The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Sony Vaio VGN-FS570 CPU upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by kIILER, Jan 1, 2006.

  1. kIILER

    kIILER Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    my Vaio is almost out of warantee and so would like to upgrade the cpu from the 1.73 533 to a 2.0 400 cpu

    This would allow me to overclock it past 400 fsb

    I phoned Sony asking whether the bios would accept a faster cpu but they gave me the usual spiel about not giving out that info blah blah

    Anyone know?
     
    kIILER, Jan 1, 2006
    #1
  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    1,326
    Messages:
    7,137
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    The chipset supports 400MHz P-M's. So, It should work unless there is a wierd Sony BIOS limitation.
     
    miner, Jan 2, 2006
    #2
  3. badboy_77

    badboy_77 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    47
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    my buddy did the same thing cpu upgrade. had problems at first. he did a frsh install of everything and whola. worked perfect.
     
    badboy_77, Jun 22, 2006
    #3
  4. Iter

    Iter Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    465
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    If your current cpu is 533 front side bus, it should work with 2.0 533. Before do it, you have to update the BIOS if your model already come out a lastest version.
     
    Iter, Jun 23, 2006
    #4
  5. badboy_77

    badboy_77 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    47
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    i know this is a kind of late.

    i repleaced my m740 with a m725 (1.6ghz 100/400fsb) by doing the wire mod/trick

    after the mod the m725 was @ 2.13ghz 133/533fsb.

    i p/u the cpu for 53.00 plus a few buck s/h.

    i haven't done the voltage mod yet as system seems to be pretty stable under prime95.
     
    badboy_77, Dec 3, 2006
    #5