P9600 or Q9000 mobile series CPU for T61p

Can it be done. I have reason to believe that the potential exist.

 

No. The Montevina chips will not make POST in your notebook.

 

no. but feel free to try.

 

No. Your T61p has an Intel PM965 chipset (Santa Rosa), which is only compatible with 667/800 MHz front side bus processors. Both the P9600 and Q9000 are 1066 MHz, and can only be used with the GM/PM45 chipset, also known as Montevina.

 

And before anyone comes in and spreads misinformation, the chips will not just "downclock to 800 Mhz". They won't work, period.

 

The T61P is a santa rosa based system.
The P9600 and Q9000 are monteveina.
They have a different front side bus. Yous system uses 800MHz Bus cpu's
the monteveina ones are 1066Mhz

Some people say a monteveina chip will work in a santa rosa laptop, but you need to understand something first.
1) the actual closk speed is divided by (800/1066) so the cpu is force underclocked
and
2) I doubt Lenovo's bios will support either of them.

The best cpu which will work in your system is the T9500 / X9000

K-TRON

 

It wont work.

 

There is 1 review over at newegg for the P9500 in which a person claims to have put a P9500 in their T61p.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16819111007

 

I believe he was referring to T9500 not P

 

Have you tried this yourself?

 

Yes . . . thats why I
'cause it won't work....and this thing has been discussed numerous times on this forum.

nbrsearch

 

Did you post about your experience? I ask because I did a search and did not find it.

If you did such an upgrade I'd think you would have posted about it.

Please post a url if you created a post in which you attempted to intsall a P9600 in a T61p.

 

My first hand experience, tried a P9500 in a Gateway P6860FX, and a T9600 in a M1530. I tried a Q9100 in a D630 last week, after adding the micro and kernel code of the CPU in the BIOS. It did not work. I absolutely loathe IBM/Lenovo, so I've never owned one, but the T61p does not support 1066MHz FSB CPUs Period! And Quad Cores are totally out of the question because they have a different pinout and require a revised Socket P. Meh! I've posted this same thing so many times..

You can even confirm this with the professional Lenovo Tech Support

If you want to still try out a P9600, by all means do. Who am I to stop you..

 

I wish i could add the micro and kernel code of the CPU myself....But don´t know how to do it....

 

Its useful to know stuff....like hacking FTP sites of various ODMs. Not me, a couple of guys I know do it..


For BIOS modding, I've got some Taiwanese in my college..and of course BIOSMAN.