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Upgrading laptop CPU (Desktop style Processor)

Boltaction

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Hello, I have an HP ze5700 laptop.

Specs:
2.8 celeron
768 DDR333 ram (running at 266)
60GB HD
15.0 Uxga+ screen

A nice laptop except for the processor, but I noticed some interesting information: The same model can be had with a 2.6 P4 processor instead, running at 533fsb. Without much more evidence I can guess the motherboard supports a 533 bus as opposed to the 400 the processor is running at.

Before anybody says anything this is not a mobile processor. Repeat: Desktop processor.


Here is my question:
I want to give it a new processor, but I want to save as much watts going to the proc as possible. I know the celeron Ds would work, but I need a processor that uses less energy than the one it has. Can anyone help me out?
 
In the desktop processors you're as low as your going to get. Unless you want to downgrade further. You won't save on any battery life, and you'll be sacrificing performance.

Pentium M is the king of low power CPU's in notebooks.
 
How? If I got a 533fsb 512k 2.4 Ghz instead, you are saying it would be slower than a 2.8 8k 400fsb? :confused:
 
Boltaction said:
How? If I got a 533fsb 512k 2.4 Ghz instead, you are saying it would be slower than a 2.8 8k 400fsb? :confused:
is your current celeron a mobile celeron or just a celeron?

mobile celerons have 256k whereas regular celerons have 128k

the mobile celerons arent too too bad off
 
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