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    Anyone tried to upgrade a T7500 to T9300 in a T61p?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by tomwu, Mar 19, 2008.

  1. tomwu

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    I got my T61p when it first came out last year and I'm thinking about upgrading the laptop to a T9300. I'm curious if anyone done that yet? I've read about the current T61p has a different motherboard and other rumors but I think it should work. Anyhow, please reply if you have done this and share your experience.

    Thanks.
     
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    I haven't done, I don't own a T61p. But it has the same chipset 965 same socket. You can likely update BIOS if you want but that likely won't have an effect on whether it will work or not, just might optimize the T9300. Kind of an expensive upgrade for a small gain. What do you do? It might make no difference. Someone has to be first.
     
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    I agree, T9300 still uses Santa Rosa platform so that means the chipset and socket should all be compatible. But it would be nice to know for sure. I've done T2xxx to T7xxx swap without problems on a HP NC8430 so I think this should work.

    Anyways, I think +400Mhz, +2MB L2, lower power consumption, etc. is worthwhile. I run VMs on my system and I do a bunch of multimedia stuff so any additional oomph is welcomed.
     
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    I've heard that 8891 series of Thinkpad are able to be upgraded newer, penryn, cpu.
    But,,, I am not sure sorry.
     
    klhguy, Mar 19, 2008
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    Is it supposed to be possible? I don't know about the T61, but I know at least one other laptop that needed a revision in order to support the Penryn processor.

    The Compal IFL90 used the T7xxx CPUs, when Penryn came out they needed to add some kind of Thermal IC to the motherboard and it became the Compal JFL92.

    So... Without checking with Lenovo I don't know if you can just upgrade from a T7xxx to a T8xxx/T9xxx.
     
    webdtc, Mar 19, 2008
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    You should be able to upgrade without any problems, as both are Socket Ps. Sadly for me my T7200 is Socket M... so I can only upgrade to another T7xxx series, which I dont think is worth it for me.
     
    acaurora, Mar 19, 2008
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