LeeM
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Jas's thread has prompted me to take my laptop apart.
It's got a 2.2 intel celeron that I can get at by removing one panel, can I pull it out and stick an i5 in off ebuyer? It's got 2 memory slots so I'd get 2x4gbs and 500gb-1tb drive.
Is it as easy as just changing these bits or does the motherboard matter more than I think?
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Sunz
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The motherboard will only use 1 socket type and the i5 uses a LGA1155 and I'm guessing the original socket isn't that.
Best thing is to find out the make and model of your motherboard and look up the specs for that then do the same for the processor you want.
Might need better cooling for a more powerful cpu.
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ed
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CPU in a laptop will be soldered to the board.
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LeeM
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its not, ive already had it apart.
the motherboard is a lenovo nitu1, cant find any info on it
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Sam
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Some laptops (not many) have removable CPUs.
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Sam
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What is the code on the CPU? It should say something like SLxxx.
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LeeM
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ed
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Didn't realise you could replace them, but Core i5's use a different socket to that processor.
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Jas
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just a question, whats the cost of this against buying a i3 or quad core laptop ready done?
I saw a few i3's for £300ish
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Sam
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If you wanted a better CPU, you would need to find out what other CPUs were available in your laptop model. The problem is, places like eBuyer sell only desktop CPUs which can't normally go in laptop motherboards due to the different 'sockets' that are used.
Also, the motherboard will only support certain CPUs anyway - I don't know what the board on your laptop supports, but to give you an example socket 1155 supports Core i3/i5/i7 processors, socket AM3 supports a few AMD Athlon/Sempron/Phenom processors etc. etc.
If you've got the cash, it would probably be easier to sell your existing laptop on eBay or whatever and just buy a better spec one already built.
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Dom
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Of the same model, the 925 (2.3GHz) will most likely fit but i have a feeling the mobile 900 series was one of the last 'recent' scoket 478s. You might be lucky with some of the P4 range, Gallatin springs to mind, but it's all old hat as they swapped a lot of the processors to 775 sockets.
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