Upgrade very old laptop?

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Xa3phod

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I just picked up a Dell Inspiron 9200 for nothing and it comes with this cpu:
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740
(2M Cache, 1.73 GHz, 533 MHz FSB)
Wondering, since this is a 533Mhz chip, can I throw in the
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 770
(2M Cache, 2.13 GHz, 533 MHz FSB)?

Looks like a big enough speed bump to be worth it. I can pick up the 770 for $15 on ebay.

Any thoughts? Thanks.
 
Sounds like a waste of time to me...it's not likely to produce any noticeable improvement in day-to-day use. You'd be better off putting the cash towards an SSD if you're stuck with the machine.
 
Not stuck, I just like to tinker and with prices so cheap, if there is any improvement its worth it. The SSD is a good idea, it would probably quadruple the speed of the laptop.
 
I'd personally go with the SSD only then. I don't think you'd see much real-world improvement on a CPU swap of that nature. Especially if you're just going to tinker with it.
 
Congrats on the twelve year old paper weight.

What - it can support one or two GB of RAM? that would have been a better plan.
 
fyi, you can jam a q6700 into these no prob. I had the c2d 14" version for years and bump it to the q6700(freebie yay!), 4Gb ram and a ssd. running windows 8(10 wasn't out yet) was a breeze and the only downside was the shitty intel graphics. you can get a q6700 on ebay for ~$30. yes this is an old laptop, yes they are big but they are built quite well and with a little money you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference, in normal daily use, between it and a new system.
 
If you want to upgrade the processor, see if the P-M 780 will work...1.7 to 2.2 GHz would be a pretty healthy jump for that 1C/1T processor. The BIOS would have to support it.

2x1GB RAM is max supported (enough for Win10 ;) )

That laptop has PATA, not SATA...so a cost-effective SSD upgrade is going to be damn near impossible.
 
pendragon1 said:
fyi, you can jam a q6700 into these no prob. I had the c2d 14" version for years and bump it to the q6700(freebie yay!), 4Gb ram and a ssd. running windows 8(10 wasn't out yet) was a breeze and the only downside was the shitty intel graphics. you can get a q6700 on ebay for ~$30. yes this is an old laptop, yes they are big but they are built quite well and with a little money you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference, in normal daily use, between it and a new system.
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P-M 740 = PPGA478
Q6700 = LGA775

Won't work on an Inspiron 9200.
 
^ The Q6700 is a desktop processor. Are you thinking of the Dimension 9200?

OP: Yes, the 770 should work in that laptop. I don't know if they're legit, but a few sellers on eBay are selling Pentium M 770 CPUs for under $5 shipped.
 
oops, yeah I might have the numbers wrong. was a few years ago that I did this and been a couple years since I sold it. ignore me for now...
 
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