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
- 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
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