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Upgrades for Dell Inspiron 1545?

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October 13, 2014 11:51:34 PM

Hey all. I have 6 year old Dell Inspiron 1545, model PP41L I believe. It's got a Pentium T4300 and 4 GB of RAM. The hard drive is 320 GB.

This isn't a bad laptop, and since it only cost me $30, I figure I could do some upgrades. The RAM is maxed out. I could add an SSD, but that's a little too expensive. I was thinking processor, but I am not sure what CPU I could drop into the board. I takes the Pentium dual cores (Core architecture) so I'd assume it takes the Core 2 Duos too. If I were to put in a say, a T9500 or 9550, would that be too much heat? It's a 35W like the T4300 with the same TDP, so I'd think it wouldn't matter.

Thanks!

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October 14, 2014 1:33:09 AM

Um usually laptop components are soldered to the motherboard, so upgrading things, especially the processor, is very difficult. I would also say that for the price of the upgrade parts you can probably just buy a better system. Consider that.
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October 14, 2014 9:18:56 PM

Rugnir_Viking said:
Um usually laptop components are soldered to the motherboard, so upgrading things, especially the processor, is very difficult. I would also say that for the price of the upgrade parts you can probably just buy a better system. Consider that.


Yes, that's usually true, but this is a socketed CPU, socket 478 or socket P (I forget which). The Core 2 Duos drop into it, as do some Celeron and Pentium's with the Core architecture. It's also a Dell, which I have experience with, and they are pretty easy to take down. I had concerns about CPU compatibility, cooling, etc. I was thinking that any 35W Core 2 Duo would fit, but cooling might be an issue.

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October 17, 2014 4:23:08 AM

sirstinky said:
Rugnir_Viking said:
Um usually laptop components are soldered to the motherboard, so upgrading things, especially the processor, is very difficult. I would also say that for the price of the upgrade parts you can probably just buy a better system. Consider that.


Yes, that's usually true, but this is a socketed CPU, socket 478 or socket P (I forget which). The Core 2 Duos drop into it, as do some Celeron and Pentium's with the Core architecture. It's also a Dell, which I have experience with, and they are pretty easy to take down. I had concerns about CPU compatibility, cooling, etc. I was thinking that any 35W Core 2 Duo would fit, but cooling might be an issue.

Thanks for your answer!


If you can drop a cpu with a similar wattage then the cooling should be okay but if it's higher try to underclock/undervolt the cpu to help with cooling (and battery life too :) ) of course that only works if you can get an unlocked cpu
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October 17, 2014 2:07:59 PM

Cool, thanks. I don't know if the mobile C2D's are unlocked. I know the desktop CPU's can be overclocked (like the E8400, etc.), and some do better, but others don't. My main concern was the cooling as a higher frequency makes more heat under load. It has a 2.1 GHz in it now. I don't want to upgrade it and find out that it gets too hot and keeps shutting down.
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