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    Upgrading an HP Pavilion dv9000z

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jgvasa, Nov 23, 2006.

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    Technically, the processor is upgradable. See the HP service guide. The problem is that you'll have to nearly completely disassemble the notebook to get to the CPU socket and that's risky. Still, sometime next year when the 65nm CPUs are out and plentiful I may give it a shot.

    You're stuck with the GPU though.
     
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    Would this still stay if I had the 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600 as a card, as it is not integrated? Thanks
     
    jgvasa, Nov 26, 2006
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    Even with dedicated GPUs, very few laptops are video upgradable as newer cards generally mean higher power draw and heat, and even when they are on cards and not the motherboard itself, they are usually proprietary cards that can change at any time.
     
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