Quick questions about Z71v

Hi everyone,

I'm wanting to upgrade to a Z71v (I love the Z70v, and would go for it, but I just can't justify paying more for something that performs less) from my M3NP. I just wanted to know if I could transfer all my parts to it (I would be getting a barebone). As you can see in my profile, I have DDR1 not DDR2 and a Duron, not a Sonoma Pentium-M. Thanks a lot.

 

z71v has ddr2-4200 ram and the duron chipset will never fit a sonoma platform

 

hmmm... you could tranfer in your hard drive and your wireless card, even though I heard at one time that there are some compatability issues with the 2200 card that are fixed with the 2915. You'll have to get PC2-4200 SODIMM DDR2 RAM, because your current memory won't fit in the DDR2 slots on the Z71v. In addition, you'll need to get one of the 2 TSST optical drives that is made for the system (either the DVD/CD-RW combo drive or the DVD+/-RW burner). And of course, you'll need a Pentium M processor (preferably one of the newer ones with processor numbers 730, 740, 750, 760, 770, or 780)

 

Thanks for the help. I just found out that the Z71v has a dip switch to go from 400MHz FSB to 533MHz and that people have been putting in Duron Pentium-M's and got an easy overclock. So my 1.5GHz Duron will become a 2GHz Sonoma! The only disadvantage is I can no longer run it at 0.944v and have to put it to a higher stock voltage (obviously to compensate for the 33% boost!) However the stock voltage is 1.388v, so I have plenty of room.

However, thanks for pointing out that the slot on the Z71v is only for DDR2 modules. I guess I'll have to sell my 1gb of RAM and my Intel 2200bg wireless card and get the new stuff. Thanks a lot for the help guys. I'll let you know what happens if I do this upgrade soon.

 

Do any of you know if the barebone Z71V comes with a traveling drawer (like the M6's and W3v's do?) Thanks.

 

On the Z71V, if you put in an Intel Pentium-M 1.7 400FSB, you could overclock it to 2.26 533FSB.

That is what I have now. It runs great and yes the stock voltage is 1.388 but you have some room to lower it a tad. I was able to lower mine down to 1.292. But I push it back up to 1.308v.

Run perfectly stable.

At min speed, I could push it down to 0.718v. Which is pretty good.

Performance is awesome, given I had a 1.86 originally.

As for temp, it only increase my overall temp by 3-4c only.

 

very cool! So I assume you got a barebone Z71v. So did it come with a travelers drawer? Thanks

 

Travelers drawer? What's that? I came with a notebook bag if that is what you are asking.

See my review in sticky

 

Ha Ha Ha

Travellers drawer is an empty dummy in place of the optical drive

It comes in z70v, I think.