Core 2 Duo T5450 Upgrade Potential

[idata]

Hey everyone,

I appologize, because I'm sure you get asked this question often, but I was looking for a more or less concise answear. I currently have a Core 2 Duo T5450 in my laptop. I know that processor is a Socket P processor, 65nm, and 35w. Im curious as to what the limits on upgrade potential are for this processor. I'm interested in something on the level of T9600/9800, but I'm concerned about compatability.

Does 65nm versus 45nm matter for upgrading?

[idata]

If your worried you could get a T7800, that's the same TDP and so on.

You might need a BIOS upgrade to support the 45nm chips, other than that it shouldn't be a problem.

[idata]

I don't mean to sound idiotic, I just want to bring this to you guys.

I read somewhere that some motherboards will have trouble downclocking a processors FSB, given a mismatch (in my case the proc's FSB being higher than the motherboards).

According to gateway:http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2008/GodzillaFX/4006258R/4006258Rsp2.shtml

My laptops motherboard caps out at 800MHz FSB, but the processors I'm looking at are all 1033 FSB. Now, I would have no problem letting the mobo downclock the proc, but I'm not sure if that's even possible!

Any insight would be awesome =P