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| 764750 | 2009-04-14 00:19:00 | I have an ASUS A2H/L laptop with a Celeron 2.6 CPU. Research shows that it is possible to replace the Celeron with a P4 2.66 or 2.8 CPU with a 533 FSB for a 478 pin mPGA socket. Any leads on tracking down one of these CPUs appreciated. Cee Bee |
Cee Bee (9838) | ||
| 764751 | 2009-04-14 00:31:00 | Your best bet would be took look on trademe for a used part. A retailer would be selling it for 500-2000 bucks, more expensive that getting a new laptop! I recommend you ditch the whole upgrade and get a new laptop. Chances are, your slow HDD, Graphics cardand RAM will be bottlenecking the CPU. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 764752 | 2009-04-15 08:27:00 | Thanks Blam6 I put the same question to our IT people at work today. Their response was the same as yours. I'll put up with the Celeron for now and see what Windows 7 turns out like. I certainly don't want Vista. Cee Bee |
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| 764753 | 2009-04-15 08:33:00 | Running vista runs really well one decent hardware with lots of RAM. Windows 7 will run on your Celeron processor, but I wouldn't recommend it, wouldn't be very fast. Are you planning on buying a new lapop/pc? Blam |
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| 764754 | 2009-04-16 04:20:00 | Thanks Blam I could not agree more, that upgrade as with most Laptop upgrades, if possible at all, would achieve little or nothing. Money would be better spent on a newer platform. 7 has better requirements that Vista but would still be slow,and have less pretties. | nitram9857 (4620) | ||
| 764755 | 2009-04-16 08:20:00 | Thanks all I will wait till W7 is released and buy a new laptop then. In the meantime a workmate suggested putting a linux, maybe Ubuntu, on it. I'll get a self booting distro and see what the ASUS thinks of it. The only problem may be drivers. Again thank you for the responses. |
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| 764756 | 2009-04-16 08:40:00 | Ubuntu generally doesn't require external drivers it tends to just work straight away | gary67 (56) | ||
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