The up-gradable laptop I can't get rid of: CPU upgrade etc
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2022
- In this video I upgrade the HDD to an SSD. New ram. And even put a faster cpu in my Lenovo thinkpad e320.
The old cpu was a i5-2410M. Now it has a Intel Core I7-2760QM in it. Works quite well and is still a fast CPU for its age. I rendered this very video on it in 4K(I was going to do HD but I wanted to stress the thing). I did take 4h 30min for a 14min video (software render in shotcut).
I had to throttle the cpu to 2.4Ghz; now temps are about 88 degrees C. Very stable and still much faster than the old cpu.
This I7-2760QM can go up to 3.5Ghz but then the laptop consumes like 55 Watts... and crashes after an hour of intense use; temps are about 97 degrees C when it's doing that.
Also sorry for the horrible editing on the text at the end. When you render a video for over 4 hours you don't want to completely do it again for a slight mistake.
All these companies... "lets be sustainable, the Earth is in trouble." Also these same companies "lets make throw away laptops. cell phones, and electronic devices that can't be fixed or upgraded."
unfortunately lenovo became what they swore to destroy
@@jan5504 Noooooot! Really on their ThinkPad 2024 T Series
@@jan5504 common bruhv a man need to make money if the purchases of laptops went low they screwed
@@jan5504 It's more of an Intel+AMD issue
The sustainability movement is a lie. They don't care about making better products, only about looking good and making more money.
Lol the OCD with the thermal paste . I feel your pain
Did a similar upgrade to my T510. i5 to an i7, 8Gb of ram, 1tb ssd - incredible these machines are, still holding over an hour on the original battery. No issue with thermals tho in the t510.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 from 2003 and the battery still works
As soon as I unplugged the laptop and say it was still running I was just amazed
I'm not so fortunate on my Dell Latitude's battery situation. It lasts about 20 minutes at idle and about one minute under load.
@@ajhauter5049 time to buy a new old stock one
@@probablynotdad6553 I never use the thing. I built a desktop in August and it does everything I did with the laptop better.
we've come a long way efficiency wise 😂
You can probably also upgrade the WiFi card. Lenovo does like to lock the BIOS so it will only accept certain models, but you can usually find modded bioses that remove that. I have several computers that now have 802.11AC and bluetooth where they didn't originally come with that.
Excellent to know, thank you
I replaced the faulty wifi card in my 2020 ideapad with the old one from my hp laptop and it works perfectly fine, and they are even different brands. The old one was realtek and the current one is intel.
@@lance_374 I have always preferred intel cards (except for their drivers lol they really like to not give downloads)
Worst thermal paste application I think I've ever seen! 🤣🤣🤣
Same... And then I filmed it for all the world to see
@@ashsibebytes4846 🤣😂😁 We've all been there!
The idea of measuring thermal paste performance by thermal conductivity alone is also flawed. The thinner the thermal paste the more it will spread out, thus have less thermal paste the heat needs to travel through. If I am not mistaken the arctic mx4 is an example of a paste that is not exceptionally conducted but makes up by being very thin.
@@jaynayk1176 Agreed on your first point but not sure I follow on the second point. IMO, especially for direct die cooling, one of the more important factors is viscosity. Pastes with lower viscosity tend to "pump out" under load leaving bare die to heatsink contact. Higher viscosity pastes better resist the pump out effect and tend to have higher longevity. For budget pastes, I love Ceramique 2. It's dirt cheap, performs with a few degrees of most pastes, and there's zero chance it is pumping out. On the more expensive side, I also like Gelid GC Extreme, Prolimatech Pk3 and Tuniq TX4. MX4 is ok (definitely great for normal heatsink use) but not my preferred choice for direct die cooling like this.
I've seen worse lol the fact that he ended up putting a blob probably saved it though, or else I would have agreed haha great content
I don't mean it in a negative way, but your voice made me think of Dankpods.
Then you talked about Aussie dollars, then it made sense to me.
It's probably the most chill laptop upgrade video I've seen, and it was entertaining to watch.
Really nice video, one tip I would give you is remove the battery before doing any upgrades
Yep that would be a great idea. I wish I was there to tell myself that at the time.
Remove the battery AND press the power button to make sure capacitors are totally discharged
@@ashsibebytes4846they also sell replacement CMOS battery’s too. That would be nice. Usually good to replace them about every 5 years or so
@@elfedorausado caps on laptops usually don't hold a charge for long after removing battery but still not a bad idea.
@@ethanv8147 it's not probable, but not impossible
I rather enjoyed this video. Your voice overs were engaging, I loved the commentary as well. I am a big Thinkpad nut and hope that your machine serves you well.
I have an HP from 2006, the hard drive bracket is interesting because it's an adaptor that adapts in such a way they it allows the hard drive to swing down, with the connector moving down
Damn. I actually have a similar laptop! Mine is the first-gen Edge 15. I kept the OG i3 380M, but added 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD. It got me through high school when I got it in 2019, and it is still a powerhouse.
Man ! I love captive screws. They are wayy too underated.
2 things about this video impressed me the most. How the laptop looks, it's in amazing condition and the fact that it is a very rare laptop being CPU upgradeable. Cheers
I personally think a laptop with an upgradable processor isn't so much rare as it is uncommon.
Almost all core i3/5/7 M laptop back then were CPU-upgradable
@@SOU6900 I wouldn't say uncommon given they were common before like 2015-2016 but became non-existant overnight
@@SOU6900Sadly it used to be common that laptops are meant to be desktop CPU that is portable so many manufacturers creates mobo that has socketed CPU now its either LGA or BGA the LGA is what replaced PGA it is upradable but doing so is much harder but BGA is where people that solders regularly will be challanged because its soldered directly to the board
@Raykkie There's some companies that still offer laptops with the ability to use a desktop processor. But last I looked they were probably 3000 for a basic setup.
I find that most business grade/mid range laptops, up to 2014 or so, are upgradable in this fashion. I've done a handful of laptop CPU upgrades myself ranging from a Thinkpad R51 to a more current Dell Vostro 3555.
FYI, you can always use faster memory with a CPU that only supports slower memory. E.g. if you got DDR3 1600 it would work with the i5 no problem, it would just run at 1333.
@@sushantmehta6269 it will, because the 1600mhz memory will run at 1333mhz.
@@sushantmehta6269 have you ever tried this? Because I know from experience it's fine to use faster than supported memory.
Chances are you'll get tighter memory timings with a higher rated ram kit too even if you can't get faster clock
@@Cedalus not always. If the faster kit has no profile for the slower speed it might fall back to very slow JEDEC standards. Same if the manufacturer didn't bother to tune the lower speed profiles.
thank you for the cpu upgrade website. Amazing build, yeah will try to stick to 35W cpus for sure 👍
the so-called 32GB support on 2nd and 3rd gen Intel are actually designed for 4-channel memory (means you have to install 4 sticks of 8GB DDR3) so in dual channel (2 slot) you can only go up to 16GB.
Very helpful thank you
@@ashsibebytes4846 if you see a 16GB DDR3 RAM stick online, it is designed for 5th generation Broadwell system (even with U series CPU) because 5th gen is the first gen to support dual-channel 32GB RAM (although Intel page listed 5th gen CPU like i5-5300U only support 16GB, it is tested and it is compatible with 32GB dual channel)
@@trandinhvietdung9357 Mr Tran is there anything you recommend for under $150usd that can be upgraded but run at lower temperatures? also something that can have wifi or bluetooth as it will be a security machine. Currently using an odroid c4 but too slow.
You are mostly right but none of those CPUs have 4-channel memory. It's just dual channel with two sticks per channel
@@Pasi123 ah yeah, thanks for your clarification
The EliteBook 8470p and its family members are great as well in my opinion. Very good upgradability, and a very handy laptop for those working in IT
Did a cpu upgrade on my t420 a while back. Put in the same 2760qm and let me say. On of the best laptops I have used. I does everything I need it to without complaint or fuss.
love the commentary! made my night!!
(clown farts in your face)
hey how's it going👋
An upgrade i would suggest (even more if you're going with a higher tdp cpu) is the heatsink one. I can see in your pcb that your laptop has a model wich has discrete graphics.
The heatsink from the discrete graphics version has more mass and more thermal capacity, probably enough to be fine with your 45w processor and temps be just as before.
Did that with my Dell, still wasnt enough.
Am planning on installing some copper plates through the heatsink. Got any tips?
Liquid metal
@@Callagwhan That makes absolutely no sense lol, he needs to take the heat out of the computer, not into the cooler lmao…
I’d say that the only way to do this would be to get a larger heat sink, make one yourself with larger/more heat pipes, and change the fan to a faster one.
@@Callagwhan i dont recommend it because of 2 reasons:
1. for a beginner is a big no no. If you dont apply it correctly, you can have the chance to kill the entire system. LM applying not easy, like using thermal paste and squish its with the coldplade.
2. for a 45W CPU is an absoulte wasted money. Those laptops are using the bare minimum cooling system which is required by the CPU. For a 35W CPU the manufacturer wont install higher TDP cooling, so u need to replace the cooling system with the CPU.
@@SummonerArthur buy a heatpipes and stick it to the original heatpipes with thermally conductive glue there are many products online.
Thats a pretty cool cpu comparable to my intel i7-7700HQ from 2017 laptop. Intel did not change much amazing.
Great video! Kudos to Lenovo for forward thinking! Thinkpads have always been a favorite of mine. Also, you sound exactly like Jack Sparrow!
Nice video, nice laptop, my hole nervous system cringed when i saw the amount of thermal paste applied.
Your style is kinda similar to Dankpods, but its also very endearing and interesting. Looking forward to more videos
Older HP Elitebooks had a lot of upgradeability too (relatively speaking) as they had MXM form factor dedicated GPU's that could be swapped out. Good luck finding much that will work as HP likes to blacklist stuff in BIOS updates but it's nice to know that it's replaceable at the very least.
No shit, HP also blacklists any WiFi modules that isn't theirs so you have to pay them for hardware update
@@NumbDiggers1998 this is why I only buy their Ex-business laptops. You can get them pretty cheaply as well. I recently picked up an Elitebook 830 G5 for very little money and upgraded the SSD, Ram and Wifi card. SSD was new off amazon as was the ram (32GB) but I could have gone with another 8GB module off the secondhand market to make 16GB which would have saved me a huge chunk of cash. The wifi card was second hand that was pulled from another HP laptop but it supports Wifi 6 and BT5.2 which the old one didnt.
Other than maybe putting in a 2 or 4TB SSD. I dont think this 830 can be upgraded further. They can be good laptops. But only at the right price... For me it was $200. My upgrades cost me $140 but you CAN do it as cheap as $100-110. Mine ended up being $140 because the store i bought 8GB ram from sent me an 8GB desktop module then I got pissed at them for making me wait 3hrs for a refund when i hadnt even taken it out of the packaging. So I spent 7x the amount elsewhere rather than buying from them again out of spite.
Dont be like me. Being angry can lose you a lot of money.
Also, the whole MXM thing never really took off a lot of manfacturers did use the MXM standard but that was very short lived and was never made available for retail commercially. You'd have to contact your laptop manufacturer for one or the OEM manufacturer themselves to ask if you could buy one from them directly and 99% of the time the cost of one didnt make sense finanially because they cost well over the odds vs the cards original desktop counterpart.
Some people had luck sourcing cheaper units pulled out of working or laptops on ebay but even those often went for silly money for what they were and the bioses on them had to be compatible with the laptops bios. There was a lot of hardware blacklisting going on as you know so getting an MXM was never guaranteed to work if it didnt have the correct OEM bios.
Great upgrades ! The CPU you chose can not be sufficiently cooled down by a tiny single heatsink with one exhaust fan . Also I am sure 16GB of RAM can not be utilized because of the GPU . All hardware must be somewhat equal in order not to bottleneck anything . I have sony vaio vpceh28FA since new . I have the same HM65 chipset as you Intel core i5 2430M and nvidia 410 512MB . Sony claims 8GB RAM max , but I know 16GB will work . My heatsink cools CPU , GPU and the chipset . There is no way this could cool down a 4 core i7 without burning the surface I lay my laptop on . My view is just be reasonable within logic limits . Awesome video . I have my laptop since new 2011 . It is my secondary/backup laptop . Great video ! I loved it . (I don’t mention anything about the thermal paste application, you know you used too much ) . 😝😆👌🏼
Great video! I had an old i3-3110M in my HP as my first laptop, I always wondered if ilI could upgrade it as it had the same style socket. I later just upgraded to another laptop, but it’s great to see you reusing old tech rather than seeing it thrown in e-waste.
Hey Matt, i had the same i3 in my old Lenovo G480 and indeed you can upgrade it to an i7-3610qm for example, the caveat is that the CPU doesn't turbo, it stays at a maximum 2.3 GHz because the Motherboard doesn't have the power delivery to fully push the cpu to its turbo clock speed. Despite that, the cpu retained about 85-90% of its performance and bc it only runs at 70% of it maximum clock speed it actually runs cooler (and the fan runs quieter) than the i3 that was before while crushing it in every task with it's 4 cores.
@@Larroseba that’s fascinating, I actually assumed the cooler would constantly get overwhelmed, but what you said makes complete sense. The quad core i7 is likely more power efficient as it is at less utilization than the i3 would have been at completing the same task.
May I ask, was it a pricy upgrade?
@@mattsmotorcycle In my case it was a free upgrade, a gift from a friend of mine that his asus motherboard fried some time ago and discovered that his cpu was actually socketed. But on eBay they actually go from $38 to $60 USD
@@mattsmotorcycle i3 (35w) -> upgrade i7-3612qm (4 core / 35w).
Ali express $67-70 USD
@@vladimirazirov1815 the 3610qm is pretty much the same and is way cheaper
i7-4700MQ is the one i have in a lenovo laptop and it roughtly matches a desktop i7-3770 CPU.
Ridiculously efficient, same perfomance at half the power consumption.
I've done the exact same thing with an old Toshiba of mine! It came with much worse specs, and the upgrades came with some interesting surprises. It came with a (also 2nd gen) Pentium b950, 4gb ram and a shitty 500gb hdd. I got a 240gb SSD, 16gb of RAM and an i7-2630QM. It accepted all 16gb of ram at the full 1600mt/s surprisingly. The laptop was only supposed to be able to use ram up to 1333. My temperatures never exceed 70C with the new cpu even though it's much more powerful
Still using my 10 year old Toshiba Satellite daily which I have boosted with i5-3210m and another 4 gigs (8gb) of ram and SSD. Can't see why it wouldn't serve me another 10 years
I still have my previous laptop in my closet. It was a very reliable and dependable laptop. It was an Acer with a AMD Athlon x2 cpu originally, but I eventually upgraded the CPU to the best that the motherboard could support, with 4 cores! I had also maxed out its DDR(1) RAM and even installed a larger, faster hard drive, as well as a second hard drive for even more storage. She also had a discrete NVIDIA GPU with 512mb of memory
That is a sweet Lenovo laptop for heavy office work. I would probably trade my current Macbook Pro for what you have done there wow. However, that 97 degrees C is concerning. I would try then to get like HWInfo or something and crank the fan speed up....
Maybe he can hack the motor of the cooling fan or clean it or replace it with a faster one 💁♀️ would be interesting as well
Nice upgrade! I upgraded my Dell Latitude E6540 from a lame dual core i7 4610M to the 2nd to the top of the line i7 4810MQ 16GB ram and MSATA SSD in an available PCIM slot. I noticed this Lenovo also has an available slot too, but may not need it for additional storage now with a 2TB SSD😮 you can use it for an external GPU dock live I've also done with my Latitude. This baby can run Cyberpunk😂
Thats awesome, how do you upgrade to 16gb ram?
My laptop Toshiba satellite a500 can have max 8gb ram so how I can upgrade the RAM to 16GB??
And I also upgrade the cpu??
I have a laptop like this. It already has the best factory CPU option (an i7-3720QM), 16 GB of ram, and it's been upgraded to a 500 GB SSD. It also has a soldered Nvidia NVS 5200M gpu. It's nothing much, and it's really made for CAD, but it can handle some light gaming if I ever have a reason to game on the go. I'm not sure how much higher it can go regarding CPU, but I also don't think it needs an upgrade.
You pretty much have no upgrade path except for more SSD storage
Hats awesome, how do you upgrade to 16gb ram?
My laptop Toshiba satellite a500 can have max 8gb ram so how I can upgrade the RAM to 16GB??
People forget, until post circa 2010, laptops coming with socketed CPU's and ram enabling full upgrades was standard practice across the industry for decades. Now such a thing is sold to you as a gimmick for a much higher price by bespoke companies while the main bulk of producers use vastly cheaper production methods of soldering direct to board, which also ensures the product is destined for landfill much sooner than needed.
The upgradability of older laptops is unmatched.
Your laptop would most definitely have accepted a 3rd gen processor and the extra GBs of faster RAM too btw!
As some others have mentioned, you can also flash custom BIOS's to circumvent Hardware restrictions that Lenovo may have implemented.
From the Motherboard layout, it almost looks like certain models of that laptop might have had Dedicated GPU's installed. If they did, I guess the next upgrade is to find a model that has one, and swapping the good hardware into it too
Thermal paste application: Hilarious/10
Build overall 9.5/10
*Couldn't agree more*
As a technician, i have sold more than a dozen of these per year.
Compact
Sturdy
Available spares
And SSD ram upgrade makes it faster
I used a very similar laptop, a hp ProBook 4430s with a i5-2430M. Right under the clu and left of the WiFi card is the igpu. Yours have a good heatsink but my one just had a thick plate, 1.5 mm thick. I replaced it with a heatsink for a raspberry pi 4 and it helped a lot with games. Just replacing the stock thermal pad with thermal paste should help a ton to increase the performance of hd3000
Hope that the modern laptop would adopt again the socket for the cpu
Yea.. hardly happen
Love to see this kind of content
They don't do this because the rest of the system is not really upgradeable. Might as well just replace the whole thing at that point, because unless there's a GPU onboard, the rest of the parts don't cost that much more than the CPU, and if there is a GPU, it's even more impossible, because GPUs just aren't made to be socketable anymore.
That said, there are folks like Framework that will sell replacement boards so you can just swap out the internals and keep the chassis.
If you want to help cooling your cpu you can search online for same dimensions (or slightely bigger if there is space) fan that spin higher. Did taht upgrade to my gaming laptop and managed to help it.
I'd be really impressed if you could populate that GPU socket and all the empty VRAM slots on that board. Would need some bios programming probably. But it'd be interesting to know what all they left off the board for their low-end Thinkpads. But instead of buying a new battery, you should take advantage of the fact that the battery uses a series of standard lithium 18650 rechargeable battery cells. There are ways of bringing them back to life and they can be had for cheap in old DrillDriver batteries and stuff like that.
High quality (reusable) graphite pads are also a good solution. That is all I use now. I just put a couple thermal pads on the CPU & GPU of my new NUCX17.
This is best laptop upgrade video ia ever watched
worst ever seen , i doubt its working at all now.
@@scampbell8136 tf?
By browsing the second-hand market you can get much cheaper memory from someone who just wants to get rid of their hardware. Also fantastic choice of SSD!
Fun fact: Thermal conductivity is not the be-all-and-end-all of thermal paste quality. For example, Noctua's thermal pastes (which are some of the best on the market) have an extremely low thermal conductivity in comparison to their competitors. The reason they don't list this information publicly is because people will see that number and think "wow that's bad" instead of looking at real world performance.
My Dell Latitude is similar. It came with 4GB DDR3 and a 2410m. It also currently has a faulty 320GB mechanical drive. I'm going to keep the current hardware and use it to host a 3D print server for Octoprint failure detection.
Be cautious with these CPU upgrades. Lenovo is notorious of using the bare minimum cooling in the laptops, so it is possible, that cooling system will be not enough for the upgrade cpu. I have a Lenovo G505s and i needed to replace the cooling too, when i upgraded from the A6 5350M to the A10 5750M.
Typing this from corebooted T420 with i7-3635QM Ivy bridge, maxxed ram and Intel AC wifi. Really can't complain at all, bought it 7 years ago for around 250$ and it still keeps up with the mods I have done.
very happy to see this 😌
I wish laptops went back to this cuz I repaired some laptops and it was a nightmare but the older thinkpads are so much easier just like this one I really wish they would go back to this design. 😭
I did that on an HP 3470P, my daughters still using it today. But it's old and has driver issues, but still useable.
Bro it’s a dream for me to upgrade the cpu of a laptop. Seriously laptops should have more upgradability to their hardware since it can be obsolete in a few years. Also this is the main reason I sold my gaming laptop and built my own pc since a pc is more upgradable.
I had an old Vaio that i performed all kinds of mods on, the final one was an "upgrade" from an i5 to an i7.... saying that it wasnt designed to operate that that power draw/ thermal load would be an understatement.... it was already struggling as is, to the point i had to cut out the plastic from behind the fan to allow for improved ventilation. With 70 Celsius under full load 16gb of ram and an ssd the only thing remaining was a cpu transplantation... Frankenstein posted and booted but quickly overheated and fried something... the cpu and ram were still functional but the Vaio's mobo was dead in the name of science
I miss these days of laptop upgradability! Just gotta make sure you get a cpu that works in that socket and has a TDP close to the one it shiped with (or you can look into other models of the same laptop with more powerful cpu and check their thermal solution to see if you also need to upgrade yours or not). I spoke to a guy who was in IT for 20 years and he argued with me that he has NEVER seen a laptops with a socketed cpu. Just found that ironic
You also have an mSATA port, you can add storage in that, depending on the key. i had a thinkpad that had an mSATA and i used the mSATA to run linux, with my main drive running windows 10
Another upgrade you could do is to remove the dvd tray and replace it with a hdd adapter so you can add another hdd/ssd for even more storage, I did that on my elitebook since I don't realy use the dvd tray anymore
Holy! Thermal paste freaking!
Until two months ago, my "daily driver" was a W520. Bought new for more than 2000 Euros, it served me well for 11 years. Quadcore I7, 32 GB RAM, 2x1TB SSD, Full HD... but not capable anymore to do all the stuff I need.
Now: refurbished P53 6 core, upgraded to the max: 128GB RAM, 2x2TB SSD2 Nvme, 8k display, Thunderbird docking station.
I hope it will be as sturdy as the W520.
I think that's what a lot of people don't realize with very expensive systems, they can last for a very long time. But many modern expensive systems can't even last that long which is sad
What was wrong with the W520?
@@couchpotato7750 Nothing. "Modern" software needs more and more clock cycles and features to work. Eg. backgrounds in Teams meetings, Outlook, Windows itself.... Then, our databases grow every day, and testing with a copy of the live db became sluggish. Unfortunately, I need that for my work.
@@ralfmimoun2826 ah ok. Yeah I feel that, I feel like a lot of development and general software is becoming more bloated every year.
Random rambling here:
-Ram speed isn't that important on DDR3.
-You can try a modded bios to use third gen chips but I don't blame you taking the safe route.
-That heatsink wasn't really designed for that die, apparently (only square dies). Maybe a copper shim to the chassis would've helped.
-Don't push on the thermal paste applicators, just gently spread it around, let the rest squish with the heatsink.
-I've never heard of that thermal paste brand, honestly the cheap Arctic MX4 or MX5 would've worked just as good.
-Making the intake hole bigger would probably help the temps further, but may not look as good.
-You could've upgraded the WLAN card as well.
-Barrel plugs are superior to Type C
Nice and interesting video 👍🏼. But I would recommend you to remove the battery before you work or upgrade the motherboard
Thanks for the head up. My laptop is Toshiba satellite a500, so how I can upgrade the motherboard to be fit in the case?
I remember my dad purchasing a bunch of these things close to like 2010 and installing linux on them all and giving them to each of us 6 kids. Never really liked linux as a kid as our main stations all had windows 10 so I was always trying to run things through wine and never could.
Wow 11 years, you reminded me with my father may god rest his soul 😂
You could get away with using an i7 2860qm however they do tend to be more expensive than the one you picked and while an XM model would work it is to be avoided as they run 10w hotter. It is often cheaper sometimes to just harvest that cpu from a dead or broken machine than to buy it alone. Personally I would have preferred a version of this machine with a gpu for craps and giggles but that is just me. As for upgrades go nothing beats the high end Dell Precision line aside from a few Alienware models as well some very rare Clevo/Sager and Eurocom as the bees' knees as far as laptops go from that era.
A lot of people don't know this to be honest. I used to upgrade laptop CPUs all the time. I would buy older i3 laptops and then buy the i7s to put in them as long as they had IGPUs on them. Cuz it always turned out that the i7 model of that laptop was way more expensive than just buying the laptop in the CPU
That’s pretty cool. And yeah. They were definitely more expensive… I bet you saved some money there. 👍
most chaotic thermal paste application I’ve seen in quite a while
11 Years... Good Car ey
Upgradable laptop, even the CPU? Wow!
Three thing to check on RAM upgrade, software, motherboard and cpu
Da pasta mhmm, like icing on da cake.
I actually did something similar with an old laptop of mine. Had a Pentium B940, 2GB DDR3 RAM and a 320gb HDD. Since I knew beforehand that the fan and the below average heat pipe wouldn't help much, I decided to stay within the 35w TDP threshold and upgraded the CPU to an i7-2620M. I cannot use Windows 10 for some reason but hey, on Windows 8.1 the thing's blazing fast with 8gb of ram and an SSD.
My oldest laptop dates from 2006. I've upgraded everything, including new old stock CPU and it runs Windows 10 perfectly.
hell yes!, i love upgradable laptops, huge shame their soo rare nowadays. i had a toshiba techra r700, 250gb hdd, 4gb single chanel, i5-460m, upgraded it to 8gb duel chanel, 500gb ssd, and an i7-640m, HUGE upgrade, but unfortounatly still a duel core cpu so still wasnt good by modern standards. that laptop relied on cpu graphics... the QM cpus for that socket didnt have integrated graphics so had to get a boring duel core.
I recently upgraded my little old Asus U24 with i7-3610QM, 16G ram, and 512G SSD for less than $80. It's now a very capable little laptop. While GPU is not upgradable, for everyday work use and music recording, it's quite good for something that's 12 years old😅.
I used to struggle selling them but they where built well doesn't make sense people always want any other brand but the IBM was solid
I'd buy a modern laptop like that in a heartbeat especially if it can run plugged without a battery!
I have a slightly newer Dell Latitude, it came with a similar setup with slightly more modern hardware, a Core i5 3340m with 8gb(2x 4gb) of 1600mhz DDR3L 1.35v ram, it was quite fast, i later put a Samsung 860evo 1Tb mSATA SSD on it and a Core i7 3740qm with 16gb(2x 8gb). Recently a upgraded again putting another normal SATA3 SDD, same model as the mSATA but with 2Tb, also changed it's stock 90w power brick for a 120, with that a managed to max out it with a Core i7 3940xm and a whooping 32Gb(2x 16gb) running at 1866mhz. I i'm still surprised that it actually worked
good choice my BX dies a year after purchase or slowed to a crawl, while my MX is still going strong, volatile memeory chache is the only way to go for a main drive
I've done almost the same mods as you to my HP Pavillion G6, i3 to i7, only 8Gb of RAM though 😞, and 1TB SSD.
The only laptop that i willingly to buy in 2022
It seems you have an mSATA slot (right above the HDD slot) which means you can add a second SSD there if you want (it's as simple as the more modern M.2 SSDs but with SATA tech, so it's not that fast)
I would have used a 2.5" sata case that can hold an ssd to put in a 2.5" 1TB SATA SSD. An SSD would have been the biggest upgrade in speed. Then I would put Linux and use the laptop another 3-4 years. I had a T410 on which I did RAM and SSD upgrade and used until last year for my Linux experiment and distro-hopping. This year I bought a T480 to continue my Linux experiment. I plant to upgrade the screen to 1440p in this.
Why not get a modern clevo laptop with an upgradable desktop cpu? Or one of those gaming laptops with an egpu or at least a thunderbolt 4 port to upgrade the gpu?
temps never got above 97 because that's the thermal throttling limit, the cpu is cutting back on clocks and voltage to avoid going over 97
Had that same laptop for years before I found a T590 for a killer deal at a pwan shop
Small little thing to note - more thermal paste =/= better. At some point it inadvertantly causes more heat and less preformance by drawing so much heat it keeps the cpu from doing its transfers.
The only reason why my lenovo is still running is its serviceability. The cpu is technically upgradable but not as easy as a socket and I went for the best one you could get at the time. I've replaced the hard drive twice now to an ssd and I've upped the ram too. Changed the fan as well but cheap Chinese thing went out quick
As a computer and phone repair, the cpu upgrade hurts to watch. The die on the cpu isn’t being cooled on the side properly because the copper plate is too small. Also the thermal paste killed me omg.
Yeah I was concerned about the larger die size. But all the cores seem to be around the same temp when under load.
.... Mmmm thermal paste.
The thermal paste application is fine. A bit wasteful but it won't effect temps
@@louiesatterwhite3885 I know it won’t but it just pains me to watch as someone who does it everyday as just the normal
@@ashsibebytes4846 I guess it’s an IHS essentially the thermal paste.
@@ashsibebytes4846 good video by the way
Switching from regular thermal paste to liquid metal will help a lot, especially on direct die application.
I've also found out that by putting the laptop on a side and making it rest with the cooler blowing hot air upwards cpu temps are even 30°C lower. It does come handy during extensive rendering sessions but of course it's not very easy to use placed this way haha.
@@OKuusava You need to pay extra attention when you apply this thing. The safest way is to cover the surrounding area with tape. Even Sony uses it with the PS5.
Is the i7 4900MQ fast enough for gaming on this thingamajig? Tryna make a sleeper laptop build
when you repaste use arctic mx6 man. I've used the older mx4 for years and what's nice is it doesn't dry out, it takes YEARS which is nice for laptops. The stuff you used here dries out fast
Do you think you could populate the graphics area, and get the proper heatsink for it
that whould be nice :0
great video👍👍👍👍
before doing anything on the board, first remove the battery..
You could have cleaned the fan...
Also, that cpu was already not locked into the socket when you opened it. You could use a flat screwdriver to rotate the black thing to lock the cpu in place.
I was waiting until the end of the video to see if he would do that in the end. I even thought he had it in mind when he mentioned that even the fan could be disassembled, as it has screws.
@@elfedorausado He does say that he cleaned the fan in a comment, though
Did you have to change the graphics card software after replacing the CPU or did it automatically update?
You should always check how much ram both the cpu and chipset supports.
My laptops cpu can handle 32gb ram fine but my chipset only handles 16gb ram
All xx20 and xx30 thinkpads support 8gb ddr3 per slot so 16GB will be the max for this machine
The W520 and W530 can do 32gb thanks to having 4 ram sockets, but it requires a quad core cpu to utilize
Thats awesome, how do you upgrade to 16gb ram?
My laptop Toshiba satellite a500 can have max 8gb ram so how I can upgrade the RAM to 16GB??
And I also upgrade the cpu??
Seems to have pads for gddr and gpu.. i wonder if it has the necessary electronics to just add a gpu n vram..
Could you upgrade the Wi-Fi as well, wonder if you can squeeze in 802.11ax.
I have a old toshiba with i5 2430m, it's insane how expensive are those second hand cpus. If you look for a newer generation intel mobile cpu, the prices are half of what you have to pay for g2 socket. The i7 you have is made on even older manufacturing process and the power inefficiency is even worse.
did you make sure you discharged yourself before touching that body static and fabrics with static will kill laptop memory and cpus or a motherboard rubing fingers all over it if the environments extremally dry and cold
My kv53s can upgrade monitor from 1366×768lcd to 1920 1080led also new cpu from i5 dual core to i7 quad core then i mod heatsink for gpu overclock so i can play game a little better.
may i ask. is that "square" thingy is meant for vga ?