Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to post this for those of you who currently own a Samsung Series 3 and are thinking to upgrade the CPU. I found very little, practically no information on this. I tried and checked every where but found nothing. So I decided to try it anyways. I had an unusual model, a Turkish one but they all have pretty much the same motherboard and chipset so I suspect the results will be the same.
I upgraded from an i5-3210m to an i7-3632qm. Big boost of performance. My games are still bottlenecked by the GPU, but the integrated GPU is faster for light stuff, the power consumption is likely better at idle, and any CPU intensive tasks will be much faster.
This is likely because the TDP and power consumption remain at a 35 TDP level and likely change little. Other higher TDP CPUs may work but I didn't try them.
Windows Index Score:
i5-3210m
Processor: 7.1
RAM: 7.5
Graphics: 6.5
Gaming Graphics: 6.5
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9
i7-3632qm
Processor: 7.5
RAM: 7.8
Graphics: 6.6
Gaming Graphics: 6.6
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9
Definitely a good upgrade. After this and upgrading the battery, HDD, RAM, CPU, and overclocking the GPU to the max I now can game on stuff like Bioshock Infinity on medium settings or run faster without AA, and I can compress files super fast. I'm only $600 into it too.
I just wanted to post this for those of you who currently own a Samsung Series 3 and are thinking to upgrade the CPU. I found very little, practically no information on this. I tried and checked every where but found nothing. So I decided to try it anyways. I had an unusual model, a Turkish one but they all have pretty much the same motherboard and chipset so I suspect the results will be the same.
I upgraded from an i5-3210m to an i7-3632qm. Big boost of performance. My games are still bottlenecked by the GPU, but the integrated GPU is faster for light stuff, the power consumption is likely better at idle, and any CPU intensive tasks will be much faster.
This is likely because the TDP and power consumption remain at a 35 TDP level and likely change little. Other higher TDP CPUs may work but I didn't try them.
Windows Index Score:
i5-3210m
Processor: 7.1
RAM: 7.5
Graphics: 6.5
Gaming Graphics: 6.5
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9
i7-3632qm
Processor: 7.5
RAM: 7.8
Graphics: 6.6
Gaming Graphics: 6.6
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9
Definitely a good upgrade. After this and upgrading the battery, HDD, RAM, CPU, and overclocking the GPU to the max I now can game on stuff like Bioshock Infinity on medium settings or run faster without AA, and I can compress files super fast. I'm only $600 into it too.