December 8, 2009 7:03 PM

Technically, Yes you can upgrade the cpu. Economically, no. The only place really to buy oem notebook processors is ebay.  They run in excess of 100 dollars. 

Here is a link to a zm87 for 170

http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-Turion-x-2-Ultra-ZM-87-2-4GHz-TMZM87DAM23GG_W0QQitemZ...

If you really feel inclined to, then do it. But be aware you will violate your warranty if hp ever finds out. and please be aware, if your not experienced in disassembly of notebooks can be extremely tricky.

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December 9, 2009 7:56 AM

As has been said very well by ragged, yes you can upgrade it, no you dont want to bother. In addition to the stated points of voiding warranty and difficulty in replacing it (laptops are a pain to take apart, this one especially), the performance gain you would see would not really justify the cost of 150-200$.

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December 9, 2009 8:01 AM

They might notice the nonstandard heat sync paste instead of the crappy stuff HP applies though :)

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December 9, 2009 8:19 AM

Speaking of dv6000, I need to get mine repaired, motherboard is failing on mine :(.

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December 9, 2009 10:46 AM

Its $325+minimum there, I could buy a brand unit for almost that. Trying ebay looking for a parts one, usually about $100 or so there so not too bad.

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December 9, 2009 12:29 PM

raggedrebel92 said:

or you could be super ninja, Keep the old one, buy the new one, and if you ever send it back change the 2 out. Hp should never know the differance, unless you tell them.

This is however not an option since you'll be breaking the "warranty void if this sticker is removed or damaged"-label. I haven't disassembled my tx2, but a lot of other laptops, and I can tell you that all laptops ahve one of those. The tx2 is good as it is because you can change wifi, HDD and DIMM without voiding warranty.

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December 9, 2009 5:41 PM updated: December 9, 2009 5:42 PM

raggedrebel92 said:

Really, because I have disassembled several laptops (hps) in my life and never come across this label

Hmm, interesting... I've disassebled like 10-15 and come across these in all of them. Baybe it's more common in europe, sweden or something...

EDIT: Only one or two of them were HPs

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December 10, 2009 8:13 AM

jollywombat said: My unit did not have one of these. I carefully looked for one when I disassembled mine to replace the heatsync paste. I couple screws did appear to have a small amount of locktight on them thought which might have served as an indicator that the unit had been taken apart out of factory. I put a new drop of locktight on each screw before I put them back to be safe.

Thank you JW. I didnt think they would but I was a lil to lazy to dissasemble mine. Locktight is pretty easy to come by and easy to replace. thanks again!

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December 15, 2009 7:27 AM

Yes, that would be it.

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