What can be upgraded in a Gatway P-6860FX

Title says all.. Just all the possible upgrades or addons that can be made to this computer to make it as fast as possible

 

you can upgrade the cpu, to any socket P 800MHZ FSB processor incuding the X7800 and the X9000. Dook has a X7800 in his P-6860 and it overclocks well to my recollection.
You can upgrade the system to 4gb of Pc6400 memory (2 x 2GB DDR2 sodimm memory)
You can upgrade the harddrive to any SATA 9.5mm thick 5400rpm, 7200rpm or SSD harddrive.

The graphics card, is upgradeable but I believe the only graphics card which works with it is the 8800mGTS from nVidia.

Personally I think the P-6860 is the best notebook Gateway ever made.
Its really user friendly and very easy to upgrade.

K-TRON

 

Thx for the help man!

 

ALso by the way can i has links to the prossesers you just gave me?
if i can has faster i want faster!!

 

how can you upgrade the graphics card? it's on the mobo.

and it already has 4GB of RAM. you can also upgrade the lcd if you want.

 

It sure is the best **** laptop ever built by gateway
Im sure its upgradeable, its called overclocking removal.First you remove the stuff connected to the gpu.Then you get it to 40000 terahertz and BOOM it flys down and on the floor. Completely out. Ready to be upgraded

 

from your specs in signature, i would only upgrade to the T9300/T9500 for the cpu.
For the harddrive, you may want to upgrade to a 320gb 7200rpm drive or a SSD to get more harddrive performance out of your system (I am assuming your 320gb drive is 5400rpm)
Other than that your gpu is the fasest one for your system. You could upgrade the LCD to WUXGA 1920x1200 if you wanted to, but thats up to you.

K-TRON

 

Thx man for the help!

 

well to max it out:
cpu: x9000
hdd: 2x500gb 7200rpm RAID0
lcd: 1920x1200
wifi: intel 5300

gpu is not upgradeable

and get that cyro notebook cooler....

 

Um where would i get the x9000?

 

ebayyyyyyyyyy

 

You can get them off of ebay. That were i got mine and it works fine. Mine is a ES version. Should be around $300-400.

 

Will a X9100 work? because i see a link and its 3.06 Ghz

 

it may or may not work but would downclock to 800mhz fsb so you're clocks would be much lower than 3ghz(too lazy for math lol sorry)

 

I got mine off ebay. You just have to shop around for a decent deal

K-tron hit most of the upgrades in his post. But i would stay away from the RAM upgrade. Its a waste of money. I did it and have absolutely nothing to show for it. I basically spend 109 dollars for nothing.

You can also upgrade the DVD player to a Blue Ray drive... but unless you are into that format its not that big of an upgrade for 300ish dollars.

The 320gb 7200RPM drives are really nice, but i'll be swapping mine out for 500gb 7200rom drives as soon as they become available... and next year i'll do it again for the 1tb 7200rpm drives that should be available

The biggest upgrades you can do to the machine are - CPU Hard drive, Screen

About the only thing i havent upgraded is the Screen, but i linke gaming on 1440x900... i just wish i had 1920x1200 for work related projects, because its a much nicer resolution for opening multipule applications...and i dont mind playing games at non-native res

 

Thanks batman person, I decided to get a T9500 Thx people!

 

Would upgrading RAM to 6400, make a big difference?

 

t9500 or t9300? your statement and signature dont match so i'm wondering. If its the t9500... i would recommend staying away from it as its largely junk. 100mHz for 100+ dollars in most cases is never a good idea. For the money you would spend on a t9500 you could save another week or two and just shoot for the x9000.

The only 4 CPU's i recommend for the 6860 are the t8300, t9300, x7800, x9000. The rest are basically non-issues CPU's

nope, you will get the same effect as i did upgrading to 4-4-4-12 timed 667mHz RAM...which is to say jack squat.

Our chipset limits us to 667fsb so the 800mHz RAM will just get down clocked to 667, and you will gain a latency point basically letting you run at 667mHz with 4-4-4-12 timings.

It really is a waste of money. Looking back i wish i would have just saved the 109 dollars and put that towards a new LCD panel.

But as they say hind sight is 20/20

 

Thanks for the educated response, as always Kamin

Did you replace your LCD btw? Which one did you get? If yes, was it worth it?

 

afaik he did not

 

royk50 is correct, as of yet I haven't replaced my panel.

There are a couple of really nice ones that have been listed on this forum (both 1650x1050 and 1920x1200 varieties) and any of them i'm sure would be great.

I just havent gotten the upgrade bug in a while so i'm waiting for that to hit again to give me an excuse

 

hmm well i think im just gona get the t9500 cus on newegg the t9300s 350 and on ebay the t9500s 370. No problem for me. And i cant find the x9000.

 

let us know when it arrives...
and make sure you discuss with e-seller about what happens if its doa

 

oky dokey!

 

I bought a Samasung 5400 RPM 250 GIG HD, i really don't care about the rpm, because i get a 30 mb/s transfer rate which beats the standard HD which transfers at 8 mb/s