CPU Question

Hi,
I Recently bought a DV6500 CTO Intel Celeron 530 1.73Ghz 120GB web cam, FingerPrint Reader and i really don't wanna play heavy graphics games like bioshock but i do enjoy playing Guild wars Online and i do have a decent settings if i would say so my self, i get 22-29 fps online w/ all details set to High. my problem though is i really don't like Celeron i would like to maybe upgrade to a Pentium 4. My question is Can I? i read that my Laptop Uses socket 479.
I ran Cpuz and it says that i have socket 478? if indeed it is Socket 478 i have an extra processor laying around somewhere that i can maybe use.
I also looked around the web and found a PENTIUM 4 SOCKET 478 3.2GHZ (3200MHZ) 800MHZ BUS 512K OEM VERSION PULL don't really know if maybe i can installed this? Please help and suggest any Processor that i can upgrade. sorry if sound too confusing.......

 

No!, you can only upgrade it to a much more expensive but also more powerfull core duo and core 2 duo.
Warranty is going bye bye with that.

 

Laptop uses mobile CPU, not desktop CPU. I don't think sticking a desktop CPU into the laptop will work at all.

 

It won't even fit, so you don't have to worry about it working or not.

What you need is a mobile cpu in socket 479. A BIOS upgrade will also be necessary once you complete the swap.

 

There's way too many problems with your post.

1. The Celeron 530 isn't socket 478 or 479, it's socket M.
2. The Pentium 4 is a desktop processor. The heat sink required is 2-3 times as thick as your laptop.
3. The processors you can upgrade to are Socket M Meroms. Check the stickies.
4. The processor is not limiting your framerates. The GPU is.

 

umm no not necessarily, some notebooks do use desktop processors...xps, clevo, i think sager...pretty much any with the quad core cpus.

 

oh, come on we are not speaking of pentium m 2.0GHZ its the damn celeron which is worst performing mobile cpu right now, yes worse than sempron.

both CPU and GPU are the bottleneck or probably the whole damned system

find a cheap t7xxx or t5xxx and upgrade it should improve much more than having a 7950GTx with a celeron....

 

Yeah, like lithius said, your cpu is not really the main problem there, it's the lack of gpu power.

Also, if you're unsatisfied with your frame rates, then why do you continue to run the game at "high" settings. Obviously you need to turn the eye-candy down in order to get better performance.

 

I was referring to DV6500T, the laptop doesn't take desktop cpu. The laptop is meant for Duo 2Core. I've seen laptop that uses desktop cpu, and they are power hungry! I wouldn't want one of those! hehe

 

oh ok then yea. they are power hungry. frankly i don't even see the need for a quad core in a laptop.