single core cpu to core 2 duo?

i have just been given a old laptop with 3gb ram and 250g hdd with a slow c900 cpu/gl40 chipset.

im wondering would it run if i pulled out the single core cpu and replaced it with a core 2 duo??.

i have just compared it with a t8300 and a t9300. looks pretty much the same to a un-trained eye.

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any thoughts??

 

First off we need a make and model to know whether or not you can even fit or use core 2 duo processor in the socket or if the board bios recognizes the processors. It is not a simple as take out and put in you have to know more details to know if it will work or not before swapping processors.

 

its a advent roma c900 / (I50IL1) laptop

LAPTOP MOTHERBOARD ADVENT P/N 82GI50120-10DIX 37GI41100-10 FULLY WORKING TESTED | eBay

 

What does the socket marking say for what processor type?

 

mPGA478MN
SOCKET

 

Looks like that is a socket P, same 478 pins as socket M but not compatible with Socket M due to one pin being offset differently (for obvious reasons).

Look under socket M: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_M

and it points to that as being socket P: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_P

and that is compatible with Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad.

 

so why would a manufacturer fit a single core if a Core 2 Duo is compatible....as in my case.
just picking your brains.

 

To keep costs down and/or meet a price point.

It sounds like your laptop came with a Celeron processor and was probably a low-end budget laptop. I'd bet it also came with minimal memory and hard drive, possibly even a smaller screen. The manufacturer likely also built more premium laptops using the exact same motherboard, but with a C2D CPU and better RAM/disk/LCD.

Acer is famous for doing this with the Aspire line vs. the TravelMate line.

 

The manual of the I50IL says at the end the following:

Maybe later bios versions, if there are any?, did even more?

 

If the laptop supports Penryn, slap in a T9600.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mobile-Inte...G9F-/161102702773?pt=CPUs&hash=item25827828b5

Only 37$. 2.8ghz of Solid processing power.

Also, a few months ago, i bought a new laptop. Went from a Single-core celeron to a quad-core i7. I was blown away.

 

Unreal:thumbup:
And its only because of great forums like this people find out about it.
I'll pop back with my findings.
Many thank for everybodys help

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I went from Core2Duo (Merom) to Sandy Bridge i7 two years ago. It was a change, but not such a shattering experience as yours. Going from a classic LCD screen to a 1080p LED backlight screen - welll, that blew me away.

After having it lying there two years, I started using QuickSync a couple of weeks ago, when HandBrake adopted it. Speedy!

 

If Core 2 Duo to Sandy i7 didn't blow you away, then you must do nothing more than browse the web and watch videos because I saw that as night and day. Plus it's four very fast cores vs. two older architecture and slower cores.

 

To be honest, i can't tell the difference between my dual-core desktop nehalem i3 and my mobile quad-core haswell i7. And i mostly use my computers for schoolwork, art and video games.

 

With a Merom and a Go 7600M, and now with 540M my computers are not really gamer beasts. That aside, when I said it wasn't a *shocking* difference I didn't imply there was none at all. The display, now, that remains a radical difference right smack in my face every day.

 

I have an old HP Compaq 8710w mobile workstation from 2008 with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo T7300 and Quadro FX 1600M (GeForce 8700M GT). There's some cracks in the chassis and it's taken a lot of abuse over the years, plus the GPU was replaced once due to the infamous Nvidia solder defect, but it still works fine to this day. For Web browsing, watching videos, and productivity it feels no slower than my current Y500 and is really only limited by the slow mechanical hard drive. It can still play less-demanding games such as TF2 and LoL fine at high settings.

I've used a lot of CPU's over the years and it was amazing when I went from a slow single-core to a fast dual-core, in this case it was from a Pentium 4 Northwood to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+. Speaking of which, this was definitely the biggest jump in PC performance I ever experienced. Everything was much faster--games, applications, Windows, you name it--plus for the first time I could truly multi-task without experiencing system slowdowns. No upgrades since have ever come close and I was much less impressed when I upgraded to a quad-core.