Upgrade CPU in Compaq Presrio V6120us

HP sent me an E mail saying you cant do this, yet the exploded parts diagram shows that you can, and the parts list shows that my TL-50 V6120us will also accept up to an AMD Turion TL-60. Is it possible to upgrade my TL-50 CPU with a TL-60 in my V6120us?????

 

Officially, HP wont say you can since it isn't a user replaceable part. But, yeah you should be fine to upgrade to a TL-60 if you can take apart the chassis & rebuild it, just make sure you have the latest BIOS before trying the upgrade. There were two revisions of the TL-60, one built on a 90nm process & the other on the 65nm process. If I can remember correctly HP did release a bios update to support the 65nm processors as well.

 

How much of an increase in performance will I get by going from a TL-50 CPU to a TL-60? The upgrade is going to cost me about $200. Right now my V6120us is great for basic computing, but editing and burning DVD's, converting video files to different formats, gets a little slooowwwww---. I had done some video conversions with an Intel 1.7 Ghz equipped laptop, and the conversions took 35% less time even though the Intel CPU was only approx. 5% faster. Of course spending $200 for a upgrade would be cheaper than buying a new laptop, but would only be worthwhile to me if I could get a decent boost in performance. I already increased my ram from 1 to 2 gigs , and contrary to all the hype that I read about memory boosting performance, I have not seen that much of a difference.

 

Hmm, 25% clock speed boost and double the L2 cache in a mostly CPU-limited application... call it a 25% boost, Turions scale very well. Worth $200? That's up to you.

If you haven't already flashed in the BIOS upgrade that runs the fan 24x7, do that. The NVIDIA chipset has an awfully high failure rate. Keeping it cool helps. HP switched to AMD (ATI) in their current line.