Lenovo ThinkPad T430 as only pc for one week in 2022!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2022
- In Today's video I attempt to Use My Upgraded T430 as my only PC for one week in 2022! Will I succeed? Watch to find out!
Specs:
4 core 8 thread i7 3840qm @ 2.9-3.5ghz
240gb ssd Sandisk (win10 Pro)
128gb mSata ssd (Arch)
500gb hdd OR 60gb SSD (PopOS) in ultrabay OR DVD drive
6-cell (1hr tops for docked setup) & 9-cell battery (5-8+ on battery saver in win10 & 10+ in GNU/Linux)
XFX AMD Radeon RX 480 8gb & EXP Beast dock v8.4 & 500w PSU
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Shadow Cloud PC:
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An astute and awesome comment from reddit about the video:
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www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/xv7yqw/watch_me_attempt_to_use_the_thinkpad_t430/ir12k4i?context=3
Good work on the video but there's a couple of things that need to be mentioned and a few small details that were incorrect. Props on it though as I bet that took a lot of work to edit and it isn't easy especially if the software decides to not play nice.
5:08 They (ExpressCard & mPCI-E x1) both offer the same connection (PCI-E v2.0 x1) but the latter requires PCI-E whitelist removal before it can be used for non-WiFi stuff (like eGPU's, NVMe M.2 SSD's, sound & ethernet cards,.). EC doesn't carry a whitelist so you can use pretty much anything and both can provide up to 10W of power for devices.
14:32 Fwiw with an Nvidia card you could use ShadowPlay to record gameplay and not take much of a performance hit. At 1080p60 (20k bitrate) it'll use at most 5MB/s while writing to a recording drive and in Windows 10 it shouldn't desync (A/V) or create multiple files like it would in Windows 7 (OS limitation) for long recordings.
17:06 I'd suggest using MSI Afterburner with Rivatuner RTSS for an OSD since its heavily customizable, free, works with any brand (Intel, AMD & Nvidia), can create custom profiles for each game and it'll remember where the OSD goes so it won't block an in-game HUD or other important stuff. For visibility you can increase or decrease the size of the font as well as add a solid background to make it more visible in recordings.
20:30 While FRAPs was causing issues as you later discovered its always best to use regular Fullscreen mode over Windowed-FS since the latter can cause performance issues, create additional input latency and stutter.
23:33 For eGPU's anything 'Post-Processing' related should be disabled or put to its lowest value to not tank performance and that includes Motion-blur. Reason its a problem is the eGPU has to send data back through the pipe to the CPU and then back to the eGPU which eats up a lot of bandwidth.
41:40 That's basically 7D2D in a nutshell when it comes to optimization in general, it can get frustrating at times especially on horde night or in larger cities.
1:13:40 I doubt it would be as much of an issue with an Nvidia card since you'd have Data Compression (Fermi card or newer) and it puts Gen2 EC slightly above Thunderbolt 1 (something AMD cards lack hence why they suffer on x1 links).
On a lesser known side note there were older eGPU adapters that could bridge multiple PCI-E lanes into one connection for increased bandwidth and there's newer ones being developed which can bridge multiple NVMe M.2 slots in a similar fashion. The PE4H v2.4 is one of the older ones that can combine up to four (EC & mPCI-E x1 slots) but iirc was limited to Gen1 connectivity and I could have sworn I'd seen a variant of the EXP GDC or PE4L/PE4H which could do up to two with Gen2 connectivity. The only thing though with bridging iirc is the PCI-E ports need to match (Ports 1+2 and 3+4) which you can use HWiNFO to check and see what number a port was assigned (for mPCI-E & EC).
Nice one Dave, you proved it's still a capable machine. I would say that, typing this from my T430! 😆
Heheh defo still worth using
My brother has a t430 and the thing is built like a tank. Still works good too. The only laptop/pc that I have at the moment is an x230 with the i7 and 8gb of ram, and its a great daily driver. Not the best for playing modern 3d games, but if you are happy to play old school games, or some modern games with low system requirments, then its perfectly fine. When gaming anything graphically intensive it tends to heat up a lot, but well that is to be expected. The x230 was not really built for gaming.
awesome! if u haven't seen it already u may want to check out this video about the x230 with the same premise as the t430 video but using the x230:
th-cam.com/video/QaRcYmBFgPc/w-d-xo.html
This is why I subbed. ThinkPad videos. ThinkPads kicking ass years later. Love it. Show off some of your guitars my dude!! 🐨👌
Much thanks!!
Perhaps I'll do a show and tell/ studio overview some day soon!
@@TechDave looking forward to it! 🐨
4:37 hell yeah that sounds really fun imo
cool content sir. learnt a lot from this video
Sincere thanks!
Good video.
I'm still waiting for the part two of the thinkpad p51 gaming test
patience anakin.. patience
and thanks!
@@TechDave 😊😊
This video showing up in my notifications today of all days is very strange in a good way since today is the last day of using my T430 exclusively for two weeks. I moved 2 weeks ago and I was without my gaming pc for this 2 weeks and my only other device was a phone. My specs are 1vyrain bios with battery and wifi whitelist mod, Intel 6205 a/b/g/n wifi adapter, 8 gb ram, 500 gb ssd boot drive and 1 tb spinning drive in cd drive caddy with stock display and I triple-boot Windows 10 enterprise, mint cinnamon, and kali. Only during the 2nd week I had used a borrowed 1080p monitor, keyboard, and mouse with the T430. I'm impressed with what the T430 can do and will come back to edit this post today or tomorrow as I haven't had time to watch the video yet because I just woke up and have to unload the moving truck today!
serendipity at its finest!! feel free to share how your challenges and experiences correlate or not with mine!
good luck with unloading!!!
TD x
also! if u got a link hit me with the wifi card u used! i am also using 1vyrain on my T430 and would love to upgrade the wifi
I have a lot of great choices in modern laptops, but my heart still wants a thinkpad. This abomination of a laptop in the eyes of a lot of people but built like a tank still makes me feel like the second I got some spare money to buy one just to have it as a secondary laptop to play around with.
They go cheap with the dual core i5. That's what I did, cheap i5 model (£100) with 4gb ram and 320gb hdd, then just upgrade it bit by bit
I got a T430 recently as a backup laptop. Great for lugging it around since my fancy laptop feels like it'll break if i look it the wrong way lol
I have the mini sata adapter coming, can it be used with a normal EGPU enclosure? or do I need the really expensive GDC one?
I'm not honestly sure, send me a link to what u bought and I can give my opinion tho!
Are you thinking of doing the T420/previous gen keyboard mod?
not currently, as i don't have much money available!
Thanks for the interesting video. Did I understand correctly that there is no point in eGPU via Express Card? It's just that when you connect the RX 480 8Gb, it feels like you're playing on the HD 4000 in FPS games. I didn't understand a little - why...
Not at all, there's a huge performance increase, just make sure to use an external monitor!!
Bro hi, got you. Thanks for the answer. Look, one more question then, if you don't mind. My display lid began to touch the body of the laptop itself when opening and closing. That is, the gap between this display cover and the case has disappeared and she rubs it every time. I took a closer look and saw that the lid of the lisplay just bent a little, as if inside. Don't you have one? Or is it for everyone and is it their common disease? :)
P.S. He is already a bunch of years old, and he was perfect until recently. And what I described above happened after I kept it open for the last three months ... I didn’t wear it anywhere, I didn’t take it with me, I didn’t close the lid with the display. It just stood open at home and I used it in this state ...
@@alexf1515 honestly i dont have this issue. cud just be wear and tear x
Does the 3840QM run fine temperature and battery wise? Did you do any modifications to the cooler?
temps high under load, but never seems to throttle. i upgraded the fan to the fan with dgpu heatpipes, which imho is defo a necessity
Nice video
Much thanks!
My t430 is currently running drum recording duty!
Ableton & firewire projectmix io soundcard/midi controller via expresscard adapter w/ 8 mics on my Pearl drumkit
What about the 430i model what are you thoughts on that?
I've never had my hands on one tbh so I cudnt give proper feedback, sorry about that
Can I use this laptop for practicing programming? I'm a beginner and I want to minimize my budget as possible. Do you recommend t430 or should i buy later Thinkpad like t450?
Hi! I'm not particularly knowledgeable enough to answer that question, but my guess wud be that the t450 wud last longer and have better hardware, so it'd depend how much power u need and what ide and programming language ur using
what do you think would be the modern alternative of this fully upgraded T430 ?
T480 might be the best equivalent, although latest and greatest, I'm not quite sure
i just notice that when i switched into arhlinux on my thinkpad the wwan lte are not always present sometimes its there sometimes not when i really need to use my data..its really annoying!
I struggle with arch constantly with stuff like this, trying to get an eGPU working was an absolute nightmare for example, hope u find a solution!
Hi Bro, i have a T430 and thinking of upgrading it, how do you find the TEMPS? with your i7-cpu?? very interested.
umm, it varies, depends what u do with it, i used the 3840qm, so its a bti spicey, the delta fan/better cpu fna is defo the way to go. in retrosepct i would get a slightly less spicy quadcore, such as the 3640
@@TechDave ok, so have you had blue screen or freezes or any other issues with the spicy CPU? will look into the 3640. thanks.
@@Mad-Coo none whatsoever, only catch is u need a 135w charger!
will i have any issues with docking station after flashing 1vyrain?
I never have!
I like these old T430's. 3630qm, new heatsink, beefier charger, max ram, classic keyboard, new screen+inverter. Lovely desktop replacement.
I use x200 now 🤣
nice! i have an x200 as well, there shud be a couple of videos coming out about it in the next few weeks or so
@@TechDave lovely machine. The form factor and keyboard are excellent. Mine has 8gb of ram, Samsung SSD, I repasted it, coreboot is next. Running arch and xfce it's fine for productivity. Luckily I don't need to compile or render anything, it's a dedicated trading machine.
@@neildissanayake7942 mine came a bit worse for wear from eBay (including broken internal hardrive bay, a bad ram stick). my plan is to libreboot it evenutally and fix the aforementioned issues, and repaste CPU, 8gb ram. ive got the ultrabase 2 with it as well, and am running a kingston 60gb ssd in the ultrabay currently and then an 64gb sd card in the bootable sd card slot if i need it undocked. mine has PopOS although i may install arch if i can figure out how to install it properly
The X200 keyboard alone is worth owning one!
@@neildissanayake7942 ps: the SD card install is PopOS with i3 so its a lot less resource heavy, and i currently have 2+4gb ddr3 ram in there
@@TechDave sounds cool. I recommend coreboot as it is updated and maintained.
Is Pop!OS running smoothly off the SD card? I was not aware this was supported. I guess that only applies to newer ThinkPads?
Dave can you help?
I watched your other video on T430 replacing the awful terrible stock screen. My t430 currently has the matte screen LP140WH2(TL)(F1) and its horrible!!!
I bought a LP140WD2(TL)(G1) but I was sent a B140RW02 so I got my money back the B140RW02 is also abysmal. No website seems to sell a genuine glossy LP140WD2(TL)(G1) so dont suppose you can recommend any other screens?
I'd rather stick to simple drop in replacement rather than going down the LVDS to EDP converter for other screens.
Also this was a cool video you did so keep it up.
Many thanks and take care
theres a link on this video for the screen i used!
hope it helps! cheers!
th-cam.com/video/ffkh6Nb0MmY/w-d-xo.html
Yes mate I checked that link also and it may have worked in the past but now it takes you to a matte screen. The good screen is the glossy one. So your link is no longer for the same glossy screen you used in your video. Thank you for reply but any other suggestions? If not then no worries. Thanks again
@@aminibrahim8523 sorry bud, all I can do is Google it same as u, good luck tho!!
@@TechDave no worries mate. Thanks for your replies and the videos. Take care
Dear techdave can you by any chance give me the exact model number of your glossy t430 replacement screen? Was it LP140WD2(TL1)(G1) ?
Thank you very much
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