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    HP dv9380 Pavilion - CPU Upgrade Best Choice?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mtrappett, Jul 16, 2012.

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    Hi there,

    I have a HP Pavilion dv9830us Entertainment Notebook for which I want to upgrade the CPU. The processor is an Intel T5550 Core 2 Duo, 1.83 GHZ 667Mhz FSB Socket P. It has the PM965 Chipset.

    My intention is to use VirtualBox and the OS I want to setup requires VT-x support which my T5550 unfortunately lacks.

    Could someone please tell me which CPU would be a okay/good/great choice?

    I was looking at the T5600 which gives VT-x support but no gain in performance. the T7600 and Core 2 Extreme X9000.

    Can I use the 800FSB CPU's? I cannot seem to find a positive answer anywhere to this? Also, I wonder if I would run into problems with the BIOS not supporting VT-x on my dv9380?

    My trade is electronics engineer so installing the CPU will be fine.

    Any help would be extremely appreciated.
    Thank you, :)
    Mark.
     
    mtrappett, Jul 16, 2012
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