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Info sites for Laptop Upgrades

Apr 9, 2005 4:02AM PDT

This weekends CNET project is upgrading ur laptop. I have an AMD XP-M chip. AMD home site does not give specs for this chip or it's family. Is there a web site where I can get specs as to decision what faster chip my mobo will take? Thanks, Jim

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Notebooks rarely have an upgradeable CPU. Here's why.
Apr 9, 2005 4:46AM PDT

The CPU is soldered onto the motherboard. And most laptop designs are for just "this many" Watts of power and dissipation.

The answer is there are not such sites since very few have the skill and tools to remove the CPU from the motherboard.

Bob

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Okay
Apr 9, 2005 5:30AM PDT

Thanks for the info. Was hoping to put in chip with more L2 MB. What shocked me was I spent about 1 hour on AMD web site and never could get a simple spec page on their rather new Athlon XP-M 2800+ chip!! This chip is in a new Compaq r3410us laptop and hp/comp had most but not all specs on chip....Go Figger! Jim

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Don't give up tho...
Apr 9, 2005 5:40AM PDT