Toshiba X205 board and GPU?

I just recently acquired a Toshiba satellite X205-S7483 and had a few questions on it?

Are the motherboards the same one used across this model line of X205? And for the GPU what is the part number for the SLI version that will fit in this unit? And for CPU xtreme what model line fits for this laptop?

 

Yes. The motherboards are all the same unlike the Qosmio x300/x305 series and the GPU's are all interchangeable within one another. 8700m GPUs will fit in SLI boards, SLI GPU's will fit in 8700m boards etc. I own three of the things. Two SLI models and one 8700m model.

Part number for the SLI GPU's is LS-3449P or K000056560 for the master and K000056570 or LS-344AP for the slave.

 

So that means I shouldn't worry about the board if I want to upgrade to SLI connection or do I need to find the matching motherboard that will upgrade to SLI? Thanks for the info as well I tried looking but couldn't figure where to find that info. And have you upgrade to the Extreme processor? Would you know which extreme would fit? You also wouldn't know by chance the heat sink part number that sandwiches both of them to make the connection? Reason I am asking so much is interested in bring it back to life I know it's old but then again you never find them again. But that is just me.

 

Not at all. All motherboards for the x200/x205 series are identical unlike the Qosmio x300/x305 series as I said earlier.

The X9000 is the fastest supported CPU. It's a Montevina platform so that's the best it will support. I currently have one installed in my X205-SLI3 and it runs very well.

The SLI connection is embedded on the "Master" card and not the motherboard. As a result, SLI will work on the single 8700m model motherboards too.

The only thing that isn't cross compatible is the heatsinks. The 8700m uses a different heatsink from what I remember. Its larger than the master 8600m's heatsink to accommodate the higher TDP of the 8700m. Finding the heatsinks on their own is nearly impossible these days.

The SLI model has two heatsinks. The "Slave" heatsink is extremely rare and is very strange. It's weird so the master and slave card can stack on top of each other. And yeah, I can't blame you for wanting to fix up these things. I love them so much

If you want the SLI heatsinks, Here are the only two I found on ebay:

Slave Heatsink: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toshiba-Sat...AT0000011A0-/131493636450?hash=item1e9da1a962

Master Heatsink: http://www.ebay.com/itm/K000059000-...rmal-Module-/181826367326?hash=item2a55b22f5e

 

How would I go about getting the SLI version in 8700 or was it only in 8600 SLI? And what is the difference between sli1 and sli5 version?

 

There's no sli version of the 8700m for these Toshibas. Those are exclusive to the m1730. 8600m sli is the best you'll get. The 8700ms for these Toshibas only work in single configuration.

Those two are identical as with all sli x20/0/5's. The only difference would be the cpu and HDD space.

 

So it's better to go SLI 8600 rather then single 8700? I also found that the sli1 had the lower resolution and sli4 and above had the 1680x1050 option from what I read.

 

That's true, but the GPU's are all the same. No different size or type of memory either. Screens, CPU's, RAM, and HDD's are the only things that change, but you can always change those.

As for your other question, Yes. Nowadays the 8600m GT in sli is blatantly faster than the 8700m because most games have support for sli now. Problem is when these things first came out, the 8700m was better as most games at the time had no sli support. This is not the case anymore. The 8600m GT is pretty much just an underclocked 8700m. They both have the same amount of shader cores/vertex shaders at 32. They're both based on the same G84 chip. What I'm saying is, you're now getting twice the power of a single 8600m.

 

Ok, good to know I did figure SLI did help more then a single card would even with SLI configuration would help to get more pixels out there. Well now I slowly rebuild the system and go from there and if I got more request I post them again. But Thanks for the info and help. I'll still be posting to the other forums here - just I'll have to get a plan and budget ready to get the parts ordered and rebuilt.

 

Thought I report back I did find some x205 board but I did notice something different some of those board had the connector on the lower left of the memory slot and some didn't have them. Only those that had the connector there were the SLI boards and some didn't have them.

 

Sorry for the late reply.

Probably because those boards are P200 boards not X200. Chinese sellers often sell P200 boards as "X200 Boards" because they mechanically fit in the casing and will operate albeit without the X200's GPU as it is incompatible. The X200 is based on the P200's chassis and as such, most of the parts such as the motherboard are interchangable. You want to make sure you are buying an X200 motherboard and not a P200 motherboard labeled as an X200 motherboard. Also in vice versa. X200 boards get sold as P200 boards as well.

LA-3441P and the Toshiba model number K000056590 is the X200 motherboard. Some P200 motherboards namely the AMD one do not have the GPU connector on them. That connector that you pointed out is the GPU connector. P200's with GPU connectors are in the same position, but the connectors are smaller.

 

I know I looked closely at those picture and saw that small connector so I figure it was for the SLI version. I did get another parts X205 and will try to later this Winter restore it back or sooner if I get time from work and family.