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playboy00786   10-25-2008 at 03:52:19 PM

I have a hp dv2550se laptop and i wanted to upgrade the cpu.The Service manual says that a t7300 can be used which is 800mhz fsb and 4mb L2. Is there anyway to know if a faster chip can be used...ie: any chip 800mhz fsb and 6mb L2? Or is as high as i can go a t7300?

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rtfm   10-25-2008 at 06:18:45 PM
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Your best bet is to ask hp themselves on their support site. Don't forget it's a royal pain in the @ss to take apart laptops (hope you're competent with fiddly electronics) and a new cpu may require a bios update too (which HP may or may not provide).

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customisbetter   10-25-2008 at 06:33:02 PM
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Laptops are not hard to take apart at all. Ive done it many times.
Look online for a service manual for your model. There are many pdfs out there. Also, the pdfs ususally give you some more info on these kinds of things.
but honestly, you probably won't see any increase in performance if you upgrade that cpu. If it was a gaming laptop, i would say go for it. But no matter what cpu you throw in there, the intel graphics are still going to make the whole system seem slow.
god luck!

------------------------------ e4400 2.75Ghz MSI G33 4x1GB DDR2-667@826 Palit 4870 3DMark 12112
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rtfm   10-25-2008 at 08:52:35 PM
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I didn't say it was hard, just a pain to disassemble with screws everywhere, usually different sizes and fiddly to put back together (speaking from my experience of complete disassembly of Dell laptops).

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customisbetter   10-25-2008 at 10:21:38 PM
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Oh yeah. dells are a pain because of the various screw sizes. HPs are almost all the same size and everything is easy to access by taking off the keyboard. Between some of the Function keys are little plastic tabs. pull those across the keyboard towards you, you will feel them click. then lift the keyboard and there you go. there should only be 4 to 6 screws that hold the heatsink in place.
And yes, this is my job.

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customisbetter   10-25-2008 at 10:50:37 PM
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Here is the PDF i was refering to. It looks like my above statement was a little simpler than the actual dissasembly, but this spells everything out.

 

https://pood.elion.ee/download.aspx/11490


Message edited by customisbetter on 10-25-2008 at 10:52:09 PM
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rtfm   10-26-2008 at 02:26:00 PM
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customisbetter wrote :

Oh yeah. dells are a pain because of the various screw sizes. HPs are almost all the same size and everything is easy to access by taking off the keyboard. Between some of the Function keys are little plastic tabs. pull those across the keyboard towards you, you will feel them click. then lift the keyboard and there you go. there should only be 4 to 6 screws that hold the heatsink in place.
And yes, this is my job.




I'm only fixing hp laptops in the future then :D

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