qx9300 upgrade for HP Pavilion HDX9000T CTO Notebook PC??

I have an HP Pavilion HDX9000T CTO Notebook PC. It is a large notebook (20.1" screen). It has a socket cpu so you can upgrade it. I currently have a T9300 in it. I am being offered the choices of an X9000, an X7900, and an X7800. Few questions:

-The list of upgrade cpus came from a tech support guy reading from a manual that was created before the qx9300 came out. I know nothing of the qx9300 except that it is a quad processor. Can I use it to upgrade my machine? Is it socket/pin compatible? My notebook evidently has the power to run it. Any BIOS problems known?

-If I can't, and want to upgrade to the X9000/7900/7800, is it worth it? What do I get for the upgrade besides speed? Do any of them support hyperthreading?

-MMT

 

Quad core won't work. Neither will any proc with 1066MHz FSB. None of the above support hyperthreading either. They're incompatible since motherboard doesn't support above 800MHz. What are your uses for the CPU? CPU upgrades rarely make much difference except for 3D graphic work/modeling and mathematical calculations.

 

Welcome to nbr,

From those options, you will not see much of a performance difference between the T9300 you have and the X7800/X7900.
If you were to upgrade the processor, your best bet is the X9000 at 3.0Ghz.
However do not just upgrade your processor for no reason. A processor upgrade will only increase system performance if you are currently pushing 100% cpu usage on your T9300.
If your T9300 never uses 100% cpu usage than there is no need to upgrade the processor.

As Sgogeta4 mentioned, the quad core processor will not work in your notebook

K-TRON

 

Don't bother upgrading. You can't overclock the x9000 and $400+ for 300MHz isn't a good deal.

I'd take that money and get an SSD, that's my next upgrade.

 

Judging from the many downsides of your upgrade choice, I would say it isn't very cost effective. Better to save the money for something better.

 

Thanks for all the replies! Appreciated.

So no quad core or core-duo hyperthread exists for the system then?

Re: uses for the CPU--nothing unusual. Having shelled out $3K for the system, and hoping Windows 7 actually exploits multi-core, I was (perhaps naively) hoping that I could get a quad core that would handle multitasking faster. Maybe not....

 

Your systems stock specs are more than enough to handle anything that is being thrown at it. It is a good machine

cheers ...

 

The main multitasking bottleneck is going to be harddrive speed. Notice, I have the same machine.

 

Hey all, new here. I have the HDX9000 too. Mine has the T7700 in it, and I was wondering if it is upgradeable. Does the smaller (45nm) architecture run on my system? It's 65nm, 2.4GHz, 800MHz fsb.

 

There'd really be no point, you can only upgrade to the 800FSB dual cores. You would be spending $300+ for a 5% performance increase and slightly better power usage.

Just undervolt what you have.

 

I was afraid some one would say that. When I look at BIOS there is no option for vcore or clocking anything, just info.

 

How about video card upgrade? Don't know if that is possible, I seem to find mixed results on this. Currenty have the ATI 2600 HD in it with 256MB.

 

you know there are other ways to overclock or under/overvolt.
look at the undervolting thread.

you can use setfsb or clockgen to overclock or a PLL pinmod.