Before installing the windows 10, I actually installed my unused licence of windows 7 on that PC and it felt much more slower. The upgrade only worked after I did it with i7 640M (Arrandale).Īssuming that the i7 720QM was not faulty, do you think that the upgrade didn't work because my laptop was not compatible with Arrandale or because I have to update the microcode? Sorry again if you and other people in here are not comfortable with question not related to HP.Yeah, I just realize that the RAM is only 1GB. However, the upgrade with i7 720QM did not work even though the BIOS had been updated to the latest version. Thefore I decided to start with the cheaper i7 720QM ( Clarksfield). I wanted to upgrade to i7 940XM (Clarksfield), but I'm afraid that I'm going to waste a lot of money if the upgrade didn't work. Originally it came with i5 430M (Arrandale). Few months ago I upgraded my ASUS A52JK laptop (Intel® HM55 Express Chipset).

If you don't mind, I would like to ask your opinion about something that is not related to HP. I was also told by other person that Intel Xeon is not compatible with the Q33 chipset, so I think I'll stick with the unmodded CPU.ītw, all this time I know about BIOS, but this is the first time I hear about microcode. Please advice if this upgrade is going to work or not. I will proceed with Q9650 if I can afford it (and go for Q9300 if Q9650 is too expensive for me).

However, the price of a used Q9650 on ebay is roughly 3 times the price of a used Q9300. However after I read the link givven by Paul_Tikkanen, I discovered that the fastest possible CPU to be installed on this PC is actually Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650. I decided to upgrade the PC with new CPU, RAM, and SSD.Īt first, I decided to upgrade the CPU to Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q9300 after referring to the following link (because this is the fastest CPU that is listed in this site): However, I noticed that the PC feels slow on Windows 7 and 10 (including the clean install version of Win 10). Therefore I installed it on my sister's PC, then I upgraded it to Windows 10 (through the free Windows 10 upgrade that Microsoft offered few years ago). In addition, the support for both Windows XP & Vista has already ended.Ĭo-incidenttally, I have an unused Windows 7 Ultimate (retail version). I tried to format her computer, but even the Windows XP recovery partition was corrupted. My sister no longer uses the computer after her Windows was corrupted.

It comes together with Intel® Pentium® Processor E2200, 2GB of RAM, and Windows Vista (downgraded to Windows XP). My sister has an unused HP Compaq dc5800 Small Form Factor.

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