XPS 1640 w/4670

I'm aware that the GPU is soldered to the mobo, and thus I'd have to replace said motherboard. I saw the part number "Y503R" associated with 1640 motherboards carrying the 4670 but I'm not sure if that's accurate.

I also found through Google and this site that a 1645 motherboard has a completely different shape than the 1640, but that some people have tried stuffing 1647 mobos into 1640s.

Point: Is it possible to shoehorn a 4670-bearing mobo into a 1640? I don't care about quads or i7--I have a desktop to do that kind of thing. I prefer higher-frequency dual cores since StarCraft II at present only uses two cores. A friend with a 1.6 quad stated his performance suffers as a result of the low CPU frequency so I'm not going to go there.

I also don't care if it's expensive (up to $300 for a new mobo is fine with me).

 

From what I can see from the service manual, it may work, but this post may have more views from the XPS subforum.

Starcraft 2 actually benefits from more cores. I went from a 4 core i7 940 to a 6 core i7 970, and I did see a noticeable improvement overall. You could go for the 740QM, Clarksfield i7s are dropping due to Sandy Bridge.

 

That must have changed or my friend must fail in some way. Good to hear.

Can you or someone else move the thread, then?

Thanks!