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    Upgrading Celeron T3000 to C2D T9300?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by spleenharvester, Jun 22, 2013.

  1. spleenharvester

    spleenharvester Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey all. I have a Toshiba L300 with the following specs:

    Celeron T3000 1.8GHz
    2GB RAM
    Intel GMA4500M (GL40 chipset)
    Windows 7 Home Premium X64

    Originally cost £25 faulty, replaced the NEC tokin cap and it's like new. Not bad at all :D

    Slapped a Crucial M4 64GB SSD in there and it's now lightning fast. But I'd like to push it all the way.

    Would I notice a particularly big upgrade going from a Celeron T3000 to a Core 2 Duo T9300 (the highest this model can support)?

    Or am I better off waiting for one of the few L300 motherboards with a GM45 chipset so that I can whack a spare P8600 in there? (though something tells me I'd be waiting a while...)

    Cheers!
     
    spleenharvester, Jun 22, 2013
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    ednet Newbie

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    Yes you can
    I upgrade T4300 to T8300 and work, and T9300 will work too
     
    ednet, Jun 23, 2013
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  3. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    If true I would say go for a T8100 that would say better deal for you since T8300(2.4) vs T8100(2.1) your not going to see much difference if you go T8xxx buy a T8100 that will save you more money and T9300 would be better but you have to ask what are you planning to use your laptop for if just surfing the net or word processing your board won't give much benefit from a T9300 and gaming that is out of the question unless your laptop has dedicated GPU. I would stay away from going T9300 since that upgrade won't do much to benefit a older laptop model a T8100 will do you better and extent the life of the laptop not to mention lower the heat from the CPU.
     
    StormJumper, Jun 23, 2013
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  4. spleenharvester

    spleenharvester Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just managed to find a HP 8710W faulty non powering motherboard, with a presumed working Quadro FX1600M and a C2D T7700, for £20 :D the T7700 is going in my lappy (I doubt there's gonna be a huge difference between it and the T9300 anyway) and I have a shot at repairing the board in there lol. Cheers!
     
    spleenharvester, Jun 24, 2013
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  5. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    The T9300 and the CPU has better management with more cache. The heat and low power will depend alot on what you plan on doing with the laptop.

    Or

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...grades/230701-processor-t7700-vs-t9300-3.html
     
    StormJumper, Jun 24, 2013
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  6. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    T9300 is a Penryn Core 2 Duo and is 45 nm, it consumes a fair bit less power than a T7700 which is a Merom Core 2 Duo. Also it has SSE4.1 instruction set which makes encoding a bit faster.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jun 24, 2013
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  7. yotano21

    yotano21 Notebook Evangelist

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    I once had a t7700, those babies ran kinda hot, until I upgrade it with a t8300 in my old sager 2090. RIP baby.
     
    yotano21, Jun 25, 2013
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