amd e300 processor upgrade

[jammtc]

 The 1.3 Ghz processor is a little on the slow side so I was wondering if I could just purchase a faster processor and plug it in?

Below are the specs.

Thanks

Hardware

Product Name

2000-2b09WM

Product Number

C2N25UA

Microprocessor

1.3GHz AMD E-300 Accelerated Processor

Microprocessor Cache

1MB L2 Cache

Memory

2GB DDR3 SDRAM (1 DIMM)

Memory Max

Maximum supported = 8GB

Memory Slots

2 user accessible

Video Graphics

AMD Radeon HD 6310 Discrete-Class graphics

Display

15.6-inch diagonal HD BrightView LED-backlit display (1366x768)

Hard Drive

320GB 5400RPM hard drive

Multimedia Drive

SuperMulti DVD Burner

Network Card

10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)

Wireless Connectivity

802.11b/g/n WLAN

Sound

Altec Lansing dual speakers

Keyboard

Full-size keyboard

Pointing Device

Touchpad supporting multi-touch gestures with on/off button

External Ports

Multi-Format Digital Media Card Reader for Secure Digital cards and Multimedia cards

3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0

1 HDMI

1 VGA (15-pin)

1 RJ-45 (LAN)

1 Headphone-out

1 Microphone-in

Dimensions

14.80 in (W) x 9.72 in (D) x 1.20 in (min H)/ 1.41 in (max H)

Weight

5.39 lb

Power

65W AC adapter

6-cell 47WHr 2.2 Ah lithium-ion battery

ID Mech Description

HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated digital microphone

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Yes with a lot of pain and sorrow. Why not just get an SSD? Much easier to install and not any more expensive and it will make you think you doubled the processor speed. I am on a bit of a crusade to change thinking. Back in the day, to speed up a computer you thought in terms of more memory and a faster CPU. Now the bottleneck is the old school 5400 rpm hard drive. We can make that catch up with the rest of the modern components with a solid state drive.

[jammtc]

Thanks for the quick response and suggestion.

I am on it now.