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How to find which PROCESSORs I can REPLACE with (Mobile P4)
I need to replace the processor on a 2.5 years old acer laptop.
How do I find out which ones I can use (besides the power/heat issue?) Its an Acer Travelmate 630 with a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 2.0Ghz - M Thanks Olav |
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How to find which PROCESSORs I can REPLACE with (Mobile P4)
Go to intel.com and download the intel chipset identification utility. When you have identified the chipset, then go back to intel Thanks..there is a practical problem: the processor is burned, so I would have to insert a pocessor which I know is working first.... Olav |
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How to find which PROCESSORs I can REPLACE with (Mobile P4)
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Go to intel.com and download the intel chipset identification utility. When you have identified the chipset, then go back to intel Thanks..there is a practical problem: the processor is burned, so I would have to insert a pocessor which I know is working first.... Are you sure you're not just going to burn the "new" processor then? Anyway, http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/html/tm630.html claims that the chipset is "ALi M1671 and M1535+" (for all versions of 630). Other sources says "ALi ALADDiN-P4" which is the same, so it should be correct. However, almost all links to this chipset on ALi's pages are dead, so it seems very hard to find out what intel chips it might support. The P4-M was evidently built up to 2.6 GHz, and a cursory inspection suggests that the 2.0 GHz and higher used the same voltages (and other easily visible attributes). Cooling might be a problem, but the TDP seems to be not THAT dissimilar up to the fastest P4-M (and the rest looks even closer), though the two older of the four P4-M 2.0GHz lists *two* TDP figures, if it's one of those and the lower figure is right (which it probably isn't!) it's a 70% TDP increase... However the TDP isn't in itself a guarantee that it won't overheat, but it looks slightly less improbably than I had originally assumed. The BIOS might also cause problems, it might refuse to start unless the BIOS "recognize" the CPU model and since it's a laptop (and old!) this list might be very small. None of these are necessarily showstoppers, it COULD work, but unless you are carefull you might be out with that money and still end up having to buy a new laptop! Also, the CPU isn't exactly widely available, pricewatch found only one source and while they had several different models the fastest they had was 2.0GHz. eBay lists more at lower prices, but most seems to be pulls from machines, and even the "new in box" from a "good" vendor might be more risky than an internet shop (and be careful with that eBay listing, it includes variety of Mobile P4's in addition to Mobile P4-M). If you go for a 2.0 GHz you might want to try to match the sSpec on the original CPU, to reduce risk of trouble as much as possible (StallionTek had 3 of the 4 possible sSpec and many of the eBay listings also includes the sSpec). But I think you're far better of buying a new laptop! Laptops are much fiddlier and complicated to do major surgery on, the Mobile P4-M series of CPUs is no longer available and it's already burned the original CPU... http://support.intel.com/support/pro...bile/pentium4/ http://processorfinder.intel.com/scr...&Pkgt ype=ALL http://www.stalliontek.com/SearchRes...y=Title&Page=2 http://listings.ebay.com/aw/plisting...716/index.html http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/products/a...ucts_m1671.htm http://www.digit-life.com/articles/alialaddinp4/ http://www.tomshardware.com/2002/01/...ere/index.html |
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How to find which PROCESSORs I can REPLACE with (Mobile P4)
But I think you're far better of buying a new laptop!
Laptops are much fiddlier and complicated to do major surgery on, the Mobile P4-M series of CPUs is no longer available and it's already burned the original CPU... The only quote for a chip supposed to be compatible so far is € 360 - same frequency, but I think caches etc. are higher (isnt that the way to go?). Seems to be better to take the chance of buying something for € 50 on ebay? Thanks Olav |
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