[biggles2008]

HI

My friend is having an upgrade from 2.2 GHz to 3.3 Ghz (Dunno why, he only goes on MSN).

Anyway my processor in my lappy is 1.7 GHz and he said if it would work i can have his 2.2 ghz Processor...

Is a PC processor compatible with a Laptop processor?

[no2pencil]

biggles2008, on 16 Jul, 2008 - 05:37 PM, said:

Is a PC processor compatible with a Laptop processor?

It completely depends on the specs of the processor & motherboard of the laptop. Do you have any model numbers? It makes looking up major details such as CPU & mother board specs a lot easier than just going by the speeds

[MorphiusFaydal]

Usually not. The old Pentium IV and Athlon-4 based laptops were, to a certain extent. Modern laptops (anything built in the last oh... 5 to 7 years) are not. A desktop Intel Core 2 Duo uses an LGA775 socket to connect to the motherboard. The laptop Core 2 Duo's use an 478-pin PGA socket.

The Athlon 64 chips you *may* have a little more luck with... AFAICT (I prefer Intel laptops), many of the recent laptop chips from AMD are Socket 754... So if your friend has, for some reason, got a S754 desktop that he's upgrading (And AMD hasn't made S754 chips in 3 years, so I doubt it), then you *may* be able to pull it apart and get it to accept the chip your friend is giving you.

Of course, all of this doesn't matter if the cooling system on the laptop can't handle the extra heat from a desktop chip. Laptop chips are reengineered to be a physically smaller package and to give off less heat... So the laptop cooling can be smaller and lighter. A desktop chip which gives off more heat, could very well overwhelm the tiny little heatpipes and fan in a laptop and then your laptop would suffer a fiery death which, while impressive, is probably not what you want to happen.

Moral of the story: Not worth it. You may be lucky and your friend is giving you a chip that could work in your system, but I would be very surprised if he was.

[PsychoCoder]

Theres more to it than that, you have to look at brand (Intel vs AMD) socket type (AM2, 775, etc)

EDIT: Guess Ill stop here as others have beat me to it lol

[biggles2008]

Aww nvm