CPU upgrades in dv2500/6500

Will it possible to upgrade the processor in the dv2500/6500 if and when the next santa rosa processors (t7900, etc.) come out? Will it be very difficult?

 

Santa Rosa platform is already out. There is a new merom socket for SR called "Socket P". Since Santa Rosa is a mobo issue (new chips for drives and video etc, faster fsb etc) an upgrade via cpu repalcement won't get you to Santa Rosaville. Better to wait for Penryn/Nehalem and upgrade whole unit then

 

I understand that. I mean will it be easy to upgrade from say, the t7100, to the t7900 when it releases? Or to the t7700 when it gets cheaper?

 

I doubt that there would be any T7900 in the corrent 65nm Merom C2D's. Intel has already announced the X7800 extreme edition with stock speeds of 2.6GHz. So a T7900 in such a situation is unlikely. now, if you are asking abou the upcoming 45nm based Penryn Core 2's, then yes - an upgrade to these should be possible since they will still use the same chipset but you might need BIOS updates and maybe motherboard updates. But from what I have read I would expect it to be similar to the Core Duo --> Core 2 Duo upgrade last year. We will just have to wait for a while for more updates from Intel.

 

ProduceSection knows what hes talking about and yes it should be a drop in upgrade.

There may be a slight chance that you may need a bios upgrade but i doubt it considering these new cpus are going to be the norm in a couple months. It would have made sense for hp to already have bios support for them.

 

Hmm....I dont see a T7900 listed anywhere in that chart

 

I'm sure he meant X7900.

 

If thats the case, then a drop in upgrade is unlikely. The BIOS might not support the extreme edition processors and HP might not update the BIOS to support these processors for the dv2500/dv6500. Then there are heat issues to deal with considering the X7800 itself is rated at a TDP of 44W compared to the 35W for the regular Core 2 Duos.