 390X with one of the 800Mhz PIII boards. Boots up fine, but bios and windows only recognize it as 650Mhz. I have the latest bios and looking back at bios history, it supports B0 stepping. Any ideas how to get 800Mhz or should I just be happy with 650Mhz?

Also what computers should be able to take the 400Mhz PII module? I want to know who to market it to on Ebay (or if someone on the forum has a use for it, let me know).
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#10 Post by shined » Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:41 pm

>Any ideas how to get 800Mhz
As far as I know, there is no way.

>or should I just be happy with 650Mhz?
Yes.

>Also what computers should be able to take the 400Mhz PII module?
To my knowledge, the following thinkpad models should take MMC-2 PII-400MHz
TP390E/X
TP600E
TP770X/Z

Hope this helps.

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#11 Post by rxero » Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:55 pm

I have a 770X running winxp with a P2 400swap in it already. So I just buy this chip and it will work with my current boards mutlipier and frequency settings? I am running BIOS 1.09 I assume I will need to update to 1.10. Anything else?
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#12 Post by rxero » Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:17 am

Sounds like 650MHz is all you can get out of these boards. Shuold I look at picking one of these up?
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#13 Post by jeepman1942 » Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:15 pm

This guy is selling 600mh cards now ...what will they work in?

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#14 Post by Guest » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:27 am

Teresa: Have you run a benchmark program on your 390x (eg Sandra)? The 800MHz chip may actually be running at 800MHz (the FSB and clock speed are fixed) but the BIOS may just not have those numbers programmed into it's recognition/display options. I'm not aware that the 390x BIOS/hardware was in any way speedstep-enabled so this shouldn't be the problem.

Post your benchmark results.

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