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cu3edweb

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 291

CPU and Laptop Question

I have a HP laptop with a athlon-xp 1800+ in it. My question is. I also have a spare athlon-xp 2400+ cpu lying around. Could I swap that out in my laptop or would that not work?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: CPU and Laptop Question

I doubt it. Notebook CPUs are most of the time special mobile revisions (smaller, lower voltage), mounted on special boards and not the default socket of the desktop variants.

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schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: CPU and Laptop Question

There is a chance that the module can be swapped. That's how laptops work, but not sure whether legacy ones are the same..the CPU & Graphics chipsets are soldered onto the module, some sorta mobo atop the mobo. So to change either u change the module, big burn in ur pocket But modern laptops may be easier, i haven't opened up mine except to change ram & hdd.

edit: no u can't make a desktop cpu work on a laptop if that's what u wanna know

Last edited by schivmeister (2007-11-15 10:13:52)

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