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    Inspiron 1520 upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by TheJez, Mar 29, 2009.

  1. TheJez

    TheJez Newbie

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    at first, thank you for reading this!!!

    i hope you can help me, i upgraded my inspiron 1520 ram to 4 gigabytes, but now i want to upgrade the processor and HD, now i have what i think is a slow processor t5250(Santa rosa) 1.5ghz, 65nm, 2mb cache, but i don't know which processor could i buy in order to replace this, i'd preffer one above 2 ghz, and more cache, is it possible to place a 45nm processor(i think it could be cooler)??

    do i have to weld it??

    i was thinking about a T9300 2.5 ghz and 6mb cache... is it possible to upgrade to this?? or what would you recommend??
     
    TheJez, Mar 29, 2009
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  2. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Yes, you can use a T9300. ;)
    You can use any Socket P CPU.


    You would have to open up your laptop.
    Take off the heatsink from the CPU, take out the CPU.
    Put in the new one.
    Re-Apply Thermal Paste (buy some thermal Paste first :p, like Arctic Silver 5) Which you spread evenly like the original paste was.
    Put heatsink back on, put laptop back together.

    Follow: THIS. Do all steps and you wont have a problem. ;)

    And BTW, no welding needed. :p :D
     
    ahl395, Mar 30, 2009
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