Upgrading my FL90

[TigerHo]

Can you put a Quad core in it instead like the X9000 which is 800Mhz and Socket P?

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id...es=SLAQJ,SLAZ3

[Daniel Hahn]

Quad core is very unlikely to work. Bios will not support it, chipset will not support it, cooling system is not adapted to the quad core design.

As for the T9600 -> Try it out. It will not fry your laptop or the CPU, although like jurian89 said, if it works, it will most likely run at a lower clock rate due 200 instead of 266 FSB. You could overcome that by modding the PLL generator, if the CPU works that is. Few have tried it out so if you have the opportunity without spending money, give it a try and let us in on what you found out...

[TigerHo]

is the Ati HD4570 with 512 DDR3 faster or slower than the Ati hd4650 1gb ddr2?

http://global.ebay.com/ATI_HD4570_HD...563828346/item

[Daniel Hahn]

Only 80 shaders as opposed to 320 on the HD 4650 and you won't get much out of the DDR3 due to the 64 bit memory bus as opposed to the 128 bit bus on the HD 4650. The HD 4570 is more like a HD3650 while even a HD3650 with GDDR3 should be faster. Therefore, a HD4650 with 1GB DDR2 is much faster.

[TigerHo]

I have been emailing laptop-ersatzteile.de for a few weeks now and i cant seem to get a respond from them.

I found this site which says that they never deliver the goods.

http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/laptop-ersatzteile-de

I just hope i can get my money back.

[TigerHo]

I just got through to them on the phone and they said that the parts where out of stock and they have a shipment coming which hopefully should arrive next week.

I just hope he aint taking a on me but i can give it a few more weeks.

[lytnus]

Heya,

Firstly, I would like to mention that I have seen the HD4650 DDR2 just become available from mxm-upgrade.com, for anyone who is having trouble getting hold of one.

Second, I asked this in a similar post but thought I would also ask here: Basically the 8600Min my IFL90 stopped working, and I want to upgrade to the 3650 or 4650.

1) Would I need to file away at the heatsink or anything to fit either of these cards? (I gather yes.)
2) Would I need to do anything with the vbios? (I gather no.)
3) Will overheating be a problem (specifically with the faster 4650)?

I have very little experience with this side of computers (never really needed to do any of the above before!), so any help would be very much appreciated!

Forum posts on the topic have filled me with a mixed bag of responses, sometimes vbios updates seem necessary, sometimes thee heatsink dosnt need filing, sometimes overheating is an issue and others it is not. Any clarification would br really useful, as I am left feeling a bit daunted by things given my current knowledge of things!

That said, I've been without a decent machine for too long so its about time I do something about it!

Thanks in advance for any help anyone could offer, I only hope I can return the favour!

James

[Daniel Hahn]

You shouldn't overdo the whole cross posting thing... there is not that much going on in this forum so you would have gotten your answer with just one post:

First try to bake the 8600M GT to revive it so it will propably last another couple of months, you have nothing to lose anyway (search google and/or this forum for baking methods). If you want to replace the card, then I'll quote my other post:

Some posts here contain misleading information.

1) Yes, you would need to modify your heatsink a bit if you by the Mobility Radeon HD3650 or 4650 or 4670.

2) No, a vbios update is not needed with ATI cards.

3) If you modify the heatsink so to fit the card correctly and if you apply thermal paste like intended you should have no overheating issue. Additionally you could also update the vbios on the HD3650 or the HD4650 to change the vcore from 1.1V to 1.0V in high performance mode to considerable reduce the heat. The temps should stay below 90°C in any case as long as the heatsink fits the cards and the quality thermal paste is applied correctly.

Also €200 is quite some price for the HD4650 with DDR2. Check out this (~155 euro) site or this site (105 euro), although mxm-upgrade might be more trustworthy.

[oneb1t]

is there some shop with ddr3 version of this card? which i can use in my FL90

[Daniel Hahn]

is there some shop with ddr3 version of this card? which i can use in my FL90

If your referring to the HD4650 then no. Only MSI notebooks carry the HD4670 with DDR3 and MXM II and they are not selling them to you unless you have a MSI laptop. However, compared to the original 8600M GT with DDR2 the HD4650 DDR2 is a great upgrade.

There should be some DDR3 versions of the HD3650 on ebay but the HD4650 is faster then the HD3650 even with DDR2.