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    HP Pavilion DV2716ca CPU upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by adriand, Jan 29, 2015.

  1. adriand

    adriand Newbie

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    Hi everybody,

    I need your help. Before I purchase a faster CPU and open up the laptop, I was wondering if anyone knows if this specific laptop has a socket for the CPU. I've searched online to find out and so far nothing came up.
    The current CPU is Core 2 Duo T5450.

    Thank you all for in advance for your time and consideration.

    Regards,
    Adrian.
     
    adriand, Jan 29, 2015
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    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    Thank you for your answer!
     
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    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    A cpu upgrade will be much more significant in this case. An SSD, while making the system more responsive, will only be able to hurry up to wait (for the cpu to catch up with whatever task you are asking of it).

    Of course, a new/current platform is highly recommended here if you're thinking of spending anything over $150 or so. But if you can successfully upgrade the CPU, upgrade the RAM to 4GB or more (if possible on your specific platform/BIOS combo) and upgrade the O/S to anything other than Vista (Win8.1x64 highly recommended), it may still provide good service for a couple of more years.

    More than likely though, to properly update this old Core2Duo/DDR2 platform to anything resembling current performance specs, that arbitrary $150 price point will be chewed up very fast.

    An SSD will still make an improvement. But with a passmark of less than 900 points

    See:
    http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+T5450+@+1.66GHz

    I don't think that the cost will be worth the gains an SSD offers (faster bootup/shutdown, a more responsive O/S and program launching - but nothing in actually increasing real work performed, which is what the CPU + RAM do in any system).

    What cpu is the system capable of being upgraded to and at what cost? How confident are you that you can disassemble a working system and put it back together, better than new? What O/S is currently installed and how much RAM can you throw at this?


    To see a similarly capable system (re: cpu performance), see the last post I made on this thread:

    See:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...re-reserved-any-thoughts.770026/#post-9908987

    Hope some of this helps.

    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jan 30, 2015
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