Toshiba C670 i3-380M upgrade to i7-620M or i7-640M

[chaos_prevails]

Hello,
I have a Toshiba Satellite C670-1DV with a i3-380M, and would like to upgrade to a i7-620M.

I didn't find any information online whether somebody succeeded. It is the C670 with the 1st iCore generation (Socket G1).

comparing the specs (I cannot post links - but specs can easily compared on cpu-world)

it looks like it should be possible. However, the C670 was only sold with a i3-380M, so I'm not sure if the bios (latest is 1.4) has the microcodes of the i7.

[crazybubba64]

You should have no problems running any of the dual-core i7 chips.

[chaos_prevails]

Hello,

thanks, I will try it out! Might take some time, as it's a laptop of a friend I'm going to upgrade. Does anybody know of important improvements between stepping C2 and K2? Not for overclocking, more regarding e.g. power consumption.

[chaos_prevails]

[chaos_prevails]

if anyone thinks of doing the same: I did it a couple of weeks back and it was super easy. Laptops works since then. nice performance improvement, especially with encrypted disks (i7 has AES hardware support).