CPU upgrades
Conundrum, Sat Jan 23 2016, 09:38AM
This is to replace a painfully slow C2D 7300 Socket P on an Acer 5220 laptop running v1.5 BIOS.
reckon it has any hope of working?
Apparently the newer CPUs actually run a lot cooler due to smaller transistors and lower voltage.
-A
Re: CPU upgrades
Karmaslap, Sat Jan 23 2016, 11:14AM
A quick call would probably be necessary. The newer cpus and gpus run cooler and have better performance on top of it, but who knows what will be compatible.
Karmaslap, Sat Jan 23 2016, 11:14AM
A quick call would probably be necessary. The newer cpus and gpus run cooler and have better performance on top of it, but who knows what will be compatible.
Re: CPU upgrades
Conundrum, Sun Feb 07 2016, 06:35AM
I have looked into butchering a basic quad core as a lot of the older ones did *nearly* work with certain pins rerouted.
It would be a kludge of epic proportions but I did quad my Sony Vaio with a Phenom II and get about a 39% performance boost on multithreaded apps.
Some folks have actually made Xeons work in their desktops using a similar pin swapping-via-label method combined with a BIOS upgrade and tweaks to the SPD (serial presence detect) code.
What would be nice of course would be a manycore cpu built onto the same format as an SSD, that fits in the existing slot on most newer machines (including my Vaio and HP) as the chip itself only uses about the same power as a hard disk.
For that matter replacing the existing spinning rust drive with an SSD/manycore "module"..
also
Conundrum, Sun Feb 07 2016, 06:35AM
I have looked into butchering a basic quad core as a lot of the older ones did *nearly* work with certain pins rerouted.
It would be a kludge of epic proportions but I did quad my Sony Vaio with a Phenom II and get about a 39% performance boost on multithreaded apps.
Some folks have actually made Xeons work in their desktops using a similar pin swapping-via-label method combined with a BIOS upgrade and tweaks to the SPD (serial presence detect) code.
What would be nice of course would be a manycore cpu built onto the same format as an SSD, that fits in the existing slot on most newer machines (including my Vaio and HP) as the chip itself only uses about the same power as a hard disk.
For that matter replacing the existing spinning rust drive with an SSD/manycore "module"..
also
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