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sma_15 · #1 Post by **sma_15** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:49 pm

I love the size of the X120e and was wondering if I wanted to get creative, what upgrades could I do with it? I have 8 gb ram added already. Do any other processors fit the board? I have E-350 currently, or do other boards fit the chassis? What wifi cards would be supported other than the thinkpad wifi and broadcom?

#2 Post by **ZaZ** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:31 am

It's very unusual for a board to fit in another machine with out at least some modification, notebooks being highly specialized, though I don't the specifics on the X120e. The CPU is soldered to the board, so you can only swap the board to get a new CPU unless you have some soldering skillz. I think most people would tell you a SSD is probably the best performance upgrade you can make, but the E-350 CPU processing power is slow enough that it will hamper the SSD performance. Lenovo likes to whitelist cards in the BIOS, meaning it won't work unless it's a Lenovo branded card, even if it's a card Lenovo used, but came from another brand or a generic. Keep that in mind. I don't what other cards people have tried, but a search of the forum is probably worthwhile. Good luck and welcome to TPF.

DaKKS · #3 Post by **DaKKS** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:34 am

I maxed my X120E with 8GB ram, a 256GB SSD, a 802.11AC wifi card an a Broadcom HD decoder. I don't thing you can do more at this point aside from getting larger SSD's.

axur-delmeria · #4 Post by **axur-delmeria** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 3:44 pm

Broadcom HD decoder

Doesn't the X120e have video decode support using the Radeon HD 6310 built-in graphics?

DaKKS · #5 Post by **DaKKS** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:40 pm

axur-delmeria wrote:
Broadcom HD decoder
Doesn't the X120e have video decode support using the Radeon HD 6310 built-in graphics?

I dunno, but I cant get the card to work under Windows anyway. Worked miracles for every other laptop I ever tried it in so i gave it a shot. But it doesn't matter cause I'm gonna shelf the X120e soon anyways. Ordered a Aspire ES1 to replace it. The E-350 is starting to show its age.

axur-delmeria · #6 Post by **axur-delmeria** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:15 pm

The E-350 is starting to show its age.

So true. The dual-core Celeron N2830 is faster, the quad-core N2940 even more so.

DaKKS · #7 Post by **DaKKS** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:24 pm

axur-delmeria wrote:
The E-350 is starting to show its age.
So true. The dual-core Celeron N2830 is faster, the quad-core N2940 even more so.

Its got a N2840. Just a tad faster. Threw in 8GB ram and an SSD. Much, much more so than the E-350. It might just even pull off some light games.

iMav · #8 Post by **iMav** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:49 pm

DaKKS wrote:I maxed my X120E with 8GB ram, a 256GB SSD, a 802.11AC wifi card an a Broadcom HD decoder. I don't thing you can do more at this point aside from getting larger SSD's.

The X120e will take 16GB of ram (2x8GB).

I just installed Win10 on mine:

AdaSch · #9 Post by **AdaSch** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:34 am

faster cpu from AMD? stock heat sink is critical.

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