Celeron M 380 upgrade to Pentium M

[fireandicefuel]

Can I easily upgrade Celeron M 380 1.6 ghz processor in the future to a pentium M? Which pentium is compatible and is this pretty easy to do or what?

 

[Ionizer86]

Any Dothan 400 bus Pentium M is fine: 1.5GHz up to, I think, 2.1GHz. Depending on your chipset, 133 bus chips, from 1.60GHz to 2.26GHz are compatible too. Just take apart the computer, remove the heatsink, remove the chip, and drop in the chip you buy. I also recommend researching pinmodding while you're at it, as you can buy a 400 bus chip and overclock it, say from 1.6 to 2.13, depending on your chipset.

 

[fireandicefuel]

thanks a lot I just bought this laptop today Tigerdirect

can you give me some documentation or websites as to all this information? Which dothans and how to pinmod etc..

 

[Ionizer86]

Any Dothan P-M with 400 bus will technically work but of course you have the highest chance with 1.5 or 1.6 chips (mod to 2.0 and 2.13 respectively). People have managed with 1.7 and 1.8's (mod to 2.26 and 2.40) but it's riskier. Here's a tutorial:

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread80879.html

 

[fireandicefuel]

the chipset I think is the ATI radeon xpress 200M


would that still work here with that pinmod on a 1.6 ghz pentium m 400 fsb 2 mb cache?

 

[Ionizer86]

Your system looks to support 533 bus natively. The X200 is at about the same technology level as the intel 915. Pinmodding should be fine because the change is on the CPU side of things to make it a 533 bus chip, but I can't remember with 100% certainty if this is the case.

 

[fireandicefuel]

sold the laptop as I would rather upgrade my desktop.... much more fun that way


found out in college I didn't really even need the laptop at all. There are computer labs everywhere; sometimes full but there are hidden ones many students don't know about. And my apartment is right across the street from campus anyway

 

[abefastcash]

I have a compaq presario with a celeron m 410 1mb l2 cache. 533mhz fsb....if (in the future) i would like to exchange the processor, what could i put in this, a yonah, in exchange for my current celeron m?

 

[cheesehead]

I believe tha the Celeron-M 410 uses the older Pentium-M style socket, instead of the incompatible "Core" socket used by Yonah.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead
I believe tha the Celeron-M 410 uses the older Pentium-M style socket, instead of the incompatible "Core" socket used by Yonah.

Correct. While the 410 is a Yonah core, you'll find it on the 915 or ATI Xpress 200M chipsets.

 

[abefastcash]

so it wont be possible to upgrade my processor at all?

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: Cheesehead
I believe tha the Celeron-M 410 uses the older Pentium-M style socket, instead of the incompatible "Core" socket used by Yonah.

Correct. While the 410 is a Yonah core, you'll find it on the 915 or ATI Xpress 200M chipsets.

This is very helpful info because I've been researching an Acer Aspire 3651 notebook ad couldn't figure out why it had an ATI Xpress 200m chipset and a Celeron M 410 Yonah processor.

How does performance of this combination perform compared to the older Dothan based Celeron Ms ?
i figure the 1mb cache might make a difference. I think the older Celeron M only had 32k cache, right ?