Upgrade the CPU of notebook Asus F52q

Hi, I have a friend who wants to upgrade the CPU of notebook Asus F52q,
mounts an Intel Pentium T4200 Penryn-1M, 2000MHz 45Nm, Platform 20/h-80h socket 479, Intel Bus AGTL+ 800mhz, microcode A0Bh,
RAM DDR2-800,
North Brige Intel Cantiga GL40, FSB 667Mhz.
South Bridge Intel 82801IM ICH9M,
ID Motherboard, B03 F52Q (0204a),
That compatible processors do you recommend? Thank you.

 

That laptop officially supported a Core 2 Duo T6600 so you can upgrade to at least that and not have to worry about BIOS support and power/heat issues.

http://www.lapspecs.com/detail/asus+f52q

You may be able to use a faster socket P CPU like a T9900 or even an extreme series X9000. There are no guarantees that these are supported in the BIOS though and some may run too hot and require too much power than your laptop can handle.

 

See:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=997&cmp[]=1399

And for a maximum of less than 10% single core improvement and just over 20% improvement for multithreaded raw performance 'scores', I would not be doing this upgrade even with a 'free' cpu.

Sell/give the system away as is (i.e. 'working') and buy a newer platform which will give you a 200% or higher performance jump instead.

Good luck.

 

Thanks so much. I thought of suggesting a CPU as, T4500 - T8300 - T9300 - T9500, because theT4200 is always under stress with the use of Windows 7 and the various programs that use, Bye!

 

PS:
The boy is a student who does not want to spend much money but want to improve only a little his old laptop to make it more streamlined and easy to use. I recommend everyone to upgrade the hard drive with a solid-state "SSD", that allows significant performance improvements in almost all areas and functionality of the computer. Unfortunately SSDs still cost a lot.

 

@gigip T9300/T9500 or nothing, I believe. T4500 is too slow, too - thanks to small cache. And upgrade OS to 8.1, or better 10 - they boot and launch programs faster, while 7 is somewhat sluggish even with SSD.

 

Thank you all for your suggestions, goodbye.