Dell Insipron 600m - cpu upgrade

[Archman]

Just a quick question.

Anyone know if the banias cpu inside is upgradable to the sonoma (533MHz fsb)?

Thank you

 

[Brainonska511]

You mean a Dothan-cored Pentium M.

You can only upgrade to another 400MHz FSB Pentium M. I believe there were a few models of Dothan processors with the 400MHz FSB made.

 

[mpilchfamily]

That is if the CPU is even upgradable. It may be soldered to the main board.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
That is if the CPU is even upgradable. It may be soldered to the main board.

It's not soldered: http://support.dell.com/suppor.../en/sm/cpu.htm#1000550

 

[Bryf50]

I upgraded my 600m to a Dothan Pentium M. It worked fine but don't expect the fsb to increase if you get a chip with a faster one. The faster fsb chips work fine but it reduced the speed to what it would be with that fsb.

 

[ther00kie16]

no, the chipset is 845, not 915. if it was 915, u could just do a pin mod to up the fsb from 400 to 533 mhz giving u an easy 33% oc without any voltage bump.
highest banias is 1.7 and highest 400mhz dothan is 2.1 (model #s 715 - 765 = 1.5 - 2.1ghz)
i see 2.1ghz 765 going for $120, 2ghz 755 going for $90 and 1.8ghz 745 for a bit less on ebay.
but at those prices, u might as well wait for a $350 laptop deal to come around and hop on it. the tech will be much faster, even if it were going up against a 2.1ghz dothan pin modded to 2.8ghz.