AMD Athlon in Compaq Notebook - HELP

Hello All,
I have a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop. It currently has a Duron 1Ghz
in it. I would like to upgrade the CPU. The higest end of this notebook line
(Same Mobo) has an Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU in it.
As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle
100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile
Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB. Or am I missing something?

P.S - please don't tell me that Compaq laptops are crappy. This I already
know. I'm keeping it anyway... it was FREE!

Thanks,
Karl North

It should work but I cannot make any guarantees.

Heat will be the main problem but I think the old processor will actually
give out more heat, the design of the heatsink may be different.

Check the mobo can also handle the power of the CPU, you don't want to blow
the tracks!

Peter

"Karl North" wrote in message
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Hello All,
I have a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop. It currently has a Duron
1Ghz
in it. I would like to upgrade the CPU. The higest end of this notebook
line
(Same Mobo) has an Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU in it.
As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle
100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile
Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB. Or am I missing something?

P.S - please don't tell me that Compaq laptops are crappy. This I already
know. I'm keeping it anyway... it was FREE!

Thanks,
Karl North

Karl North wrote:

Hello All,
I have a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop. It currently has a Duron
1Ghz
in it. I would like to upgrade the CPU. The higest end of this notebook
line (Same Mobo) has an Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU in it.
As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle
100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile
Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB. Or am I missing something?

P.S - please don't tell me that Compaq laptops are crappy. This I already
know. I'm keeping it anyway... it was FREE!

Thanks,
Karl North

I'm looking at doing the same upgrade on the same laptop. Only difference is
that mine has a 1.2g athlon 4 processor... I don't think that makes it a
duron. How and where did you find out about the 100/133 fsb speed? The best
I could find was it will only do 100?

If it turns out that it will do 133... wow... this is going to be a
no-brainer swap...


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