Dell latitude upgrade questions.

[-RockMan-]

My mother just gave me her laptop to sell but I am currently to keep it if I can upgrade this any further.

It's a dell latitude CPx 500mhz P3, 128MB SD-RAM came preinstalled with windows 98, but got rid of it for XP SP2.
Currently I know this laptop can handle a 160gb hdd as long as it's not SATA, memory can go up to about 786mb sd-ram.
The cpu has me very worried, I know it's p3 500mhz what I really don't know if it's a 100fsb or 133fsb with a mmc 1 or mmc 2.

Any help would be great, I am looking at ebay.com and I see quite a few p3 800 cpus going for 15.00 under with low or free shipping, question is will it work my laptop......

 

[Lexluethar]

If it is the same socket as your laptop it should work. What you'll probably run into is with the faster processor your laptop won't be built for the extra heat - so cooling may be come an issue.

Try something like Belarc Advisor to get the exact model/make of the motherboard / processor, then do a google search to fine the specifics about FSB speeds.

 

[-RockMan-]

Thanks, well I can look underneath laptop for the service number, but currently right now it has no hdd at the moment...

I'll see what I can dig up from other posts on the net that preivous owners said about this laptop.

Thanks Lex.

 

[-RockMan-]

I am currently speaking with a seller about his Pentium 3 800mhz.
He says he's not quite if this will go inside of a laptop or desktop.
He told me he's had it for quite a long time...

Intel Pentium III P3 800Mhz/256/133/1.75V SL52P - eBay (item 320434379355 end time Oct-17-09 18:51:23 PDT)

And this is what I'm trying to figure if it is only for normal socket 370 desktops or not...

Intel Pentium III 800 - RB80526PZ800256 (BX80526C800256E)

Thanks in advance.