P-6860FX Desktop CPU's

I'm thinkin of buy the P-6860FX off of ebay, and was wondering if it is compatable with the E8400 processor, or any of the quad cores out there?

 

I believe it is not. The chipset is a mobile chipset, while some notebooks do carry desktop processors the chipset/motherboard were designed specifically for that aswell as calculating it into the "heat budget". The best processor you could toss in there would be the X9000 Intel Extreme, If you want bang for the buck the T8300 is great. If you require a little more kick in terms of cache the T9300 is for you.

 

no quad support as far as we know
i think the qx6700 is the top cpu to work with the 965 chipset,
however i may be wrong on this.

anyway without a bios update and official statement from gateway i wouldn't try it, i can point you to a thread where a guy reports toasting his 965 mobo by installing a xeon 3110 (e8400).

 

Would be nice to see some quad core support for this machine, hmm well maybe I''ll be able to find a resonably priced x9000 or settle for the T9300

 

I recommend the T8300. Its around 200$ new, hence great bang for the buck. The point is if you are planning to game ( From the notebook you have chosen it kinda points towards gaming) the graphics card will usually bottle neck far before the cpu. Unless you are running VERY cpu intesive software the T8300 will easily suit your needs.

 

I plan on using it for interent browsing, veoh tv, and gaming. I'm not a huge PC gamer anymore ( i like my command & conquer, and age of empires, and maybe one day get back in world of warcraft) I'm sure it'll be able to handle diablo 3, and starcraft 2, considering my current desktop is still chuggin along.

Just out of curiousity, how much better performance would you say that note book would give me over my desktop system?
Pentium 4 3.2ghz (socket 478) 800mhz fsb
Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 w/CIA on
2gb Kingston HyperX DDR 400
X-fi Elite Pro
ATI Radeon 3850 512mb AGP 8x

I usually don't ask questions like that, but I've fallen behind in the technology game

 

The 6860 will eat your P4 for breakfast.

 

Quite true, aslong as you have proper video drivers gaming should be far better.

 

does anyoe know how the 3850 stacks against the 8800m?

Also are there any major diffrences between the 6831 and the6860 other than ram and hard drive?

 

look here all the mobility /"M" gpus around

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

no major differences beside ram hdd and different bios version (??)

 

Here is an article about the AGP 3850 performance when using an old single core processor like the P4. Although the specs suggest the 3850 would be at least on par with the 8800M gts (and I think it is when coupled with a modern dual core processor) when using it with a P4 it barely performs better than a 128-bit midrange card like the 2600 (held back by the cpu) so I would guess your P-6860fx will outperform your desktop in almost any game.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ati-agp-3850-agp,1939.html

This is a great read and probably my favorite article I've read in a long time but unless I'm missing something they never released part 2

To answer your 2nd question the only differences I know are the 6860 has a slightly faster cpu (1.83 vs 1.66), it has 4gbs of ram vs 3gb, larger HDD (320gb vs 250gb), and has Vista 64-bit vs 32-bit (so it can utilize the extra gig of ram).

 

Now I gotta watch ebay, 24hrs and wait for a 6860 to reapear, sucks they don't sell these in canada.

 

Just ordered one off ebay ,for $1305 including shipping, so when that comes, I'll be adding a 7200rpm drive as the primary drive and bumpin the stock drive to the secondary drive, and probably get a turbo boost chip, and a T9500 or x9000 for it

 

What do you mean by turbo boost chip? If you are talking about what I think someone (edit: credit to Gohack) here reported that it didn't work so I would do some more research before you buy it. Other reports with it installed in other computers I've read said that it didn't improve performance or at least not noticeably.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=234998&page=2

 

hmm, I knew it wasn't a huge improvement, but heck it's $30

 

Maybe I'm just cheap or poor but $30 is alot to spend for something others have posted doesn't function for them I'll look around some more and google it but that is the only thread I can remember reading about it here.

 

I'm looking on ebay for car chargers and was wondering if most of the gateway chargers are compatable with each other or do I need to find a specific 6890 one?