Mobo's

[Doonster]

Um what mobos will fit in my T40 shell it does not matter if the things wont line up as ill make it fit by modding it.

the t61 dimensions make it look like its to tall the t43 looks like my best bet but finding a 2nd hand one of them with the fireGL is like looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. i found one but for 2500RMB!!!! lol i can get a whole new chinese branded p4 dual core with 250gb HDD for that lol

but you get what you pay for lol

1. whats the best processor i can put on a T42P???? also when upgrading i have read about this long fan thing will it fit on a t42 mobo or am i going to have to do some more modding?

2. i really want to use my lapsy for PS bridge and storing the photo shoots on it will it work better with osx for me or not really just stick with SP3 to keep the speed as vista will kill this laptop i mean my quad core gaming machine don't like vista that much but DX10 is the way forward so.......

last but not leased can i fit a better screen into my t40 shell as this one when i look at some of my photos is weak like its just crap lol you can tell a bad LCD from a photo and this sucks more [censored] then a gay guy

well thanks hope you can answer me im going to look around at the computer places today and see if i can find some poor IBM's laying in the corner that i can rob a mobo out of

[ajkula66]

The fastest CPU you can put on your board is Dothan PM 765, 2.1Ghz. Long fan will be a must with this upgrade, but it requires no additional drilling or modding the machine otherwise.

The ability of your machine to run Vista depends on its GPU and RAM. Personally, I'd stay away from it.

Hope this helps.

[Doonster]

ok well one last question mine and my mums t41 has 1gb of 333mhz ram but when i use everest to look at the ram windows reads it as 133 wow thats sooooo slow how can i fix that my bios is weird as well when i read the manual for the t41 it says push access IBM and i do that but when the rest of the instructions dont meet any of the stuff on screen its weird ill take a photo when i get back from the market, getting some prices on mobos



on the t30 t60 t42 t43 and the cpu that u mentioned with fan for my mum as she wont use anything but xp and to browse


but ill need GPU to use adobe bridge and things


also what screens will fit in these as the screen just cant see what i want it to i always plug it into an external monitor

[ajkula66]

You're asking quite a few questions, but I don't understand all of them...

The same CPU that I've mentioned would work in a T41.

T60, T30 and T4x don't have interchangeable CPUs or boards with one another.

Furthermore, no parts are interchangeable between T30 and T60.

On information what LCDs you can use in different machines, use the "search" function on this forum, or at least post the question as "can I use the LCD from my T30 in a T42", or something like that...

Good luck.

[Doonster]

Ok question is

ive found a T42 mobo for the right price will that fit in the body of my t41?

its the firegl mobo but thats all i know so........

or will i be better off buying the body as well?

[agarza]

Ok question is

ive found a T42 mobo for the right price will that fit in the body of my t41?

its the firegl mobo but thats all i know so........

or will i be better off buying the body as well?

It will work just fine in the T41 body.

[Doonster]

thanks for the help guys ill let you know how it all works out im also getting a new keyboard ive got the British layout. and a little experiment that you will see alter