Upgrade Dell Inspiron 1525 to t8300

I'd like the new penryn on my next purchase, but Dell doesn't yet offer it on the inspiron 1525, so I'm thinking of upgrading to the t8300 as soon as I get it.

There's no question that it should work if I were upgrading from say, a t7250, with a FSB of 800. But, since I'm planning on ripping out the processor as soon as I get it, I'm thinking of buying the cheapest offering, a celeron 540, which has a FSB of 533. Now, on Intel's page, it notes that the 965GM has a 533 and 800MHz speed.

I confirmed with dell support that the 1525 configured with celeron has a 965GM chipset, but they were not too helpful in confirming with me that the FSB on that offering is limited by the chipset rather than the processor itself.

Anyway, I guess the question is, if I buy a celeron 540 configured 1525, will the FSB of the motherboard be 533 or 800?

 

A GM965 (letters go in front of the #'s with this chipset family) will adjust FSB based on CPU, so you will be fine.

 

Is possible to put a C2D T7200 in this model?

 

no, you cannot put a T7200 in your system.
If your system has a spcket P processor, (aka a 7250, T7100, T7300, T7500, T7700, T7800, T8100, T8300, and so forth) you cannot put a socket M T7200 in there.
They are different sockets.

If you have a T7200 and want to sell it to afford a new cpu, PM Me I am interested in the processor.

K-TRON

 

Thanks for the help. I dont have this processor, I'm interested to buy a Inspiron 1525 with a Celeron processor and put it, because a friend is selling it with a good price.
Here in Brazil the price of Inspiron with a C2D is very high.

Regards.