Another desperate GL40 cpu upgrading question

Hi there !

I currently have a Lenovo 3000 N500 (Celeron 575) with the dreadful GL40 chipset. I was thinking about throwing in a T7 cpu but I am very uncertain about the compatibility of my chipset to a fsb-800 cpu. Unfortunately the previous threads on upgrading a GL40 platform haven't offered much clarity either. Am I really stuck with a T5850 option ?

Any hints greatly appreciated !!!

 

This Intel site states you can only run up to 667fsb. You can use this site for a CPU to fit your needs.

 

So far the T3400 is the highest I've seen done. Frankly the only other processor that might work is the T5850, and its not much of an upgrade over the T3400 anyways. The only T7s that are 667 are socket M not socket P so those are out unless GL40 secretly does support 800mhz FSB like some of the older chipsets, but I kinda doubt that.

 

This is quite a downer ... thanks a lot anyways. If anyone managed to get a 800mhz fsb cpu running on a GL40, please let me know.

 

Amazingly, with the introduction of the 2.0GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core T3200, the Pentium DC no longer sucks! The T3200 performs almost identically to the T5750 in most benchmarks. The T3400 is an even better perfomer. If you can find a T3200 or T3400 at a reasonable price, I'd just go with one of those and let it go at that. With 3GB of RAM, the performance would be more than adequate in routine use.

Wouldn't the T5850 work in the GL40? According to the Passmark site, the T3200 earned virtually the same Passmark CPU score as the 2.0GHz T7300 (800MHz FSB and 4mb L2). The same chart shows that the 2.16GHz T5850 actually earned a few points higher than the T8100- the entry-level Penryn!

Here's the Passmark chart, it's interesting- http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

 

I suspect the passmark stuff may be light on the memory and cache and heavy on the clock speed from the results it shows. But regardless in all but the most demanding apps any C2D architecture chip at a given MHZ will be close enough to another for it not to be a big deal.

The only chips that really put you in another league are the Penryns, especially the P and T 9 series but the 8 series are also pretty quick. Ultimately with a GL laptop you probably didn't pay that much for it to start with and you're stuck with the slowest version of x4500 so its never going to be a speed demon and throwing a super high end processor in it isn't going to make it do wonders on most tasks anyways.

The T3400 is a solid performer and backed up with 3-4 gb of ram and a decent HD the GL40 laptops move along plenty quick. I had the HP G50-104NR with 4gb, vista ultimate x64 and a 320gb western digital scorpio black 7200 rpm drive and it was more than adequate for most tasks. I just decided to sell all my lower end laptops and get one nice one.