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    Inspiron 1520 'Penryn' support Bios update ?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Sipha, Jan 18, 2008.

  1. Sipha

    Sipha Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anyone know or have any idea if Dell might bring out a bios update for the Inspiron 1520 series so that it can support the new Penryn T8xx and T9xx CPU's ?

    Thanks.
     
    Sipha, Jan 18, 2008
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  2. B2TheEYo

    B2TheEYo Notebook Deity

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    BIOS version A03 added support for "newer Intel Processor" so, unless anything new besides Penryn came out since the release, my guess is it's possibly compatible.

    Why would you wanna upgrade anyways.. Not much of a difference unless you do things that could use the extra 2mb of cache...
     
    B2TheEYo, Jan 19, 2008
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  3. ps2cho

    ps2cho Notebook Evangelist

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    bumping the thread.

    I would love to upgrade to a Penryn at some point in the future as coming from my 1.5GHz processor would make a very good upgrade.
     
    ps2cho, Jan 20, 2008
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