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in theory it's also possible to put in
an i7 and 4980 HQ there is basically
this weird seller on Taobao which
solders those off of MacBook Pros and
puts them on the adapter board or
something but the whole business is kind
of really shady well y'all knew this was
coming so there you go in this box we
have Intel i7 4980 HQ from Taobao it
just came today in this box so today
we're going to unbox it we're going to
install it on think that t4 for TP over
there see how it performs see if it even
works etc couple of words about this
processor before we go on this processor
was initially only available in Seoul
during configuration it was installed
among others on MacBook Pro 2014 and
2015 models however our friends over
China they're absolutely amazing so what
they deal with those CPUs is they solder
them off the motherboards and they put
them on PG adapter boards and then they
sell it for basically all kinds of
sockets I think even Linus tech tips
once made a video where he installed
this CPU on a desktop machine with a
desktop Enzo socket the cache with a CPU
is that you can't really buy on eBay or
Amazon or even L Express it's only sold
on Taobao and it's only available in
China so unless you speak fluent Chinese
or have a friend who lives in China you
will need to use an intermediary I
personally use Superbike comm not
affiliated with them they're not paying
me for that the service was pretty nice
and even made some pictures of the
processor when it arrived at their
warehouse so yeah there were no issues
with supervised comm and I guess I can
only recommend that website the reason
people are so interested about the CPU
despite all the trouble of getting it
and kind of a high price tag is because
it's much powerful than any CPUs that
are officially supported on T 4 T P for
example 47:12 mq and for 900 mq it also
has Intel iris graphics instead of Intel
HD graphics and some benchmarks on the
web suggests that it's even more
powerful than nvidia geforce 730 m which
is a dedicated graphics option 4440 p
however this performance does come with
a price
this is fine 4980 HQ has a TDP of 57
watts just for comparison 4702 mq that I
currently have my TV for repeat have CDP
of 35 watts this might be problem
especially considering the poor thermal
design of docking station I've mostly
used this computer in the docking
station so I already ordered some liquid
metal paste I went for a grizzly thermal
conductor notes and it should react
pretty soon but for now we're just gonna
use Arctic mx4 I just want to see the
CPU works at all so that if it doesn't
well at least there's gonna be no liquid
metal wasted for nothing so far only a
few people try to install this CPU on
ThinkPad 240p there are about three or
five people on reddit that succeeded
other ones the other got faulty CPU or
wrong CPU in any case I want to try it
today I want to try to install it and if
it doesn't work well this will be
cautionary tale to everyone who was
looking into buying the CPU this would
be a video in which we conclude that no
the CPU is garbage there's too much risk
involved here and you should not buy it
but if it works well I guess it'll be a
first video to actually feature the CPU
in ThinkPad T for 40 feet all in all the
CPA cost me about 130 years
that's what shipping taxes etc by the
way huge thanks to newer gamer who
helped me source the CPU without you my
friend this video literally wouldn't be
a thing I guess ok so enough talk let's
unbox this beauty let's install it and
let's see what happens
ok then let's see what's inside the box
then shower
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so here we have the CPU itself so bubble
wrap
Wow the packaging is really cool let's
see if there's actually anything inside
because it kind of seems very light
there it is there it is let's check with
some bent pins
it looks like there are no bent pins
everything is okay let me just focus the
camera real quick all right so we have a
packaging out of the way and now let's
try to actually install it and hope that
it doesn't find the motherboard
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I think we're in know maybe didn't lock
it complete me let me see there's
something that won't let it fall in I
wonder what that is
ah there is actually I bent Depina thing
yep
surprise [ __ ] okay let me try to
strain it real quick off camera and then
I'll try again
so the whole unbending the pins business
did take some time but at the end the
CPU is in sitting pretty tight so I
guess we're going to remove this paper
thingy that sticker put some throw and
paste on and try to see who boots I
guess
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yep all right we don't here
well I'm pretty nervous I don't know
about you but I actually don't know
they're gonna work
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you guys ready I don't know if I'm ready
whoo okay well if if this doesn't work
if if this blows up and I don't survive
this please tell my mom I love her let's
go
we got the posts Wow okay
the next day so I ran some quick
benchmarks Cinebench lux mark open arena
and as I anticipated Mississippi is held
back a lot by poor design cooling system
in t / 40 p even though in most
benchmarks it performed much better than
4700 to mq that i had before in this
laptop in Lux mark it actually performed
worse which kind of indicates that if
there's a workload that requires both
CPU and GPU the performance is going to
grade a lot since until iris graphics
5200 is much more power hungry than into
HD 4600 that we have in 4702 mq on the
other hand the new CPU performed much
better than open arena thinking we gain
about 17 to 20 FPS luckily I also
received the liquid metal compound today
and as soon as I received email I
actually went ahead and applied that
supply liquid metal compound it's kind
of a finicky process the problem with it
is a like thermal paste it's also
electrically conductive which means you
have to isolate basically everything on
your CPU except for the actual surface
that you apply a thermal compound on for
that I use the electric tape you can
also use transparent nail polish so
anyway after applying Lukic metal paste
I booted computer up and tried to run
the same base mix again and to my utter
bewilderment the results were actually
worse in some cases there were kind of
the same as with the Arctic MX for
thermal compound but it looks mark for
example and in open arena
the results were straight out worse than
with normal thermal paste I was so
shocked by the results I thought I
actually didn't apply the look of metal
correctly so I took the left upper part
again and tried to reapply the compound
by the way I used up the whole tube so
next time I do it I have to order it
again but alas no the results didn't
really improve after I reapplied look
now again I'm not sure what it is not
sure what the reason is but I'll
continue looking into it and we'll see
how that goes so yeah even though I kind
of expected the results to be better and
I'm a slightly disappointed by the fact
that liquid metal didn't really help
with the thermal throttling overall I'm
happy by how this experiment turned out
I do plan to replace the heatsink on my
TV bench
as a matter of fact I just went on our /
ThinkPad and the first post there was
the improved heatsink 1440p basically a
reddit user Dex amp took the dedicated
GPU heatsink from T 4 T P he modified it
so the additional heat pipe goes to the
CPU I think this should help a lot with
thermals on this processor so as soon as
tech Sam publishes the instructions or
some notes about how he did it I will
try to do it as well and I will
definitely make a new video with more
benchmarks and maybe some games to
actually test whether this heatsink
actually makes things better the second
biggest problem with the CPU is that the
unboard DisplayPort on T 4 DP
unfortunately doesn't work with this
processor nobody actually knows the
reason as to why some people speculate
that maybe the lanes aren't connected
properly on the adapter but nevertheless
VGA still works and DisplayPort on the
docking station still works perfectly
fine and it's only basically the mini
DisplayPort all the lots of itself that
doesn't work I also want to mention that
the CPU works perfectly fine with
hackintosh I didn't have to change
anything they recognize the iris
graphics Pro right away and basically no
configuration needed everything works
out of the box and it's so great so yeah
that's basically my experience with the
CPU I hope your curiosity is now
satisfied since there's not much
information about the CPU in think that
240p on the Internet
now there's a whole video about it so
there you go at the end I would say that
getting this CPU is only worth it if you
really want to experiment with something
new something unusual and if you want
that improved graphics performance
because in my opinion TV 480p is not
really a gaming machine to begin with
and into iris graphics even though it
performs better than the integrated
Haskell graphics on the officially
supported CPUs it's still by no means a
gaming graphics card so if you want this
as a kind of weekend project that is not
told useless I guess go for it I would
like to thank my patrons Joseph o nearer
gamer and everyone else to support this
channel thank you guys for watching and
I'll see in the next one goodbye