A 1.2GHz Pentium M in the EeePC?
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I love a good story – but this one I’m kind of skeptical of… guryhwa even posts some pictures of upgrading his EeePC with an Intel Pentium M, but the part where he says “soldering is complicated but interesting” seems to be understating the problem a bit. And he doesn’t have a picture with the CPU removed, only a picture of what looks to be a Pentium M ULV 753 on the Asus motherboard.
Call me unfair, but I somewhat doubt that this is really what happened – the labeling on the CPU is easy enough to create with Photoshop, same for the BIOS screen; much easier than the soldering work that would be required to do this.
But maybe he’ll post a few more pictures of the process to convince skeptics like me? It would be the coolest EeePC hack, ever.
That is a very cool hack. I can’t wait for Diamondville – a Silverthorne variant for devices like the Eee PC. More performance, lower power consumption (which means less heat and longer battery life). It’s going to be awesome! :-)
I am not saying it can be done. Just saying if the chip fits and works i can be done. I know many people that could do the work. People are replacing chips all the time now maybe not as upgrades like this but as factory replacements so it can be done i have no clue to if it would work or not.