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    Gateway P7811 CPU upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sickofsoyo, Sep 13, 2009.

  1. sickofsoyo

    sickofsoyo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've seen a couple of threads on the topic, but still a little confused. I've upgraded to a Solid state hard drive, and will be working with autocad and engineering apps soon, and find the processor the bottleneck in this system. Has anyone got a quad working on one of these yet? and what did you need to do to make it work? I also have not upgraded the bios. Iam running 64-bit vista and the upgrades I see on the site are for 32 bit. I guess Im just a little confused with their whole bios upgrade system. any help would be appreciated here.
     
    sickofsoyo, Sep 13, 2009
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    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    I've seen one use an X9100 on this forum but i'm not sure about the quad working...
     
    sean473, Sep 14, 2009
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    Quads will not work with the 7811.

    The top two CPU's you can get are the t9900 and the x9100.
     
    Kamin_Majere, Sep 14, 2009
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