T61 1,400 x 900 screen on T61 Intel x3100 body?

[TonyJZX]

I have access to some T61s with the 1,400 x 900 screen but Nvidia nvs140 boards.

Obviously these are all on a death sentence.

I have access to T61s with the 1,280 x 800 screen but the good Intel x3100 boards.

These will last forever.

Can I transplant the high res screens into the x3100 lowers without much problems?

I just rebuilt a T61 x3100 shell with the fixed bios, Core 2 Duo 7700, Intel 5100 wlan, 4Gb ram and a 320Gb hdd and Win7 and it purrs along like a new laptop.

It would be awesome with a high res screen.

[ajkula66]

Yes, it's a clean swap.

That being said, I'd just use the nVidia-based unit until it kicks the bucket - if it ever does. The difference in performance is pretty significant.

[TonyJZX]

depends what your expectations

i like high performance desktops - my main pc is an i7 with dual ATI cards

but for laptops, i dont play games, 2d performance is all i care about and i'm fine with intel integrated

[RealBlackStuff]

If/when you apply Middleton's BIOS, all T61 machines can also run with Penryn CPUs.
In your accessible machines look for ones with a T8100 or T8300, or the even faster T9300 or T9500 CPU.
Both of these Intel CPU series run much cooler than the T7x00 models.
If you find more than one of those (fast CPUs) let me know please via PM.

[ajkula66]

depends what your expectations

My expectation is "no stuttering when watching a basic YT video" which is what Intel+Merom combination produces, unless you completely lower all parameters.

With a Penryn CPU, you can get away with Intel graphics.

[TuuS]

The biggest problem with the systems that have intel graphics isn't the graphic system, it's the fact that everyting else is low-end and all the high-end systems have nVidia. To solve this you can swap an Intel board into a high end system, or upgrade the Intel system. I can also provide some nVidia boards that have the redesigned gpu chip, but they are more costly. Generally the cost to fix an nVidia system with a good reliable board will cost as much as a used laptop does, however the end result is much better so if you're objective is a reliable system, then it's worth it. Also, I once had a client with many intel and nvidia systems and we put all the high end parts from the nvidia systems in the intel and the low end parts in the nVidia and he sold the nvidia systems very cheap just to get rid of them. Personally I agree with george above, the nVidia systems are very nice and dispite the reports of failure, they really don't die that often. Even after 5-6 years and millions of effected units, nearly all of them are still in service, however if you were to make 100 million nVidia chips (total manufactured was actually much more) and even 1% of them die, that's 1,000,000 angry people complaining and posting about how horrible they are and in the lenovo forums there hasn't been more then a thousand or so reports in all these years, however one of the major problems is that repair shops begun attempting to reflow the boards in attempt to fix this problem and something really horrible happened... they worked!!! but only for a few weeks, so as soon as this was discovered there were people buying the dead laptops and/or boards, reflowing them and selling them, then the same chips were failing over and over for different owners. To quote one member, he bought three laptops from an ebay seller and all three died within six months but the seller was honest because the first died within a week and the seller quickly replaced it, although the replacement eventually died too. This person blamed lenovo when he obviously was scammed into buying failed gpu chips and then took his anger out on lenovo, however if you can get one of these laptops that has never failed, then there is a very good chance that it won't, but to be safe you should clean the cooling system and use some good thermal paste on the cpu/gpu, then avoid unnecessary heat/cooling cycles, keep it on when it's on, and off when it's off, don't turn it on and off unless necessary and avoid using standby and you will prolong it's service life.