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2cvbloke · 01-22-2007, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Alec Trevelyan

At least on desktop boards, there are many that will take either Pentium 4 or Celery, as long as they're both the same socket. Don't know if the same holds true for many lappy boards, but from 2cvbloke's experience, I'd say chances aren't very good

Some laptops use Desktop CPUs, my old laptop (a Satellite A30-203) had a desktop CPU, no SpeedStep tech. at all, I even tried a 3.oghz CPU from work and it worked, so I assumed the same would work in my current laptop (Satellite 1130-Z25, the A30's predecessor). I've even done the odd upgrade in a few known-brand laptops at work, with great results...

Some laptops however have intergrated CPUs, which can't be upgraded at all, these are usually the sub-notebook laptops (12" screen types)...

Ah well, at least I have an excuse to build a PC for meself...

**Andrew March** · 01-22-2007, 07:28 PM

I just thought I'd mention (completely off topic) that your signature should say 'dipped', not 'dipt' (there's no such word).

JustinDixon · 01-22-2007, 07:55 PM

also most laptops are built with optimizing the cpu it's built with, so often the motherboards of those laptops will only support the one and only cpu it was shipped with. at least that's how it's been in my research/experience.

2cvbloke · 01-23-2007, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew March

I just thought I'd mention (completely off topic) that your signature should say 'dipped', not 'dipt' (there's no such word).

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2cvbloke · 01-23-2007, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by JustinDixon

also most laptops are built with optimizing the cpu it's built with, so often the motherboards of those laptops will only support the one and only cpu it was shipped with. at least that's how it's been in my research/experience.

Well, it's a done issue, I have a pair of laptops coming for me to do up, not that the 1.8GHz will fit (one's a 166MHz AJP Laptop with game controls in the wrist rest area and the other's a Tecra 9000 (I think) PIII 1GHz)...

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JustinDixon Banned Realname: Justin Dixon Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, California - Winston-Salem, North Carolina Age: 21 Posts: 1,519	also most laptops are built with optimizing the cpu it's built with, so often the motherboards of those laptops will only support the one and only cpu it was shipped with. at least that's how it's been in my research/experience.

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