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    Upgradeing from Amd m300 to Amd m600?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Davidvin2387, Jun 19, 2010.

  1. Davidvin2387

    Davidvin2387 Newbie

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    I am curious and will be trying this soon. I have the gateway nv5390 and all of the gateway nv 53 are all the same except that the processors coem in three differnt types and optoinal blu ray. I am gussing that i can swap this cpu with out any problems. Sockets and voltage are exactly the same. differnce is l2 cache is higher on the m600 and system bus and frequence is upped by 400hz from 2.0 to 2.4 Ghz. oh and also the fbs is increased to 800 mhz from 667.

    So does anyone see anything wrong with this? What could go wrong? and also how big of a differnce will i see with the 2mb L2 cache Vs. the 1mb L2 i have right now??
     
    Davidvin2387, Jun 19, 2010
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    abaddon4180 Notebook Virtuoso

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    If the sockets and power designs are the same and a version of your notebook is available with the M600 I don't see why it wouldn't work.
     
    abaddon4180, Jun 19, 2010
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Probably not much at all unless you're running the CPU at full load, even then it'll be small. SSD is probably a better option if you're looking for a performance bump.
     
    ZaZ, Jun 20, 2010
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