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Dual Core CPU Upgrade on a T3512
06.27.2007
I bought the new [Intel® Pentium® 4 D
820] CPU, pulled the old one [Intel® Celeron® D 352],
tried to use the 820 sink but gave up, used the 352
sink, and ran with it. I didn't have to do anything to
the BIOS [GC11010M.15A.0009.2006.0420.1045]. XP Home
auto-sensed that something had changed, auto-installed
some software, and told me to reboot. After the reboot
XP knew all about the dual CPUs and everything has
worked smoothly since then.
**WOW** !! What an improvement!
Everything seems faster. Waking up from Standby mode
used to take 90-120 sec -- now it takes less than 10.
I'm testing some apps in VMware, which was taking my
whole system to its knees with the 352. Couldn't even
work in other apps outside VMware when VMware was
thrashing, e.g. it would take 8-12 seconds for
keypresses to echo in Word. With the 852 VMware never
seems to get into that "thrash" mode, and even when the
VMware processes are working hard, the rest of my system
is still snappy and responsive. Booting a loaded W2003
Server system in VMware used to hose my whole system for
about 12-15 minutes; now it boots in 3 minutes and the
CPU(s) seem to be loafing the whole time. I'm a happy
camper.
It does run a bit hotter. What Speedfan reports as "CPU"
runs in the high 40C's when the office is cool. There's
another temp called "Remote" that runs about 8-10C
higher, and jumps about 10C within 5-10sec when I start
saturating the CPU.
GF
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