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    can a HP NC6220 be upgraded from a 1.7 cpu?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by gentlejax, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. gentlejax

    gentlejax Notebook Enthusiast

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    I picked this up pretty cheap and it should arrive this week....I got a couple P4 M chips at the house...wondered if this laptop can be upgraded....

    It was cheap....too cheap to pass up....I was originally going to get a T43 IBM or something in the "T" line
     
    gentlejax, Sep 22, 2008
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  2. elijahRW

    elijahRW Notebook Deity

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    Yes it's upgradable.
    I had one of these a month ago and I also had 5 spare intel M chips layin around.
    I was able to put a 1.4Ghz in it and it worked.
    I think you can go up to 2.13GHz with that model.
     
    elijahRW, Sep 22, 2008
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    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your laptop use Pentium M CPUs not Pentium 4M.

    Your best option is to buy a Pentium M725 (1.6Ghz) or Pentium M735 (1.7Ghz), and then pin mod them to 2.13Ghz and 2.26Ghz respectiveky.

    This a tutorial on how to do it:
    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3226&article=pin+mod

    Pentium M760 (2Ghz), M770 (2.13ghz) and M780 (2.26Ghz) are very expensive to buy even second hand.
     
    naton, Sep 24, 2008
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