can P7550 process be upgraded to highend processor

I was wondering can Intel Core2 Duo Processor P7550 2.26GHz can be upgraded later on to like a Intel Core2 Duo Processor T9550 2.66 GHz or even higher?

 

You could buy a new processor yes; as long as the motherboard accepts the new processor.

However, as processors are typically expensive to buy as single items people don't bother. Also, as time moves on and you are ready for the upgrade, there may be newer technology that is cheaper anyway.

In all of my laptops, I have never once bothered to upgrade the processor instead of simply buying a new notebook.

 

My personal opinion would be yes unless of course your CPU is soldered to the motherboard.
In any event, you should be able to go up to T9800 ... or P9700 if you want to.
But forget about the extreme editions of core2duo's as they are simply not worth the premium price and the quad core cpu I do not think you will be able to put into your notebook unless your laptop's cpu socket is configured properly to support a quad.

Switching from 2.26Ghz to 2.66 doesn't seem like a high gain to me.
What exactly will you be using the cpu for?
For gaming, I would leave the 2.26 one inside ... but if you are running some heavy calculation type programs ... then switching to T9800 or P9700 would be better.

 

yah a little bit of gaming not hard core gaming i was looking up intel it said that the t9950 wasn't embedded and i think the p7550 dose the embedded have to do with soldered?

 

For the vast majority of notebooks the processor will not be soldered. The "embedded" on the Intel sheets often is talking about parts of the processor architecture rather than it actually being soldered into place.

 

thank you guys so much i want to upgrade the processor when the prices of the higher end processor goes down or wait for a better faster processor to come out that will make a difference in the performance. do you think the p7550 can handle decent gaming such as cs?

 

Gaming relies heavily on the GPU rather than the CPU. For the vast majority of games the processor you have now is fine, and upgrading will have marginal impact if any.

The way I explain it is like so.

Imagine typing this sentence. You type it one letter after the other, in sequence. This is how your processor works. It types each letter one after the other, but very quickly. Now imagine if all the letters could be typed at the same time. This is how your GPU works. It takes longer to type all of them in one go than it does for your CPU to type each one, but if it was a long sentence then the GPU would do it faster.

Now take that and transfer it into a gaming environment.

Drawing the images to your screen needs to happen all at once. This is the job of your GPU. Now let's say you are playing Crysis, and you shoot a barrel. Your CPU will determine where that barrel travels to. However your GPU has the harder job as it needs to render the barrel at each movement that it makes, taking into consideration lighting and shadows etc.

In gaming there is typically much much more to render (the GPUs domain), than there is work for the CPU.

So unless you have no GPU, or an incredibly weak one, the bottleneck is not going to be your CPU.

Now going forward the CPU might become more of a bottleneck. For example there are some games out that require a minimum of a core 2 duo 1.86GHz. However, your CPU is above that anyway. In the coming years I suspect CPU requirements will go up; but they typically go up slower than GPU requirements.

Hope that helps.

 

thank you!! made my day I haven't ordered the laptop yet i will soon but it will have 512MB NVIDIA GeForce G 105M, i hope this gpu does the trick. one more question i want to know if i should get the
Wireless-G Card with Bluetooth or
Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card with Bluetooth ? or it doesn't really matter?

 

Your GPU is gonna definitely be the bottleneck. It's probably the slowest (or one of the slowest) of the current nVidia line up. If you use wireless or plan on getting a new router, might as well upgrade to N. If you plan on using Bluetooth (ie. wireless Bluetooth headphones or mouse) then get that too.

 

lol well i cant choose a higher end gpu for a hp dv4t, if there was a better gpu offered than i would choose that option. do you know if the gpu will be soldered? or do you know if i can upgrade it later on?

 

You can't upgrade the GPU because it is soldered.

 

well that sucks thank you everyone for answering my questions in such a short notice thanks alot

 

The 105m is still plenty to play cs with.

A word of advice, try not to pay attention to the MB memory with the GPU. It's annoying how manufacturers make such a fuss over it, but it's less important than you think.

Unfortunately, whilst it will be enough to play cs, you'll find it tough going on any new games. It will be able to play crysis, but at the lowest settings. The problem with that card is that it only has a 64bit bus. What this means is that only so much information can pass through to it at a time. A wider bus is a must for gaming.

I guess it depends on how much gaming you plan to do and how important the image quality is to you as to whether this would be suitable. That machine is a 14" machine? Sorry, I can't remember; but if it is then you're going to struggle to get amazingly good graphics to be honest. Probably something like a 9600M or a g 150M will be the best you can try to look for; though on this I may very well be incorrect.

 

icic thank you for the information, but yes it is a 14" screen i've read many posts about the graphic, so far i haven't read much about any complaints about the graphic card, but i dont know if those people are really into the graphic details like most high end gamers. I wish HP would give us the option to install a 9600m or a 150m unfortunately they are only available for the 16" and 18". I only wanted a 14" so that its easy to carry around for school and play some games here and there. I hope that buying this laptop wont be a regret

 

Consider answering the FAQ if you need assistance in choosing a notebook, because it really depends on your need. For example, the best GPU in a 14" is in the Asus N81 w/ HD 4650, but I'm not sure how good the battery life is (though it would definitely be lower compared to a system with a G 105M due to the lower power consumption). But if you need battery life over GPU power, then it might not be such a good notebook for you.

 

yah i understand thanks well i hope the 30% coupon for hp laptop come out soon cant wait to get this laptop

 

Yes but most likely not the new quad cores.

 

I love when someone comes to the gun fight when all the bullets are already spent