Upgrading from Intel T7700 to T9300?

Hi.
I JUST pirchased a band new sony vaio cr with the following spcs:

Component: WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n w/Integrated Bluetooth®
Component: Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Component: LCD 14.1" WXGA+ (XBRITE-EC0™)
Component: SuperMulti DVD+/-R DL / DVD+/-RW / DVD-RAM Drive
Component: 200 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive
Component: 2 GB DDR-SDRAM (DDR2-667, 1 GBx2)
Component: Indigo Blue
Component: Microsoft Windows Vista Business
Component: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7700 (2.4GHz)
Component: Norton Internet Security 2007 (60 Day Trial)
Component: QuickBooks Basic
Component: Video Standard
Component: Photo Standard
Component: Microsoft Office 2007 Home/Student
Component: Engraving
Component: Extended Battery (BPL9) Bonus Upgrade!

The ONLY reason other than the fact that sont is a reputable company , that i bought a sony laptop is b.c of thier trade-in program.. i traded in my old beat up, missing keys, cracked screen, etc etc gateway and got a $300 credit!

ANYWAY my laptop is still in shpping and I JUST discovered this god damn new T8300 processor! Seesm like the main diff is in the cache.

MY QUESTION IS, is the older T7700 replaceable if i want to replace it with the 2.5 ghz T9300(maybe somtime in the future)? I thought i had bought the newest in technology =(

Is it much of a big difference between T7700 to T9300?

My main laptop use is for uing DJ software namely SERATO SCRATCH LIVE and ofcourse, school work.

Also, while im at it, is it possible to replace the 5400rpm SATA 200gb with a 7200 rpm 250gb+ hd?(also somtime in the future)

THANKS!

 

You should be able to replace the T7700 with the T9300 as long as your laptop's BIOS supports the T9300.

That being said, it's probably not a big difference between the T7700 and the T9300.

You will also be able to upgrade the harddrive.

 

Thanks! would u say the hard drive is user replaceable? and like does for example a 7200 rpm create more heat if u replace it in place of a 5400 rpm hd? what if the laptop wasn't designed for excessive heat and stuff? what are possible effects of installing a bigger and faster hd?(ie power drain)

THANKS

 

Hitachi's new 7K200 series drives fit in the same power range as most 5400rpm drives. The 7k200's run pretty cool, I dont know how hot they will run in your system, because my 2 7K200's have a fan cooling them. The processor you should not even bother upgrading the T7700 is plenty fast for anyone. The harddrive is always the slowest component of the system, so the most performance will be noticed by upgrading the harddrive. As far as upgrading goes, Hitachi should be releasing a 7K300 series for notebooks by Qtr3 or 4, so you should stick with your 5400rpm drive until Hitachi releases an even faster third generation of notebook drives.

K-TRON

 

There's no reason to spend $300 on a new processor for a minimal performance upgrade. KEep the T7700. It's FINE.

 

An extra 100MHz and another 2MB of L2 cache? I have to agree with the above, why upgrade? The T7700 is plenty fast enough.

 

can you do something like this for an HP DV6000t?
I bought it in February of 2008?
I got T7200.

 

Alright great! Thank you guys been great help! No upgrading proccessor!

Hey K-tron, how much faster is faster than 7200 rpm? My main concern is heat...cuz heat is bad in anycase and i wouldnt want to exchange a major component such as a hd and then maybe the laptop cant handle the heat and fricikn fry the motherboard or somthing! Im sure batterry life will be drained but its ok i have the 9 cell

Anyone know anything about faster internal hard drives heat ommision??

THANKS!

 

You bought in February of this year?

Anyways, the T7200 is Socket M. The best thing you'll be able to get is a T7600. You won't be able to use Penryn chips.

 

not worth it to pay big bucks for an upgrade from a t7200 to a t7600... they are all really similar and you will basically have to pay for your processor again for basically no difference in power.

 

Sorry to kind of hi-jack, but he has got his answer, could I upgrade my T7500 to penryn?

 

Refer to the processor compatibility guide in my sig.

If your BIOS supports it, yes.

 

Back to the future! Sorry, I just had to say that.

 

As far as I see, no BIOS fix will fix if the power regulator onboard cannot be adapted to the new CPU power needs. It is likely for builders to rebuild their new notebooks with the new power management on them. These models will for the newxt few months be sold and known as Santa Rosa "refreshed". The new or next generation mobile is gonna' be the P35 mobile platform code named Montevina with support for then new DDR3 and Wi-Fi N. Penryn mobiles will fit in the same sockets but will call for different power handling.

Please corect me me if somebody finds out otherwise.