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    Dell M65/D820 CPU Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by niteflite1287, Apr 17, 2008.

  1. niteflite1287

    niteflite1287 Notebook Guru

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    Hey I was thinking about swapping out the processor in my M65 from the T2300 Core Duo to a new Core 2 Due...XP is running a bit sluggish here. Anyways does anyone know what is the max processor these things can take? Also any suggestions on which one I should choose... I do mostly word processing, movies and a bit of graphics and web editing on it. Thanks
     
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You can get a T5500, T5600, T7200, T7400, or T7600 (Socket M stuff, basically). At least I think the T5500/5600 are Socket M.

    The newest stuff is Socket P and will not work for you.

    Honestly though, even a T2300 should be fast enough to run the darn OS. You probably need to clean it!
     
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  3. niteflite1287

    niteflite1287 Notebook Guru

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    ya I know i do, but the problem is that although I own the computer I the OS is managed by my IT dept....ya they got way to much crap in there....i've done my best to clean it up but thats hard...so they answer is to over power then ^%&$ thing.
     
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    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah you probably need to defrag your hdd...I am running XP fine with pentium M 1.6GHz...lol
     
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    I wish it was that easy...its the screw up version of windows I have (I defrag one a week or so) and i cant reformat or even uninstall a lot of stuff...
     
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