Inspired hy the mgpu post the other day, I remembered my old laptop had a pga socket, bought an i7-2760qm for $20, replaced the i5-2430m, and now it's a 4c8t laptop. Runs cooler too bc the factory paste job was ancient and awful.
Inspired hy the mgpu post the other day, I remembered my old laptop had a pga socket, bought an i7-2760qm for $20, replaced the i5-2430m, and now it's a 4c8t laptop. Runs cooler too bc the factory paste job was ancient and awful.
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Older laptops can be upgradable cpu still run better performance
yup I wish they kept these, i’m lucky my precision 7530 has an upgradeable gpu up to a rtx 3000
Was like that up until 4th gen, my Probook 650 G1 has a 4200M, but I could upgrade it to an i7 whatever, it’s been a while since I’ve looked at the spec sheet.
Some more recent laptops come with desktop sockets. At work I’ve seen those Clevo chassis with 6th gen i5 T series, usually reserved for all in one and low power mini PCs.
It wasn’t rare then.
It’s not rare, it just simply doesn’t exist after a certain point.
Until 3rd gen, they were replaceable/upgradeable
That laptop is also like 20 years old…..
My acer with a 3rd gen intel can be upgraded to an i7 which is something im planning to do while also replacing the original battery cells totaling a whopping 4400 mAh
yup, you could do that on old laptops, i had one like that with a pentium M inside
I still have an asus rog g75vx and i can upgrade cpu and gpu too if i want. That pc still rock like never before
Hah, I was just looking at an 8770w and thinking the exact same thing
Back in 2006 I had a HP laptop that put a Pentium 4 Extreme processor into. It wasn’t for any particular reason other than I wanted to try it out.
Pc noob here, can an old motherboard withstand a newer cpu tho?
You can probably jump to 3rd Gen Intel chips for even better performance. I took my old Lenovo from a 2nd Gen i3 to a 3rd gen i5. While you’re at it the stock ram is prob 1333mhz, upgrade to 1600. It helps a good bit with the integrated graphics.
I remember a laptop an ex gave me to fix, it was thick as a phone book
Opened it up and it was a full desktop Pentium, socket and everything.
Back when I was repairing and assembling Laptops for Lenovo it was rather common to do so. Of course the market has changed since then. But even back then you couldn’t just do it without consequences; some laptop models simply didn’t provide enough cooling to support stronger CPUs, even when you could actually fit them in and make them run.
Upgradable laptops would be sweet.
Ewwww. Lotta gooch dust….