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I finally finished my upgrade project on my ThinkPad T440P ๐Ÿ’ช (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by josemas to c/[email protected]
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I'm in love with this big guy :)

And here are the upgraded components:

  • 1080P IPS Screen
  • 512GB SSD
  • DVD caddy replaced by a HDD caddy (intalled an additional 512GB SSD)
  • Processor upgraded to an i7-4712MQ
  • Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste upgrade
  • US keyboard replaced by another one with Spanish layout (original, found on eBay)
  • RAM upgraded to 12GB (enough for me)
  • Brand-new original 9-cell battery (also found on eBay)

I don't think I forget anything... well maybe the best upgrade: I use Arch, btw!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a ThinkPad slightly newer than yours. I didn't think about upgrading it until I saw your post. Now that's the route I'm more inclined to take instead of replacing it when the time will be, so thank you for your post!

Did you have any issues with brightness control after upgrading your screen? At least for my model, I heard many people complaining about being unable to adjust the brightness after changing the part.

[โ€“] josemas 3 points 1 year ago

I encourage you to look for parts that you can upgrade, sometimes it is possible to find them for very little money. And the satisfaction of doing it yourself...

In my case I have not found any problem with the brightness control, I continue to do it as usual, using the specific buttons on the keyboard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also deserves the Coreboot bios :)

[โ€“] josemas 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've seen some guides... but this is beyond my abilities...

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Actually even better news! T440p supports now libreboot and it has an option for internal flashing! So from now on you have only excuses left ;) lol

https://libreboot.org/docs/install/#install-via-host-cpu-internal-flashing

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's fairly safe process and teaches lots of new skills for you. You can use even Raspberry Pi 1 for it. Just build the image with computer and not RasPi.

The guide is just 12 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjsM18pKCE&pp=ygUXQ29yZWJvb3QgVGhpbmtwYWQgVDQ0MHA%3D

[โ€“] NSA_Server_04 2 points 1 year ago

Love seeing these older thinkpads saved from the scrape bin. Nice upgrades.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Noice

[โ€“] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 1 points 1 year ago

How hot does the CPU get under load? And does it have a GPU?

Kryonaut isn't the best thermal paste for a laptop, particularly one that gets pretty warm under load. My Thinkpad P1 dried out/heat pumped out the Kryonaut in about 6 months to the point that I was getting REALLY bad performance. But this is also a machine that runs at 100c under full load. My old W540 would get well into the 90s which dries that paste out quickly.

If you ever notice any degradation I'd suggest a thicker thermal paste that's less prone to drying out/heat pump under high loads. I believe Gelid extreme is what I bought for my normal laptops. I put the PTM 7950 stuff on my P1 and I'm never looking back.

[โ€“] t_jpeg 1 points 1 year ago

it just looks so clean.