Upgrade T40p!!!

[plmijn]

Hello Everyone, I just want to know if I can really upgrade the T40p with Dothan 2.1 or 2.0 cpu?
If yes, what do I need to be aware of?
If no, the max I can get is dothan 1.8?

Thank you

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

Yes, you can upgrade to a Dothan 2.1 (765). Just make sure that you upgrade to the "long fan" as well.

Hope this helps.

[Johan]

As George says, yes you can upgrade your CPU to the fastest available Dothan, being the 2.1 GHz SL7V3, but it's quite expensive (I doubt you will be able to find it even used for less than $150. Alternatively, you may get the 2.0 GHz Dothan (SL7EM), which will probably cost you at least $125. The best value-for-money is probably the 1.8 GHz Dothan (SL7EN), which you may be lucky to pick up for as little as only $25 now and then (that is, on eBay in the USA).

But! Please let us know what you seek to acheive by upgrading your CPU to a more "powerful"? What are the applications you run, and wish to speed up? Apart from being faster, the SL7EM/SL7V3 consume more power, which will darin yuor battery faster. In the case you have an old/slow HDD, and not very much RAM, you may perhaps benefit more from upgrading the HDD and adding more RAM before upgrading the CPU. Newer 5400 rpm PATA/IDE HDD's have been reported to be almost as fast as the older/no-longer-available 7200 rpm HDD's, so consider geting yourself one of the newest, large-cache, high-platter-density 5400 rpm HDD's (serach this forum for more information about user reports about different HDD's). See e.g. the threads Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 5400 Hard Drives..Any Opin and Hitachi 7200 vs 5400rpm drives and Hitachi website - 7K100, 100 GB PATA HD is unavailable for a start...

You may perhaps also want to see the thread Upgrading T41 processor and the links pointed to therein.

Johan

[plmijn]

As George says, yes you can upgrade your CPU to the fastest available Dothan, being the 2.1 GHz SL7V3, but it's quite expensive (I doubt you will be able to find it even used for less than $150. Alternatively, you may get the 2.0 GHz Dothan (SL7EM), which will probably cost you at least $125. The best value-for-money is probably the 1.8 GHz Dothan (SL7EN), which you may be lucky to pick up for as little as only $25 now and then (that is, on eBay in the USA).

But! Please let us know what you seek to acheive by upgrading your CPU to a more "powerful"? What are the applications you run, and wish to speed up? Apart from being faster, the SL7EM/SL7V3 consume more power, which will darin yuor battery faster. In the case you have an old/slow HDD, and not very much RAM, you may perhaps benefit more from upgrading the HDD and adding more RAM before upgrading the CPU. Newer 5400 rpm PATA/IDE HDD's have been reported to be almost as fast as the older/no-longer-available 7200 rpm HDD's, so consider geting yourself one of the newest, large-cache, high-platter-density 5400 rpm HDD's (serach this forum for more information about user reports about different HDD's). See e.g. the threads Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 5400 Hard Drives..Any Opin and Hitachi 7200 vs 5400rpm drives and Hitachi website - 7K100, 100 GB PATA HD is unavailable for a start...

You may perhaps also want to see the thread Upgrading T41 processor and the links pointed to therein.

Johan

Thank you very much for the information. I just upgraded the ram to 2g and the hardisk with 7200rpm (seagate). Now I just want to see if it would help to run vista or windows 7 (in the future) smoothly by upgrading the CPU to 2.1 dothan, since I have bania 1.6 for now.

[ajkula66]

Honestly, even a 1.8 Dothan (PM 745) would be a nice upgrade, and these can be found for reasonable amounts of money. They run cool, and 2MB L2 cache is well worth it IMO.