Switching out T9300 for T9500?

Im thinking of possibly upgrading my M1530 when it arrives to the T9500 processor manually by taking it out of my Tablet PC and sticking it in. Is it just a matter of unplugging the processor and sticking in the new one?

Is there a bunch of thermal paste or glue thats on the processor that comes with the M1530.

 

When I switched out my old M1710's processor a while ago, it had a bunch of solidified thermal goo that had to be cleaned off. I replaced the mess with Arctic Silver5 (probably the best thermal paste I've used), though there may be better Arctic Silver products now.

 

Hm... Im not sure I want to mess with all the thermal goo. Do you think its even worth it to take apart my M1530with T9300 just to replace it with the T9500?

 

FWIW, I doubt the performance difference in the two isn't going to be noticeable.

 

Probably not. I mean, they benchmark differently, but for all practical purposes I can't see that you'd see some tremendous difference.

 

If you have time, you might as well do it since the OEMs usually do only an ok job with the thermal paste. By applying AS5 yourself (providing you can put it on well), you should see a decent reduction in temperatures. Performance wise, you won't notice a difference though.

 

Erm... you will never notice the 100mhz speed increase in any real situation so why do it?

 

I agree the performance difference may not be significant but, hey, if you already have it on hand and if you will use it more than your tablet PC then why not. Plus i only see good benefits of using AS5 instead of the stock one they used.

There are times that aftermarket thermal paste is better than stock one that's why there are companies that makes it.

goodluck!

 

Yeah, the thing is, my tablet PC is nice, but its only 12.1 inch screen with integrated gfx. So.. all the processing power is top notch, but... I cant use it to game.

 

You will never notice the 100mhz in gaming situations. At most a 2fps difference imo.

 

Definately not worth it. If you ordered your M1530 with a T5550 or a T7250, then sure, but not something that's .1mhz slower.

 

And knowing that the Penryn runs so cold and has so much overclocking potential, even in the mobile versions... why doing so? 100 MHz you can squeeze by overclocking it, without any danger of damaging the notebook.

 

do it if you want to, but again, no difference and a big lost: you lose your warranty

 

Fight over .1GHz? What has the World gone to? Unless if you get T7XX series then maybe, but to grudge over 100Mhz isn't worth the hype especially the other features like the L2 Cache at 6MB and 800MHz FSB speeds are practically the same.

If you really want a change that badly but wouldn't care less about warranty or heat dissipation, then you might want go ahead and get the overclockable X9000 2.8GHz instead. There's a thread around here that a someone uses an X9000 in his 1530 and had many replies. I'm not sure if it's advisable to overclock a Penryn. Has anyone done that?

 

I don't see what people are rambling on about lol. Hasn't it been established that there isn't a noticeable speed difference? The only real benefit of switching or even just removing the heatsinks to clean the paste is lower temperatures, which could result in less noise.

BTW someformofhuman, in your sig you have Corsair 1x4GB memory, do you mean 4x1GB? Also, just curious, which company is your 8800 Ultra from since nVidia sells through companies such as eVGA, BFG, etc. and are those Seagate HDs SCSI?!

 

1x4 GB? I don't how to put it but what I meant is 1GB RAM x 4 of these sticks so 4GB. I'm using ASUS EN8800Ultra. SCSI? I think so... I don't really consider myself a real PC geek, so that I'm not too sure. I know such a HD exists but it's freaking expensive. (Cheetah NS) Why do you ask?

Er... Should we get back to the topic of thread? I mean those mods here are... Strict?

 

Slightly off topic:
Doesn't anyone think that it's odd for a tablet to have a T series cpu? Don't they usually have intel's L or UL cpus?

 

I've seen a lot of tablets with the T series.

 

Really? I haven't looked at any recently but I'd expect them to be designed more for mobility, not performance.

 

Well, if I was in your situation, I'd make the swap.
Maybe not as much performance gains, but it would cool better with that arctic thermal paste and anything that cools a notebook down more is a GOOD thing.
As for the warranty thing, if you find you must send it back for repairs, just swap back the T9300

 

Yeah, nothing wrong with any of that!

I think they can tell you took it apart - I always notice loctite on the screws when the computer was brand new.

 

I'm expecting my M1330 to arrive and (with the permission of this topic author) I want to ask you if changing the CPU would void the warranty?