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Inspiron 9100 Upgrading CPU

post #1 of 7
8/15/05 at 6:24pm
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Is there anyone out there that has already attempted what I'm about to do? I'm going to order a Prescott Pentium 4 3.0 and upgrade my current cpu in my laptop. I'm ordering:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116171

My understanding is the processor inside my 9100 uses a socket 478. I should just be able to take the keyboard off and plop the chip in right? No bios/etc/changes?

Am I the only crazy person to have done this? Please let me know if you think I'll have any luck and a functional computer afterwards. Thanks

(My primary goal is to have SSE3. So if I pop this bad boy in and the computer still doesn't think it has SSE3 then I'm hosed)
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post #2 of 7
8/15/05 at 7:03pm
I've done that and so did many in this forum. Except that people usually swap prescott to northwood, not the other way.
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post #3 of 7
8/15/05 at 8:09pm
Yep very easy to do. A little more than just removing the keyboard (gotta take the palmrest, videocard, lcd, and the heatsink assembly) but it's a piece of cake. it's all screws. I can do it in about 5 min. And yes, most people perfer the Northwood, because it has much lower operating temps, better battery life, and at lower clock speeds performs better than the Prescott.

Good luck putting her in.
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post #4 of 7
8/15/05 at 9:35pm
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Does Northwood have SSE3? Am I missing something?
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post #5 of 7
8/15/05 at 11:09pm
themaniacky:

If you do replace your CPU, I may be interested in purchasing your old Northwood.
If you go through with the purchase, contact me please.
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post #6 of 7
8/16/05 at 12:21am
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Well. I placed the order a few moments ago. But I think I'm going to keep the original processor and use it in another machine I have that could use a boost. And this way if something was to ever go wrong I can yank the upgraded processor and return to the normal one for them the Dell Tech comes to a clueless persons home on "I don't know, it just stopped working" while its still has 2 years under the warranty.
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post #7 of 7
8/16/05 at 2:49am
since you are opening your notebook anyway, it's a good idea to apply some artic silver to help keep temperatures down.
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