I'm thinking about upgrading the CPU of my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. Right now it has the standard issue Pentium M Dothan 1.6GHZ, 2 mb L2 cache, 400FSB. I would like to upgrade it to a Pentium M Dothan 2.26 GHZ, 2mb L2 cache, 533FSB. I understand the 6000 takes any M processor on a 400 or 533 bus.
I'm thinking about getting the processor on ebay, though, since it's so much less expensive that way. Does anyone here have experience getting a processor pulled from another machine that installed and ran well?
How hard is it to upgrade the CPU at home? I am fairly comfortable working inside my laptop, though I wouldn't mess with the motherboard. Does the CPU upgrade require flashing the BIOS, or is it plug and play?
2006-11-18
05:54:00
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nehrebeczky
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