[SOLVED] Laptop CPU in a desktop - BGA to LGA - MADE IN CHINA

[antonyjlawlor]

Hi,

I recently just purchased an i7 4980HQ (yea it's a mobile BGA socket Crystal Well), I’ve attached some pictures. Been back and forth with the guy I got it from, he brought a few back from China with him - he says it can be clocked to 4.6ghz with the right mobo. Reading more about the chip it's self, it can turbo up to 3.8ghz on all for cores and 4.0ghz on a single core by default (don't really understand how all that works if i''m being honest). The main thing here is that it's a BGA-1364 socket converted to a 1150 LGA socket.

I decided to bite the bullet and paid £120 for it, I feel it’s worth it - in terms of TDP and performance. My current system I’ve had for years now that is still rocking a phenom is x4 965 it starting to struggle - was looking for a cheap upgrade. Plan on buying a second hand board etc and transferring my DDR3 ram over to the new system. If anything this product is kind of unique too in a way, I like the jimmy rigging idea of it all!

It would be really interesting to see how they put these together and how hard it might be, done some re flowing of 360 CPUs in my time, and it sounds like it could be a similar process in some ways - anyone with a bit more technical know how than my self able to shine some light on this? it appears they are doing it with a number of laptop BGA CPU's not just mine.

https://imgur.com/FSK8PTe.png

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[antonyjlawlor]

Ok, so just to update this thread, I had some issues with my GPU and board i'm still not clear exactly what the cause was, but moving my GPU from the first pcie slot to the second one fixed my issues. The board I have the CPU plugged into as a crossfire board, so that probably didn't help matters since i'm using a NVIDIA card, i wouldn't have thought I would have made a difference - bit i'm not ruling it out. The fact the CPU is somewhat not supported could have some kind of bearing on the pcie bus, i really don't know.

All i do know is that it is working amazingly now and I am a very happy man! would totally recommenced this CPU for gaming if you know a bit of DIY and want to save some £

Thanks!

 

[i am godspeed]

Hi,

I recently just purchased an i7 4980HQ (yea it's a mobile BGA socket Crystal Well), I’ve attached some pictures. Been back and forth with the guy I got it from, he brought a few back from China with him - he says it can be clocked to 4.6ghz with the right mobo. Reading more about the chip it's self, it can turbo up to 3.8ghz on all for cores and 4.0ghz on a single core by default (don't really understand how all that works if i''m being honest). The main thing here is that it's a BGA-1364 socket converted to a 1150 LGA socket.

I decided to bite the bullet and paid £120 for it, I feel it’s worth it - in terms of TDP and performance. My current system I’ve had for years now that is still rocking a phenom is x4 965 it starting to struggle - was looking for a cheap upgrade. Plan on buying a second hand board etc and transferring my DDR3 ram over to the new system. If anything this product is kind of unique too in a way, I like the jimmy rigging idea of it all!

It would be really interesting to see how they put these together and how hard it might be, done some re flowing of 360 CPUs in my time, and it sounds like it could be a similar process in some ways - anyone with a bit more technical know how than my self able to shine some light on this? it appears they are doing it with a number of laptop BGA CPU's not just mine.

https://imgur.com/FSK8PTe

View: https://imgur.com/FSK8PTe.png

https://imgur.com/pZoXHAi

View: https://imgur.com/pZoXHAi.png

ok look i bought a i7 4960hq and put it in a msi b85m ie35......its unlocked in every way....i currently have ddr3 2400 ram at that speed.and it is really at that speed....i overclocked it in the bios with increasing the multiplier alone and got it to 4.0 per core stress tested it for 8 days straight at 100% at 4.0.not a hiccup or anything......btw the iris pro graphics with 2400mhz ram and overclocked to 1600mhz on the gpu is quite awesome.if u want to overclock the edram u will need an z87 board...dont go z97 ur best luck is with the z87 unless u get the i7 5950 they have up now......remember everything is marketing.....smart people stick with 4th gen and amaybe 5th if u can get ur hands on it...the rest go with the marketing flow like good sheep.........btw there is a msi b85m night elf on ebay.....this was never offered here....put one of these chips in it and it will sing i sware.overclock it and the ram......overclocking e dram.......use it.remeber these chips have an advantage over other chips...1.e dram makes a big differance.....2.they are 22 nm that mean all those power saver options in 14nm are not there and overclocking is easy.......esp on msi boards all thanks to the pentium G3258.