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    Toshiba Portege 3500 Cpu upgrade?!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Sproggen, Oct 18, 2005.

  1. Sproggen

    Sproggen Newbie

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    Bonjour

    I have a Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet computer it is 12.1", it has (at the moment) 256mb of ram, soon to be 1gb. It has a 40Gb Hard-drive and a Pentium III-M 1333mhz-796mhz cpu.

    I have newly recieved this machine....and i am hoping to maximise its speed . It will have 1gb of ram, an 80gb fujitsu hard-drive and im hoping.... new cpu!

    I was just wondering if it is soldered or not...if so i was told that a new motherboard compatible with it would work,(that and a few bios upgrades) or if there is no hope at all, what is the best way to maximise its performance?????

    Please help me...
    Sproggen
     
    Sproggen, Oct 18, 2005
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    It certainly is possible to upgrade your CPU, but I'd advise against it. You have one of the fastest P3-M's that was avaliable, so you can't go more than maybe one hundred megahertz higher - not enough to make any sort of difference.

    The only CPU you could upgrade to would be a P3-M, as anything else goes in a different socket. And, it's not possible to upgrade your motherboard because a mobo for a notebook is made specifically for that notebook, and no other's will fit.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Oct 18, 2005
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