CEQ-312SA

[maggieglanville]

Hi Guys & Girls

Wonder if anyone can advise me as to what is the most powerful cpu that i can put into my CQ61-312SA

At the moment it has a sempron 2gh single core  windows 7 64-bit home premium with built in recovery

But i have seen the same the same replacement board no as mine  AMD ( 577065-001 )

with a AMD ATHLON x 2 cpu in it

so does this mean that i could put a amd athlon x 2 in my laptop to replace the 2gh sempron cpu

would it cause any conflicts

Thankyou for looking

Maggie

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, Maggie:

Below is the link to the service manual for your notebook.

Supported processors can be found in chapter 1, page 1.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01868653.pdf

When I look in chapter 3 for the illustrated parts, I see no different motherboards or fan/heatsink combos for the different processors, so you should be able to install any of those listed with your current setup.

Just check the support and driver page and read the BIOS release notes for any version to see if you need to update the BIOS if an update adds support for any of the processors you are interested in installing.

...and you will need to be meticulous about reapplying thermal compound to the various heat sink contact points to ensure a good thermal transfer from the GPU and processor to the heat sink.

Paul

[maggieglanville]

HI paul

I meant to say  CQ61-312SA

Thanks for your quick reply much appriated

i have looked at the manual that you posted a link to for me thankyou

so does this mean that any of the following cpu processers will work on my motherboard

　

　

M600, 2.4-GHz (2-MB L2 cache, 3.6 GT/s HyperTransport speed)

576254-001

■M520, 2.3-Ghz (1-MB L2 cache, 3.6 GT/s HyperTransport speed)

583055-001

■M500, 2.2-GHz (1-MB L2 cache, 3.6 GT/s HyperTransport speed)

576253-001

■M320, 2.1-GHz (1-MB L2 cache, 3.2 GT/s HyperTransport speed)

576252-001

■M300, 2.0-GHz (1-MB L2 cache, 3.2 GT/s HyperTransport speed)

578024-001

■M100, 2.0-GHz (512-KB L2 cache, 3.2 GT/s HyperTransport speed

many thanks

maggie

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very weclome, Maggie;

As far as I know, that is correct.

Paul

[maggieglanville]

HI

Yes this was very helpful to me

but im still wondering if i can indeed also put the amd dual core cpu onto the board

purely because i saw one on ebay with one on it

many thanks anyway

maggie

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome, Maggie.

I would only be able to quote what is supported in the manual.

I don't know enough about AMD chipsets and processors to tell you that it would be worth a try even though it is not listed in the manual.

Paul