Gateway P-7902h Memory Upgrade

Hi All,

I will be upgrading the memory to 8gb on my P-7902h and would like to know if anyone has had success with the following on any of the gateway P-79 series of laptops:

1) Overclocking the FSB (motherboard mod or software) - is it even possible....
2) Manually adjusting the timings on the memory (Bios or from within Windows 7)

I've read that a command rate of 1T is required on these laptops. Does anyone know if this is true?

Also, if you have 8gb of memory in your P-79 can you let me know the make and model.

Thanks in advance

 

It seems to be non adjustable in the P78 and P79. Meaning there is no bios adjustment for timing and the bios is unforgivable in that it will attempt to run any memory at 1T. You can burn he SPD in some memory to better timings but this is hit and miss...............

 

Thank you Tanware.

I will be upgrading my P-79 in the next few weeks. I'll be installing an SSD, upgrading the memory, installing Windows 7 64, disassembling the laptop to reapply TC and add copper shims where needed on the CPU, Chipset, GPU and GPU memory. I've already installed bluetooth. Is there anything else you think I should consider doing while I have the unit apart? Thanks for any advice you can give.

 

You are good to go, that is unless you need a BR drive or a better CPU. As far as CPU get one with 6mb L2, the desktop and elsewhere gets a bit snappier. Gateways bios is L2 6mb optimized on the P78 from 9c.13.00 on and on all P79xx's that I can tell. Fleabay has BR drives, look up for the P7811........

 

Thanks again TANWare, I should mention I already have upgraded the CPU to QX9300. I've read some of your posts where you mention the quad cores are not as efficient on these machines as the dual cores. I see from your SIG that you have a quad core installed on your P-79. Is there anything that can be done to improve the efficiency of quad cores on these machines?

Also, can I ask what brand/speed of memory do you have?

 

I bought 1333 cas 9. It runs as 1066 cas7 but I can't remember the sticks. Get the standard configuration and you should be ok. The newer ones with the LONG chips I think have the issues, they register banks differently me thinks.

Best thing is go to new egg and look for a review with a successful P78/P79 etc.

As far as optimize, I am looking. Windows 8 does a lot for the CPU in apps that do not affinity set, which are most of them. Canon DPP, that uses the four cores an appears to set affinity, is not enhanced but most other apps get a 10% boost or better on the CPU of things. I would LOVE to see this for Windows 7.

If you could get SuperPI 1.5 mod and try 2 m without setting affinity. Then set affinity to either core 0 or core 0,1 and see if it runs faster. That is how you can tell windows is not optimized for CQD.................

This thread shows what I am finding with Windows 8.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gateway-emachines/649553-cqd-owners-rejoice.html

Edit; I just tried merging the REG from Windows 8 to windows 7 as there are some differences under proccessor and Intelppm but this had no effect under windows 7. I was hoping it was just a reg hack that would do it..............