Is upgrading worth it?

[stuntpenguin007]

I recently got a broken laptop for free. This is it: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Q10 ... Rsp2.shtml . Except instead of having a 100GB hdd it had a 250GB hdd. After some troubleshooting I figured out that the hard drive was bad and replaced it with a 60GB hard drive I had laying around, and installed windows 7 (Thank you MSDNAA ).

Now that it's working, I was thinking about doing some upgrades.

I want to install this processor
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-2-Du ... 2a13e10f38

and 3GB of RAM. The total cost would come to about $90. Not bad considering I got the laptop for free. I realize it's a previous generation CPU, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad right? The most intensive thing I would want to do would be music creation with fruity loops.

What are your thoughts? Should I go for it?

 

[bic]

Your laptop's chipset can only handle a 667mhz FSB. You need to choose a different processor.

http://ark.intel.com/products/chipsets/22816

e: Best case scenario the CPU runs at half its advertised speed as both it and the chipset drop to a 400 mhz FSB. (I've seen it happen in desktops.)

 

[vskid3]

Laptops are picky, make sure you do your research before getting a CPU. I would try to find out if anyone has tried swapping CPUs and what their results were like. At the very least, find someone that did a swap with the same chipset.