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Turion in GW/EM 7000/M6800 series?

post #1 of 9
9/5/05 at 6:46pm
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I have a GW 7405GX and the warranty expires in 1/2006. I've been thinking of doing some upgrading after it does and was wondering if anyone has tried installing a Turion in one of these notebooks. After reading around some it seems that I would need to go at least one model higher to get the same or comparable performance (eg: ML-34 to equal 3200DTR). Currently the fastest model is the ML-40 but AMD plans to go higher by the end of the year w/ Socket 754. When the Turion first came out the only comparison benchmarks I saw written were those comparing it with a Pentium M, with the Turion coming up short on battery life. That said, I can only guess that the Turion outputting 25/35 watts has got to be able last longer than the Mobile64 DTR outputting 85 watts in the same notebook. Where I see a problem in replacing it would be with the BIOS. I don't envision GW ever offering an updated BIOS for the 7405GX. What I'm wondering is whether the BIOS will recognize a Turion properly and run with the requisite voltage. If anyone has tried this, please post your results. I'd also like to try running Corsair XMS PC3200 sodimms but have not been able to find any postings regarding that model in these notebooks either.
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post #2 of 9
9/6/05 at 1:30pm
I also would like to know. I have an m6805 and am looking to upgrade the CPU and RAM fairly soon. I was wondering if the m68xx series will do 2 gigs of 3200 memory (1 gig in each slot), and will it run at 3200 speeds?

And the turion I also would like to know if anyone has tried this or knows anything about if this would work. It would be sweet to put a turion 3700+ in this laptop and have the battery last longer... (hope this isnt just wishfull thinking).
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post #3 of 9
9/6/05 at 10:19pm
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I'm half tempted to just give it a shot, but until the warranty runs out its kind of a moot issue. I've been hoping that someone else has tested the waters on this one and I haven't found another devoted notebook website except Notebook Review and their forums don't seem to be as strong. Its a shame that Gateway doesn't have their own forum but these days thats not unusual.
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post #4 of 9
9/6/05 at 10:26pm
Do it one month before the warranty runs out. If you are carfull they will never know you were inside. As long as you put it back they way it was from the factory. This way if it frys the board you have a little margin to play with. I think it will work, but may display incorrect speeds or operate at the wrong voltages.
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post #5 of 9
9/7/05 at 7:16pm
Did anyone determine if you'd need a BIOS update to properly recognize the Turion?

I know the 7510 uses the ATI board instead of the VIA board in the 74xx series, so I don't know if the 74xx BIOS will recognize the Turion or not.
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post #6 of 9
9/7/05 at 9:39pm
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tntoak you may be able to answer the other upgrading issue that I have been wondering about and that's the PC3200 memory I see in your book listing. What
make and model are you using and does the system actually run the memory at 400MHz or does it drop it down to 333?
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post #7 of 9
9/7/05 at 10:03pm
I am not toak, so obviously can't answer his make/model questions, but I can tell you that it will run @ 400MHz as long as both sticks are PC3200.
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post #8 of 9
9/8/05 at 6:05am
Excellent!
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post #9 of 9
9/10/05 at 4:30am
if anyone can provide a turion processor, i can test out. i have a mb that has a faulty video... artifacts show up. so ...
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