Core 2 Extreme QX9300 in Next Generation ThinkPad?

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wswartzendruber · #1 Post by **wswartzendruber** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:04 pm

The Core 2 Extreme QX9300 is a mobile quad core CPU coming out in May. Does anyone see any immediate problems with installing this thing DIY whenever a ThinkPad with the GM45 chipset comes out? It supposedly runs at 2.533 GHz with 12 MB of L2 cache and a 1066 MHz FSB. It has a TDP of 45 watts. I'm mainly worried about heat, as I want to get this with whatever QuadroFX chip becomes available next.

aaa · #2 Post by **aaa** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:32 pm

Wow, they crammed it into 45w? It's not much over 35w, so I'd definitely try it out at least.

Course we won't really know if there'll be problems beforehand if a supporting Thinkpad doesn't exist yet.

ricerocket · #3 Post by **ricerocket** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:43 pm

Yeah, I'm more looking forward to the Quadro FX 3600M than the quad core processor. The 3600M is based on the G92M chipset, which is the mobile version of the 8800GT. Versus the G84M on the FX 570M, it has more than double the memory bandwidth and has almost 3-4x the theoretical shader processing rate of the 570M. Ddepending on how many stream processors it gets, it could yield anywhere from 240-360 Gigaflops.

The 570M yielded around 91.2 Gigaflops, and the NVS 140M was half that at ~43.2 Gigaflops.

CanadianNorth · #4 Post by **CanadianNorth** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:38 pm

Aren't most cpu's hard-soldered into motherboard? I believe this is the case with the T61P I just ordered. Perhaps this is just with smaller laptops.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

aaa · #5 Post by **aaa** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:23 pm

The trend is anything that says "low-voltage" on it is soldered in, and most of the normal chips are not. Not sure about the T61, you can look to check.

lithium726 · #6 Post by **lithium726** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:12 pm

The T, R, and Z series are all socketed.

The X series is soldered in to save space. Just because it says 'low voltage' doesn't necessarily mean it's a BGA chip.

aaa · #7 Post by **aaa** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:30 pm

Actually:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.a ... =&OrdCode=

As you can see, all the low-voltage CPUs *only* come in the FCBGA soldered package, whereas with the normal ones there's a choice of either.

This could change in the future, but that's how it's been since the Pentium M at least.

lithium726 · #8 Post by **lithium726** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:04 am

So the current lineup of Intel low-volt notebook processors are all BGA, ok. My point was that this is not always true - the old XP-m chips were s462, as were the s754 low volt a64's. Not sure how the p3-m worked.

likewise, just 'cuase it's a regular voltage chip doesn't mean it's socketed... the X61 gets regular chips in a BGA package. It all just depends on space.

now then, back to studying for Dynamics

Core 2 Extreme QX9300 in Next Generation ThinkPad?

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