asus eee pc 1000h processor upgrade??

So ive noticed the intel atom n270 seems to be the week spot for most of these little laptops. Im just wundering if the socket type for the atom is going to be a standard size??

If it is, would it be possible to say swap out the old n270 with a new atom when intel comes out with one??

I really like the eee pc 1000h, even the asus n10 seris, but just wish for a better proc.

 

You're joking right? The atom series are not meant to be powerful. They are meant to save space and power, and because of that, I believe the processors are soldered onto the motherboard so you couldn't change it anyway.

 

Yeah, they're small and cool and power-saving BECAUSE they are not uber-powered...

I haven't heard a ton of complaint though about them being too slow to use or work on. But if you really want something more powerful, I believe the dual-core Atom CPU's are going to be released in a few months, so pretty soon there will be true dual-core netbooks available.

 

Nope im not kidding, i know there not solder, but in a socket. I would like one with a def upgrade, just to run vista alittlebit smoother.

I just hope they stick to the same socket size when the new dualcore atoms for net books come out.

Maybe then all i would have to do is a bios reflash or something.

 

I agree with Talin; what you're hoping for is like hoping to put an F1 car engine into a golf cart. Mainstream CPUs have different functions, designs, and thermal limitations that need to be recognized. No can do, the whole point of the Atom is to minimize power usage and heat at the expense of performance. You might be able to overclock it, but I don't know if its possible and, even if it were, I wouldn't even recommend it.

 

Im alright with overclocking, you should see my sager np8660, flys.

Im not looking to put a core 2 duo in, im just looking to put a better atom in, when they come out. Im just wundering if anybody on here has anysort of information on them.

 

how do you know that it's not soldered on? Have you taken one apart and removed the CPU?

 

I havent yet, but i know the atom n270 would be a seprate entity. So even if it is solder on, "which it might, looking at the 900" it always can be unsolder and another one could be put in its place.

 

it's soldered into the motherboard...

 

Soldered to the motherboard, you aren't going to be able to do anything about the Atom processor.

 

Yeah but things can be unsoldered. After that, if all the specs match up, maybe then all i would need is a bios reflash. With sometime and research, it should be possible.

 

Its not impossible but quite harder to upgrade a soldered processor of course. I hear you need special equipment.

A while back, someone was able to upgrade the 933mhz Celeron M 353 processor in his EEE 701 to a 1.20 ghz Pentium M 753 processor.

http://eeesite.net/2008/02/adding-12ghz-pentium-m-processor-to-eee.html

 

And how many atoms have we seen being sold as only the cpu?

 

That looks, really, really sick (the PenM mod). However, the 1.2GHz PenM, benchmark wise, is about on par with the 1.6GHz Atom, so I think I'd stick to one of the Atom based EEEs.

 

May it ain't impossible but it's definitely ain't wort the trouble