Cpu/laptop Question

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SadisticalActs

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I have a toshiba Satellite A105-S101, The specs are: a Celeron M 1.60ghz, 512mb ram, ati chipset 64mb graphics, and 60gb hd.

On ebay i won a working Pentium 4 cpu for a laptop, and i know a computer shop who will switch it out, but will i tbe compatible, all i know about the cpu is its Intel Pentium 4 2ghz 2000/512 laptop cpu SL6FK. I recently bought a 1gb stick of ram which is on its way, so i should be running 1.5gb ram. So should i purchase this cpu, or just leave it alone, i heard i can overclock. so yeah i d k what to do.
 
The Pentium 4 / Pentium 4 M is a completely different type of processor. I can't say for certain if they will be compatible, however the performance gain would be almost zero, as the Pentium 4 2.0 is a really slow processor.

If you wanted to upgrade, go with a Pentium M.
 
but a pentium 4 is alot faster than a celeron m, and i wont the pentium 4 for 10 bucks. so yeah im new at this laptop shit, or do you think i can overclock it, or would the ram make a difference.
 
SadisticalActs said:
but a pentium 4 is alot faster than a celeron m, and i wont the pentium 4 for 10 bucks. so yeah im new at this laptop shit, or do you think i can overclock it, or would the ram make a difference.
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No they really arent. The Celeron M is based off of the Pentium M architecture, which is similar to the early core architecture. Pentium 4's however are built off of netburst. I'm sure you've heard of the comparisons between a 2.2Ghz Athlon 64 vs a 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 (where the AMD wins).

So again, the 400MHz difference between the Pentium 4 and Celeron M are offset pretty equally, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Celeron M 1.6 actually performs better then the Pentium 4 2.0.
 
Another thing, overclocking a laptop is generally not advisable because of the heat issue. Laptop on its own is rather hot due to not enough air flow. If you are overclocking it, the parts will get hotter than normal and become unstable.

I might be wrong about this, but AFAIK laptop processor is not the same as desktop processor in the sense that you cannot just swap it out. I believe the motherboard for laptop does not support desktop processor.
It's a different story altogether if the laptop you have is one of those desktop replacement laptop. That particular one uses desktop processor.
 
b3rt_d4ni3l said:
I might be wrong about this, but AFAIK laptop processor is not the same as desktop processor in the sense that you cannot just swap it out. I believe the motherboard for laptop does not support desktop processor.
It's a different story altogether if the laptop you have is one of those desktop replacement laptop. That particular one uses desktop processor.
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Only a very select few laptop boards support desktop processors, the Asus F3 does I believe (desktop Core 2 Duo's). However they may mobile Pentium 4's and mobile Pentium 4 M's, so thats most likely what he is talking about.

As for upgrading, most laptops do have removable processors, however it's much more tricky with the heatpipes and such.
 
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