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Highest/Fastest CPU that D900K (AMD) 7700 will support?

post #1 of 7
7/10/08 at 10:34am
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I have a AMD 7700 laptop and was wondering what the highest/fastest cpu it will support? It currently has a amd athlon 64 x2 4400+ 2.2 ghz dual core. Newegg has a great deal on a quad core proc, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...L1B-_-19103244 but i dont want to spend the money if its not supported.

Thanks for the help.
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post #2 of 7
7/10/08 at 10:55am
Sorry thats a socket AM2+ and the m7700 has a socket 939.

far as i know the fastest process you can use is the AMD FX-60
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post #3 of 7
7/10/08 at 12:58pm
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Ok, thanks. Its confusing because the 4400+ comes in 2 flavors: AM2+ and 939.
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post #4 of 7
7/10/08 at 1:00pm
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also doesn't the dual core end up being faster than the single core fx-60 anyways?
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post #5 of 7
7/10/08 at 1:09pm
kind of yes. the fx processors were designed More for gaming calculations. at its timethere wew no multi threaded games, so dual core just used one core.

i just did a 5 second check on amd about the fx. i don't know but there might be a better 939 processor. i had the 4400+ in my M7700 too.
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post #6 of 7
7/10/08 at 2:35pm
FX-60 was dual core. Think it was the fastest available for S939 (above the 4800+). Prolly be hard to find these days though. You could also look for Opteron S939 chips as they were offered in the MJ series of 7700 like mine for a short while.

I think there might have been a new bios to support the FX-60, so make sure you are at the latest bios they offered.
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post #7 of 7
7/11/08 at 6:11pm
Like hulioni said, the bios is the issue here. I'm not sure Alienware sold the m7700 with anything faster than the FX-60.

You should check for the latest bios for the Clevo d900k. Clevo might have put out a newer bios to support newer chipsets, but AW wouldn't have that if they never sold the platform with the parts in question.
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