G50v X-1 Cpu Upgrade

I recently purchased an Asus G50v x-1 and was wondering what would be the better option for a cpu upgrade, t9600, t9900 or x9100? Any advice would be greatly appreciated especially concerning over heating issues, the warranty on the machine is long gone as it was purchased used so I'm not concerned with voiding anything.

 

T9800 would be cheaper and more common than the T9900 at this point, and it matches the X9100's spec so unless your gonna be able to and want to use the unlocked multiplier the T9800 is actually the cheapest but best solution.

The T9600 does the job for me and usually pushing well past 3 ghz makes the rest not matter for me. Since you can't run a quad if your going for all out speed you know what todo if not the T9900, T9800, T9600 would be my list in order of expense. The X9100 requires a software based solution on the G50 to adjust the multiplier and it runs hotter so it doesn't make my list.

 

thanks for the great advice, I was on the fence about purchasing the x9100 or t9900 but it looks like I'll be going for the t9600 based on your comments. May I ask what software if any your using for overclocking or are you using the bios?

 

X9100 = ThrottleStop, search on this forum for it.
T9900 = SetFSB, if your PLL is supported, search same as above.
Another option is ASUS Power 4Gear eXtreme, maybe doesn't work with both processors.

 

The post above this basically says it all. I would still take a T9800 over the T9600 if i was shopping but being on the T9600 its not worth upgrading.

Bios doesnt allow for overclocking. SetFSB for the bus on the T series. As said above throttlestop can change the multiplier in windows to overclock the X9100 without overclocking the bus.

Eitherway it was a huge improvement over the P7450 in terms of gaming but it still lacks in some area's where a QX9300 would have been nice but not possible.

 

I guess t9800 it is then as the price difference isn't too far away from the t9600. This is a great forum for advice, thanks for the help

NEW Intel Core 2 Duo T9800 QJFL QS 35W 2.93GHz 6M L2 - eBay (item 280611394503 end time Feb-02-11 10:26:03 PST)

is it a bad idea to buy off ebay?

 

You can get an E0 stepping X9100 for $245:
NEW Intel X9100 QHBQ 3.06G(4.5G) 6M surpass T9900 X9100 - eBay (item 280606677587 end time Jan-19-11 19:26:49 PST)

Should be able to overclock that with throttlestop to somewhere around 3.6ghz.

 

Heh with the T9600 my GPU runs 5 to 10C hotter already and under serious gaming hits 90 to 95C I dont think he needs to thermal max the gpu which is on the same cooler and is directly affected by the cpu.

 

I bought a T9900 (new) from eBay a while back and has been working very well. The CPU temp dropped about 9C. So, I'm happy with it. My G60VX came with a P7450 originally BTW.

Also, Power 4Gear works.