Laptop Restore Maximus

Posted March 25, 2018

I have finally restored my 14-year-old Dell Latitude D620 laptop back to its prime. Almost every component is replaced or upgraded.

Before the restoration:

Manufactured mid 2004.
CPU: Intel Core Duo T2300E (2C/2T 1.66GHz 32-bit)
Fan whines.
Display: 1280x800 TN
Have display glitches due to a bad GPU chip revision.
Wireless: 802.11b/g
One failed 6-cell battery
Failed CD-RW + DVD-ROM combo drive in modular bay

Final specifications:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 (2C/2T 2.33GHz 64-bit)
Chipset: Intel 945PM + ICH7M
Graphics: nVidia Quadro NVS 110MT (64MB GDDR, similar to GeForce Go 7300)
RAM: 3GB DDR2-667 (BIOS limit)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB
Display: 1440x900 TN
Wireless: Intel Dual-Band Wireless-AC 7260 802.11a/b/g/n/ac + Bluetooth 4.0
Cellular: Dell Wireless 5540 HSPA+ cellular module
Batteries: 9-cell main battery + 4-cell modular bay battery
OS: Windows 10 Pro amd64
I am considering adding a GPS module to make this a full-on travel computer.
No more display glitches after motherboard swap.
No more fan whine after deep cleaning

This build log is typed up on that laptop, while I am installing various development kits in the background. Is there anything you want me to benchmark on this fully restored 14-year-old Dell laptop?

The Fruit Pie: Core i7-9700K ~ 2x Team Force Vulkan 16GB DDR4-3200 ~ Gigabyte Z390 UD ~ XFX RX 480 Reference 8GB ~ WD Black NVMe 1TB ~ WD Black 2TB ~ macOS Monterey amd64

The Warship: Core i7-10700K ~ 2x G.Skill 16GB DDR4-3200 ~ Asus ROG Strix Z490-G Gaming Wi-Fi ~ PNY RTX 3060 12GB LHR ~ Samsung PM981 1.92TB ~ Windows 11 Education amd64
The ThreadStripper: 2x Xeon E5-2696v2 ~ 8x Kingston KVR 16GB DDR3-1600 Registered ECC ~ Asus Z9PE-D16 ~ Sapphire RX 480 Reference 8GB ~ WD Black NVMe 1TB ~ Ubuntu Linux 20.04 amd64

The Question Mark? Core i9-11900K ~ 2x Corsair Vengence 16GB DDR4-3000 @ DDR4-2933 ~ MSI Z590-A Pro ~ Sapphire Nitro RX 580 8GB ~ Samsung PM981A 960GB ~ Windows 11 Education amd64
Home server: Xeon E3-1231v3 ~ 2x Samsung 8GB DDR3-1600 Unbuffered ECC ~ Asus P9D-M ~ nVidia Tesla K20X 6GB ~ Broadcom MegaRAID 9271-8iCC ~ Gigabyte 480GB SATA SSD ~ 8x Mixed HDD 2TB ~ 16x Mixed HDD 3TB ~ Proxmox VE amd64

Laptop 1: Dell Latitude 3500 ~ Core i7-8565U ~ NVS 130 ~ 2x Samsung 16GB DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM ~ Samsung 960 Pro 512GB ~ Samsung 850 Evo 1TB ~ Windows 11 Education amd64
Laptop 2: Apple MacBookPro9.2 ~ Core i5-3210M ~ 2x Samsung 8GB DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM ~ Intel SSD 520 Series 480GB ~ macOS Catalina amd64