Santa Rose Chipset CPU upgrade/OC help

I have a Sony Vaio SZ60WN/C with a T7250 2Ghz CPU, i was wondering whats the best CPU i can have for my PC?

if its too much to upgrade then would be it be easier to do a small step OC?

 

Why do you want to upgrade it. I mean the T7250 is already fast and for every day use upgrading the CPU won't have any impact on the performance of your computer.

The best you can upgrade to is the T9300 and the T9500 if your BIOS support them.

 

I'm with naton, unless you are doing cpu intensive work such as rendering/photoediting/video editing, compiling, etc.
If the system is used for those reasons, than yes upgrading to a T9300/T9500/X9000 is a great choice.
If you are using the system for word/internet browsing, the upgrade will make it a little snappier but not much. If that is the case, then I would start with shutting off background processes to free up harddrive usage. The less running in the background the more resources are available for your system to run

K-TRON

 

Well, Im going to be doing Video Editing not anything heavy duty but edit them and add on different things so using the Adobe collection and Website Designing, Photoshop, some flash, and a bit of Gaming...games from 2006-2008 like NFS Most wanted, carbon thigns around there. and maybe some PS2 Emulator stuff.

 

The CPU as is already is bottlenecked by the GPU. You would most likely experience the biggest performance upgrade via a SSD and a memory upgrade IMHO. I'd pass on the CPU and spend that $$$ on a decent SSD, extra 2GB.

 

okay thanks for the advice! ill go with the 2GB upgrade for a total of 3 GB, as i dont have as much cash for an SSD right now since i need more capacity.

 

NFS Most Wanted is not that hard on the CPU it ran flawlessly on a Pentium IV mobile with ATI 7500 GPU.

 

NFS Most Wanted runs great with a DIY ViDock. Suggest spending your monies there rather than the CPU as you'll get much more FPS per buck that way. Consider too a SSD+HDD setup via optical bay caddy (see sig), if want faster bootup/app response.

 

the thing with DIY Vidock is that it defeats the purpose of having a mobile laptop as u need an external monitor... if ur going to use your laptop as a desktop , then it is a good option... otherwise , ur really better off buying a new laptop... any $1000 laptop now is going to be more powerful... u might as well save the 200-400 u spend on upgrading and instead sell your laptop and get a new one.

 

I'm assuming that you have Vista. Upgrading to Win 7 will make your laptop and Adobe CS faster. Downgrading to Win XP will make it even faster since the maximum that XP will use (including drivers, antivirus, plus most of the services) is less than 500MB. That would leave Adobe CS with at least 2.5Ghz.

I hate to admit it but I agree. If I want to use a ViDock, and Exernal 21"+ screen I may as well get a Desktop. At least with a Desktop I won't have to worry about heat related issues, poor CPU, and poor Graphics cards. Since any of those can be easily upgraded and at a fraction of the price of their laptop counterpart. With a desktop, if a fan/heatsink are not good enough you just replace them. We can't do that with a laptop.

nando4 I really like what you guys have done with the DIY Vidock project. What annoys me is that manufacturers cannot get their act together and agree on a standard laptop GPU format (for the card and the socket). Our life would be so much easiers if they sell their laptops' GPUs with the same format (MXM slot or something equivalent). Then it would be apt to us the users to use the default integrated GPU or spend more money and use a dedicated one....in particular that now most of the new released CPUs (intel and soon AMD) have integreted GPUs.

 

act is together ... its called money

 

It is nver going to get standard... due to outdated GPU's , ppl buy new laptops... manufacturers will earn more selling new laptops rather than new GPU's so don't expect it to happen... if u really want a replacement GPU , get a Clevo/Sager... they don't cost that much nowdays and even a $1600 Sager has a proper MXM slot...

 

I know that it won't happen, I mean that they won't opt for a standard format.

I wonder; does it cost that match to have a GPU in a dedicated board and not having it soldered on the motherboard?

 

it does cost more.. a $300 soldered GPU cost about $500 on the board...