GL40 Chipset CPU compatibility?

(slightly Off topic)

I would like to confirm that I have tested chipset 960GL paired with T8100 w/ 800MHz bus speed flawlessly on Acer Aspire 2920Z.

 

new sighting!

Compaq CQ20 with GL40 chipset supporting 1067 or 1066mhz Fsb penryns!

Conclusion: GL40 chipset is happy in bed with P series penryns

 

The processor costs as much as the laptop, I´m wrong?

 

I noticed only 1 core was used, try editing boot.ini in XP as follow
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /numproc=2

 

got a t7500 working in a acer extensa 4630z gl40 chipset, it runs great i know it doesnt mean much but it improved my windows cpu score from 4.8 to 5.3 and it runs a lot faster and smoother.

 

So I would assume a P7450 would work in a an Acer Aspire 5735Z?

 

If the 5735Z uses the PM/GM45 chipset then it will work, else it won't.

 

I am dubious about this comment. Why? There were 965PM Dell Inspiron 1525 units shipped with T4200 cpus, based off penryn cores. The 965PM chipset has not had a confirmation that a 1066Mhz penryn will work on it, even though it appears to be pin compatible as shown here. It *might* be possible, though if the vendor hasn't included bios microcode support for the penryn then it might require some bios hacking.

Though same link above shows how to overclock 800Mhz CPUs up to 1066Mhz and above as some have proven is possible.

 

Hello,
I have an ACER extensa 5630Z T3200 667 GL40 2 Go 800 and I shall want to change the processor for T9300 800 I buy it last week . On Everest I see 667 but not 800 mother board.
On intel web I see GL40 supported FSB 800.
But i don't sure my bios is not locked.
Motherboard accept memory DDR2 800 but on cpu-z I see DRAM frequency 333 MHz but it's a DDR2 800. (cpu is actually install T3200)
I need help before do test

Thanks
(French user)

 

ACER extensa 5630Z does have a T4200 preconfigured model which FSB is 800mhz penryn: Extensa 5630Z-422G25Mn

Conclusion: it should be happy in bed with a t9300. Bios upgrade might be needed but I think not necessary.

 

hello,
Ok, but is normal that the memory(800) is restrained at 333 when the processor T3200 is installed ? (my memory is a DDR2 800 new I chang it, before it's a 667)
Is that it is because the current processor has FSB 667 that the ram stays in 667 (max speed 333) ?
I am afraid that my mother board is locked at 667 ? (Physically switch? or eeprom ?)
I update bios no chang and no probleme.

I prefere ask questions before making a change of cpu
And to understand and learn

I do a everest report if you want to see more information

thanks for your help

 

The RAM will run at either its designed speed, or the speed of the processor/chipset memory interface, whichever is less. That is why your RAM is not running at 400MHz.

By the way, a DRAM frequency of 333MHz means data rate is effectively 667MHz ( double data rate...DDR).

 

IMO acer machines are endowed with quality bioses that is compliant with memory SPD standard so if paired with a 800+ cpu, it should adjust accordingly to the highest SPD setting of the module (unless mixed with lower than pc2-6400 modules). GL40 chipset even can support 1066fsb without complaining (intel documented GL40 , a value chipset, only supports upto 800mt/s).

 

Has anyone proven that to be the case? I've only seen 800Mhz FSB CPU GL40 systems. Candidate system would also need bios cpu microcode to support 1066Mhz FSB CPUs as well. Same theory applied to 965PM chipsets, they are electrically compatible with series-4 penryns, but would not boot with them installed (eg: P8xxx).

Can anyone volunteer to test a GL40 with a 1066Mhz FSB CPU to prove it works?

 

hello,
By waiting to receive my T9300 ordered but delivered in 21 j,
I shall want to try a processor FSB 800 and the only one whom I can try is a ulv SU3500 (FSB 800 1,4) ? Then can I put this processor on my moterboard extensa 5630z GL40 with no dommage because it's an ulv?
if it's ok I will be sure that FSB 800 is well for my laptop.
thanks

 

J'ai recu plus tot mon T9300, que je viens d'installer et j'ai les meme info que pelotu dans CPU Z premiere partie celle de gauche

CORE SPEED 1197 et cela ne monte pas au dela, pourtant je ne suis pas en mode économie d'energie, j'ai comparé avec un autre pc et cela varie pour monter jusqu'au max du cpu ; ici cela devrait monter jusqu'a 2500 et non , pourquoi ?
et aussi
la ram 800 reste à 333

bref tout cela ne me semble pas normal

j'ai mis a jour le bios avant d'installer le processeur , dois je recommencer ? ou faire une autre manipulation ?

j'ai besoin d'un peu d'aide

Merci

PS : l'indice vista = chiffre du processeur uniquement (pas la moyenne) a baissé ; il est passé de 4,9 avec le CPU T3200 et maintenant avec le T9300 il est a 4,4.

 

me voila de nouveau, bios flashé à nouveau et le problème cpu semble résolu pour CORE speed varie maintenant de 1197 Mini à 2494 Max donc c'est bon, l'indice vista passe à 5,4 (et plus 4,4) ( temperature cpu 46/50° C)

- par contre la ram DDR2 800 reste bloqué à 333 au lieu de 400
et je ne comprend pas.

Sur everest :
je viens de voir dans chipset il est noté seulement jusqu'a 667 (pour FSB)
mais visiblement accepte 800 (comme noté sur site intel)

Autre point le bus principal est noté maintenant sur everest 800 (horloge effective) (avec T3200 était noté 667 )
par contre bus mémoire est noté 667 (horloge effective) (meme si DDR2 800 installé et identifié comme tel sur everest et cpu 800 aussi.

cela veut il dire que le bios est réglé comme ca et que je peux rien y changer (puisque bios acer sans reglage possible ou presque ?)
ce n'est pas dramatique que la mémoire soit bridé, je veut juste comprendre.

Et autre question comment savoir si le processeur est bon et stable, (je l'ai acheté d'occasion sur ebay (un peu plus de 100 eur), ce n'est pas un ES) quel genre de test faut il faire ?
et comment savoir aussi si le systeme est stable et si c'est sans risque de laisser ce processeur dans ce portable.

merci d'avance

 

Hi,
I have ACER 5730 with 4GB DDR2, T3400 Pentium Dual. What's the chip on it GL40 or GM45? I test with CPUZ and EVEREST. They showed GL40, but on Intels Identification Utility shown as GM45. What is right?

 

I have a Gateway m-7305u laptop and was wondering what would be the fastest processor I'd be able to upgrade to. It does have the GL40 Chipset and here is the spec list off the website: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2008/MSeries/M-7305u/M-7305usp3.shtml

I really want something with 800 bus speed, please let me know if this is possible!

 

I just tried contacting gateway support they were of no help, anyone have any information on what my computer can support or how I can go about finding out without buying a chip for it to become a paper weight.

 

Hey, I'm using an Emachines E525. http://www.emachines.co.uk/em/product.do?ctx1w.att21k=2&LanguageISOCtxParam=en&sp=page7l&link=ln40l&CountryISOCtxParam=UK&ctx1l.c2att1=17&kcond4l.c2att101=58401&CRC=608969292 It comes with a Intel Celeron 900, what I want to do is put an Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T6400 into it. Uses the same same FSB Speed, same size. Does anyone have any experience with this, I saw a poster also using an Emachines, anyone think this will work?

 

since your existing CPUs FSB is the same, it should work. just make sure your BIOS support your new CPU. if not, simple BIOS update would do. good luck!

and for the record my laptop (Compaq CQ61-314TU) came with GL 40 chipset and equipped with Celeron T3000 Dual core CPU. FSB is 800Mhz.

 

I missed FedEx delivering my Extensa 5230 today. Good news is it comes back tomorrow and that is also the expected date my T4300 processor I got for $40ish should arrive. Passmark for the Celeron 900 it comes with is 790. Passmark for the T4300 is 1396. I'm expecting good stuff. Everything matches almost perfect.

Celeron 900: 2.2GHz, 35W, 45nm, 800MHz FSB, 1-1.25v, socket P, Penryn-3M
PDC T4300: 2.1GHz, 35W, 45nm, 800MHz FSB, 1-1.25v, socket P, Penryn-3M

Maybe when the T4400 comes out at 2.2GHz any day now, it would be a more perfect match as far as clockspeed, but I think I'll take a $40 T4300 over trying to find a newly released chip at ANY price.

I will post CPU-z results and benchmarks before and after. The laptop is supposed to be new in box and have 7 Home Premium 64-bit. It should be very smooth with the T4300 in it.

 

OK...laptop came in and I fired it up, went through all the updates and got Office and other stuff on it. Windows Experience Index with the Celeron 900 is as follows:

CPU 4.4
Memory 5.1
Graphics 3.6 and 3.3
Hard Disk 5.5

This laptop has the WD 160GB hard drive, 2GB of memory, and 7 Home Premium and it IS 64-bit.

I put the T4300 in it an hour ago. Runs smoother and quicker. Booted slower the first time and much faster the second time. Windows Experience Index is now:

CPU 5.4
Memory 5.4
Graphics 3.6 and 3.3
Hard Disk 5.5

For $40ish I'm very pleased.

Now onto the Passmark numbers. First with the Celeron 900 in it, we get the following:

PassMark Rating: 488.2
CPUMark Rating: 885.1
2D Graphics Mark: 176.5
3D Graphics Mark: 125.7
Memory Mark: 575.8
Disk Mark: 455.5

With the T4300 it's not much better:

PassMark Rating: 497.4
CPU Mark Rating: 897.6
2D Graphics Mark: 191.9
3D Graphics Mark: 123.5
Memory Mark: 585.3
Disk Mark: 453.2

The CPU should have gone way up. 2D Graphics improved slightly as did memory, but 3D graphics and disk performance dropped.

Maybe I did something wrong putting the processor in? Everything is in the same way it came out. Windows noticed a bigger difference than PassMark did. Hrmmm...any ideas?

 

OK guys I have good news this is it:

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro U400 came with a Pentium Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz 667 Mhz FSB 1.00MB Cach and ofcourse a GL-40 Chipset... just now I was successfuly able to replace the cpu with a new Core 2 Duo T5800 @ 2.00GHz 800 MHz FSB 2.00MB Cach and it worked like a charm but the windows experience index showed no change CPU score is still 5.0 ...am using Windows 7 Ultimate x64

 

Did your memory score go up at all? Frankly it's not surprising the CPU score didn't, they're the same CPU other than the cache size and FSB, which isn't a big factor in WEI cpu scores (which isn't much of a performance measure anyways).

 

Actually no change whatsoever in meomry score or graphics, but the computer is faster and the battery life went up about 20%,
I'm hoping to go T8300

 

Actually no change whatsoever in meomry score or graphics, but the computer is faster and the battery life went up about 20%, I already had a 4GB ram before the upgrade, should it increase afterwards??
I'm hoping to go T8300

 

Not necessarily, I just figured if it went up at all that'd be the score that would get a boost from it. If you can find a P series that will work like a P9600 or something that'd be ideal, even faster and probably even more battery life.

 

I helped a friend upgraded his lenovo G530 laptop to use a T8100 cpu. no problem.

I also hacked G530 BIOS to enable VT, CPU Hardware Virtualization feature.

http://www.linuxformat.gr/?q=conten...ualization-technology-vt-sony-vaio-laptop-and

 

I just upgraded my Vaio VGN-NW225f/b (GL40 chipset) from a T4300 to a T9300 and much to my surpise, the VT option was suddenly available without any bios modification at all. It was just there and it just worked! I got it in November from Office Max.

I wasn't even sure if the system would accept the chip. I was very, very happy.

 

I have the HP G60-507DX with Intel Celeron 900 in it. chipset is GL40 with socket P. Suggest what processors will fit into this laptop? Thanks.

 

Well, cool_guynbr, we know the following will work because they match specs perfectly:

T3000
T3100
T3300
T4200
T4300
T4400

I have the T4300 in an Acer Extensa 5230E (was a Celeron 900, GL40) which works perfect for me.

Seems like others have used other Core 2 Duo chips. Your best bet is to match up the socket (P), TDP (35w), voltage (1 to 1.25), bus speed (667 or 800MHz) and core (45nm Penryn). Penryn-3M standard voltage chips like the six I listed above are the easiest plug and play CPU's you can use. I would think the lower voltage chips (SU4100, SU4500, SU4700, SU2300, SU2500, SU2600) would also work, those are listed below the standard voltage ones on the Wiki pages below.

Sources:

Wikipedia list of Pentium dual-core Penryn-3M CPU's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...2Penryn-3M.22_.28standard_voltage.2C_45_nm.29

Wikipedia list of Celeron Penryn-3M CPU's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...enryn-3M.22_.28standard-voltage.2C_45_nm.29_2

Intel PDF on the GL40 and other same range chipsets:
http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/320122.pdf

Other technical documents on the GL40 chipset:
http://www.intel.com/products/Notebook/Chipsets/GL40/GL40-technicaldocuments.htm

 

I just won a T6500 on ebay and will install it in my E525 in my sig that also uses the GL40 chipset. I should get it by the end of the week and have time next week to put it in. Will report back.

 

Keep us posted Aiya....

 

Just finished installing it and the bios and computer recognizes it. After a restart, all is well. My battery life is now 5:30 at 92% charge which shocked me, didn't think I was going to get that big of a jump from 2:30 with the celeron. Overall performance is good but then again I haven't even had it for a month yet.

Going to stress test it a bit. Will report back.

 

Awesome!... Thanks~ Did Win7 have any issues moving from single to dual core? or detecting the processor change? Curious...

 

Nope, it didn't. It install a sort of driver for it and asked to restart when I first powered it up. I guess after that restart, Win7 could fully see both cores.

 

Hi everybody!

I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade the T3400 in my Lenovo g530 to a t6600 or a P8600, since Intel limited CPU support in the gl40 chipset.

Did somebody try theses processors already?

Thanks in advance

 

T6600 might work as GL40 supports 667MHz and 800MHz fsb. P8600 is out because as I read no 1066MHz fsb support. Here is a link to Intel document on your chipset. Have a read. I am very aware that Intel documents can be very bad, very hard to read and not always accurate. Good luck. Your Pentium dual core is a core 2 that is why I do not think compatibility issues. With chipset at least. There could be other issues. BIOS, MoBo but I think you are good as long as you stick with 800MHz and socket "P".

 

T6600 should work but if u want something better , try T9300..every chance of it working since T9300 has 800MHz FSB..

 

thank you, guys.
I'll probably go with t6600, since there is a buddy of mine who wants to sell it, and if it doesn't work I can return it to him.
I want to swap the CPU more because of the 45nm technology. T3400 is a 65nm part.

 

Hi guys
I have a toshiba satellite pro with a GL40 chipset, with a Celeron 900 @ 2.2Ghz. Im thinking of upgrading the processor and am just wondering what would be the fastest one I can get for $50-100 and would I see much of a performance increase? any help would be appreciated, cheers!

 

Are there any dual-core Penryn-3M CPU's that have VT-x?

 

What CPUs was your notebook offered with?

The fastest CPU Intel made for the GL40 is the Pentium Dual-Core T4500; it is a dual-core Penryn chip with a 45nm process, 2.3GHz clock, 800MHz FSB. A very respectable CPU for general usage. It would be a nice upgrade from a Celeron 900 though I am not sure how much they go for. Keep in mind that by upgrading the CPU, you will void your warranty.

 

Is that ^ T4500 socket p?

I'd like to upgrade the cpu as well but not for speed or other performance, only to get VT-x enable... has anyone done this on a GL40 chipset? I have a T3400 667MHz currently. Thanks.

How about a T2130, it has VT-x, is this compatible with the GL40?

 

Compaq CQ62-219WM successful cpu upgrade from a Celeron 900 to a T6670

 

Yes, my CQ62-219WM is a GL40 chipset. My stock cpu was a celeron 900 800mhz, I looked around and the T6600-6670-T8100 are all 800mhz. Go here and compare cpu's: Compare Intel® Products,

 

LEO11221 I have the same cpu, upgraded to the T6670 successfully! Compare Intel® Products,

 

Someone had tried these 1066mhz FSB cpu´s with GL40 chipset??

That would be a nice upgrade.