T9300 + PM45 (Montevina) Compatibility

As the title says, I've got a PM45 based notebook (DV7t-2080) which currently has a T6400 (Penryn 2M, 2.0ghz, 35Watt tdp)

The question is - will the PM45 chipset support the first generation penryn if i was to upgrade my cpu to T9300?

Any help is welcome.

P.S. The PM45 and my motherboard in particular seems to be able to handle the 800Mhz FSB correctly, since the current cpu (T6400) works @ 800Mhz fsb.

However, someone told me that the max multiplier on montevina is 10,5... 10,5x200 = 2100. Which is way too low. Is there a higher multiplier possible on PM45? Like x12,5? (200x12,5 = 2500)

 

it should work just fine

about multipliers... it's not true

 

Right, so the max multiplier does not really depend on the chipset, but on the cpu itself? Or does the chipset impose some limitations as well? The BIOS must surely be able to "allow" higher multi, right? x12, x12,5 etc, corresponding to T9300 for example 12,5x and T8300 12x

 

The multiplier depends on the processor, not the chipset. A normally functioning T9300 will always have a max multiplier of 12.5 and a normally functioning T8300 will always have a max multplier of 12. I say "max multiplier" as the chips typically lower their multipliers and therefore overall clock speed in order to save energy when idling.

The chipset should not impose any limitations on multipliers. Just FSB.

 

Thanks everyone for the helpful replies. Since the chipset is able to set fsb to 800mhz, then it should not be of any problem. (Providing it "reads" the fsb from the processor correctly, which im sure it will).