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cmk82600

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want to upgrade my old laptop
« on: March 22, 2007, 06:25:57 PM »
Hi all,
 I was wondering if i can put  AMD (pentium 3 equivilent) processor in my Toshiba Satellite 330 laptop? any help would be appreciated.
Thank you all in advance.

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Re: want to upgrade my old laptop
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2007, 07:30:38 PM »
Basically with laptops you are stuck with whatever CPU it shipped with...they are soldered to the MBoard.
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Re: want to upgrade my old laptop
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2007, 12:28:36 PM »
You may be able to upgrade, but don't count on it.
It's not recommended you try it, as because of heat and socket problems you will not be able to upgrade far, so the performance gain would be slight.

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Re: want to upgrade my old laptop
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2007, 11:40:04 AM »
If you push hard enough.

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Re: want to upgrade my old laptop
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2007, 06:57:22 PM »
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If you push hard enough.
LOL !
To the OP...you have a Pentium I 266MHz machine.
You cannot put another manufacturer's CPU in there.
Different socket, different everything.

This is an old lappy. Not worth throwing money at it.
If you found some inexpensive used memory of the correct size/type, that would improve performance some, I suppose.


« Last Edit: March 24, 2007, 06:58:02 PM by Joe_Flanagan »