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    P8700 on Santa Rosa

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by nightalon, Apr 10, 2009.

  1. nightalon

    nightalon Notebook Guru

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    Can it be done?

    I know that "Penryn on Santa Rosa" works, and they're both Socket P, but the P8700 is 1066 FSB.

    Does that matter? Will it be underclocked on a Dell Latitude D630 since I think the Dell's chipset may only support 800 MHz FSB?
     
    nightalon, Apr 10, 2009
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Won't work. End of story. You can only use 800MHz FSB Penryn processors on the 965-Series chipsets.
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 10, 2009
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  3. KingRaptor

    KingRaptor Notebook Evangelist

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    I wonder what happens if someone tries? Does it physically not fit (like DDR3 won't fit with DDR2 slots)? or will it fry the chip :eek: ?
     
    KingRaptor, Apr 10, 2009
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  4. allfiredup

    allfiredup Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just curious, what processor do you currently have?
     
    allfiredup, Apr 11, 2009
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  5. Tippey764

    Tippey764 Notebook Deity

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    I swear if i get ahold of a 1066mhz FSB chip i am going to put it in a santa rosa laptop. Both cpu's are socket P and all chips support FSB throttling so in theory it should work and throttle the FSB back to 800mhz. You will lose some clock speed but hey its a 25watt cpu.
     
    Tippey764, Apr 11, 2009
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  6. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    As Commander Wolf said, it won't boot period.
     
    sgogeta4, Apr 11, 2009
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    I tried it already. doesnot work..
     
    spradhan01, Apr 11, 2009
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    You can't just judge from the socket in terms of compatibility some laptop Bios will simply just reject other chipsets.
     
    stevezachtech, Apr 16, 2009
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