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    upgrading a HP pavilion dv2058ea

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by drift247, Oct 3, 2008.

  1. drift247

    drift247 Newbie

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    hi newbie here was wonder what sort of upgrades can be done on a hp dv2058ea. my curent specs are

    Intel Core Duo T2300E / 1.66 GHz, 2GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200, 120GB HD with WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION SP3

    thanks for the help
     
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    • CPU is upgradeable to any Socket M Core 2 Duo, depending upon BIOS Support. (Do you run intensive tasks ?)
    • 2GB RAM is enough for XP, and is listed as Max by HP.
    • GPUs are soldered on HPs, and are not upgradeable.
    • Is the HDD Serial ATA ? If so, then you can go for any of the 320GB 7200RPM HDDs, which are super cheap atm.
     
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    drift247 Newbie

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    thanks for the advice, mainly want to upgrade the cpu cause will be using cad software and feel that that my laptop needs a bit of a boost and the HD my replace that later i think my is a SATA but need to check that. thats tho been a great help
     
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  4. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    HP doesn't list Core 2 Duo compatibilty in the BIOS update enhancements, so it'll be a gamble. (T5600/T7200/T7400 are options)

    Though a T2600/T2700 should work, since they belong to the same Core Duo family.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=209284

    To confirm if the HDD is SATA, go into Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers > Apart from the IDE channels, which driver is installed - Serial ATA or Ultra ATA ??
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Your laptop uses socket M, and the fastest processors you can upgrade to are the T5300, T7200, T7400 and T7600.

    The T7200 and T7400 are much better bang for the buck cpu's than the T7600

    To find out if the drive is Sata or IDE, you can either remove the drive to find out, or you can do it Andy's way, or you can run hdtune, and tell us the model number of the drive.

    K-TRON
     
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    drift247 Newbie

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    thanks for the advice andy and k-tron
     
    drift247, Oct 4, 2008
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