Upgraded to a T9300 on my 6860FX!

Upgraded to a T9300 yesterday. About 20 minutes from first screw off to last screw back on. Pictured how-to's on this forum made it a breeze. I used AS5 and followed their website instructions.

Did the undervolt and found that it is stable at a min of 1.0375 at the max multiplier. A little higher than most of the posts I've read, but the max core temp under full load for 3 hours was 53C so I am quite happy.

I'm excited to see the effects. I play WOW a lot and in large cities notice a significant framerate reduction due to processor load. I wonder what kind of a difference it will make. Not expecting magic, but hopefully a little better.

Thanks to everyone posting in the forum. Never would have attempted this without seeing community suggestions and successes.

 

Woohoo!

And wait, you're not happy at 53C at full load? lol

 

Edited. I am actually very happy with a 53C full load. Typo sorry

 

Congradulation on the upgrade. It should make your rig seem like a whole new computer.

Enjoy the CPU

 

Great !!
I had so much fun upgrade to T9600, Undervolting, and applied AS5..
With the undervolting, max temp I got was 52c after hours of gaming..

 

i just upgraded to T9300 and i can see the improvements it made. For one it's ice cold, (48-49) under load 32-33 idle temps. Crysis was fine with me on T5550 but it was choppy in certain spots. T9300 fixed that issue and now it runs smooth. Overall i'm happy with the upgrade.

 

congrats guys. I want to make this move too.

Im still looking for a great price.

did you guys bought it on ebay ? if yes from witch seller ?

 

i bought T9300 from someone on craigslist for $130 shipped which isn't that bad compared to eBay where T9300 goes for $20-$30 more.

 

I got mine from Ebay for $169 shipped and I coincided it with Cashback of 15% so it was $143.65. Seller was junkpcparts. He seems to have them quite frequently.

 

Awesome price there nels1316!

 

Thats a freaking awsome price. My x9000 cost about twice that

 

Yeah I was happy. I kept my eye on the auctions and got lucky with the cashback being higher.

 

Really? yesterday I bought a P9500 from him the price was $190 shipped to Mexico! he sent it today .

 

Nels1316, how's the difference in WoW vs. the old CPU (I'm assuming the old one was the stock). I'm interested to find out, as I play that game the most on this PC also.

Thanks!

 

The old one was stock, and let me be clear, it is not that I was terribly unhappy with the performance with the stock, but I know that WoW is a CPU intensive rather than graphically intensive program.

Before, I would notice a significant bog in large cities such as Shat or Dalar. I would say that it definitely seems better since adding the new CPU, but it still gets a little slower, but not as bad. I think some of that is the game server itself.

All in all, it is not like it is night and day, but just knowing that I have reduced the processor as the potential bottleneck in most cases made the small investment worth it to me. Plus it is fun to open the laptop up and work on it.