Hi,
My friend was looking at upgrading his X220 processor from the i5 2410 to this:
NEW Intel Core i7-2720QM Q154 ES2 ? 2920 2820 2620 2630 | eBay
Will this processor be fine? Or does it have to be a different i7 2720QM?
Thanks!
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As far as I know that wont work.
The processor is physically attached to the mainboard.
Someone correct me on this if im wrong. -
The X220's processor is soldered in. Not user replaceable.
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Yeah the CPU is soldered on the board so a direct swap wouldn't be possible.
But even if you can I probably would advise against such processor in a X220. For two reasons, its power hungry and you would need a 90w power brick to use it on AC (the Power Manager would even complain when a 65w brick is detected) and secondly on stress it gets very hot. I have this CPU in my T420 and it goes up to 96c during stress, the X220 with a much thinner chassis design would probably struggle to cope no matter how good the cooling engineering is on the X220. -
so the T420 can support the Quad Core i7?
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Even if the CPU was replaceable in the X220, a simple forum search already shows a number of X220 units that are throttling with the dual-core i7.
I think a quad-core would be just that much worse, but it's a moot point anyway. I'm also wondering how many people would truly take advantage of a 4-core/8-thread CPU on an ultralight. -
cool, T420 with a Quad Core kicks .. power in a small package.
Buying a processor for the X220 from ebay
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by thendless, Jun 20, 2011.