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    Is it possible to upgrade my HP DV9000 with these CPU's?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by saktoink, Dec 30, 2010.

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    saktoink Newbie

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    Hi everybody,

    My video card on my DV9000 just gave out a few days ago and decided to upgrade the mobo and the CPU. I came across a few processors that I would like to put in my mobo since all of them were about the same price. The processors are: Intel's T7800, T9500, and x7800 (I'm more interested on the x7800). I would like to know if any of these CPU's would work on my mobo. If any of these CPU's wouldn't work please state why (that's for my personal understanding). If it helps, the part number of my mobo is 461069-001. From what I researched and asked, this mobo supports socket P with FSB rated at 800MHz. It has the 512Mb 8600M GS Nvidia card and supports 4Mb of L2 cache. Thanks in advance!
     
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    If you have a Santa Rosa board then yes. Merom and Penryn based chips (not all) will work. The T8400 or T9500 are good value chips.

    The x7800 and x9000 are compatible with the board but the chip runs much hotter and the stock cooling might not suffice. Also you cannot unlock the multipliers to overclock through the BIOS, which is what Extreme core CPU's is good for.
     
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    Thanks for the reply! I'm sort of a noob on this, but how can you tell if it is a Santa Rosa board? Also, if this mobo supports 4-MB L2 cache would it only recognize 4 of the 6Mb and still accept the cpu? (The T9500 has 6MB of L2 Cache). I also noticed the o/c capability of the x7800 and was also concerned that the stock cooling might not suffice, but since it was about the same price I was tempted to get it. Maybe I was getting too greedy. :D
     
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    T9300-2.5 works on a DV9700T here, even overclocked to 3.13Ghz.

    ebay has good value Santa-Rosa 45nm Penryn 800Mhz CPUs (T8100, T8300, T9300, T9500). I would avoid the Merom 65nm CPUs due to higher power consumption and temperature.
     
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    Wow! you can even overclock it?! But then how is the cooling system set up? How much of temperature difference would it be if you use a x9000 over a x7800? I just looked at the x9000 on ebay and it's almost 3X more expensive compared to the x7800. I'm not interested on overclocking it now, but maybe in the future. For now I don't have the knowledge to do it and would just like to restore my laptop with upgraded hardware. Would it be much trouble if you could answer my 2 questions above? I wasn't able to find any answers from them. Thanks!
     
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