v2000z upgrade question

Hey guys, I'm planning on buying a Compaq v2000z. However, I'm not sure that I'll need the power of the Turion 64 yet, so I'm just going to stick with the Sempron 1600. If I decide to upgrade, will it just be a matter of popping in a new chip or am is that wishful thinking?

 

Well, it is upgradable to any Turion64 ML series. HP has serivce mauals on their website which will give the necessary steps to access and remove the cpu. It is not as easy as upgrading the RAM or HDD since there will some bit of disassembly involved. I wouldnt really recommend it for a novice, but if you have upgraded desktop cpu's before this should be somewhat similar other than being a little bit more complicated.

So the cpu is upgradable but it comes down to how comfortable(knowledgable) you are about upgrading.

 

You can say it is just a matter of popping in a new chip, because the MB does support turion. However, Do you think it is worth to do so?

changing a CPU will definately void your warranty, so you better do it after one year. But at that time, where is turion? It might out of date already. You might be IT expert, but for me changing CPU is risky. I wont do it!

Think about it.

 

A faster hard drive will give a bigger performance boost.

 

Hey guys, thanks for the helpful input. As far as technical skill, thats not much of an issue. Xinmayu and zazonz make good points. I think I'll just stick Sempron 3000+ and call it a day. For one, I won't need much processing power as I just check e-mail, write papers, play mp3s, and programming. Even if the Sempron sucks up more wattage, I don't really mind either since I should be plugged in a majority of the time. Time to spank the credit card!

 

Yes, it's a matter of popping in the new chip (and some thermal grease). Newer notebook assemble/disassemble is much simpler now. Here's documentation on how to do it;
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00444244.pdf
However, I also agree with everybody here that it's not worth it now.
I got a v2000z as a secondary computer (got a super-duper A64 3200+ @ 2.2GHz at home and P4EE at work ). I got Sempron 3000+ in my v2000z. What I can say is, Sempron is not slow. I got 2:01 mins on my super PI. I ran batch raw image conversion on this lappy and it took around 7.11s per file while my A64 desktop took 5.9s to 6.1s per file. Not that much different.
HDD upgrade to 5400 rpm and memory upgrade would be a big help. I also plan to upgrade to Turion when the time comes too. Maybe after a year or two. When 64-bit is "needed" and Turion are cheaper.