Sony VPCEE2E1E CPU Upgrade help Please

BodyMaker

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I Have a sony Vaio VPCEE2E1E which is running the stock Athlon II P320 @ 2.1ghz and 3gb of DDR3 1066. what i would like to do is replace the P320 for a N660 Phenom II @ 3000mhz.

The N660 is the same family as the P320 (Danube), Uses the same chipset (785GX), and the same socket (S1g4). It even has the same core stepping DA-C3. Its does have a higher FSB @1800mhz but i dont think thats a problem as this chipset supports that and the faster 1333mhz memory.

My main concern is that as the N660 was released a year after the P320 and my bios wont recognise it or will it ?

Anyone have any idea please ?
 

captaincharisma

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was this CPU offered as an option for this model? if not then i wouldn't think it would be possible because Sony wouldn't program the BIOS on that model to support any CPU's it did not originally offer for it
 

BodyMaker

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No i dont think so because the newer N660 didnt come out untill a year after the P320, I thought that every sony laptop that had a slightly different spec got a different model number so there was only one VPCEE2E1E with the P320 chip.


But if you look at the 2 chips specs :-

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Athlon%20II%20Dual-Core%20Mobile%20P320%20-%20AMP320SGR22GM.html

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Phenom%20II%20Dual-Core%20Mobile%20N660%20-%20HMN660DCR23GM.html

Apart from the clock speed, Multiplier and extra 512k cache they are pretty much the same.