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how hard/easy to upgrade e1705 from "socket m" to "socket p"?

post #1 of 6
3/3/08 at 12:43am
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Does anybody know how hard or easy it would be to upgrade the motherboard for my Inspiron E1705 to Socket P from Socket M?

On an unrelated note, any opinions out there as to the degree to which I should be concerned about using an engineering sample Core 2 Duo as opposed to a normal Core 2 Duo? I am leaning against it because of the possibility of errata. I use my computer very heavily (which of course is why I am looking at upgrading the processor ).
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post #2 of 6
3/3/08 at 11:13am
Impossible?

You need a whole new chipset = new motherboard. And the new ones don't have the same form factor, so you're in for a ride...
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post #3 of 6
3/3/08 at 2:22pm
m94mni is right. You cannot upgrade just the socket, it is integral to the motherboard. You can still upgrade the processor so long as you use a socket m processor.
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post #4 of 6
3/3/08 at 4:20pm
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Ok, thanks for helping confirm that for me - I assumed as much but just wanted to make sure before I bought a Socket M.

So do any of you have any opinions on what I should do re this C2D Engineering Sample? I am bidding for it on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=200203243186)and want to know if I should let somebody else outbid me. I'd be happy to have it for the price that it looks like I will pay, except that I don't want my computer randomly going haywire or my files getting corrupted because my processor has errata in it... know what I mean?

If there would be errors my applications could detect and recover from, possibly limiting some functionalities, I might be able to live with that risk, but not untraceable or unpredictable stuff.
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post #5 of 6
3/3/08 at 4:35pm
I haven't actually heard of anyone with issues with an engineering sample. I would guess that there might be heat issues? But random crashes? Not that I've heard of.

I wouldn't rely on one for a mission-critical system, and it may void your warranty (unlike regular CPU upgrades)
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post #6 of 6
3/3/08 at 11:47pm
I haven't heard of many issues with engineering samples either. In fact, I've seen many people searching for them b/c of the unlocked multipliers. I don't know about heat issues, I wouldn't think you would have a problem with that; some arctic silver on it wouldn't hurt though. If this processor voids your warranty(which it may since engineering samples don't have warranties.) You could just put the original back in.
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