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laptop cpu upgrade
Name: michael wood Date: August 24, 2002 at 10:22:38 Pacific
Comment:
hi can anyone give me any advice on upgrading my toshiba tecra 8000 laptop currently running a pentium 11 366 mhz cpu. is the chip soldered in or is it a slot 1 .if upgrade is possible what is the fastest chip i could fit to the existing motherboard
Name: Red Rider Date: August 24, 2002 at 10:37:11 Pacific
Reply:
Laptops are not usually upgradeable. The chips are soldered in , but the big problem is if you do change the CPU is the BIOS upgrade. The only person that has up graded a laptop that I know of, did it by taking a CPU & m/b from a damaged laptop and putting it in another laptop that was the same make but older model.
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Response Number 2
Name: Joe Date: August 24, 2002 at 11:05:49 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Micheal, that laptop takes what they call a MMC1 CPU card. The fastest MMC1 known to date is a 400mhz Celeron. Your system should be able to take that if you find it.
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