# upgrading old Laptop processor?

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**Created:** [June 4, 2007, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/upgrading-old-laptop-processor/30346 "2007-06-04T10:49:40Z")\
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[quote=“Dr.Stevil,post:5,topic:30346"”]

don’t have 500 to spend, and this was given to me 😃

really wont do anything hardcore with it other than movies and music (and internet)

that blows though :\

I’m affraid to run windows 98 on it… I still cry myself to sleep at night with memories of driver problems and the BSOD

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Videos will be choppy even if you did upgrade it for anything you download pretty much these days unless it’s low res.

That said a majority of processors in that era were soldered to the board. eBay, and used laptop are your best bet.

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