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    I945gm ? T5500 to T7600 Socket Question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mooses9, Nov 15, 2010.

  1. mooses9

    mooses9 Notebook Guru

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    ok so as of late i have been doing some upgrading on my laptop, i bought 4gb of ram and a 500gb 7200rpm harddrive.

    i went ahead and pulled the trigger rather fast and bought a newer processor its the t7600. my question is will it be supported by the bios that is currently avail for my toshiba laptop? which is the 5.20 series bios.

    also this is a direct replacement for my existing t5500 series cpu right? i

    my mother board is a i945gm

    socket 479 MPGA

    Intel® Core?2 Duo Processor T5500 (2M Cache, 1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB) with SPEC Code(s) SL9SH, SL9SQ, SL9U4, SL9U8, SLA4F, SLGFK t5500 specs

    Intel® Core?2 Duo Processor T7600 (4M Cache, 2.33 GHz, 667 MHz FSB) with SPEC Code(s) SL9SD, SL9SJ t7600 specs

    thanks for any help
     
    mooses9, Nov 15, 2010
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  2. Trottel

    Trottel Notebook Virtuoso

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    It will work without any problems!
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Make sure you flash your BIOS to the latest one first otherwise you might to retake everything apart! Good luck
     
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  4. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You should go for a T7600 G, they have unlocked multipliers and can be overclocked with throttlestop.
     
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    No, it will work regardless.
     
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    i looked into the t7600G however i couldnt find a decently priced one. on ebay they have them for like 650.00 which is way too much, plus i dont game and a core 2 duo is more than enough for what i do with my laptop.

    right now im running the t5500 1.6ghz going from this cpu to the t7600 c2d 2.33ghz is a large leap in cpu performance.

    i just upgraded my hitachi 160gb 5400 to the hitatchi 500gb 7200gb and benchmarked the difference and i seen a 77% performance gain on the hdd and i upgraded the ram from 2gb to 4gb of crucial ram and seen a 18% performance gain as the 945gm is limited on the ammount of ram totally installed that it uses. those 2 upgrades cost me 85.00 for the performance gain which i think is decent.

    i for the cpu for 149.00 so for 234.00 total the laptop is maxed out, which obviously i dont think you can purchase a laptop for 234.00 that could touch alaptop with

    windows 7 ultimate 64bit
    t7600 2.33ghz c2d
    4gb ram 3gb reconized
    500gb 7200rpm

    i think it was a good buy, i wqould love to have a laptop sporting the i7 980x but wouldnt we all, i dont game or do any memory intensive programming so this is going to be more than enough for me.
     
    mooses9, Nov 16, 2010
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