upgrade cpu in laptop

I have a hp pavilion dv6929nr with the intel core 2 duo t5750 2.0 socket p and would like to know if a 2 duo t9600 2.8 socket p would work in it? if you can help thank you

 

No, your laptop has the GM965 chipset, which supports up to FSB 800 mhz intel chips. The t9600 is a FSB 1066 chip, it will not work in your system. best you can go in your system is likely the T9500, which is FSB 800 mhz and socket P or intel X9000 which is also fsb 800 mhz and socket P

 

As another poster replied you can only use CPU with fsb of 800. That would mean you can only go up to T9500 but in your case I would go with T8100 as the higher CPU won't give you any more benefits. And the T8100 cost alot less then T8300,T9300,T9500. That would be the much as your can upgrade your CPU to.

 

thank you it sounds like a plan

 

StormJumper: Your advice is to upgrade the 2.0GHz processor to a 2.1GHz. Erm... Why? If he can benefit from more GHz then why not the T9500?

 

consider the t9300 and t9500 have 6mb cache not sure about the others.

 

The T8x00 has only 3MB cache.

 

Money....I doubt the T9500 would give much increase in computing as that is a older laptop 2008. They should use that money and get more Ram or bigger HDD that would benefit them more.

 

2.6 GHz would not make a huge difference but it would show, although the bigger performance gap would be to replace the HDD; just not with a "bigger" one, but rather, a SSD.

 

There's no noticeable real-world performance difference between Core 2 Duos with 3MB and 6MB of cache.

OP: open the Task Manager in Windows while you're working on the computer, and check the CPU graph every couple minutes. You'll benefit from a CPU upgrade if it spikes to 90%+ a lot or spends the majority of its time over 80% usage.
Either way I doubt the economic sense of upgrading the CPU, unless it's like $50; getting an SSD as Prostar Computer noted is an excellent idea. There's almost no disadvantage doing that as you can transfer the SSD to your next notebook (assuming the storage drive in your next notebook is user-upgradeable), unlike the CPU.

 

That would be good but if that is the main storage drive they will need to make sure future storage there is room to store on the SSD this is where HDD will save more and cost less for them. If they go SSD they will need to have a external portable drive to offload their data/files in-case the main storage goes out. And since this laptop only has one bay for SSD or HDD unlike bigger laptop that has two bays how much they plan to save on the SSD or HDD would determine how large the drive storage they need. I went on the premise that going HDD would give them the most space should they find they need it. Until SSD price/bytes matches HDD/bytes they will pay a preminum for that storage..

 

the premium is paid not for that type of storage, but rather for the vastly increased performance. don't underestimate that point. an SSD could make this PC "feel" like it underwent a CPU upgrade to the OP. the icing is that it can also be used in OP's new machine when he decides to upgrade.

 

Don't know if you ever did upgrade, but I can say that HP DV6 with your chipset should support T9600 (as far as you have socket P (478) ). I successfully upgraded from T6600 to T9600. I did upgrade my Bios though, and that may help when upgrading processor.

 

For that old of a laptop I don't think they should have to go more then T8300 any higher and I doubt they get much back in return for performance much since the motherboard is of older generation to begin with they should spend the money for larger HDD or RAM to go to 4gb that would do more for their computing needs as well as update their BIOS to the last update. Also which DV6 model are you talking about? You have to give more model number to know what your talking about there are DV6xxxxx and DV6-12xxxx model of which are two different family lines so one need to be more precise when talking about model numbers....

 

i have a similar scenario. ive got an hp dv5-1225 with a stock amd ql62 2.0ghz socket s1g2. chip died so i want to upgrade to an amd zm86 2.4 ghz same socket s1g2. my only hesitation is that my ql62 runs with ddr2-667 ram and the zm 86 is compatible with ddr2-800. if i upgrade will my pc still run normal or would i need to upgrade my ram aswell? thanks

 

^ This. The best "upgrade" you can do for just about any machine is to get an SSD.

Getting a slightly faster CPU, or more RAM, will not have significant real-world impact, as long as you're still stuck using a mechanical HDD.

If you want an idea of what an SSD upgrade would do for your machine, check out some of the videos in my signature. Some of those videos were run specifically on a Dell XPS M1330 from 2007 (Core 2 Duo CPU), to give you an idea of what an SSD upgrade would do for your specific situation.

 

ssds would be a great idea if they werent 200$+ for a 512. i need a chip for my pc and i can get a zm86 for about 30$. i just wanted to make sure it would work for my system. down the road it might make more sense for a system with ssd but at the moment i just wanna get my system up again. mobile devices are great but still nowhere as useful

 

Trust me... upgrading a CPU from 2.0Ghz to 2.4Ghz isn't going to make one bit of real-world performance difference. You can spend $30 on a CPU upgrade, but you're throwing your money away. Because that $30 won't make any real-world performance difference; and it can't be "carried over" to any new system.

Meanwhile, a 240GB SSD costs $110. It will give absolutely monumental performance gains. The best analogy I have is that upgrading from HDD --> SSD is like upgrading from a 56K dial-up modem to 50Mbps broadband. An SSD literally gives several orders of magnitude (10x - 100x performance boost) in performance gain, and will absolutely "feel" like a new computer.

Again, check out the videos in my signature to see what kind of difference it can make. In one video, I literally take a Core 2 Duo laptop from 2007, using an SSD manufactured in 2010, and have it boot Windows + 27 applications in about 60 seconds. That is only because there is an SSD in that machine. Even the fastest laptop manufactured in 2015 will not be able to do that, as long as it is being held back by a mechanical HDD.

 

While I agree an SSD is a great upgrade, it sounds like the current CPU is dead, so the new CPU will at least restore the notebook to a functional state (assuming it's compatible), which would certainly be a 'noticeable' difference.

 

it is indeed dead. cpu needs replaced. the upgrade im looking at is compatible in every sense my only worry with it is that it supports ddr2-800 and im running ddr2-667. if i did upgrade would it work with the current ram im using and run at the 667 frequency or just not at all? ? also if i was to one day upgrade to ssd can i integrate it into my mobo or it would take place in my sata plug?

 

When ti says the CPU supports DDR2-800 MHz, it means that the CPU supports any DDR2 with a frequency of 800 MHz or less, so yes it'll take the 667 MHZ DDR2 just fine.

 

beautiful... thanks everyone. i swear im not retarted just wanna make sure everythings good so i dont get any unexpected problems. when i do all the upgrading will i have to update bios? if so how do i update?