Successful XPS M1330 cpu upgrade to x9000

Just mentioning here (for others who are considering to upgrade their XPS M1330 CPU) Upgraded from 2.2Ghz T7500 to 2.8Ghz x9000 cpu.

install was easy and is runnning fine

from 2.2Ghz T7500:

C:\CONFIG\- Motherboard\- CPU - Intel\Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T7500 LE80537GG0494M.mht

to a 2.8Ghz x9000:

C:\CONFIG\- Motherboard\- CPU - Intel\Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 FF80576ZG0726M.mht

 

Unless you got the Intel GMA graphics, the M1330 already spews out alotta heat.

What are your temperatures like idle/load with ambient room temps

 

And a portable heater is born.....seriously though you're going to end up cooking your mobo/nvidia chip unless you've added some exotic cooling.

Even undervolting that chip it outputs 25% more heat then a T9500.

 

this X9000 is pretty old already but yet its price is still very high. I looked up ebay for prices and it still costs more than today's sandy bridge's i7 mobile quadcore. Also, this thing should bring out a lot of heat and the idea of under-volting is not relevant because...why buy it at all if one is going to under volt it?

 

Cause you can say, "Well I got a Core 2 Extreme in my laptop" and people will think highly of you. /sarcasm

In all seriousness, given the M1330s reliability I don't think adding in a 44 watt TDP dual core will help at all, it might just make the system worse. Plus if it didn't ship out with a Core 2 Extreme, not a good idea to force the cooling system to handle another 9 watts of cooling.

 

Good for you on the install. I own a xps m1530 and was told not to do everything i have done on this machine. Upgraded the cpu to x9000(along with copper mod), upgraded the ram to 8gb of PC2-6400, upgraded the hard drive to intel x25-m SSD(by far the best upgrade), upgraded to the intel 5300 wireless card, upgraded the dvd to blueray, upgraded the motherboard to 256mb gt 8600, removed the turbo cache module(not recommended or needed with 8gb of ram) I run windows 7 x64. I do recommend getting the latest drivers for each component. I did all this not because i wanted to be cool, but to install the best and most this motherboard and chipset would support. Mine is a business laptop and not a gaming machine. Windows overall rating is 5.9(due to limit on nvidia gpu) cpu & ram 6.4, ssd 7.8. Again mine is 1530 and cooling is not as much an issue as 1330. My experience has been great.

 

Hi,

I want to ask you.
Indeed works without problems on the Dell XPS M1330 laptop with Intel X9000 with-out processor ?

 

Hi,

I want to ask you.
Indeed works without problems on the Dell XPS M1330 laptop with Intel X9000 with-out processor ?

 

Welcome to the club. Mines is still running strong, but since I have the integrated graphics I was never concerned about the heating. At load it never exceeds 60C and when idle it sits at 42C/43C. I've since upgraded it to 8GB of RAM and a OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD. It's still the best laptop I own.

 

That'll be the M1330 griddle model......

How much does a short order cook make these days?

Perhaps someone should invent the Griddle Internet Monitoring Program (GIMP) which allows remote users to set the processing load and therefore the cook time of their orders......

 

Hi!
I bought a X9000 CPU and a 240GB SSD Vertex.
The CPU temperature, however, a little higher.
I did it GPU cooling: copper mod , heat sink + heat pipe.
It works great.
My question would be that the A15 Bios-operated with the 8gb ram?
Manages 800MHz or only 667 MHz ?

Thanks in advance!

 

Yes I have the A15 BIOS, but 800Mhz memory will only operate at 667Mhz in this laptop so I went with 8GB of 667Mhz memory.