T8300 upgrade to Q9100

[mellowcream]

o I want to upgrade my old HP Compaq 8510w laptop. It currently has these sepcs:



Intel Core 2 Duo t8300 @ 2.4GHZ

Nvidia Quadro 570m

8GB of DDR2

500GB 7200rpm drive

PM965 Chipset, Socket P (478)

The CPU isn't soldered. But HP doesn't have a list of supported CPU's.



I want to upgrade the CPU I was thinking a Q9100. The chipset and socket work, but will the bios take it?

 

[jimpz]

According to HP, that laptop only supportd the 'T' series of Core 2 Duo.
The FSB is higher in the Q9100 as it the wattage needed, so more than the bios, the mobo hardware itself may not support it.