HP 8560w CPU Upgrade

[REO51ST · Accepted solution]

@rmw98 , @iomare and @Paul_Tikkanen

Well, well, well looks like 90% was good enough.

Took out the i5-2540M  and  installed the i7-2720QM 

Now all I need to do is load an OS.

REO

[Paul_Tikkanen]

That is great news!

Then the only difference between the dual and quad core motherboards must be that the dual core MB's only have two memory slots that accomodate 2 x 8 GB of memory, and the quad core MB's have 4 memory slots to accomodate 4 x 8 GB of system memory.

See chapter 1, page two of the service manual.

@rmw98 :  Please change the solution to this discussion to either @iomare or @REO51ST , because the info I provided was incorrect for your notebook.

The info I provided is correct for the 1st generation business notebooks, however. 

The quad core processors cannot be installed in a notebook with a dual core motherboard.

[iomare]

Hi REO51ST,

Thanks for sharing your work.

All the best, 

David

[rmw98]

@REO51ST

Thank you for figuring this out!!!

I guess I have some installing to do haha!

This way I can still use my trusty workstation!

Thanks everybody that replied in this forum and helped me!

Kind regards,

Roy

[REO51ST]

Your very welcome @rmw98

I'm lucky that I have the resources to do research like this.

REO

[rmw98]

@ REO51ST

That are a LOT of laptops!

I work at a computer store myself (side job (after college)) and we are working our way up!

We started a few years ago and our goal is to have the same amount of resources ourselfs sometime!

anyway, I can not thank you enough for figuring this out!

I'm ordering a CPU as we speak. And an backlit keyboard while i am at it haha!

Thanks,

Roy

[REO51ST]

@rmw98

Would you by chance be buying it from Ebay???

Like-New-Laptops???

If so then I know that CPU works because it is the one I used.:smileywink:

I'll remove it from the laptop and put it back on the Ebay shelf.

REO

[rmw98]

@REO51ST

Actually I am!

But it has to be shipped to the Netherlands... Which is quite expensive.

By any chance that this is your Ebay page?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-SR014-Core-i7-2720QM-Processor-CPU-6M-Cache-up-to-3-30-GHz-/2823855932...

Greetings,

Roy

[REO51ST]

@rmw98

That is the chip I used to test. "LOL LOL LOL "

Yes we are like-new-laptops.

If you do order from us I will make sure you get some thermal paste with it.

Do you need some memory.

I can add some for free to make shipping worth it.

REO

[rmw98]

@REO51ST

Unfortunately I do not need any more memory. It is currently specced out haha!

But thank you for your offer!

I guess that if i want an almost 100% guaranteed working( I am keeping in mind that it might not work in my workstation, but I do not think that that will be the case)  CPU for this workstation, that it will cost me just a tiny bit more!

Thanks,

Roy