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With 3GBs of RAM and single core processor, what would you upgrade first? [closed]
Please help! which one is better to upgrade if i can only do one at this certain time.
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Upgrading CPU in laptop
My wife would like a laptop, and I'm looking at an HP G6, specifically, a g6t-2000. She says she only wants it for storing photos and so forth, but the techie in me would like to ensure it doesn't ...
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Can a processor upgrade cause BSOD?
I Had the following hardware setup:
Phenom II X4 945
Asus M4A97
4GB DDR2 OCZ
Radeon HD5850
OCZ Agility 2 120 GB
Windows 7 x64 Pro Fully updated (latest drivers and windows update patches)
Then I ...
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Can I upgrade the processor in my Toshiba Satellite L455?
I have a Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975 which is about three years old. The processor is currently an Intel Celeron 900. Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade this to a newer one?
I have heard ...
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Upgrading the CPU on a Gateway MT6450 Laptop
I have an old Gateway MT6450 laptop which shipped with an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 processor; the CPU has the following specs:
dual-core
1600 MHz clock speed
31 W TDP
Socket S1
I located a Phenom II ...
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Can I upgrade the CPU in my Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop?
I've got an Intel Core Duo T2300 in my laptop (Lenovo 3000 N100, 0768-49G). Here is what I could find out about it:
$ sudo dmidecode
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
42 structures occupying 1436 ...
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Is it possible to upgrade a notebook with a i3 380um to an i5 430m processor?
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 11 0328CTO (intel HM55 chipset) that came with a i3 380UM, which is a low power 11W processor. I wonder if i can upgrade that to a i5 430M, which is the same socket, but ...
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i5-3210M to an intel i7-3610QM?
If i want to upgrade my processor in my laptop from a i5-3210M to an i7-3610QM what else, if anything would i need to change? They both have the same sockets, I"m thinking i might need to upgrade the ...
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Can I upgrade my laptop CPU
I have Lenovo Ideapad Y510 with dual core 1.6 Ghz processor, 1GB ram, 160GB HDD. I want to upgrade my current cpu with any latest one like i3, i5 or i7 to get more speed but don't know if it is ...
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In terms of performance, which processor is more suitable? [closed]
My computer specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU Socket: LGA775
CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4300 (2M Cache, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB)
After I bought new ...
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Intel T5600 to upgrade T5250
I want to upgrade my laptop which has T5250 CPU with a T5600 CPU to support virtualization. I ordered T5600 on ebay, but it didn't fit. It says T5250 supports PPGA478 socket, so I assume that is what ...
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Changing the processor on Toshiba R500 Portege?
This is my first post here. I am looking to fix my old Toshiba Portege R500 laptop. It fell in the water a while ago so I bought a new one. To my surprise, it still works, though it has a cracked ...
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Why have I had to disable Enhanced Halt State (C1E) for my new CPU?
So, I've just upgraded my PC's CPU and RAM from an AMD Phenom X4 9600 with 2×2GiB DDR2-800 to an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (the 95 version, HDT55TWFK6DGR) with 2×4GiB DDR3-1333.
The system worked - I'm ...
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CPU is changing fan speed to maximum [closed]
I have Intel Pentium 4, 2800 MHz (21 x 133) 478 socket processor and Hewlett-Packard HP d530 SFF motherboard, and a noisy CPU fan. In BIOS fan speed on idle is set 2/4 (50C-65C) because my motherboard ...
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To which CPUs can I upgrade my Dell XPS M1330 laptop? [closed]
I've got a Dell XPS M1330 laptop which is already a couple of years old. I've already upgraded to 8GB of RAM and a SDD.
Since I do all my development work (under Ubuntu) on this machine, I'd like to ...
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