T9900 installed on my P-7811 FX....runs like a champ...

First of all thank to all of you that made me aware that I could upgrade the CPU on my rig.
Before running into this forum I thought that only Dell notebooks could be upgraded (I did on my old Inspiron, both the CPU and the graphic card).
So today was the big day and I installed the "baby"...installation went very smoothly, I used ICD7 for the CPU-Heatsink...I left the original thermal pad on the Chipset...it was in perfect shape...but I'm willing to accept suggestions.

My flight simulator performance jumped significantly.

Thanks again, in particular to Capper for his "How to replace the CPU" video.

One technical question: What are acceptable temperatures for the CPU cores and the ACPI?? I would like to avoid undervolting if possible.


Now let's see if our friend Massey will be successful in installing a quad core on its machine!!!

Regards

 

Congrats on a successful installation. These non-extreme ~3Ghz mobile processors like yours and my T9800 really are great to have.

As far as temps go, they do run a bit warmer than the rest, but I wouldn't worry unless your cores are going up to 80°C.

 

Undervolting honestly will not affect stability or performance. I have done it on numerous notebooks over the last 3-4 years. 0 problems.

 

Congrats on the new CPU, it should make a pretty big boost to your rig.

But undervolting will help the temps alot, though your temps shouldnt be that bad as your getting 3.06 for 35 watts. I'm running 3.00 at 44 and even with out undervolting its not "that" hot (but i most deffinatly undervolt as it shaves ALOT off the temps)

 

Congrats as well. I am thinking if I wanna drop over $400 on the T9900 as well. Could you give me a 3dmark score without overclocking the GPU? I wanna see what kind of boost that thing gives. Also what is your windows exp. score on the CPU as well as does your computer "see" that it is a 3.06 GHz and not the reported that the mobo only "see's" 3.00GHz.

Thanks

 

Ok some numbers...

On the Windows Experience Index I get 5.7 on the processor (previously 5.0), 5.9 on Memory, Graphics and Gaming Graphics, 5.4 on the Disk data transfer rate.

I did run Orthos for 30 minutes and the max registered temp with HW Monitor was on the TZS0 and TZS1 with 70' C.

The BIOS sees the processor correctly, Windows sees it correctly (and, as I already mentioned, it did update the processor performance index), The Intel Processor Identification Utility report 3.06 GHz on both cores, CPU-Z report the correct processor and RM Clock report the correct model and core clock.

I could not be more happy.

I haven't run the 3Dmark test.

After the installation of the new CPU and checking the BIOS, I strongly suggest, as Capper said before, to uninstall the old processor information on the Windows Device Manager and reboot.


Guys it was a breeze.....and the performance jumped significantly.


Regards

 

The data transfer kinda sucks I get 5.9 but I have mind at RAID 0 (its in my sig.)
Thanks for the answers and looking 4ward to the 3dmark score!!
Did you get it CPU from extermeprocesser on ebay? How long did it take to get it?

 

Windows Experience Index is worthless as a measure to gauge performance.

 

Congrats on the new cpu. Goodluck with it.

 

Congrats. Since the Quad-Core CPUs are like no where available for my P-7811 FX, I'll have to either get the T9900 as well, or the X9100. If only the P9700 is available, I'd get it for the 25W combo.

 

The P9700 will be extremely popular when it comes out. 2.8Ghz @ 25w is quite impressive.

 

Isn't 25w TDP overrated anyway? Especially when compared to the 35w T9600 (also 2.8 ghz), which is by the way available now for as low as $209 on ebay--

 

Congrats on the new processor, glad I could be of help.

I think the 3.0GHz limit was completely a misunderstanding on someones part that got passed along.......install the CPU, log into the bios, and you'll see the T9900 is recognised @ 3.06GHz. Boot into Windows, go into the device manager, and delete the CPU entries and reboot.....all done.

As far as temps, anything under 80C is fine (under load)......undervolting will make a huge difference and is highly recommended. As far as the TZS0/1, 70C is fine....mine sometimes gets as high as 74C under extreme conditions.

 

Definitely overrated, but people just love their P processors.

 

You might want to blur out your product ID in that screenie you posted

 

How's the battery life on it now? I use my laptop on the go a lot so....I was just wondering.

 

I think the 3ghz limit applies to X series CPUs, the multiplier can't be raised to a level that will clock it over 3ghz. Which basically means you can't overclock any of them except the older X7800

 

Ah.......not sure how that made it into so many discussions about the P-7811 FX and the other Gateway notebooks. I kept seeing the 3GHz issue brought up.