Incoporating laptop procesor and ram into a cheap old model...

Conroe · 08-22-2006, 04:54 PM

My dell inspiron 5150 recently died on me. I will sell the screen however rather than sell the processor P4 3.2 HT and RAM 512 333...I was considering buying some cheap laptop and then replacing the ram and processor. Any help on what to look for? Im having trouble determining which motherboards of the old laptops would be compatible with my processor. Thanks!

Conroe · 08-22-2006, 05:41 PM

Would something with a P3 processor be compatible with my P4 processor? Which laptops that are a couple years old have the best video cards? How many ram slots does a laptop typically give you? (my last only had 2 :-()

Would something like this work?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-T23-P3-1-13Gh...QQcmdZViewItem

Is it possible to upgrade a laptop video card?

macdude425 · 08-22-2006, 06:25 PM

No, it is NOT possible to upgrade a laptop's video card. Also, the P3 and P4 are totally incompatible pin-wise, so that is impossible.

Conroe · 08-22-2006, 07:06 PM

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Originally posted by macdude425
No, it is NOT possible to upgrade a laptop's video card. Also, the P3 and P4 are totally incompatible pin-wise, so that is impossible.

Figured as much but had to make sure. So what would you recommend?

Conroe · 08-22-2006, 11:27 PM

To all you techies..please give me ideas...im looking for a motherboard qhich would support my cpu p4 3.2 ht and ram. I am also interested in aquiring one with a 128 video card if not too expensive.