Indeed! Another round of work on the HP G60 of mine today!

Today was another CPU Upgrade, As many would know this HP originally shipped with a 1.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-60, Which I didn't think had enough Omph! (?)

The QL-66 I moved up too (2.2GHz version of the same line of CPU) Was good and I really felt the difference in speed, the extra 300MHz the new one provided me went well.... However there was a price to pay... Heat and Power consumption. With some Modding to the casing, good thermal paste and a little volt modding the laptop was manageable but as all geeks are, I Yearned for more

So I Went and researched some more and as I've mentioned before there is 2 motherboards for HP G60's Intel Based ones and AMD Based ones. I Wasn't about to blow a ton of cash to get an Intel Core 2 Duo HP G60 so I continued to look around and found out about AMD Turion X2 Ultra's.

• Faster DDR2 Ram Controller
• 3 Power States (In the case of the CPU I wanted 550MHz, 1.1GHz and 2.2GHz)
• A Deeper Sleep state
• Twice the Level 2 CPU Cache
• Better Voltage Controlling 

It was rather clear that was my next move and indeed I Decided to go for it! but at the same time I lined up some other things to do.

• The cooler has been lapped (Smoothed to a near mirror like surface to assist heat transfer)
• The Copper Pipe has been Buffed to remove any and all containments from manufacturing (Tsh HP...)
• Buffed the Copper Shim I put in place of the GPU Thermal pad from a previous mod
• General Cleaning and other such bits

A New lot of Thermal paste was an obvious too (Arctic Silver 5) now while the Thermal paste will need to cure in (200 Hours) to reach its full potential there has been a nice 8c drop from all of this and a performance boost to boot! Looks like switching from Camp Athlon 64 X2 to Camp Turion X2 Ultra paid off and this is without the Thermal Paste Settling on the CPU and GPU.

Pictures of a before and after will come a little later after I complete a burn in test on my G60
Also I'm still beyond HP Specs even in the Turion AMD's beating the closest I could find in Turion's the G60-445DX 

A While ago I got an awesome offer from a friend of mine for a HP G60 100EM laptop its Original Spec's before I got to work on it as I Treat it as a project was This.

It had 2 faults I had to fix on the laptop mind you but nothing I couldn't get cheap, a new system fan and a new keyboard unit which I got easy.

So after that was done my attention turned to the possibility of upgrading this laptop some as well as mods. So as the link above I looked and it told me I could go up to 3GB of Ram, So I was like OK, fair enough and invested in 2 new DIMM's of ram a 2GB and 1GB. to which I found worked OK. however I then noticed this Model Here.

You will Notice its a Better Version CPU, More Ram sold with it and Larger Hard Drive, But if you look closer it also stated that one could take the maximum of 4GB. So a little time went on and I upgraded the CPU to a QL-66 (the 2.2GHz version) although I Plan to upgrade again to a Turion Ultra, and well I started having issues with the 1GB DIMM of ram I had and thought to myself well, I'm going to have to replace it so might as well see if HP was lying about the max ram on this thing... and they was >.> what I cannot understand is why they lied about the max ram it could take on there site when they use the same motherboard across ALL of there AMD based G60's. They also told me on the phone too that the AMD Based G60 cannot use SATA 300 Hard Drives at SATA 300 Speeds... well the HDD that came with the machine was rather small and picked up a few bad sectors and on a stroke of additional luck scored a Scorpio Black 500GB to replace it (see earlier in my blog) and what do you know... it fully supports SATA 300 Speeds no problem. Its not like I don't know why the lie its to get you to pay more for a better model or upgrade again but still dislike the dishonesty in it.... and don't get me started on the poor cooling design of HP Laptops I've modded mine so much I refer to it personally as the "HP G60 Kouen Edition" at this point but that's a story for another blog post, Thanks for reading my minor rant and I hope you all have a nice day!