Intel Pentium T3400 Upgrade

[jerrybeomsoo]

Hello. I am using an old laptop (Model: LG Xnote R510-L.A230K) using Intel Pentium T3400 (2.17Ghz, FSB 667MHz) as a secondary laptop. However, T3400's performance is terrible, and I would like to upgrade it to Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 (2.6GHz, FSB 1066MHz). I've found that my mainboard supports FSB 1066MHz, and the socket seems to be compatible. However, I'm not sure that I can upgrade T3400 to T9550. Sorry if my English was bad.

 

[Atomicdonut17]

Thanks for posting to Tom's Hardware!


These CPUs are within the same age of release, and both support a variant of the PGA478 socket type. Through a little bit of research, it's a little hard to answer this question directly. They're from two different production lines- the Pentium being Merom and Core 2 being Penryn. Much like the more modern issue of Skylake products requiring BIOS updates to work on certain LGA1151 boards (anything above B150), it could be the same kind of issue. As well (and the more probable issue) is that, because these are MOBILE processors, they're more than likely intergrated into the mainboard/motherboard. This means, there's no replacing the CPU. It's just there and it would be WAYYY more of a pain than it's worth to try and interchange the CPU (if even possible) than to just buy a more modern laptop with intergrated CPU/GPU.


Hope this helped!- atomicdonut17