Celeron M @ 1.6 to Pentium M @ 2.0 ?

[ShreddedWheat]

I have a 2005 HP laptop that I really don't want to get rid of yet. Would I notice a little more performance in WinXP with this upgrade. It used to run fine but with all the bloatware of websites, etc...it seems slower even with fresh install it just improved a little.

It is alright for older games and has a 128meg dedicated x700 vid card.

I found a Pentium M 2.0 for only 13 bucks shipped.

 

[Zap]

For $13, why not? Just make sure it is supported. Besides the 400MHz extra clock speed, I think it will have a bit more cache.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Would Windows 7 be out of the question? If you turn down all the eye candy, it's actually pretty snappy in general use. (UAC delays notwithstanding.)

 

[Magic Carpet]

Upgrade RAM/HDD, and it will serve for you a few more years 🙂

Would Windows 7 be out of the question?

Windows 7 SP1 will run perfectly fine, even on not so recent hardware. Unless that laptop got a very exotic sound codec which might not work in W7. You've got to try 😉

 

[ShreddedWheat]

Ram is maxed at 2 gigs. 80 gig hd is fine for what I do. Pentium M 2.0 came in today got it for $12 shipped.

Though I couldn't resist the slickdeal for the ACER for $399 and ordered it today. I figured I hate how Win8 seems already with the tiles and won't know if I will want to wait on the next Win 9 OS so got the acer. Will use Penium M 2.0 for backup/camping/travel. 🙂

 

[ultimatebob]

So... Is it faster? I would think that you would see a 30% boost in speed, which might not be noticeable unless if you're doing something CPU intensive.

 

[ShreddedWheat]

Havent installed yet wife has me busy with honey do's 🙁

 

[yhelothar]

While dated, a 2GHz Pentium M is a decent performer. It's still much faster than netbooks so it should run web/office apps with ease. If you're getting slowdowns, I'd bet it's due to lack of ram. I'm running a 1.6GHz Dothan and it's been working great for office/web. I just need about 2GB of ram to do some decent multitasking. After I upgraded the HDD to SSD, it felt more snappy to use than my quadcore desktop - although it just couldn't run HD videos smoothly.

 

[ShreddedWheat]

Got it installed. Didn't have to take apart laptop (heatsink was on back underneath 1 screw...damn heatsink dirty as crap). AC5 and so far running alot cooler.

So far it seems noticeably faster for internet. Look forward to getting better battery life on this too. Look forward to slightly better old game performance.

Wish I would of benchmarked old celeron 1.6 before installing this but oh well. Thanks for the advice everyone.

 

[Magic Carpet]

You may as well consider, upgrading the laptop to Windows 7. You will be pleasantly surprised with it.

Get CoreAVC for HD decoding, it should be adequate to about any general task now.

Good luck.