Inspiron 6000, CPU upgrade

It'll take that CPU, yes, with no change of RAM required.

Thanks for the information.

I just wanted to make sure that the motherboard was able to support a 533 mhz bus. With the faster FSB, will the ram operate at a faster speed?

I searched Dell Support for an answer and there search engine is worthless.

The system was shipped with 533 MHz bus CPUs as factory installed - that is no problem.

PC2-5300 RAM will run at rated speed in it.

There is no different one - you must reuse what you have.  Clean off any old thermal interface material and apply a thin layer of new material when you change the CPU.

That's what I thought, but felt it was better to ask than to guess.

I will post again when I get it installed.

Thanks for your help.

I ordered a 770 CPU and need to know if the heatsink on my 715 will work or do i need a different one?

I just received the 770 CPU today and it took about 30 minutes to install with the help of the service manual available online from Dell support. When I examined the original CPU, I noticed that it didn't have any heat sink compound on it or the heat sink. I'm lucky my original CPU didn't overheat and die.

I went into the BIOS setup screen and confirmed that the new CPU was running at advertised speed and the memory was now using the 533 mhz bus speed.

With the new CPU, you have to be pretty fast on the F2 key to get into the BIOS setup, it took me 2 tries.

Everything is up and running and working as it should.

Thanks for the help.

Hi. I bought a 770 a few days ago, upgrading from a 740.  I've got the A09 BIOS. Did you have any problems putting the 770 in? When I put it in and try to boot the computer up the numlock, caps lock, and scroll lock lights light up, I can hear the hd spin but I get no display and the system shuts itself down after about 3 seconds. It never gets to POST.  I put the old cpu back in and all is well.  Am I missing something?

What is the S-spec (code beginning with S) on the top of the CPU?

Here are the specs on my CPU. It is still running strong.

sSpec Number: SL7SL

CPU Speed: 2.13 GHz

Bus Speed: 533 MHz

Bus/Core Ratio: 16

L2 Cache Size: 2 MB

L2 Cache Speed:  2.13 GHz

Package Type: 478 pin

Manufacturing: 90 nm

Technology: C0

Core Stepping: 06D8h

CPUID String: 27W

Thermal Design Power: 100°C

Thermal Specification: 1.287V-1.4V

Check out this program, I think it will show you the problem.

http://download.cnet.com/CPU-Z/3000-2086_4-10050423.html

I think the problem is the Speed-Step feature of the CPU. According to CPU-Z, my computer runs at about 800mhz most of the time.

You can forget about a 7200 rpm drive for an Inspiron 6000 - the 7200 rpm drives haven't been made in EIDE format (the system won't take SATA) for over five years.  Five years being the design life of a drive, you'd wind up with an old, on its way out drive.

The only EIDE drives that have been made for the last 6-7 years are 5400 rpm and below.

Just upgraded my sister's older Inspiron 6000 from Celeron M 1.3Ghz (FSB 400Mhz), 512Mb RAM and Win XP to a Pentium M 760 @ 2Ghz (FSB 533Mhz), 2Gb RAM and Win 7 Ultimate (found a cheap CPU on ebay).

Had to search a little for the Intel Chipset 915GM Win7 drivers but eventually found them and all is well. I'm amazed at the 2nd life I've been able to give this 5yr old laptop. Obviously, performance won't match that of my E8600 Vostro 200 or dual-Xeon 3.6 Precision 670, but it runs pretty smoothly as a basic general purpose laptop (MS Office + Web browsing). Boot time (with Avast anti-virus loading on) is about 45 to 50s.

One interesting point: the Dell documentation stipulates that the Inspiron 6000 supports 2Gb RAM max & only 256Mb, 512Mb and 1Gb SODIMM modules. This is not totally true because it also supports a single 2Gb module (but no more). My sister runs on a 2Gb DDR2 PC2-4200 module.

Next steps are to get a cheap 7200rpm HDD + a PC2-5300S SODIMM module to maximise performance &make it an even more decent laptop.

You can get an M80 for $46 and a 250 GB HD for around $50. For less than a hundred bucks thats a good upgrade.