can i upgrade my laptop to a INTEL T7700 2.4GHz?

Hey all, well i sure as hell found a great site, got so much useful info here. Well i got an asus f3 jp, spec are:

2gb ram
ati radeon x1700
core2duo 1.66ghz

I noticed that when i'm playing some games it sorta lags, so i was of upgrading my processor (would this help?) to a INTEL T7700 2.4GHz core2duo. Would this be compatable with my laptop and is this something that i can install myself? thanx in advanced

 

you cannot install any processors where x = odd number in t7x00. they are for the santa rosa platform and are not compatible with the older chipset.

 

The lag is probably related to the GPU more so than the CPU.

Dual core CPUs generally aren't known as bottlenecks these days.



And like Ejl said, no, you cannot upgrade to any of the latest Intel chips (Santa Rosa-based chips).

 

Jon-Michael is right in that the bottleneck is most likely your graphics card. What you can do to test that hypothesis is download FRAPS:
http://www.fraps.com/
During games it will show your current frames per second. 30FPS is the minimum you need to have smooth/playable gameplay. If you are not getting 30, then lower your settings until the vast majority of your framerates are above 30.

 

I think the highest you could get in that machine is a T7600 Core 2 Duo, but it'd probably melt your cooling. A T7200 might do well.

 

The T7600 should be fine, because it has the same TDP as the rest of the T7X00 range. However, a T7600 would probably be too expensive and the performance increase isn't massive. I agree, an upgrade to a T7200 would be a wiser choice.

 

so you can upgrade cpu in laptop?

 

Yes you can, but it is not going to improve your gaming performance.

 

Yes, its possible. However, its a difficult precedure for most notebooks, and with almost all manufacturers, it will void the warranty. The performance increase is also small, considering that money can be spent on more RAM and a faster hard disk, which would result in a much more noticible performance increase.

 

can my notebook 2ghz be upgradable to 2.4ghz ? it c2d

 

Which model of Core 2 Duo? If it's the Core 2 Duo T7250 or T7300 at 2.00 GHz, then yes, it can. If it's the Core 2 Duo T7200 at 2.00 GHz, then no, it cannot, because it is not part of the Santa Rosa line that the Core 2 Duo T7700 at 2.4 GHz is. If it's the T7200, the best you can upgrade to is the Core 2 Duo T7600 at 2.33 GHz.

 

You should start your own thead I would think instead of trying to resurrect a 5 month old one with your question.

You don't provide enough information to get a good answer.

 

if all the processors are core 2 duo, is the difference really noticable between 2.0ghz and 2.2ghz?

between 1.6 ghz and 2.0 ghz?
between 2.0ghz and 2.4ghz?

thanks guys, im helping a friend customize a T61 and we are not sure which processor to choose.

 

depends on what you do, I suppose. There are times extra cache will yield nice performance boost, sometimes not. Same with faster FSB/memory access. It really depends. For me, I would definitely weigh the pricing and then factor in a 7200rpm hard drive upgrade and get a nice balance from that.

 

ohh 800 FSB is standard right? oh and she has a 250 GB external so it it wont probably need a harddrive upgrade, but i heard that a 1.6ghz and a 2.0 ghz run the same pretty much because of the dual cores now