Upgrade M1330 to Penryn

[Mr.Brightside]

Originally Posted by mystery905

only if you give me your 'old' T8300 for free

BTW i used to have that avatar you are using now haha

[Rhodan]

Originally Posted by skynyrd

Hi there!

I have a couple questions for you:

1 - Can I upgrade a Dell XPS M1530 from a merom t7250 (2.0Ghz 2MB L2) to a penryn t9300 ( 2.5 6MB L2)? (I assume is the same work you did with the M1330)

2 - Do you think the difference will be big? Do you think it is woth doing it?

Thanks!

1. Yes.

2. Well 500MHz and 4MB more cache is a substantial difference. I'm sure the price is substantial as well. The T8300 could be a better priced upgrade.

[Rhodan]

Originally Posted by Mr.Brightside

i own a T8300, it is worth the upgrade to a T9300?

Unless you get the T9300 for next to nothing I would say no...

[Mr.Brightside]

Originally Posted by Rhodan

Unless you get the T9300 for next to nothing I would say no...

mystery905 will give me that T9300 and i'll will surrender my T8300, right, mystery905? =)

[mystery905]

Originally Posted by Mr.Brightside

haha my old T8300 is not even new! i don't even get my laptop.. but ok, its a deal, i'll give you my T8300, you get me a T9300 =P

sure....and the cheque's in the e-mail!

[monakh]

Originally Posted by monakh

This is what I got back from Mr. Ming Nan (networld)

LGA771:
X5460 ES Q3GX x 1pair USD 1600/pair
Merom:
T7400 ES QOLL B1 x 6pcs USD 170
T7200 ES QTCI B2 x 2pcs USD 150
Santa Rosa:
X9000 ES Q4GY x 3pcs USD 420/each
T9500 ES Q4GG x 15pcs USD 330/each ( 45nm , 2.6GHz , L2 6MB )
T9300 ES Q4GA x 12pcs USD 250/each ( 45nm , 2.5GHz , L2 6MB )
Txxx ES QZOL x 10pcs USD 210/each ( 45nm , 2.4GHz , L2 6MB )
T8300 ES Q5CP x 10pcs USD 180/each ( 45nm , 2.4GHz , L2 3MB )
X7900 ES QZDX G0 x 30pcs USD 380/each ( 65nm , 2.8GHz , L2 4MB )
X7800 ES QZXR E1 x 20pcs USD 250/each ( 65nm , 2.6GHz , L2 4MB )

Doesn't include shipping!

For people not bothering to check the thread properly for the appropriate contact info and PM'ing me instead, the above prices were valid for February from the following vendor:

networld@ms79.hinet.net

I can not vouch for him as I didn't purchase anything there, but I think duffy (from this thread) did.

[Rachel]

In answer to your second question no i don't think that for general users that the difference will be that great. Really it depends on what you do with your laptop if you will notice the difference.
I have used a T7100, T7500, T8300 and T9300 processor and seeing as my CPU activity monitor normally never goes over 10% with any of these processors i cannot say that i notice much difference CPU speed wise because i never really challenge the CPU with any of the CPU's that i have used.

Battery life wise i don't think that it is worth upgrading just for that. The T9300 also has a higher clock speed than the T7250 so battery life gains could be lost a bit because of the much higher clock speed. This is interesting although it is about the M1530 and not the M1330 but this review site reviewed the M1530 with a Memron processor and a Penryn processor and found that the Penryn processor did not have any advantage battery life wise. In fact i think that the Memron processor may have even had better battery life.
http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/478
Those reviews can be translated with babelfish.

According to reports the Penryn processors do run a little cooler but i have found the Memron processors to run cool for me as well. Then again i don't try and play intensive games on my laptop either.

Originally Posted by skynyrd

Hi there!

I have a couple questions for you:

1 - Can I upgrade a Dell XPS M1530 from a merom t7250 (2.0Ghz 2MB L2) to a penryn t9300 ( 2.5 6MB L2)? (I assume is the same work you did with the M1330)

2 - Do you think the difference will be big? Do you think it is woth doing it?

Thanks!

[ken_x]

So you don't need specific cpu package like Micro-FCPGA or Micro-FCBGA to install? Any would work?

[mair]

Originally Posted by mair

today i removed my t7300 and installed a t9300, and i noticed that the batery meter, shows less minutes at full charge, same power settings, is this normal, i read that penryn consumes less power, but a 7300 is smaller than a 9300, so i dont know if a reduction in about 10 to 15 percent in batery life is normal, or are ther some setings in the bios that i have to adjust?


thanks

After using mu t9300 for several days, now i have the batery life that i expected, after my last post about battery life, i decided to use the undervolting option some one offered me, and it worked great, my cpu was running cooler and batery life was about 10 percent more, but after that i had to format my computer and start from all over again, and with the fresh install (plus the programs i used to have) my battery life went about 20 percent more, i dont know what made that hapen, i supose that installing the t9300 without removing any software for the 7300, made my computer not to work properly, and wit only the 9300 software its working great, that may be the reason, i dont know, but with this experience i recomend a fresh install after changing the cpu

[Nessnet]

Originally Posted by mair

, i supose that installing the t9300 without removing any software for the 7300, made my computer not to work properly, and wit only the 9300 software its working great, that may be the reason, i dont know, but with this experience i recomend a fresh install after changing the cpu

This is incredibly bad advice - and should be completely ignored.

"Software for the 7300" and "the 9300 software" - you have to explain these please.