Where to get laptop upgrade hardware?

[popswala]

I have a alienware quicksilver M17x. I'm thinkin of upgrading the the cpu and lookin into maybe switching the whole board and cpu over to i7 possibly. I cant seem to find any cpu's that'll fit in mine now. Its an Intel P8600, 2.4, 3MB, Core Penryn, 25W, R0, socket P. I seen a few on the egg and was wondering if there's any other sites I may not know of where I can get mobile cpu's. I also don't know where I can get a board for the recent Intel chips that'll fit in the laptop.

Any Ideas? thanks

I purchased the laptop when it was first release and later wished I waited since they're i7's now.

 

[Frick]

CPU's can be found on various sites, but boards.. No way afaik. Laptops are designed with a certain board in mind.

 

[popswala]

There's no way to get the new boards there using in the laptop I have? Since there made to fit it.

You happen to know of any sites? I know the egg. Only one I found that caries it.

 

[ktr]

http://ark.intel.com/chipset.aspx?familyID=35515

^^There is the list of CPUs your chipset can support. Careful about the quad cores, not all motherboards/bios can support it.

And as Frick said, laptops don't have universal motherboards, as they are made to fit to their chassis.

Newegg is one source to buy mobile CPUs, but I would recommend searching a particular CPU model on http://www.google.com/products , there are a lot of good deals at Amazon and ebay.

 

[popswala]

There's no way of gettin the same boards their sticking in the laptops today? When I bought mine 2 weeks after release it has in intel core 2 duo. Now they have the new i7 inside. Same laptop. I'm just curious to know how much those boards would go for if I could purchase one and switch over.

They had the option of quad but I didn't need it. I just got it for the better memory and the vga's for gaming since my xps m1530 sucked really bad.

 

[Polaris573]

There's no way of gettin the same boards their sticking in the laptops today? When I bought mine 2 weeks after release it has in intel core 2 duo. Now they have the new i7 inside. Same laptop. I'm just curious to know how much those boards would go for if I could purchase one and switch over.

while exteriors may look the same from model to model the internal layout of the case often differs. Since there is no standard for laptop motherboards most people do not know what laptop motherboard fits inside which laptop case from memory. I'm afraid you'll have to do some grueling independent research on that to see if anyone has even tried it before, or be adventurous and be the first person to try.

 

[Kantastic]

Just a simple Google image search and I know it's near impossible without doing some serious modding on your laptop externally.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=laptop motherboard&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Just look at all the weird shapes!

 

[popswala]

thanks. I didn't think to think that the outside's are the same but the inner layout mold can b diff. I thought laptop boards were pretty similar within laptop manufactures. kinda like desktop boards. the boards may look diff but all the the generally same layout. I may just leave it as is since the the highest cpu I found isn't that much higher then what I have (p8600 to t9600).

I was thinkin that it might be nice to be able to change the board so I could change the cpu to something better.