Best CPU in an HDX16t?

Curious - I have an HDX16t now with a P8400. Assuming the CPU is user-upgradeable, what is the fastest/best CPU I can put in it? Are quad-cores out of the question? If I'm stuck with the CPUs HP offers with the unit, then the fastest would be a T9600, right?

Thanks for your time.

 

I can say that an x9100 would be the best CPU you could put in there. I am not sure if the BIOS would support quads, but its probably too risky to find out. And if you do get a T9600 equivalent, get the P9500.

 

Thanks a lot for the advice. Any particular reason why the P9500 > T9600?

 

If I can find the HP animated service manual, like the ones for the DV9000 series, I'd replace my CPU. I happen to have a spare T9500 I'd like to use.

 

The P95 is newer and has a newer instruction set, more transistors, etc. so it should be faster, and perhaps a little cheaper. Also, it only uses 25 watts of power rather than 35 so it should be cooler and save more electricity.

 

To be truthful that’s a million dollar question which I would like to know the answer to 100%, because I just briefly went through an article where I noticed that quads had a compatible Socket the P 478. If you look at these 2, Review Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn CPUs and Review of the Intel Core 2 Quad Notebook CPUs especially the pic’s of the CPU-Z you’ll see that they show 3 generations of processors unfortunately the centrino 2 is not represented, but what are there are all using the same Socket P 478, we do know that the centrino 2 uses this socket as well.

I‘d say it is possible looking that those reviews (but I could be wrong) the only problem I can think of can best be explained like this; if you take a Ferrari motor and put it in a Honda Civic it will go fast, but will it perform as good as if it was in a Ferrari? Meaning; will laptops designed for quads get the best out of a quad rather than ones designed for dual core processors?

Reason for thinking this is, I had a DV9500 and I upgraded it to a T9300 , it did run faster, but one of the laptops here is a DV9700 which was released with a T9300 and I feel it performed better over all even though the two had near the same components.

 

I would imagine that it would support a quad core, as HP had the ability to configure it with a quad core processor for a while on it's site...