CPU Upgrade for Dell Vostro 1000

[Snerp]

Is the TL-68 the fastest CPU I can use? Thanks.

 

[alkemyst]

It's appears that is the fastest, but there are caveats you probably want to read up on:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19447920/20161696.aspx

 

[Snerp]

It's appears that is the fastest, but there are caveats you probably want to read up on:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19447920/20161696.aspx

That's the post I saw too. I'll be using Noctua NT-H1 for the install. It really seems to do the trick. I put a T7200 in an Inspiron 6400 and the stock cooling was sufficient.

I was really hoping a bios update or something could get me into the next gen of socket 1. Was worth asking.

I'll probably just use a TL-66.

 

[alkemyst]

Just remember many of these laptops have plenty of CPU for the non-graphically intense things they see and that many times an SSD is more bang for buck.

I had a T60 Thinkpad that I took from 1.8GHz? to a T7200 as well, Scorpio 500GB and swapped the GMA950 motherboard to one with the X1400 graphics card. I wanted the V5250 (it went from 128mb to 512mb of VRAM), but many said those cards overheat and use way too much battery power. I also upgraded to Wireless N and the SVGA+ screen. Other than that the laptop had everything else from the factory except the cellular card.

While it was a little laggy with the original CPU, the T7200 ran everything in the MS Office package and browsers not much differently than my near 4GHz AMD 955 in my desktop. I transferred my MS Office license to my Fiancee and put Open Office on his laptop and that runs a little snappier it seems.

About a year ago I gave it to my fiancee's 10 year old as a 'starter' laptop. These T60's are rugged. He has been good, dropped it once because he fell asleep with it and broke the bezel ($5 part) and the Scorpio died. I can't remember what I put into it.

Based on what I read and the costs, unless you can score a TL-66 cheap (I scored my T7200 for a steal by searching VARs I had access too, the two faster T7400 and T7600 were going for brain damage money like almost all the top chips in a socket lineup do...I ended up with 2.0Ghz when 2.16GHz would have been 4 times the price and 2.33GHz over 8...I paid around $25-50 IIRC, the only T7600's I found were $300 or more)

Good luck, I love breathing life into old hardware. I help a lot of my friends/family do this without having to throw another $500+ on something that's just going to run email and Word the same way (and facebook games )

 

[Snerp]

I love it too. There's just something about getting a cheap older setup that someone is basically giving away, dropping $50-100 into it and then watching it wipe the floor with someone's new $300 netbook.

The Vostro 1000 already had an Intel SSD. I picked it up for $100. I switched the 2GB in new one with the 4GB in my wife's older dell. Sold the old one for $100 (still a decent deal) and am now wanting to get the clock a tad higher.

The seller has two more if anyone is interested. I think they were picked up at a police auction because they smell like pot and blunt wraps. So if you're a worrier about electronics in a smoker's environment, these are not for you. I'm going to clean it up really well with isopropyl when I do the CPU upgrade.

It's pretty much the same laptop, other than the SSD, it can actually use all of the memory and it's less bulky. The wife is very happy with it.

She will be multitasking and doing some photo editing. The current processor is a TK-53. The TL-66 has double the L2 Cashe which, in my past experience, can make a huge difference.

I can get a TL-66 for $46 shipped. It seems reasonable. I don't see the point in dropping an extra $40 for the TL-68.