Sony Vaio F-150

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Hey, just a quick question. I have upgraded my notebook hard drive to
a 20GB from the original 4GB. I have upgraded the memory to 256MB from
64MB I believe. I can finally run windows XP Pro. Is there any way to
upgrade the processor in this laptop? I believe its a P3 now, maybe
lower, 333Mhz I know. I've heard that on most laptops they actually
soder(spelling) it into the notebook. I've tried contacting sony and
get no reply.

ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT!

thanks,


Ryan

 

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okay, thats kinda what I figured. So then the question really is how
much memory can I load this thing up with? Can I go to 512 or even
1GB?? is there a limit to what its capable of?

 

[Andrew]

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ryanpassfield@yahoo.ca wrote:
: Hey, just a quick question. I have upgraded my notebook hard drive to
: a 20GB from the original 4GB. I have upgraded the memory to 256MB from
: 64MB I believe. I can finally run windows XP Pro. Is there any way to
: upgrade the processor in this laptop? I believe its a P3 now, maybe
: lower, 333Mhz I know. I've heard that on most laptops they actually
: soder(spelling) it into the notebook. I've tried contacting sony and
: get no reply.

First go to Sony.com and get the specs for your laptop. There's
probably a maximum speed CPU that it can handle, soldered or not. It
has to do with the chipset, the front-side bus speed, etc. For your
particular CPU socket there's also going to be a maximum speed CPU
ever built to plug into it. Don't even dream for example of plugging
a Socket 478 Pentium 4 into it for example. Maybe you'll find a
faster Pentium 2 to plug in there but that's about it.

You may find you wouldn't get much speed improvement by upgrading to
the maximum speed CPU you could get for that model. Sony probably
sold a range of CPU speeds for that model. The higher up in that
range your original CPU is, the less of a chance it's worthwhile to
upgrade.

You already got a big boost by upgrading the RAM.

Andrew
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[Andrew]

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ryanpassfield@yahoo.ca <ryanpassfield@yahoo.ca> wrote:
: okay, thats kinda what I figured. So then the question really is how
: much memory can I load this thing up with? Can I go to 512 or even
: 1GB?? is there a limit to what its capable of?

There most definitely is a limit to what you can put in there. What
that limit is depends, again, on the motherboard and chipset. Get
the specs from Sony.com. They should have such info on their site.
I'm going to guess 256MB or 512MB is the limit of what your
motherboard will support.

In any case, 512MB is probably the point of diminishing returns for
the average Windows user. Unless you are doing a lot of graphics
editing or are using some other memory-intensive task, more RAM isn't
going to gain you much speed improvement, if any.

Andrew
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