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Rgarner

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I have the opportunity to install an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor in this Intel machine, a Dell Inspiron laptop about 5 or 6 years old. The only problem is I don't know how. Why do I get the feeling that it might be similar to putting a jet engine in a Geo Metro to win the Indy 500? Would they be compatible? Would I be wasting a perfectly good (I think) processor? It's still in the box, although it has been opened.
 
Rgarner said:
I have the opportunity to install an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor in this Intel machine, a Dell Inspiron laptop about 5 or 6 years old. The only problem is I don't know how. Why do I get the feeling that it might be similar to putting a jet engine in a Geo Metro to win the Indy 500? Would they be compatible? Would I be wasting a perfectly good (I think) processor? It's still in the box, although it has been opened.
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If it is an actual Intel cpu in the laptop now then no you can't replace it with the Amd. They use a completely different socket so you would also have to replace the motherboard which with most laptops isn't worth the Hassel if it can even be done.
 
Yeah, that's what I thought. It's a Pentium dual core T4200 @ 2.00 ghz X64 and 32 bits with 3 gb of installed ram. It also says that no pen or touch input is available for it, as if I didn't know that. It's kinda clunky but I guess I'm stuck with it for now.
 
Rgarner said:
Yeah, that's what I thought. It's a Pentium dual core T4200 @ 2.00 ghz X64 and 32 bits with 3 gb of installed ram. It also says that no pen or touch input is available for it, as if I didn't know that. It's kinda clunky but I guess I'm stuck with it for now.
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About the only thing you could easily upgrade is the memory and hard drive then.
 
Memory is most probably DDR2 so upgrading is probably not worth it. HDD isvery likely to be ATA, not SATA, so you'd be upgrading with a larger , but 2nd hand Disk. The best thing to do is to install a lightweight version of Linux. Lubuntu or Xubuntu or Mint XFCE would be suitable candidates. With three GB, you could try puppy which runs entirely within RAM and would feel much faster.
 
I can imagine how slow that machine must be, trying to run Windows.
However as suggested, a lightweight Linux distro would probably make it usable.
 
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