I know upgrading notebooks can be a bit of a problem. What is the easiest way to find out which cpu's certain notebooks(in particular dell notebooks) can handle?
I was hoping to find perhaps a site that lists the notebooks by model number and rates the highest cpu speed they can handle.
Upgrading *anything* Dell sells is tricky. They make special deals with OEMs that often result in special parts, that if you can upgrade, you can only get from Dell.
That is, unless their policy has changed recently. Couple years ago, the gray market had Dell mthbds for sale for 10$... which needed special Dell power supplies... if you could find any.
If you would let us know what make and model your computer is we will be able to find you motherboard and then be able to tell you what CPUs are supported.
If you are just trying to increase the performance you could add more RAM, that's the quickest and most economical way to get a little more speed.
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