- Jul 28, 2014
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So I was reading elsewhere about ways you can upgrade your laptop since there isn't much to upgrade besides the RAM and drive it currently uses, I came across someone discussing upgrading the CPU of a laptop and that peaked my curiosity. My laptop runs fine for the most part, it shows its lag compared to my PC which runs an AMD FX 8350 vs. my laptop's AMD A10 5750M. So for curiosity's sake I decided to look up the socket type for my board, it doesn't officially say so but I'm assuming it's an FM2 since all the A Series are FM2 sockets. Limiting down to that and looking into the best APUs for that specific type of CPU, I found this:
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/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113359
The real interesting part about my laptop is that it uses APU+GPU technology from AMD which acts similarly to the Crossfire technology. That being said, this is all just a hypothetical idea I had which would be to replace the APU from my laptop with the APU listed above. Not only would this improve the clock speed of my APU from 2.5 to 3.7 but the integrated graphics would be upgraded immensely by the looks of it since it has an R7 integrated. I know integrated graphics aren't anything to get excited about, but it's a little different since my laptop runs with both the APU and GPU together. Anyways, the topic is open for discussion but I would like a definite answer and explanation as to why this would or would not be possible. I'm sure it can be done, but being as laptops are not designed to be tampered with I would assume this would be an arduous task for something that's probably not worth the trouble. But as I said, it's all for curiosity's sake so meh!
Here's the specs on my laptop:
Model: Asus R510-DP
Motherboard Model: X550DP
CPU: AMD A10 5750M APU
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670M 2GB(it's the on-board APU graphics with an HD 8650G card)
OS: Windows 8.1
HDD: 750GB Samsung drive(the drive is a replacement for a bad drive so I'm not sure of the RPMs, probably 5400 since it came with a 5400 RPM drive)
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600 MHZ
Resolution: 1920X1080
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/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113359The real interesting part about my laptop is that it uses APU+GPU technology from AMD which acts similarly to the Crossfire technology. That being said, this is all just a hypothetical idea I had which would be to replace the APU from my laptop with the APU listed above. Not only would this improve the clock speed of my APU from 2.5 to 3.7 but the integrated graphics would be upgraded immensely by the looks of it since it has an R7 integrated. I know integrated graphics aren't anything to get excited about, but it's a little different since my laptop runs with both the APU and GPU together. Anyways, the topic is open for discussion but I would like a definite answer and explanation as to why this would or would not be possible. I'm sure it can be done, but being as laptops are not designed to be tampered with I would assume this would be an arduous task for something that's probably not worth the trouble. But as I said, it's all for curiosity's sake so meh!
Here's the specs on my laptop:
Model: Asus R510-DP
Motherboard Model: X550DP
CPU: AMD A10 5750M APU
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670M 2GB(it's the on-board APU graphics with an HD 8650G card)
OS: Windows 8.1
HDD: 750GB Samsung drive(the drive is a replacement for a bad drive so I'm not sure of the RPMs, probably 5400 since it came with a 5400 RPM drive)
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600 MHZ
Resolution: 1920X1080
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