upgrading Pentium M processors in laptop

[hox]

I favor the ultralight notebooks and was wondering if a notebook using a 1 GHZ or 1.2 GHZ pentium M could handle the upgraded 1.7 GHZ speed. Has anyone trieds this. I am looking to do this in the toshiba Portege R100 or in the IBM X31.

Thanks

 

[Pandaren]

I don't know that upgrading the the fastest Pentium M would be such a hot idea on an ultralight. The Pentium M runs relatively cool compared to other mobile CPUs, but it still puts out a decent amount of heat when doing CPU intense tasks.

The thermal solutions on ultralights aren't meant to handle the higher clocked CPUs - your notebook migth get really toasty if you hotrod it like that...

 

[fr]

Most ultralights have their CPU soldered onto the motherboard. If you have one of those, you can't upgrade the CPU.

 

[jschuk]

Originally posted by: fr
Most ultralights have their CPU soldered onto the motherboard. If you have one of those, you can't upgrade the CPU.

Ditto that.

 

[AndrewKu]

That or replace the entire motherboard, at that point you might as well get a new notebook. 😛

 

[Spicedaddy]

Most ultralights use LV or ULV (Low Voltage or Ultra Low Voltage) Pentium-M's...