update my Gateway FX cpu?

Hey guys I was wanting to know how difficult it would be to update my cpu in my P-6831 FX ? and what would you guys recommened ?

 

There have been numerous threads on this topic. Upgrading the CPU seems to be a piece of cake and I believe the best CPU you can use is the Core 2 Extreme X9000, with the T9500 in second place. Extremes are now overclockable, but use more power than the T-series processors.

 

Thanks alot for the info. I am a total Noobe when it come to updating laptops and looking foward to giving it a try.

 

The cost/benefit ratio used to be not worth it. You can pick up a T9500 for $120 if you're lucky. Buying it for more defeats the laptop from being a budget laptop.

 

I haven't seen any T9500 CPUs selling on ebay for less than $200. If you can find some for $120 then buy a box of them and you'll make lots of money. Put me down on your list. I'll take one for $120.

Now that the X9000 can be overclocked by adjusting the multiplier, they can run reliably at 3.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz. That's not a bad option and will transform any laptop so it will have few equals in any single threaded task.

The TDP (thermal design power) rating of an X9000 is higher than a T9500 but if you run both CPUs at the exact same speed with the exact same voltage, you won't see any significant difference in power consumption or heat. Power consumption and heat will only increase when you start to overclock the X9000.

 

Are you sure the X9000=an unlocked T9500? Is this true of the X9100 and T9900? Aren't the extreme ones older technology?

 

Compare Intel® Products Looks like the X9000 is a T9500 with an unlocked multiplier. I don't think the X9100 is an unlocked T9900.

 

I concur with your conclusions.

 

The X9000, X9100, T9500 and T9900 are all built on the same 45nm process and all have 6MB of L2 cache. It's easy for Intel to make some slight adjustments like bus speed, L2 cache and multiplier to create a wide variety of different models that are all built from the same CPU.

If you pick any 2 of those 4 and run them both at the exact same total MHz and the same core voltage, you won't see a significant difference in power consumption or heat output.

The older Extreme CPUs like the X7800 and X7900 are 65nm so their power consumption and heat output will be higher at the same frequency.

The X9100 and T9900 are very similar. They are both 45nm with 6MB of L2 cache and both use a default 11.5 multiplier. The T9900 supports Intel Dynamic Acceleration so it can use the 12.0 multiplier when one core is active and the other core is in the C3/C6 sleep state. The X9100 doesn't have IDA but if your bios lets you, or if you are using ThrottleStop, you can unlock the multiplier so it can use the 12.0 multiplier, or higher, on both cores.

 

What do you have in it now? I put this in my 7805 before selling it and it was pretty nice. Intel core 2 duo T9600 2.80GHz SLG9F CPU - eBay (item 160448298215 end time Jun-30-10 06:55:43 PDT)

 

This may be true but I bet the X9100 can't undervolt as well as the T9900 on stock voltages. My guess is that the X9100 is an unlocked T9600 because both came out in Q3 2008.

 

See this thread for a good step by step upgrade process.