Upgrading CPU? Possible?

I'm just wondering if it's possible to upgrade cpu, i currently have the core 2 duo t5200
1.60ghz. I was thinking maybe to upgrade to a t7200 2.0ghz. If it's possible how much will i be looking in price, with possibly doing the work myself.

 

Which laptop?
I downloaded th service manual of the NC8430, and it's amazign how easy this thing opens up to replace parts.
Basically. Once you remove the keyboard (which looks prett easy) you havr access to everything, includign the CPU.

 

You're probably looking at a few hundred dollars for a performance increase of about 25% when the CPU is the bottleneck...which it never is. Ultimately, I don't think you will benefit much. Plus, you'll void the warranty and need to apply a new layer of thermal paste or AS5 in order for your computer to not burn up.

 

A faster hard drive or more memory will likely offer a bigger performance boost.

 

Sorry,
it's a HP dv6129us, 1gb DDR2, 100gb HHD 5400RPM, don't get me wrong it has good performance and all, but when i have a couple of extra bucks to spend i would like to increse the performance on it. By the way i still have no idea how the core 2 duo works , do both CPUs run at the same time? Or does the second one kick in when more juice is needed. Can someone give me a quick explanation on how they work?
-----Will upgrading the harddrive to a 7200RPM improve the performance ?
Thanks for the info.

 

Upgrading the CPU would not be cost effective in comparison to the performance boost.

Windows tends to use both cores at once, depending on what's needed.

Only when you get into Quad Core CPUs if when you see Windows using major CPU power from one core, then breaking it off into the other cores.

Like stated before, upgrading the RAM and hard drive would give better performance.

 

buy yourself a 7200 sata Hitachi or Seagate hard drive & another gb of ram...