Upgrade M1330 to Penryn

BTW i used to have that avatar you are using now haha

 

1. Yes.

2. Well 500MHz and 4MB more cache is a substantial difference. I'm sure the price is substantial as well. The T8300 could be a better priced upgrade.

 

Unless you get the T9300 for next to nothing I would say no...

 

mystery905 will give me that T9300 and i'll will surrender my T8300, right, mystery905? =)

 

sure....and the cheque's in the e-mail!

 

For people not bothering to check the thread properly for the appropriate contact info and PM'ing me instead, the above prices were valid for February from the following vendor:

[email protected]

I can not vouch for him as I didn't purchase anything there, but I think duffy (from this thread) did.

 

In answer to your second question no i don't think that for general users that the difference will be that great. Really it depends on what you do with your laptop if you will notice the difference.
I have used a T7100, T7500, T8300 and T9300 processor and seeing as my CPU activity monitor normally never goes over 10% with any of these processors i cannot say that i notice much difference CPU speed wise because i never really challenge the CPU with any of the CPU's that i have used.

Battery life wise i don't think that it is worth upgrading just for that. The T9300 also has a higher clock speed than the T7250 so battery life gains could be lost a bit because of the much higher clock speed. This is interesting although it is about the M1530 and not the M1330 but this review site reviewed the M1530 with a Memron processor and a Penryn processor and found that the Penryn processor did not have any advantage battery life wise. In fact i think that the Memron processor may have even had better battery life.
http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/478
Those reviews can be translated with babelfish.

According to reports the Penryn processors do run a little cooler but i have found the Memron processors to run cool for me as well. Then again i don't try and play intensive games on my laptop either.

 

So you don't need specific cpu package like Micro-FCPGA or Micro-FCBGA to install? Any would work?

 

After using mu t9300 for several days, now i have the batery life that i expected, after my last post about battery life, i decided to use the undervolting option some one offered me, and it worked great, my cpu was running cooler and batery life was about 10 percent more, but after that i had to format my computer and start from all over again, and with the fresh install (plus the programs i used to have) my battery life went about 20 percent more, i dont know what made that hapen, i supose that installing the t9300 without removing any software for the 7300, made my computer not to work properly, and wit only the 9300 software its working great, that may be the reason, i dont know, but with this experience i recomend a fresh install after changing the cpu

 

This is incredibly bad advice - and should be completely ignored.

"Software for the 7300" and "the 9300 software" - you have to explain these please.

 

do you really think that Windows recognize the Procesors by magic, giving my coments here, and mentioning software, it is normal to think that DRIVERS are software, and that not inserting a cd or disk to instal hardware that dosent mean that windows dosent install included "software" (drivers) to make the hardware work, by the way, adding comments of what people do with their laptops is the man idea of forums, people can take the advise if they want to, and people like you just make this forums full of critics and dont add useful info.

 

1st - telling people to reload software after a CPU swap is BAD advice. Not being a "critic" here, just trying to help to avoid someone actually doing something completely unnecessary.

There are no different "drivers" for different CPU... What you are trying to describe happens at a lower 'layer' - (hint: it's called BIOS)

You may want to run the BIOS setup after swapping a CPU, to
make sure it's recognized - but please note that this isn't "Windows recognizing the processors by magic". It has NOTHING to do with Windows.

Any software you load - including drivers, shouldn't have to be re-loaded or re-done when swapping CPU. Unless something else is wrong.

I've swapped CPU in machines for years and I've NEVER had to reload any software, ever. And yes, on a m1330, swapping a 7500 for and 8300 and then up to a T9500. Swap, run setup, and go - easy squeezy...

 

well that might be your opinion, i only post what happend in my system, things worked better that way, and as you should know in computer teoricaly evreything should work just fine, but in the practice some things dont work, as you said it mighr been other issue, but at the ent that worked fine. and if you my posts i always publis my opinion and what hapens in the changes i make and people who read all info no the internet must be aware of that, "what people pot is what worked in their specific case" and that dosent mean it will work for all.

 

One - this isn't my "opinion" - it is simple computer science (translation: fact). I'm not going to even try to attempt to teach you the abstraction layer model (hardware, BIOS, OS and application) But, please do some reading before you attempt to carry this discussion any further. (and give people bad advice)

I'll start you off:

http://www.google.com/search?q="sof...ox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGIK

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/funcLayers-c.html

Two - get a spell checker - your credibility drops considerably when there is no punctuation whatsoever and quite a few mangled words....

 

i dont intend to continue this discussion, save your time looking for information on the web for me, i am not interested on the topic, and as for credibility, i really dont need it, i dont work with computer for muney, just for hobby, and english is not my native language that is why its hard for me to make my point.

 

I have a T5450, 1.67 Ghz, 667 Mhz FSB and 667 Mhz memory.

If I upgrade to a Penryn with 800 Mhz FSB, do I have to upgrade my memory to 800 Mhz as well, or will they run asynchronously?

 

They will run asynchronously. The chipsets' limit is 667 MHz. Stick with the 667 MHz memory.

 

Thanks! That simplifies matters.