Recent content by eidolon171

I keep seeing folks here in the Tom's community saying, "You cannot upgrade your laptops CPU." A statement usually followed up with, "Laptop CPU's are soldered onto the board." And yet, for the past 5 years I have been upgrading laptop CPU's and have only ever encountered a soldered...

Figured this one out myself. For some reason the Macbook's display can't correctly run the adaptive brightness feature in Bootcamp, its easiest to just turn the thing off. In Windows boot > Go to Control Panel > System and Security > Power Options > Change plan settings > Change advanced plan...

I have an issue with brightness control on my Windows boot. This is what I did. I put the bootcamp drivers from a macbook pro A1286 on a thumbdrive, deleted the primary partition, carved out half of the ssd, formatted that, installed Windows 8.1, installed all of my drivers, and noticed that...

As I said, I've de-soldered and re-soldered a Dell Inspiron mini 1018 before. The job is a piece of cake (I do a lot of laptop repair, and soldering), takes about 2 hours (half that if I'm in a rush). Is the dual core n570 physical or logical? Does it even make a difference? The risk of being...

Okay, I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 and I want to upgrade the CPU as high as it can possibly go. I've replaced the CPU in a 1018 before (stock n455 for a refurbished n475), so anyone who says "that processor is soldered on the board bro" will be flatly ignored. I already have a BGA559...

Found the answer in case anyone needs to know in the future: HP Elitebook 755 G3 (w/ a12 8800B), maybe others, but this one does for sure.

I have a Dell Precision with an Intel i5 4210m and AMD Firepro W4170m, a vastly superior combo to the sandy bridge i7 and ancient NVIDIA Quadro desktop at my university. I bought it for $925 from Geeksquad. It is absolutely fantastic for AutoCAD, and CAD-based programs. Alas it is **** at...

What school related work are preparing for? Just AutoCAD, and ProE? Or something more intensive?

That was my impression too @Rogue Leader, I already contacted Lenovo and Asus, but no response yet.

As the title suggests, I'm looking for a laptop solution that has the FX 8800p and can take 2133 MHz RAM. I would also be interested in an a12 8800b, or an FX 7600p. The laptop doesn't have to sell with the 2133 MHz RAM, but the board inside does need to be able to receive the upgrade. To save...

Drivers didn't do it. I cut the tacho-wire on the fan, and now it runs flat-out as long as the laptop is powered on. I also got an Onn brand cooling pad for $13 bucks. Temps are now idle at about 40 degrees, and 60-70 degrees at load. What's the takeaway here? 1: Half your RAM is labeled...

Anyone care to comment on the consequences of cutting the tacho-wire on the fan? It's just I figure I can bypass the hall sensor or whatever the motherboard uses to read the fans rpms and it would just throttle at full speed all the time. I mean I've got two fans now, and I'm pretty sure there...