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Celeron to Centrino CPU upgrade?

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12/5/06 at 1:54pm
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I have a one year old Dell 6000 that contains a 1.4 GHz Celeron M. I believe the CPU is a Dothan 400 MHz FSB 1.4 GHz (Celeron M 360).

I mother board is Dell PN C6654 with the integral Intel video. I have upgraded the memory to 2 Gb (1Gb x 2) 533 MHz RAM (DDR2 PC@-4200 SODIMM).

I would like to upgrade the video performance of this PC further. I have a 2.13 GHz Centrino M CPU available to me. I believe the CPU is a Dothan 2.13 GHz, 533 FSB Centrino M 770.

My question here is can I simply remove the Celeron M CPU on this mother board and replace it with the Centrino M CPU? Will the mother board chipset support either CPU?

My second option is to upgrade to a different mother board (Dell PN C6402), with the separate video card (Dell PN W5320). Will this Dell mother board require the use of my current Celeron M CPU (400 MHz FSB) or can I use the 770 Centrino M (533 MHz FSB) CPU I have available, or will either CPU work on this mother board?
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post #2 of 4
12/5/06 at 2:03pm
Neither CPU's should be restricted. Although with the kind of money you might be putting into the system ensure this is all cost effective in the l ong run. Ive gone overboard with my old Celeron desktop by buying expensive legacy parts when I could have just bought a state of the art budget system that would perform 3 folds better.
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post #3 of 4
12/5/06 at 8:16pm
Yeah, you may be better off selling your Laptop for a couple hundred and buying a newer, faster machine with the money you would have spent upgrading the old one. The rule of thumb with Laptops is they generally are not upgradable.
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post #4 of 4
12/15/06 at 10:22pm
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Originally Posted by Pecos
I have a one year old Dell 6000 that contains a 1.4 GHz Celeron M. I believe the CPU is a Dothan 400 MHz FSB 1.4 GHz (Celeron M 360).

I mother board is Dell PN C6654 with the integral Intel video. I have upgraded the memory to 2 Gb (1Gb x 2) 533 MHz RAM (DDR2 PC@-4200 SODIMM).

I would like to upgrade the video performance of this PC further. I have a 2.13 GHz Centrino M CPU available to me. I believe the CPU is a Dothan 2.13 GHz, 533 FSB Centrino M 770.

At lest with my inspiron 6000 with chipset graphics there was no problem upgrading from a 1.4ghz celeron to a Pentium-M (both 400 and 533 FSB work fine at least in combination with 533 ram).
But I would not buy a 2.13 P-m as it is much to expensive. I would go for the chance, buy a 1.6ghz 400fsb p-m and pinmod it to 2.13

I was lucky and got a nice 1.7/400 p-m and pinmodded it to 533 fsb and am running perfectly stable with max 2.237ghz @ stockvoltage for 12 month now.

Just one more thought:
I normally set max-speed on the cpu to 1.6ghz on battery and 1.87ghz on ac power as next step on this cpu would be 2.27ghz which will spin up the fan in one second after speedstep reaches 2.27ghz while it takes about 15 seconds at 1.87ghz to start the fan turning.
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