Upgrade the laptop’s processor?

Topic basically by DJ93: Upgrading Laptop’s processor?

I have a toshiba laptop satellite L305D-S5974 with a amd sempron si 42 processor, socket s1. i want a bit of improvement, so i looked on ebay to find a few, naming amd sempron 3500, 3600, 3400, 3200 and more. The only dual core i found was the amd turion 64 x2 with socket s1, and it is pretty cheap(depends who sells it) But I am confused.

My sempron si42 has 2.1 ghz, and amd turion64 x2 has a variety of models, 1.8 ghz, 2.1 ghz, and I think 2.2 and 2.4 as well. The cheapest is 1.8, so if i go for that, will my laptop be slower than 2.1 sempron si42? Or no because it is dual core? What about the others?

One last thing for all computer knowhow. What is the significant difference between a single core and a dual core? Less stress on cpu or something?

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Answer by Laptop Repair

Alright. You are already halfway over one of the hurdles involved with replacing a laptop processor…. checking the socket. Most people don’t even realize that, and they ask questions like “Can I replace my Intel Atom processor with a Core i7?”

Now, not all Socket S1 sockets are the same…. or should I say, not all uses of the Socket S1 are the same. Yours is an S1G2. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Mobile%20Sempron%20SI-42%20-%20SMSI42SAM12GG.html

The Socket implementation improvements are not backwards compatible. Thus, a processor made for S1G2 won’t work in an S1G1 socket… but a processor made for S1G1 *Will* work in an S1G2 socket. What this means is that unfortunately, the more improved/newer/faster processors that are made for S1G3 and S1G4 http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket_S1_%28S1g4%29.html won’t work with your S1G2 socket.

However… there ARE Dual Core processors that will work with S1G2 sockets.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/TYPE-Turion%2064%20X2%20Mobile%20technology.html

There are a list… and the fastest one is a 2.3ghz dual core.

What’s the difference between a single core, and a dual core? A dual core processor is like having two processors instead of one. It spreads the load out, depending on the software you are using. Some older software will ignore the second core, because of how it is written but most newer software will utilize the second core. This doesn’t mean that if you have a dual core 2.3ghz, that your computer operates at an effective 4.6ghz… it just means that you can MULTI-TASK much more efficiently. You can have multiple programs going at the same time without the computer slowing down as much.

Now, in looking up various L305 models, they did ship many of them with dual core processors, so upgrading to one shouldn’t be an issue.

You are just not limited to the Turion class. You also can go with the Athlon for notebooks class.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%20QL-67%20-%20AMQL67DAM22GG.html

… as at least the L305-S5874 was shipped with a AMD Athlon X2 QL-60.

If you swapped your 2,1ghz single core out for a 1.8ghz dual core, some tasks would be slower, and some tasks would be faster. Like… if you were encoding a movie. Let’s say you ripped a DVD, and you wanted to use AutoGK to convert it to a 700mb AVI. If you wanted to let your laptop go ahead and do that, and you were going to walk away and not touch your laptop while it was doing that, then the 2.1ghz single core would actually do the job faster than then 1.8ghz dual core. But… if you wanted to surf the internet and actually use the computer at the same time, then the single core would have to work harder to be able to do everything, so it would not do ANYTHING as quickly. The Dual core would be able to handle that multi-tasking much better, and so it would finish up the encoding task faster… again, not faster if done without any extra load… just faster than if you were putting an additional strain on the laptop while it was working.

So… if you were to purchase an AMD Turion 64 x2 RM-72 which is a dual core running at 2.1ghz, you would see a marked improvement… and here is one place selling it as cheaply as $ 10 http://www.starmicroinc.net/cgi/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=TMRM72DAM22GG

Same deal with the Athlon series… an AMD Athlon x2 QL-64 which is a dual core running at 2.1ghz for $ 18 http://www.starmicroinc.net/cgi/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=AMQL64DAM22GG

Both are Socket S1G2.

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