I somewhat did that. I bought the preconfigured one that comes with everything maxed out except the processor. That way if the mxm card is unupgradable, then I will still have the 9600, and the processor is obviously upgradable and since i only have the 2.0 I can upgrade to something faster and not have a wasted decent cpu since the 2.0 is the lowest processor.

I will show you that I am a belligerent person when it comes to being told I cannot do something because I'd have to deal with "this or that". I'll show you guys how to turn the Touchsmart into a gaming computer.

My hopes are for: T9900 cpu, 8gigs ram, and something lik a gtx 260m graphics card :D

Alright I know for sure I got the IQ846 quick ship model which does in fact come with the Maureen motherbaord. Now that I have that finalized, I am going to be ordering ram from newegg. I will need to buy 2x4gb since theirs comes standard with 2x2gb taking up both slots. After that, I will be ordering a T9900 off of ebay and I will see how successful that is. Once that is finished whether it is a failure or a success, I will then attempt a video card.



BUT*** I don't see any reason why the T9900 would not work when HP's site clearly states that the board will take any Pxxxx or Txxxx model processor.

Alright my Touchsmart just arrived today and DAMN this thing is BEAUTIFUL! Although, it is SLOW AS AN ASS! Literally, I think a Donkey could process more than this 2.0 Core 2 Duo! I will be ordering my T9900 shortly because this is just downright awful!

Anyways, I did in fact get the Maureen board(woot woot)

I just ordered an 8gb PQI class 6 SD card that I am going to add on for windows ready boost. I will soon be buying 2x4gb from Newegg also.


Near Future specs:

T9900 3.06 Core 2 Duo(6mb cache 1066MHz FSB)
750gb hdd
2x4gb ddr2 800 ram(with 8gb ready boost)
9600m gs but I will be looking for like a 260M or something like that.