D630 Processor upgrade

[tblake05]

Hello, first time poster, long time reader.

I've got an old Dell latitude D630 that I'm going to be upgrading. I read in a different posting that user ronshare mentioned that the T9900 processor would work in my D630, however I see the T9900 has a 1066mhz FSB whereas the T8300 currently in the unit I have has an 800mhz FSB. Plus I've already got 4mb (2x2GB) of ram running at 667mhz, so I see that my only option there would be to upgrade to 8MB of pc2-6400 running at 800mhz. Thus making the 1066 FSB of the T9900 pointless. Only reason I ask is because the T9900 seems to be going for less money than the x9000 right now on fleabay. I do have A19 BIOS.

Any input anyone besides getting a completely new laptop? I like this computer, I'm used to it. And yes, I have the intel video card, not the nvidia.

Besides processor and ram upgrades, I'll be upgrading to a SSD, and to windows 7 64bit.

(P.S. If anyone knows how to change the bios from SLIC 2.0 to 2.1, I'm all ears)

Thanks!

 

[Autocrat]

You are probably going to have a hard time upgrading if it is at all possible. For one, the CPU is likely soldered to the mobo. Secondly, the rest of the computer may not be able to accept a new CPU. The laptop may not be able to deal with increased power consumption.

Besides adding a new HDD and new RAM sticks (laptops are very picky about which types they will accept) - they really are not upgrade-able.

 

[tblake05]

CPU is not soldered in as I had it all apart when I had the Nvidia blank screen of death and upgraded the motherboard to the intel chip. I've already got an SSD but its old and at 120gb is almost filled. Now that solid state technology has come down in price, it seems like a good time to go bigger. Plus don't SSD's consume less power than their old HDD counterparts? For its age, this old laptop actually runs pretty good, but Vista, and its programs aren't supported anymore. Thus the upgrade plans.