I have a q9550 I bought in 2009 that I now use as my media pc, it's spent it's whole life between 3.6 and 3.8 ghz still runs perfect I dropped an RX 590 pulse in it and it does 4k no problem at all.
@@ko83namines e0 also, I did run it at 4ghz for a short time but didn't like the heat and voltages,(mainly the northbridge volts) it was in an Asus pq5 turbo so probably not the best board since it was only a p45 chipset. The psu finally died last year, still need to replace it.
I find amazing how such old piece of hardware from 2006-2008 are still pretty usable, even the first Pentium Dual-Core CPU's are usable for today's standards
One of Intel's greats. My desktop Core2 Quad was a beast too. The longest running main desktop CPU/Mainboard combo that I ever had, with surrounding peripherals upgraded across 10 years. I only decommissioned it about 4-5 years ago when I switched to a dual Xeon E2-2667 v2 mainboard at original Threadripper performance (for a larger power budget).
Amigos tengo una toshiba tecra a10 chipset pm45 tenia un core 2 duo p8700 le puse un t9550 creen que Trabaje el qx9300 segun veo el chipset soporta y el video es un pci express nvs 150 quisiera actualizarlo se puede?. y un modelo lo tengo con overclock el video. Con msi afterburner. Saludos espero sus respuestas xd
Very nice review. I just purchased an M6400 on ebay for $80 and upgraded it with an SSD, 16gb of RAM, and from a T9900 to a QX9300 cpu. It runs like a brand new laptop...better than my Lenovo IdeaPad 3. The performance is amazing. I'm going to get an express card with USB 3.0 as well.
There are plenty of addin cards to max out expansion, I would max out storage though by replacing un needed expansion like odd or other pcie cards with ssd's. Apparently thinkmods do an express card to nvme adapter with an SD card for clover to allow nvme boot. The internal pcie slots can probably be made bootable using clover too for a multi boot machine. I've found that later combined WiFi + Bluetooth modules require modification for use in older machines. Pin 51 and pin 20 they are apparently to do with physical power buttons for turning parts on and off, you can take over them or do what I did and use a sharp knife to cut the top trace and lift the connect pad off the PCB. Later cards and OS are incompatible or have trouble working with hardware buttons.
I love these Precision laptops - my daily driver laptop is a M6700 with an i7 Extreme Edition, Quadro K4000M GPU, 16gb DDR3-1866, 500gb SSD + 2 500gb HDD (Raid 0) + 64gb mSATA SSD. Basically, I paid for all the slots so I'll use all the slots. I've considered buying one of these M6400s to mess around with as I've only used desktop series Core 2 chips when it comes to the high end.
I used a m6400 for around 9 months with a qx9300 OC'd to 3ghz max of 3.2ghz. For graphics I went with the firepro 7820 since it was a mobility radeon 5870 which is a desktop hd 5770, so in 2015 it was still pretty potent. Switched back to my other dell for laptop usage and started using a desktop again as well.
I actually have a T60 thinkpad that I modded to support a quad core q9000 cpu. It's a really extensive mod, including a motherboard from a different generation of thinkpad, modded BIOS, SPID timings and a modified cpu socket. I did the mod myself and I'm very proud, I'll probably end up making a video on it eventually. You're right about it being surprisingly snappy. I run windows 10 on mine and other than playing youtube videos, it's a perfectly usable machine for just web browsing and even some light gaming. The downside is heat. I went with the q9000 because it was cheaper and I didn't want the T60 heatsink to be overloaded with a 45W cpu. Some cooling mods and it stays just below thermal throttling, but I'm very glad I didn;t go for a Q9100 or god forbid a QX9300, although some users on the german thinkpad forums have done that.
You should be able to play RU-vid videos on a Q9000 quad without any trouble although it depends on the resolution and the frame rate you're after. I've got a laptop with a T6400 and mobility radeon HD 3650 and it will play 1080p fine. What you have to do is go into the browser settings (often the advanced developer settings) and force hardware acceleration in some way. When I first started trying to optimise this machine it did, indeed, struggle to run RU-vid videos but when looking at the way the system was loaded I saw that the GPU had close to zero load yet the CPU was maxed out. Needless to say this was less than ideal. The AMD GPU is pretty basic and I have it running in low power mode. Even if you're using the integrated graphics, that Intel shoved inside the memory controller chipset, this should have more than enough oomph to help off-load tasks from the CPU. Helping with video rendering is something GPUs are good at. Without hardware acceleration the T6400 would drop a frame every now and again with 720p and 1080p was impossible. With hardware acceleration it can do both with ease. Another useful tip is an addon/extension called h264ify. This will allow you to force render with an easier/older video codec and stop 60fps video from playing. Forcing the alternative codec stops RU-vid from being able to go above 1080p although I can't see this being a problem to most. The biggest issue I've found is that some RU-vidrs only upload a 1080p version of a video at 60fps. There is no 1080p at 25/30fps, so you're forced to watch in 720p for those. Either way try getting hardware acceleration enabled in your web browser and see if that helps. In Chrome simply typing Chrome://GPU will tell you if you are. What you want to see is video decoding set to hardware accelerated.
If you showed me only the die shot I would have thought it is some amd zen chip. Really great content mate, you have great pacing, pleasant voice and good delivery.
@@FullyBuffered You deserve them :) your channel is hugely underrated and will blow up as soon as it reaches critical mass trust me, and I enjoy the content very much, it just brings back that nostalgia and fun memories, learning about hardware and OC-ing intel celerons to almost twice the frequency... aaaah those were the fun days ☺ Greetings from Croatia
the Penryn architecture was insanely efficient. one need 3 or 4 Tulsa(Netburst) cpu's to match a oc'd Penryn QX. there's a QX9200 too, but yes 3 for sale Very good vid as usual ;)
Very well done presentation! I have a T9550 M6400 that's been in service for about 14 years, albeit with hard drive and GPU failures requiring replacements. I'm aware of an i7-2640M equipped M6400 but don't know whether it was configured by Dell or the CPU was upgraded by the owner. It would be interesting to see how the i7-2640M compares to the QX9300 and the i5 processors you covered.
I've been checking out your QuadFather and other cool retro videos. Found your content very thought out and enjoyable. Even though most of these systems were lust worthy 12+ years back,, I like seeing older platforms put through the modern ringer. I once had the Intel Q9650 but strapped to a Gigabyte P45/ddr2 chipset. Your videos are getting my creative juices going again.. "FX 60/XFX GTS 8800 320mb build?" Are you still using your Sandy 2600k? I just pulled mine off main duty a couple months back. It's really amazing to see that Laptop performing so well even today. Thanks for excellent presentation videos.
Wow, thats an incredible laptop CPU for that era. I had no idea it was going to be so competative to the SB and SL CPUs. That thing is basically a proto I7 mobile variant. This era of CPU had some really fun overclocking! I really miss my E5300 and Q6700 sometimes. Those two were my first CPU's to overclock. Upgraded the E5300 with a Q6700 I got for $11.
I've been looking for a core2quad laptop with all the expansion yet still can kick in some older games, office work etc, would love to get a laptop like this, upgrade the GPU and overclock the CPU, an absolute barrel of fun for my older steam library, i wish laptops were still exciting like this one!
not sure if you’re still looking 3 years later but my clevo m570tu has all of that. has the qx9300 like in this video, comes with 9800m, but you can upgrade gpu, and cpu overclock option in the bios. mine has windows xp and it’s ridiculously fast for games from its time, even runs crysis and gta 4 at high settings
@@nitroseven Sounds fantastic, i'll probably still pick up something like it in the future, though i have learned of another laptop that had a desktop X79 socket inside and i believe dual MXMs and ive heard GTX 1080 SLi is possible though i can't remember the model, sounds like a fun out and about sleeper though like the steamdeck (which would make more sense i suppose) it struggles with the whole connectivity issue, im not fond of public wifi etc and my PSVITA with PKGi has been the on the go gaming device so far since its just offline and ready to go. Im just a quirky hardware collector but on the go gaming has been a bit of a grey area for a while :)
Bro i have sony vaio i5 3230m . 500gb SSD and it does all the work, the only problem that modern laptop displays are so good, and here you are stuck at 1366x768 resolution
@@devangmaheshwari3902 Yeap, My Dell have 1600x900 resolution, im happy with it, glossy screen, gorilla glass, but colors sucks! No true tone or IPS screen.
@@janquieldapper coz you already shelled out $$$ more than me . Worth the price . I produce music so now I strictly use pc. My studio pc has r9 5900x, and bedroom one has 12600k.
Had one in a HP 8730w mobile workstation with a dream color display and advanced docking station with internal disks running three displays back in 2008. They were about $5k-$6k plus the extras. The network team at the company bought them to be used at home.... The CEO found out, tried to return them but the vendor refused to take them back as they were totally and customly maxed out and the vendor had no way to resell them. I got one of them as dev and hardware nerd. Ppl in meetings just laught at it. I hooked the laptop up to the huge docking station hanging under the desktop and had three 22" IPS monitors with wall arms as a 0 visible cable solution. It was totally epic. Happy days! :D
I have the same machine! Even if the Quadro 3700m is the official strongest gpu supported, some people on dell forum declared that the more recent Quadro 5000m fits it with a little adaptation on dissipator, giving to this machine directx11 support and huge 8gb of gpu memory, the only issue should be about display port not working anymore for external monitors. Right now quadro 5000m it’s a gpu quite expensive, that’s why I didn’t made this upgrade already... I was asking myself if you could be interested, it could be very intresting to see how could work and make a video! In my machine I have the dual core extreme version X9100 that starts at 3.06 GHz clock. The 3700M gpu and I overclocked the monitor too to 75Hz, works perfectly. Contact me if u wish
hi man, what is temperature quadro 3700m have at full load? And what about fan noise after 1 houre of gaming or heavy work? Just want to know what to expect!
Forget about finding a 5000M, you've have a better chance of finding a unicorn than a Quadro 5000M for the M6500. (says the one who owns a M6500 Covet with that one GPU!)
@@Wasmachineman which is your cpu there? I found a 5000M from china for something like 160$ but I am afraid that my cpu will bottleneck too much...didnt bought yet
I have been having issues with the Wifi of this laptop, it keeps on getting disconnected and at times it shows it is connected to a network but has no internet over it, and some times it works flawlessly. Any suggestions. I have the exact same model, with windows 10 installed on SSD with 16gb ram.
update the wifi/lan driver to the latest.. if the problem still happen after updated then you should check the wifi modem or change the wifi modem of your laptop.. but usually update will solve the problem
My Dell Precision M4800 has the Intel i7-4800MQ with the AMD FirePro M5100 graphics card. This was my upgrade from my older HP EliteBook 8570W (Intel i7-3620QM and AMD FirePro M4000 graphics)
I actually have one of these dell laptops (m6500) mine has the upgraded screen 920xm cpu, 8gb ram, firepro m7820 gpu. My aunt works for a va hospital and they were getting rid of older machines its still in perfect condition.
I have a dell optiplex 780 micro tower PC that I've had over 7 years and it has an upgraded processor from core 2 duo 8600 to a core 2 quad 9505 and a nvidia gt330 still going strong I use it for my media and retro games
I still have an old M6300 (sadly a near-base model with the t7250, but still has that beautiful 1920x1200 screen). Very interesting to mess around with even if it struggles today
Hey, very nice vid! This could also be a very interesting machine for late WinXP era retro-gaming Question: what was the CPU temp with the overclock? Tip: would have been nice to have the launch-year next to the CPU model in the plots, in order to have a better context of the results ;)
Thanks for your comment and tip! With the overclock the cores reached a max of 80-86C after a single run of R15. With a longer load time I suppose those would have risen a bit more. Definitely at the upper limit of the cooling solution can handle.
Very well done on this vid. 1 thing popped in my mind in regards of it. What do you think about puting some music under the vid? Something mellow quiet... idk just an idea.
Now get the Beast external GPU dock to pcim adapter! I have one for my old Dell Latitude E6540 maxed out with a i7 4810MQ and use an old Titan Black It works great! I was able to play CyperPunk from very unplayable, with the stock Radeon HD 8790M (in a video i have) to very playable😄I had to use throttle stop too since it would throttle at 1.8Ghz for any game but uncapped for Superposition benchmark 🤔 heat was no issue with a cooler. I also got the GPU dock to work on all things an AIO Dell Optiplex😂 it wasn't much of an all in one any more, since you still have to use an external display with the external GPU🙃
The 6400 came out in 2008. So it's 16 years old. I'm still using my beloved 6400 till this day. Plus, it's build like a tank, so you can beat the living crap out of someone with it, and still use it with ease right after..😅😅
I just came across one of these at a recycling facility the other day. Unfortunately, it only had the Core 2 Extreme X9100 CPU variant, and the laptop itself was heavily damaged and not functional. It was still pretty interesting to disassemble though.
this was a top tier laptop i till 2009 until mobile i7s came in i guess, it was overclockable, was quad core, handled windows xp and vista like a champ, was a gaming laptop cpu in some cases and had a 8700m gt or 9700m gt and was basically the best laptop in 2008-2009
Very cool! I had a Clevo M865tu whit qx9300 and GeForce 9800m GTX 1gb thats a Beast it exist 4 quadcore mobile cpus q9000 q9100 qx9200es(i had one) qx9300
Saludos tengo una dell 6400 que al encender se apaga, y no funciona. Que podría ser? Greetings I have a dell 6400 that turns off when I turn it on, and does not work. What could it be?
I tested ´ThrottleStop´ on a T5250 (Merom-2M), but the multiplier doesn´t get higher than "9". Is there a way to overclock the T5250 or is it locked in some way?
i just wondering if my dell vostro 1230 support core 2 quad like q9000. its have similar socket as my core 2 duo which is socket p but i cant find anyway if the bios support it or not
Man, I'm writing this comment on a desktop q9300@3.0GHz with 8GB of DDR2 RAM... and yeah, AV1 1080p60 on youtube is too much to ask from this cpu. I haven't tested this, but who know, maybe offline playback i'e file located on hardrive played back in MPC-HC or something similar could solve the problem, as playback within the browser is much more heavy than offline playback.
Interesting in that this cpu will boost up to 2.66 ghz under ideal temperatures no thanks to dynamic acceleraor technology, a kind of early turbo boost technology that allows the CPU under certain conditions move up a step, in this case 2.66 ghz. Although with overclocking you should easily obtain that. Maybe even 2.70 and beyond, But by then your gains are a bit pointless especially in a laptop even if it's a tank like this. Thermal limits do come in to play even on this. I love Dell precision hardware though. I have a 2800 and 4800 as back ups to my 7000 series. It's about getting work done, and these laptops do just that. Aint sexy by far, aint some thin and light. But it will leave them in dust long before running out of steam.
Any chance you could do a video about the Medion Erazer or MSI GT60? It could fit 3 SSDs and a HDD, as well as up to 32 GB of RAM (in 2013!). Partial to it as I still use one lol
Hi there :) I have this cpu qx9300 but what are compatible laptops for it ? I have few of those socket 478-479 socket P gma 45 express chipset type. Non accept it physically yes but no video output can spins like mad that’s all !
excellent bro, I have an acer socket p478 and it has a pentium t4200, would you like to install this processor, is that possible? acer aspire 4736z model and place 2 memory modules ddr3 1333 mhz each with 4 gigs, totaling 8 gigs. Thanks in advance
Friends, I have a Toshiba Tecra A10 PM45 chipset, it had a Core 2 Duo P8700, I put a T9550 in it, do you think the QX9300 works? As I see, the chipset supports it and the video is a PCI Express NVS 150. I would like to update it, is it possible? and I have one model with the video overclocked. With msi afterburner. Greetings, I await your answers xd
Love your video nice job. Have a question for you. I have M6400 whith T9400 and Nvidia FX2700M. Ist it possible to upgrade the CPU and the video card if yes, how hard it is? Thank you.
QX9300 plus any of the M6500's FirePro cards would be a great upgrade. Or better yet, ditch that 15 year old boat anchor of a Precision and get something much newer.
