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Reviews (4)
Sep 19, 2017
Works great on 1st gen Core i5 laptops
Well worth the wait. Nicely packaged for protection. Works perfectly.
I've had the laptop on all day for work, and no issues noted so far.
Jan 20, 2023
Extend the life and speed of your veteran laptop!!!
Came well-packaged. It was super easy to install after cleaning and prepping the socket and heat-transfer hardware. I used Noctua NT-H1.
Worked without issues, pretty much giving a 10+ year-old laptop a new lease on life; it works better than my compact, newer generation 2020 laptop (which has massive thermal throttling issues despite undervolting and external cooling mitigation strategies.)
If only I had thought about upgrading the CPU earlier! It works synergistically with other upgrades to SODIMM and SSD, which are all easy to do on older but larger laptop chassis models of circa 2013.
IMPORTANT!!! Check online on manufacturer sites, forums and abailable resources prior to purchase to ensure BIOS and physical socket compatibility for your specific model of laptop.
Jul 24, 2018
Excellent upgrade opportjnity
This purchase was part of an incremental upgrade plan, as I wanted to extend the life of my X58 based system which I built in 2009.
The performance gain as a result of the upgrade from my mildly overclocked 3.1GHz Core i7 920 to this Xeon X5690 was outrageous.
Although there are gurus out there who would - citing better overclock potential and value for money - suggest using a lower clocked CPU in this Xeon family, this second hand CPU was a good buy in terms of performing well at stock specs without the need of expending precious time overclocking it.
Hopefully this will see my system reach the 10 year mark at least.