HP 630 with HM55 Chipset CPU Upgrade.

[slifer1231]

I have recently purchased an HP 630 Notebook with a I3 370M 2.40GHz.  It has a intel HM55 chipset and according to ark.intel the HM55 chipset will support all the way up to the Intel® Core™ i7-940XM Processor Extreme Edition (8M Cache, 2.13 GHz). I was looking at upgrading the cpu as I upgrade Laptop CPUs as far as I can go my question is will the board supprt a quad cpu sometime the bios will not allow a quad unless it had been updated. I have updated to the latest bios found for this laptop. if I can not upgrade to the I7-940xm what is the highest cpu upgrade i can go to

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Below is the link to the quickspecs for your notebook.

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13963_div/13963_div.PDF

Supported processors are listed on page 3. Best you can go to is the i5-2540M

One can almost never install a quad core processor in a notebook that came with a dual core processor unless the motherboard is also replaced.

Paul

[slifer1231]

I have a friend who had a i7-940xm he let me try it in my hp 630 the laptop will boot and run the cpu Intel even says that my chipset will support the cpu they just dont recommend overclocking it which im not going to do I just want the I7-940xm to have the latest cpu that this laptop will support the spec sheet you posted has different configurations of this laptop which can have an Intel GM45 chipset, and Intel HM55 chipset or an Intel HM65 mine happens to have an HM55 Chipset which does support the i7 here is a list of support cpus on the HM55 Direct from intel:
Intel® Core™ i7-940XM Processor Extreme Edition (8M Cache, 2.13 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-920XM Processor Extreme Edition (8M Cache, 2.00 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-840QM Processor (8M Cache, 1.86 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-820QM Processor (8M Cache, 1.73 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-740QM Processor (6M cache, 1.73 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Processor (6M Cache, 1.60 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-660LM Processor (4M Cache, 2.26 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-640M Processor (4M Cache, 2.80 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-620M Processor (4M Cache, 2.66 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-680UM Processor (4M Cache, 1.46 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-640LM Processor (4M Cache, 2.13 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-620LM Processor (4M Cache, 2.00 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-640UM Processor (4M Cache, 1.20 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-620UM Processor (4M Cache, 1.06 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-580M Processor (3M Cache, 2.66 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-540M Processor (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-540UM Processor (3M Cache, 1.20 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-560UM Processor (3M Cache, 1.33 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-520UM Processor (3M Cache, 1.06 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-560M Processor (3M Cache, 2.66 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-520M Processor (3M Cache, 2.40 GHz)
Intel® Celeron® Processor U3400 (2M Cache, 1.06 GHz)
Intel® Celeron® Processor U3600 (2M Cache, 1.20 GHz)
Intel® Celeron® Processor P4600 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz)
Intel® Celeron® Processor P4500 (2M Cache, 1.86 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i3-380UM Processor (3M Cache, 1.33 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-470UM Processor (3M Cache, 1.33 GHz)
Intel® Pentium® Processor U5600 (3M Cache, 1.33 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-620UE Processor (4M Cache, 1.06 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-620LE Processor (4M Cache, 2.00 GHz)
Intel® Pentium® Processor P6200 (3M Cache, 2.13 GHz)
Intel® Pentium® Processor P6300 (3M Cache, 2.27 Cache)
Intel® Celeron® Processor P4505 (2M Cache, 1.86 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i3-330E Processor (3M Cache, 2.13 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i5-520E Processor (3M Cache, 2.40 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i7-610E Processor (4M Cache, 2.53 GHz)

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Thanks for the info. That's good news for you.

I find it interesting that the specs I posted, show a processor that won't work in your notebook according to the list of processors you listed.

Paul

[SuLi]

Is your laptop overheating with the 940xm?
I want to upgrade mine (HM65) to an i7-2630qm, which runs at 10W higher than the standard cpus supplied with the laptops.
The difference with yours is 20W. Did you make more changes to your laptop to be able to use the new processor? I'm assuming you replaces your charger.

[slifer1231]

i decided not to go with the xm I instead went with an intel I7-640M because it had a embedded gpu witch the XM doesnt but my laptop runs fine with the 640M I replaced the the heatpaste with artic silver 5 and my laptop runs cooler now than it did with the I3

[SuLi]

Thanks. So you sticked kinda whitin the limits (tdp wise). Maybe I'll just buy the highest supported.

[2fednow]

Thats very cool. I want to upgrade my HP 630 too. Please answer me in private messages.

[Kevinc20]

i recently updated my pc to intel i5 2540m because of my hobby but now when i start a game i can play it for 30 minutes and then it goes into hibernation because he was getting to hot i am getting very anoyed by it so what can i do that he wont go into hiber anymore??

pls i need it fast