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    Buying a processor for the X220 from ebay

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by thendless, Jun 20, 2011.

  1. thendless

    thendless Notebook Guru

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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.
     
  3. colinstu

    colinstu Notebook Enthusiast

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    The X220's processor is soldered in. Not user replaceable.
     
  4. PatchySan

    PatchySan Om Noms Kit Kat

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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.
     
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    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    so the T420 can support the Quad Core i7?
     
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    PatchySan Om Noms Kit Kat

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    Unofficially yes. ;) This was first discovered by Shleepy and I can verify it does work.
     
  7. LoneWolf15

    LoneWolf15 The Chairman

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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.
     
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    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    cool, T420 with a Quad Core kicks .. power in a small package.