Upgraded Acer 3680 Celeron CPU to a T5300!

[John-W.]

Hi Benvanderjagt thanks for the reply, sadly i took a magnifying glass to my chipset to reveal the dreaded i940gml Boo Boo!, my system is completly clean i have, Malwarebytes, Super-antispyware and Nod32 installed, i take plenty of precaution when Rapidsharing and scan my system regularly.

I've ordered a Core Solo T1350 1.86GHZ for my 3690 and i'll definately be getting a 7200rpm hdd, i'm quite pleased with the runnings of xp 17sec boot-up and 10sec shutdown, with the Core Solo and faster spinning hard-drive my multi-tasking should improve slightly?? hopefully!!

thanks,

John.

[meegulthwarp]

Strange that that website said it had a i945.

The Core Solo will mean you will have a slightly faster CPU 1.86 vs. 1.6 plus the added benefit of Speedstep which should result in a slightly cooler system that should mean you have a quieter laptop as the fan should spin up less. My T1350 does 2M wPrime in 95sec vs 110sec on the M420 (resulting from the higher clocks).

As Ben said, higher density HDDs mean faster access times and you can buy a 500GB 5400RPM drive that will perform faster than a 160GB 7200 drive as the 500GB HDD doesn't have to work as much to read different sectors. And you don't have the noise that some 7200 RPM drives have. I personally prefer 7200RPM drives though as I feel my laptop is working harder to do my bidding :P

@ Benvanderjagt

Did you ever get a Pentium Dual Core working in a 940GML? I'm thinking about trying one as it is listed in Wikipedia as able to work (yes I know, its Wikipedia but I'd like to believe it).

Yeah, BIOS updates are awesome, and something that most people overlook when trying new CPUs.

[benvanderjagt]

Well, 500GB 7200 RPM drives aren't too expensive, either. :-D

I wish I had kept the only i940 ZR1 board I have run across so far, but unfortunately I got the T2060 more recently. I have another couple 3680's coming in, but I think they're both 3680-2682. I'm really curious about it myself. By all accounts, a chipset that is unable to support a Core Duo shouldn't be able to accept a T2060, and yet supposedly it is a standard combination.

[dianos]

the T2080 should work with the 3690 according this link (posting Nr. 60):

http://paulsiu.wordpress.com/2007/09...cer-3680-2833/

[meegulthwarp]

the T2080 should work with the 3690 according this link (posting Nr. 60):

http://paulsiu.wordpress.com/2007/09...cer-3680-2833/

Yes, but his chipset is supposed to be the i943 which means he might as well stick a Core 2 Duo in there.

I'll be ordering a T2130 tonight for £20 so I'll give an update soon on whether or not it works on my 940GML.

[dianos]

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Edit: According to this Wiki page it can handle Pentium Dual Core.

I think, the information on the wiki page is wrong for 940gml and for the 943gml.

for the 943gml: I miss for instance the core duo.
for the 940gml: I never read before that the pentium-Dual works.

I think the information about the pentium-dual here is correct:
Intel Mobile Processor Compatibility Guide

[meegulthwarp]

I think the information about the pentium-dual here is correct:
Intel Mobile Processor Compatibility Guide

Nice link. Yeah, most of what I've read says it shouldn't work. But I've seen a couple laptops for sale with that combo. Sure it could be a typo but I want to see for myself if it works as the CPU is dirt cheap.

[yosia]

thank you meegulthwarp, sorry for being unable reply soon enough.
looking forward for the good news from you guys here.

[meegulthwarp]

Well, my Pentium Dual-Core T2130 arrived today and as I thought (but hoped otherwise) it does not post in a 3680 with the 940GML.

I think this may have been covered before but the 940GML does not want anything to do with a 2 cores, I wonder if there is a way to get it to work with just the single core.

[Jor3lBR]

I've ordered a Core Solo T1350 1.86GHZ for my 3690 and i'll definately be getting a 7200rpm hdd, i'm quite pleased with the runnings of xp 17sec boot-up and 10sec shutdown, with the Core Solo and faster spinning hard-drive my multi-tasking should improve slightly?? hopefully!!

thanks,

John.

You can always OC the T1350 to above 2Ghz too. Just use SETFSB or CLOCKGEN.

I could OC the original Celeron M520 1.6Ghz to 2.3Ghz totally stable and I tell you what a difference it makes!

And if you change the thermal past to a high quality one like MX-2 or AS5 you will get better temps then stock.



I just ordered a T5600 and going to OC it higher then T7200 speeds.