Another HP G60 Upgrade, Near capping its capabilities!

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