Hello everyone
I was thinking about refurbishing an old HP Pavilion DV5-1126em laptop that I have had for some years now, just to give it a new life. Aside from getting a new battery, I thought about replacing its HDD with an SSD, and more importantly, replacing its CPU with a more powerful.
I had a quick search, and I found that most folks online do not recommend replacing laptop CPUs, although there are some people who did and it worked with, so I thought about experimenting on this.
The processor installed on the laptop is Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 2.0 GHz, 3 MB Cache. I thought about replacing it with a P8800 (2.66 GHz, 3 MB) or P9500 (2.53 GHz, 6 MB) from the same family. The three processors have the same wattage rating and socket compatibility. The link below shows a comparison between the three.
http://ark.intel.com/compare/36750,40380,35566
I am a confused between the higher clock speed or the larger amount of cache, although 3 MB of cache sounds reasonable, I noticed that the performance benchmark of P9500 is slightly higher than the P8800
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html
In contrast, the difference single-threaded performance is negligible, but for the sake of comparison, we can see that the P8800 has slightly higher score because of its clock speed.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
Q.1
Is the overall score of P9500 higher because of the difference in cache, although P8800 has a higher clock speed ??
If not, what possible reasons could be behind it ?
Q.2
I am confused between the two, because my biggest concern so far is the BIOS compatibility. There are HP Pavilion laptops from the same generation, but higher classes (DV6 or DV7) that carry one of P8800 or P9500. However, I am not sure what has a better chance of working with the laptop BIOS, more clock speed or more cache memory. Any thoughts ?
Are there are any serious things that I to consider ?
It is true that I would like to experiment with this, but I really hope things to work fine after I wait for my order to arrive
.
Regards
Thanks in Advance
I was thinking about refurbishing an old HP Pavilion DV5-1126em laptop that I have had for some years now, just to give it a new life. Aside from getting a new battery, I thought about replacing its HDD with an SSD, and more importantly, replacing its CPU with a more powerful.
I had a quick search, and I found that most folks online do not recommend replacing laptop CPUs, although there are some people who did and it worked with, so I thought about experimenting on this.
The processor installed on the laptop is Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 2.0 GHz, 3 MB Cache. I thought about replacing it with a P8800 (2.66 GHz, 3 MB) or P9500 (2.53 GHz, 6 MB) from the same family. The three processors have the same wattage rating and socket compatibility. The link below shows a comparison between the three.
http://ark.intel.com/compare/36750,40380,35566
I am a confused between the higher clock speed or the larger amount of cache, although 3 MB of cache sounds reasonable, I noticed that the performance benchmark of P9500 is slightly higher than the P8800
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html
In contrast, the difference single-threaded performance is negligible, but for the sake of comparison, we can see that the P8800 has slightly higher score because of its clock speed.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
Q.1
Is the overall score of P9500 higher because of the difference in cache, although P8800 has a higher clock speed ??
If not, what possible reasons could be behind it ?
Q.2
I am confused between the two, because my biggest concern so far is the BIOS compatibility. There are HP Pavilion laptops from the same generation, but higher classes (DV6 or DV7) that carry one of P8800 or P9500. However, I am not sure what has a better chance of working with the laptop BIOS, more clock speed or more cache memory. Any thoughts ?
Are there are any serious things that I to consider ?
It is true that I would like to experiment with this, but I really hope things to work fine after I wait for my order to arrive
.Regards
Thanks in Advance
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