Kind of a n00b quesiton I know. But I recently had my laptop returned to me after a two year absens eandI need to upgrade it. I have a sony vaio vgn-fs742/w notebook and my motherboard is the Intel 915GM chipset. I want to have the intel core 2 duo processors put in and right now I have a Intel Centrino clocked at 1.73 ghz. Not enough... So I was wondering if you knew if my motherboard supported this.
These days, mobile chips from AMD and Intel are socketed, but they don't use a lever. Having said that, Core 2 desktop and the Core/Core 2 on the Centrio platform are not compatible. Desktops use the LGA775 socket, whereas the laptops use a mPGA 479. The socket's themselves are totally different.
Well I just found out the my motherboard is forcing my processor to run at a much slower speed a while 1 gHz slower. So should I just get a new motherboard and processor and have someone professionally install it? Or read up on it and do it myself? Or not bother and save up fer dayz and just get a new computer?
Well, that can be for a few reasons: 1.)Clock throttling. This can be because the BIOS is set to clock down the CPU when the full power isn't needed or because the CPU is getting too hot. You may also need to manually set the clock speed in BIOS, although that should be automatically detected these days.
