Compaq 1600 XL145 Notebook has FC-PGA socket!

[jcastle]

For curiosity sake, I decided to open up my Compaq 1600-XL145 Notebook. It's a P3 500 (coppermine). Works nice, but just wanted to see how they put it together. I was surprised to find a socket 370 in that bad boy. I pondered the possibilities and wanted to run it by some other tech savy people as myself.

The P3 500 has a 100MHz FSB. The notebook has no way of changing the FSB in the bios and the tiny mainboard had no indication as to what jumpers to configure. So, I'm stuck at 100MHz for the FSB. This being the case, the fastest 100MHz FSB P3 is the 850 coppermine. Everyone see where I'm getting at? I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience swapping out CPU's in this notebook. In theory, it should work. All P3's are multiplier locked so I'm not worried about that. The CPU will multiply whatever the FSB is. I'm thinking compaq went with the FC-PGA socket for ease of upgrade specifically for this purpose. Anyone else with their 2 cents?

-Jess

 

[mHubs]

Chances are its a mobile proc, aka ment to use less nrg and produce less heat, and if ya put a beastly desktop proc in there itll heat up like a SOB and use lots of power, killing ur batt. life

 

[jcastle]

Thats what I thought at first. But I opened it up and saw it for myself. P3 500 in a FC-PGA socket it's not a mobile CPU. Mobile CPU's have different packaging not FC-PGA.