Comments | verdan: CPU Upgrade Advice?

verdan

CPU Upgrade Advice?

May 30, 2007 12:19

My laptop is quite a pretty beast, but It has 3 big problems. It gets hot, its fans run a lot, and its battery life is less than stellar. I did some browsing online and found a fascinating site, it talked about upgrading the clawhammer AMD athlon 64 3700+ to a Turion ML-44. This is much lower watt, it is much cooler and so the fans run less, and it ( Read more... )

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greylopht May 30 2007, 22:18:04 UTC

Hmmm dunno on this one. First off does your motherboard support the prosessor nativvely or are you going to have to do a bios flash. Then what about bus speeds and all that. If you can shove me a link to your laptops specs, and to the processor your looking at I can perhaps help.

As for someone putting a Desktop processor in a laptop or vice versa. UMM o.O is all I can say. All of my laptops use laptop only processors. They are smaller have different core voltages ect ect and dont get as hot as a desktop processor.

As for battery consumption. Well these newer faster laptops are battery WHORES. That is the price you pay for speed. Where If I turn things down on my five year old corgi. I can play a movies for about 4 to 5 hours on a charge with the backlit turned down and audio going to a set of headphones. But Ein is special after all. (Basically I catch half of the movie in unactive memory to keep the hard drive from havin to spin up)

Lemme know.

~Grey

verdan May 31 2007, 05:10:24 UTC

I'll need to flash the bios. I have the bios I'll need, I got it from a person in that forum I mentioned (and linked to :D). I don't know about the bus speed, that's just beyond my personal expertise. I can't find the specs on the sager website, but I might be able to poke around for them. Other than the bus was there anything that is particularly relevant?

The battery life is reported as much better with the ML-44 than the clawhammer. So that'd be good! Anyway. Thanks for any help you can give :D

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verdan May 31 2007, 05:12:22 UTC

You're sure it's 939? I think I read that the laptop is a 754 pin. So that wouldn't work, if those two numbers are different... which would suck. I have cool 'n quiet, and I've tried both speedswitch and rmclock to slow my processor when it doesn't need the extra power. It's helped some, but it still runs hot. :P I wish I could upgrade the video card, but that's not gonna happen!