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Socket A laptop Cpu upgrade
Name: ledge2edge Date: February 17, 2008 at 18:27:21 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: Amd athlon 4 Product: Compaq
Comment:
Now the question i have and i am hoping someone can answer is am i able to throw in a 1.8Ghz from a 1.2Ghz but here is the kicker. Will the bus speed of 200mhz provent me from hitting that goal, and if so what would be the next faster cpu i can throw into the laptop for a lil more kick if i can. Compaq 731US is the laptop 786Mbs winXP pro 60Gig HDD DVD CD-rw
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"
Name: Sabertooth Date: February 18, 2008 at 07:53:58 Pacific
Reply:
The Athlon XP-M 1400+ comes in both 100MHz & 133MHz (200MHz & 266MHz effective) bus. The first thing you want to do is check for what you got in yours.
Anyhow, if it turns out that you have the 100MHz (1400+) version, then the motherboard in your Presario 731US most likely does not support anything beyond that bus frequency. Therefore, you better scrap that 1.8GHz plan.
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