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    CPU Upgrade for HP ze4900

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bnorma01, Oct 19, 2007.

  1. bnorma01

    bnorma01 Newbie

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    I have HP Pavillion ze4904us that has Celeron M 1.3. I was wondering if anyone has upgraded this model or any of the ze4900's to the Pentium M like the 755 which runs at 2.0 Ghz. The machine runs pretty good now that I added more memory. I have 1.25 gigabytes and might go to 2 but thus far I think the 1.25 is OK. Last year hard drive went so I went to larger faster drive which helped as well. Please advise.
     
    bnorma01, Oct 19, 2007
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    kickace Notebook Deity

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    kickace, Oct 19, 2007
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  3. JM

    JM Mr. Misanthrope NBR Reviewer

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    You'll see a bigger performance jump with 2GB of RAM compared to a processor upgrade, unless you plan on encoding video or audio.

    Also, the RAM upgrade will be cheaper than a processor upgrade.
     
    JM, Oct 19, 2007
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    jack53 Dell XPS 9360 i7 Lover!

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    Plus a memory upgrade is a whole lot easier to do than a cpu upgrade! ;)
     
    jack53, Oct 19, 2007
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    Desai82 Notebook Guru

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    I have a ze4900 with intel celeron 1.8 ghz
    i want to put in a pentium 4 2.8 ghz from a broken laptop
    Is this feasible?
     
    Desai82, Jun 3, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Download CPU-z and find out what chipset
     
    flipfire, Jun 4, 2008
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    davsan38 Newbie

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    I saw this posting from last year and was wondering if you can in fact upgrade the ze490 to 2GB memory. HP support sait it can only support 1GB and they said you cannot upgrade the processor which I am also wanting to do. I want to go to at least a Pentium M 1.7 or 1.8. Anyone know which is correct? Thanks,
     
    davsan38, Jun 8, 2008
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