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    Alienware Area-51 m9750 processors upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by asgaard76, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. asgaard76

    asgaard76 Newbie

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    Hi there
    I've got Alienware Area-51 m9750 with T5500 (C2D 1.6GHz) processor. It works only with Socket PBGA479, PPGA478 and 667MHz System Bus, but if i change it for T3400 (dual-core) or T2500 (Core Duo) will it work Compare Intel® Products ?
     
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    T3400 will not work (socket P), Core Duo will work (socket M). The fastest Core 2 Duo for socket M is the T7600 @ 2.33 GHz. Best bets are T7200 (2.0 GHz) or T7400 (2.16 GHz) without giving up an arm or leg.
     
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    asgaard76 Newbie

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    Those processors are a little bit over my budget so i'll go for T2500. Is there anything better than T2500 (i mean core duo processors) which will work with Alienware?
    Basically T2600 and T2700 will work with that laptop-am i right?

    Thanks
     
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  4. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    your not really upgrading anything then. the t2500 is nearly the same speed...
     
    whitrzac, Jul 21, 2011
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  5. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    The best option, in my opinion is the T7200.

    Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0 GHz CPU 4 MB 667 SL9SF | eBay

    The T2500 and the T5600 are basically the same.

    In Passmark:

    T2500: 937
    T5600: 1008

    But, the T7200 is $45 and scores 1147. You can sell your old T5600 for around $23 shipped on eBay
     
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    asgaard76 Newbie

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    Ok. Thanks for replys. I gonna use Alienware just for test and will sell it later on. Basically i used Dell XPS M1730 myself and that's enough for a while.
    Cheers
     
    asgaard76, Jul 21, 2011
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    GilLesS72 Newbie

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    so would this work--->INTEL CORE 2 DUO 2.5 GHZ 6M 800 MHZ SLAYY T9300 ?
    its a M socket..
    and a T9300 too its [email protected] as well...?
     
    GilLesS72, Nov 30, 2011
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  8. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    No a T9300 is socket P. The BEST socket M CPU is the T7600 (s version if you can even find it). socket M also only supports 533/667 FSB Core 2 Duo chips.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Nov 30, 2011
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