dinosaur cpu upgrade

[roger]

I have an old dell inspiron 1501 laptop with amd turion 64 MK-36 CPU in it. What is the best possible cpu for an upgrade.  i'v found the turion 64 x2 tl60 but there must be something better out there.

[T.Vengeance]

What? This is the first I've heard of upgrading a laptop's CPU. I thought they were soldered on the motherboard?

[JohnnyGrey]

What? This is the first I've heard of upgrading a laptop's CPU. I thought they were soldered on the motherboard?

Laptop CPU's aren't usually soldered, but it is a different socket than their desktop counterparts. Thermals play a huge role in upgrading a laptop's CPU.

What are you doing with the laptop? Depending on the cost of that dual core CPU, it probably isn't worth it. Not to mention the cooler may not have the capacity to cool the dual core Turion.

[roger]

the laptop is just a spare and probably only get used for browsing email ...but its a single core and thats tough to swallow 

[qwertywarrior]

the socket it called S1 (638 pins)

according to the little information i found

there are 4 revisions of that socket  with the "g" suffix (ie S1g1 S1g2 etc)

 

and these are the cpus that work with the S1 socket ( no idea if the revisions affect that )

 

Athlon 64 X2; Turion 64 X2; Mobile Sempron; Turion 64 (MK series only)

[roger]

most of these old cpu's on ebay are cheap 

[roger]

Is the athlon a 64bit chip

[Antistatic12]

I have an old dell inspiron 1501 laptop with amd turion 64 MK-36 CPU in it. What is the best possible cpu for an upgrade.  i'v found the turion 64 x2 tl60 but there must be something better out there.

have you checked to see if the CPU is even removable?

[roger]

I have not checked myself but I read on another forum some did upgrade it 

[Lord Pantaloons]

not worth it, just go on Craigslist and but some core 2 duo Windows XP laptop for $50 and put Ubuntu on it.

[roger]

Thank you for your help... I will keep looking for info on these four cpu's. :rolleyes: 

[legopc]

have you checked to see if the CPU is even removable?

yes it is removable 

[roger]

lol what a dinosaur. but like i said its spare.

[Antistatic12]

yes it is removable 

ok thats good to know.

[roger]

http://www.amd.com/us/Documents/44954A_Turion_vs_T7400.pdf  ....    http://www.amd.com/us/products/embedded/processors/mobile/Pages/mobile.aspx

[roger]

Well this seems to be the t-rex of s1 sockets from what I can tell AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile technology TL-68 CPU

[roger]

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Turion%2064%20X2%20Mobile%20technology%20TL-68%20-%20TMDTL68HAX5DM.html

[Leonard]

What? This is the first I've heard of upgrading a laptop's CPU. I thought they were soldered on the motherboard?

Not all of them are soldered on and it is doable but the cooler should be upgraded too if the new CPU makes more heat than the old one.

[roger]

Ok final result..... I did upgrade with no issues and running cool with (AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile Technoligy TL-62   2.10 GHz) all for the low low price of $20 bucks on ebay. Actually works really nice compared to before, and will give a few more yrs use from it.