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    9260 Quad Processor without motherboard revision

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Arv_Reloaded, Nov 16, 2008.

  1. Arv_Reloaded

    Arv_Reloaded Notebook Enthusiast

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    Recently purchased a used 9260 from NBR. Any1 here using quads 95W in 9260( not 9261 or 9262) without motherboard uprgade. I am being told that Q6600 and Q6700 95W will work good in them.
     
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    question: what chip came with it?
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    I believe a few threads were made about this exact subject.

    the Q6600 (G0-stepping) has been shown to work with it.
     
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    Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz w/ 4MB L2 Cache - 1066MHz FSB

    @gophn

    thanks. You have advised me to use 6600 or 6700 with g0 stepping previously. But before trying out that I wanted to see if any 1 uses quads long term in 9260 without or with any issues..
     
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    the cooling should be fine, and as long as the power brick is the 220w kind, then the power should be fine as well.
     
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    NoOne here using quads 95W in 9260( not 9261 or 9262) without motherboard uprgade?????

    Guide me plz guys

     
    Arv_Reloaded, Nov 18, 2008
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    what motherboard upgrade? it's usually just a bios update. update your bios and you should be good to go.

    right now im running a 130 watt cpu with no problems.

    i know it's not a np9261 or 9260 but there are people who have your model and are running an over clocked quad (q6600)
     
    Johnksss, Nov 18, 2008
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    When the system went from the NP9260 to the 9261/2 series, the motherboard upgrade was just on account of a change in how certain signals were routed between the GPUs and the display unit in order to accomodate the then-new 8800Ms in SLi; no changes to the physical hardware, including the cooling system, were made when the system started sporting the quad-cores.

    Based on that, I'd say that at most you should only need a BIOS update in order to run a quad-core in a 9260.
     
    Shyster1, Nov 18, 2008
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    i feel good when i come with the very very short version of the story and it matches shyter1's in depth view :) all is right with the world!..*lol*
     
    Johnksss, Nov 18, 2008
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