Toshiba Qosmio F20 UPGRADE

Hi guys , I have an Toshiba qosmio f20 , and wanted to do some upgrades,
current config:
intel pentium m 740 1.6Ghz
512mb ram
128mb vga
40gb hdd.

Up to now I have ordered 2gb's of ram (2x 1gb ddr2 533)
and Im planed to upgrade cpu also, what is the fastest processor for this laptop? and I would like to upgrade my vga also , this vga looks same as an 9300m gs , so I think Il be able to upgrade to a nice one.
Thanks for your help.

 

no help?
and how can I upgrade my go 6600 drivers to latest 296.10 ?

 

OK sucessfully installed nvidia 296.10 on geforece go 6600 , major fps increase , cod 4 with old driver: 30 avg , with 296.10 : 40 avg .
but I dont have the nvida control pannel or nvidia stuff.

 

Might get more help in the hardware subforum.
Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades
I'm unfamiliar with which CPU you can upgrade to, however the above subforum would probably know.

 

Hey can you move this thread to that section, thanks a lot.

 

The Pentium M CPU is so old I'd be surprised if you could find anything at a reasonable price (sub-$50). Quite frankly there are no good upgrade options for it as the best you can do is upgrade to another faster, but single-core, Pentium M.

A GPU upgrade is most likely not possible either. Very few laptops have modular GPUs that can be swapped out and I doubt this computer is one of them. EDIT: It does look like it might be an MXM II laptop but again, you are going to be severely limited in terms of what would be a worthy upgrade (slow processor is going to bottleneck more powerful GPUs). Do you plan on playing any games? Otherwise you really don't need a new GPU.

The RAM and hard drive are really the only things you can upgrade. 2GB of RAM was a good idea, but if you can find 2x 2GB for cheap that might be the better option (particularly if you plan on using this thing for anything more than basic office tasks).

A hard drive upgrade will also be limited. According to the specs for the F20 it does not even use SATA hard drives, which is going to lock you out of most of the market . These are just about the only options you have, and none of them are fairly priced (you will not be able to use it on another laptop going forward).

 

IIRC Pentium M laptops are all PATA, which isn't really worth upgrading to, there aren't any decent PATA SSDs, and they are overpriced (Runcore are good, but $$$). A faster Pentium M also wouldn't really do much good. Your best bet is to purchase a new notebook, even the most basic Sandy Bridge notebook would easily outclass your current notebook.

 

I played CoD 4 fluently on a 17" Alienware with a 2.26GHz Pentium M and Go 6600.

 

YO my main intension was to increase some fps in cod 4 ,
its works like charm now, without any upgrades , I get around 44 fps,
with all turned off and resolution 1280*800 .
can you imagine that I played cod mw3 in this
the single player didnt work, it gets stuck when loading, but multiplayer did
i got fps around 25 avg , it was playable , and remember this was with 512mb ram so with 2gb there should be an improvement , cod depends ram mostly, i think so.

but before 2 months this had an problem , didnt turn on, but after doing several tries, its working like a beast, if you have a gefore go 6600 please update to latest 296.10 , major fps increase. when this was not working I parted out , and found it has a gpu like 9300gs but didnt have an 9300 at that time, I have seen this on my old acer 6930G laptop,
so where can I find a better harddisk otherthan egg, they dont ship international.

 

You may be able to upgrade the CPU to CoreDuo (based on Yonah core). It all depends on the chipset in Your laptop and BIOS compatibility.

 

Pentium M's cannot be upgraded to Core Duo's...1 pin makes the Core Duo electrically incompatible with Socket 479.

 

I stand corrected then +rep

 

Fastest CPU is the Pentium M 780 (2.26GHz, 533MHz FSB).

Alternatively, you could purchase a lower clocked Pentium M with 400MHz FSB and do the Pentium M pinmod and jolt it up to 533MHz. For instance Pentium M 745 1.8GHz and pinmod it up to 2.4GHz, or 1.7GHz up to 2.26GHz. Not guaranteed to work, but could be a fun little project.

 

omg does the pin mod work like that.
I have ordered an 760 2.0Ghz 2MB 533 , 2GB ram, both for 8$ is it cheap?

 

OH wait just saw the pin mod thing, omg my processor could do 2.13 or more?
It has a intel pentium M 740 1.6 .

 

You can only pinmod a Pentium M CPU with 400MHz FSB. Any model that ends in zero (e.g 740, 760) can't be pinmodded.

 

omg thats a bad news.,
so my only solution is to buy the intel pentium M 760 + 2gb ddr2 for = 8$ .

 

Yeah, $8 is okay, I guess.

 

THANks dude/.