Upgrading a Celery Lappy CPU - Help!

[Bennah]

Just recently purchased a cheap laptop. Wanting to upgrade a few things, the cpu is where Im a little stuck.

Never messed around with laptop stuff before so I dont really know what goes in what, like I do on dekstops

Anyway my current lappy has a Celery 2.8Ghz, Northy, skt 478mPGA, 128kb L2.

Its ok at speed but Im just thinking to getting something with more L2 cache really to boost performance somewhat.

Basically any northwood skt 478, 512kb L2 could go in the laptop? They do run a little hot though and might drain the battery.

Is there any mobile skt478 I could get in there, are Dothan's skt 479?

Chipset is an ATi 'ID5833' and SB is also an ATI, 'SB200'.

Thanks

 

[Bennah]

Nope, dont think they are as Ive heard and pretty sure Ive seen people replacing thiers quiet easily.

 

[Bennah]

Ah ok thanks for that, so Im looking for a Northwood P4-M cpu then, they do drain battery's quiet bad I hear.

I might just leave it then and keep with the celery. Dont really want to bring the battery life down again.

Just a ram upgrade for me then atm.

I'l just save the extra I was going to spend on the new cpu for my next laptop. Only got another £800 or so to save