Processor Upgrades

I have a Inspiron 9300 and am thinking of upgrading the processor from the 1.6 intel to a bigger processor. Does anyone know up to what size this system can handle for a processor?

Thanks

 

the fastest would be a Pentium M with 2.26Ghz (780). The system should be able to handle it might have to do a bios update thats all.

Cost effective would be the Pentium M with 2ghz.

 

The pentium M 780 is very expensive, around $900+ I believe! Agreed the 2.0 ghz is a much better choice, but even then probably not cheap. Also, if you're sending it to a shop to be done that will also be very expensive. You'll really have to consider would it be worth the cost? What exactly do you need an upgrade for?

 

If your notebook is out of warranty you could do this,

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3226&article=pin+mod


The cpu can be had for like $40, arctic silver $5 a piece of wire ?? and some of your time = 2.1Ghtz.

Or if your not comfortable with that just go onto Ebay and you can find used 2.0Ghtz cpu's for around $200 all day long.

Leon

 

That depends - is his processor a 533 FSB or a downclocked 400 Mhz chip?

 

Processor upgrades are generally not worth it, unless you are performing some processor dependant tasks on the notebook. Tasks such as video editing and encoding will result in an increase in speed with a procesor upgrade, but tasks such as word processing, surfing the Internet and gaming will not see a performance increase. A better idea may be to spend the mone on a faster hard disk or more RAM.

 

Yeah I have been looking at processors and cant believe the prices I could buy a whole new laptop for that kinda money. I have a 7200rpm HD in it now I think I am gonna max out my memory, much more cost effective I am thinking. Thanks for the advice

 

dont forget tweaks like adjusting the services that start up and programs like tunexp here. Guides available at www.tweaktown.com.

These will all help speed up ur laptop.

 

Good choice. Rarely is the processor upgrade worthwhile, unless you've got a lead on a really cheap chip. For people with the coreduo series processors, the options are a little better and therefore it is more feasible. Adding a faster HD or memor is the best way to go, but as mentioned, tweaks to minimise unnecessary software probably have a similar impact.

Good luck

 

Again, you should remember that the main bottleneck for gaming is first the GPU and then the RAM.