Upgraded cpu

Yup I took out the ole 2.8ghz Prescott in my 9100 and put in a 3.2GHZ Northwood here are my finding the prescott would get up to 66c and idle around 52c the northwood core idles around 42c and at most has gotten to 60c plus the laptop itself feels much cooler. The super pi 2m times were 1 min 52 secs for the prescott and 1 min 49 secs for the northwood so the extra 400 mhz doesn't make such a difference but it was worth it to run cooler.

 

How much did you spend on the replacement processor? Also, the temperature might have gone down, because you used some better quality thermal interface material, than that of which the manufacturer uses.

 

I bought the chip for $60 shipped.

 

The "heating pads" (thermal pads) that most everyone uses these days for the sake of convenience are far from efficient, cheap low grade thermal grease is noticeably supereior.

Still, congrats on the upgrade, are you still planning to swith the 9700 for a 9800?

 

so Iceman,

did you replace the thermal paste on your XPS M1210 when you received it? with lets say... artic silver 5?

I want to know if it's worth the trouble going through to replace the thermal paste.

 

No I didnt, I'm able to keep the temps where I want them as is, so to me its not worth the effort unless I "have" to take the cooling assembly apart, in that case I would remove all traces of the pad and use a ceramic based compound.

 

No 9800 yet Its too expensive, I think you said something before how its not worth it upgrading these old things and you are 100% right, Iam just going to wait till all the dx10 laptops and out and buy one of them.