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    Vostro 1700 CPU upgrade

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by See-Fu, Mar 24, 2008.

  1. See-Fu

    See-Fu Notebook Guru

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    Between the T7250 and the T8100. Will either one of the cpu's be more upgradeable later on in the future if it's even possible to upgrade CPU's on this laptop? I believe the T8100 uses the new Penyrn (sp) chip?
     
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    mrg666 Notebook Evangelist

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    Vostro 1700 is a Santa Rosa platform laptop and accepts the Socket P processors. So, you can upgrade with any Socket P processor (including Penryn) as long as the latest BIOS supports it. I think T8100 will be only slightly faster than T7250 due to 1MB extra L2 cache and 100MHz frequency. If there is no difference in the price, I would choose T8100 but I would not pay more than $50 difference for T8100.
     
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