i have an asus z71 notebook fitted with a dothan 2.0 ghz cpu running at 533 mhz fsb. I am wondering if i can upgrade to a core2 duo eg:



also some faster ram would be good. any recommendations ?

this notebook is extremely easy to upgrade, the easiest i have ever seen to pull apart.......

see following report...




CPU-Z Report
CPU-Z version 1.28.6.

CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Name Intel Pentium M 760
Code Name Dothan
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
Family / Model / Stepping 6 D 8
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 22
Package mPGA-479M
Core Stepping C0
Technology 0.09 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 1995.0 MHz
Clock multiplier x 15.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 133.0 MHz
Bus Speed 532.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 2048 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Latency 5
L2 Speed 1995.0 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 ECC Check enabled
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Motherboard model M7V, 1.0
BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS revision 0212
BIOS release date 05/10/2006
Chipset Intel i915PM/GM/GMS rev. 3
Southbridge Intel 82801FBM (ICH6-M) rev. 4
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16

Memory
DRAM Type DDR2-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 199.5 MHz
FSB DRAM 2:3
CAS# Latency 4.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 4 clocks
RAS# Precharge 4 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 12 clocks

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c