Toshiba satellite A30 CPU upgrade possibilities?
Currently this system is running an intel celeron Northwood 2.5ghz with 128kbytes of cache, 100mhz bus speed and multiplier of 25, oh and 400mhz fsb. Chipset is i855gm/gme, I can't find much info at all on it. I'm looking to put a P4 in this system, I've been looking around and there's a lot of pretty cheap used ones I could pick up for under 10 dollars.
The thing I'm wondering about is compatibility, I'd like to go with a p4 above 2.5 but I can only seem to find p4's that fast with a fsb of 533mhz. I've seen a30's with 533mhz cpus in them but I don't know if this exat model can take one. Model # PSA30C-00YS5. The processor I'm looking at right now is a 2.66ghz p4, 533mhz fsb, 133mhz bus speed, 512 cache, a 20x multiplier, and is also a Northwood.
Anyone out there know if it will work? Even if it does work will I only get 2 ghz out of it? I'd be happy with that over the celeron even if I only got 2 ghz out of it.
Update:Found the manual on the toshiba site, shows processors supported and for p4 it says 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz, 3.06GHz. Pretty sure the 400mhz p4 only went up to 2.6ghz, so am I right in assuming that if the board supports up to 3.06ghz that it supports a 533mhz cpu?
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Your laptop has no way to remove the heat a Pentium 4 CPU would generate and no way to supply the higher voltage and higher power it would require. You can't even install a Pentium 4-M because the FC-mPGA socket CPUs and FC-mPGA2 socket CPUs require completely different thermal solutions. Unfortunately, a 2.5GHz Celeron is the top of the line for this configuration.
Sorry.
This computing device got here with an AMD Athlon X2 QL-60 processor (socket S1g2). for the reason that this CPU is 3 years previous, you would have likely a problematical time looking a CPU which will in advantageous condition. I propose you start up searching for a sparkling computing device.