X9000 or T9500 in Toshiba U300/302

Hi All,

I absolutely love my notebook, the size, weight, battery life and heat output are perfect for what i use it for. However i would like to upgrade it for some better performance. Currently i am using a C2D T7500 2.2GHz Socket P 800MHz.

The chipset is GM965. Im running 4GB of DDR2-800 RAM...

The BIOS is TOSHIBA V3.90 (02/13/2008)

I wont have any issues installing the new CPU, just pull off all the bottom plastics, keyboard and top cover and drop the new one in (with some new thermal paste)

I just wanted to get a rough idea if the CPU will work... Looking at the specs it should be fine, but moving from a Merom chip to a Penryn may cause issues. The BIOS may cause issues too... But we'll see...

I may be able to get ahold of the T9500 cpu from work to see if it will recognise the chip. If that works will the X9000 work too???

Thanks,

Josh

 

if the t9500 works the x9000 "should" work.. im not sure about your specific model but if the t7500 works the t9500 should also work. imo the t9300 is about the best overall one right now.. unless you are doing some serious tasks that require a x9000 (not gaming it will maybe net you a couple extra frames or so but not much more) then imo they are not worth it, even the t9500 is only a little bit faster than your t7500 is..

 

A larger capacity and faster hard drive will probably provide the most noticable boost in performance for general use

 

I would highly recommend AGAINST it, the X9000 is not worth the price, in a few months for the same amount of money you`ll be able to get a mobile quad.
The T7500 can be OCed to at least 2.7 safely

 

I thought santa rosa didn't support o/cing?

 

I found when shopping, The X900 vs T9300 was not worth the extra ~200 dollars. The T9300 upgrade is great.

 

Not officially.
You can use SetFSB for it.Handle with care, I take no responsibility for damages...

 

Couple of points: The X9000 is no wy worth the money, nor is the T9500. The T9300 is only 100MHz slower than the T9500.... 100MHz is not worth $225. Also it is my guess that if you put an X9000 in your U300 it will melt.

Seriously.

 

LOL!!!

What purpose are you planning for your upgraded CPU? Your current CPU is plenty fast enough for most tasks... as stated before, consider a larger and faster hard drive or more memory before a CPU upgrade.

 

i use this notebook for everything.. not gaming obviously, because of the integrated graphics... but i multi-task like there is no tomorrow. atleast 10 firefox windows, itunes, outlook 2007, myob, word, as well as downloading the lastest iso's from technet, and burning/backing up official technet plus media i have recieved...

as much as i love desktop computers, being a computer techie, i always end up using one or the other.... the notebook ends up neglected in the corner of the office while the desktop is working and vice versa.

i need the notebook to do recovery tasks from other systems via external hard drives whilst on the go, as well as invoicing, reports, etc....

i would have bought an ASUS laptop, however this was all that was available at the time and i was travelling overseas the next day and needed a new laptop...

in reference to the melting of the laptop... that had crossed my mind... reading the reviews for it on this site it outputs more heat (35w to 44w)...

i'll borrow a t9500 from work and see how it goes... if i notice a speed bump i'll get one... but if its not worth the $450 ill save up for a samsung ssd....

thanks,

josh

 

Hi All,

I finally did it, the X9000 is running successfully in the Toshiba U300/302. The CPU runs cooler than the original T7500 and i get better battery life. Passmark Performance Test for the system was 556.6 on the T7500, now i get 726.8 on the X9000. I have also ordered a OCZ Core Series 2 60GB SSD to get things cooking. Im going to get the Kingston PC2-6400 CL4 4gb kit next and reinstall vista sp1 x64 when everythings done and we'll see the performance boosts then...

But for the time being, the system is much snappier and ripping/encoding dvds is m u c h faster....!!

BTW: I got the chip on ebay for $599 AUD shipped...

Thanks all for your advise,

Josh

 

that doesn't make much sense to me... since the x9000 has a 10W higher TDP.... i dunno maybe its due to the fact that the X9000 has 45nm manufacturing tech...

are you aware of the stuttering problems the OCZ series has??? or infact any SSD with the jmicron controller....

seriously don't bother just get a pc26400 CL5 4gb kit... its half the price of the cl4 kit... and anyway you won't notice any performance difference.....

congrats i agree the x9000 is a sweet processor

 

hey mate,

thanks for the advise,

its not too late for me to cancel the order for the OCZ SSD, which SSD would you recommend?

i'll have a look at the ram as well, if you believe the lower latency ram wont make any difference i'll just leave the ram in i have now... saves more money for the ssd

thanks,

josh