Dell XPS Upgrades?

I recently bought a used laptop from a friend of mine, And i'm going to post some of the specs here, in the hope someone can enlighten me on some of the upgrade possibilities... because i've been researching myself but all of the intel documents for this chipset name cpus that only existed in 2007 when it was produced so...

Dell XPS Model: M1710
Using Chipset: i945PM

And right now, it's using this cpu:



and it says 996mhz but it's a 2ghz cpu, that's just intel speedstep at work. you can see further up the max speed in the pic.

Anyway, my question is mainly this:

Will any "Socket P" i see on newegg, based on the 45nm "Penryn" core based processor work in this laptop? Has anyone out there used this exact model laptop and tried any of these newer processors in it?

Also along these lines, if i go down to frys and buy 2 * 4gb ddr2-800 from kingston (it has kingston in it now) can anyone comment if it should work?

I'm hoping maybe someone has tried similar ram in this model?

Any comments are appericated.

 

yours a socket M, so socket P processors won't work.
The best you can put is T7600..

 

these are the memory modules that will work with your system
http://www.orderingmemory.com/selector/index.asp?bsn=NEWEGG&model=XPS+M1710&Go=Go

 

Thanks but i'll go with the 2x2gb kingston at frys for $75, $93 for that ram is a bit marked up.

 

T7600G is the best processor you can install in your laptop
The XPS1710 uses socket M processors, not socket P
You can only upgrade to the T7400,T7600, or T7600G. Those are the only processors available in socket M which are faster than the T7200

Your laptop has an upgradeable graphics card as well. You can install up the geforce 7950GTX

You can install 4gb of ram.

The system is bottlenecked by a sata 150 interface, so you can install any new 2.5" 9.5mm thick mechanical harddrive, or any 2.5" ssd, it will max out the bus.

I recommend using I8KFANGUI to control the fan speeds, or set them to full. It will ensure a long laptop life and lower temperatures.

K-TRON

 

wow! nice one on T7600G K-Tron!
I didn't know there's such exists! +rep!

 

agreed. Definitely use I8KFANGUI to keep your temps in check.