putting a core duo into a single core laptop?

[dlittlebear]

This might be the wrong forum to post in was unsure of this one are hardware.


Has anyone tried this, and or is there any reason this might NOT work?

I have 2 laptops, dell 9300 and a dell xps, both of which have pentium M 2ghz CPUs. I have noticed that both this processor and the core duo have the same number of pins. So I was wondering could I buy a core duo and just install it?

 

[gaara]

I think it depends on the chipset and whether or not it will support Yonah cores or not

 

[Nitestick]

unless it is a yonah core solo then no its not going to happen. both the yonah and dothan use s479 but each a different version. Intel were kind enough to shift the position of one pin to make the 2 incompatable so therefore a core duo will only be able to replace a core solo

 

[turtile]

I think you need a 945 and above chipset.