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i'm sure this is a repost and i'm sorry. but i haven't been able to find out what i need to after a while of searching. could someone please explain to me how to find out if i can upgrade the processor in my hp pavillion laptop? it's got a 2.0 and i'm just trying to get a 2.4+ to meet game requirements. thanks in advance. again, sorry you probably get this question all the time.

 

thats not enough information for anyone to be able to give you an honest answer. the model of your laptop would be helpful, there are a lot of different hp pavilions.

 

What specific laptop?
What specific processor do you have now?
Most game requirements are for a single core Pentium 4 so if you have a 2GHz dual core processor you probably exceed that requirement anyway.

Regardless, more info required.

 

thanks for the responses and sorry for the lack of info.

hp pavilion dv6700 notebook
processor: amd turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz
3 gigs ram
32-bit OS

i've gotten a few games and had them not work then i looked and realized they wanted 2.4 or 3 ghz and i only had 2.

 

I can assure you, the CPU isn't the reason why they didn't work. As stated above, many developers release CPU requirements in reference to the old and inefficient Pentium 4 model, which offered terrible performance relative to today's lower-clocked CPUs. Your TL-60 should be enough for almost all games, with the exception of the most demanding such as Crysis, World in Conflict, or GTA4.

Your limiting hardware component is probably your graphics card. Could you download GPU-Z and post the model for us?

 

I had that processor on my last laptop. I'm sure its enoughs to run your games.

And so yeah, as with the last post, it's probably your video card that is the bottle neck.

 

ok thanks a lot for all the response! you guys are great!

did the card check and it looks like these are the results:

nvidia geforce 7150m / nforce630m
GPU: c67
revision: a1
technology: 90 nm
bios version: 5.67.32.16.17
bus interface: PCI
shaders: 2 pixel / 1 vertext
directx support: 9.0c / sm 3.0
pixel filltrate: 0.4 gpixels
bus width: 64bit
mem size: 128 mb
GPU clock: 425 MHz

 

Well... there's your problem.
The 7150 is a low end video card. Not really capable of running any modern games, it will do some older gen games on low settings.

 

ok. that brings me kinda back to my OP:

is it replaceable in this comp and what vid card would you recommend? also, what do i have to look for in a vid card to make sure it will fit this comp?

thanks again everyone. you all have been a huge help!

 

It is not upgradeable. It is an integrated graphics card, as such it is soldered to the motherboard.

 

Nope, it's soldered directly to the motherboard in that laptop.
What you have is what you will stay with, it is impossible to upgrade it to anything else.
See this post for more information.

Sorry.

 

dang. that sucks. well thanks for all the help everyone! i'm glad i figured it out!

 

so i guess the fact that the program told me it had a PCI type connection doesn't mean that it actually just clips into a PCI bus?

 

My man.

Considering you've been told numerous times it's directly soldered to the motherboard, what do you think?

Just curious...

 

lol i guess i said that wrong. i understand that it's soldered. i shouldn't have posed it in question form. i should have said "with my former knowledge of PCI slots, that bit of information is misleading."

thanks a lot for everyone's help.

 

Well just because it's on the PCI bus doesn't mean it's in a PCI slot. Lots of stuff integrated on a motherboard (ethernet, audio) etc is all on the PCI bus, but you don't really say "oh, I'll just remove it an install another one" with those things.

 

ok thanks.

 

Man i wish i still had my old pictueres of my dv6500t in peices on a table. Basically there is a spot on the motherboard with tons of little tiny pins and near by places for capacitors and all sorts of other stuff. If you have a Dedicated graphics processing unit ( im not going to say card ) They solder a graphics processing unit and memory directly to the motherboard. These are solderd right down so there is no way to remove them.