can i upgrade my notebook?

[Imre Balogh]

I have an asus x55vd-sx037d notebook with a 2nd generation i3 processor. so the question is: can i upgrade my processor to an i5 or i7? thank you for your answers

 

[RubixPenguin518]

It is possible to upgrade laptops but it's complicated. Laptop hardware is specialized so can't be easily recycled. The PSUs are specialized and so a higher power CPU may be a problem. I'm no expert, but I'd say: yes, you can upgrade it, but an i5 or 17 may be harder, and if you want it for gaming then you'd also need a GPU and fitting one of those aftermarket may well be completely impossible as the Motherboard won't be designed for it.

The X55VD series don't come with anything above i3. ( http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/X55VD/specifications/ ) and the PSU is 90W. A quad-core i5 will be at least 35W so it's probably not practical I'm afraid, although I'll stand corrected if someone else has something to bring to the table.

 

[Imre Balogh]

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[Imre Balogh]

It is possible to upgrade laptops but it's complicated. Laptop hardware is specialized so can't be easily recycled. The PSUs are specialized and so a higher power CPU may be a problem. I'm no expert, but I'd say: yes, you can upgrade it, but an i5 or 17 may be harder, and if you want it for gaming then you'd also need a GPU and fitting one of those aftermarket may well be completely impossible as the Motherboard won't be designed for it.

The X55VD series don't come with anything above i3. ( http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/X55VD/specifications/ ) and the PSU is 90W. A quad-core i5 will be at least 35W so it's probably not practical I'm afraid, although I'll stand corrected if someone else has something to bring to the table.

yeah, i know about the physical problems: heating... i may upgrade my heatpipe, but i am interested about the supporting. now i was reading that have some i7 2nd gen processor what have the same tdp than my actual (i3 2328m) processor, but these procs have 4 cores, what i really need. i have a 610m geforce with 1gb vram, and i get very well with that. i dont wanna play ultra, or high, not even medium, i am ok with low settings (remembering me that "this is just a game" )

I dont really know what is psu... that is that thing what i put in the connector? i saw some of these things on the market from 90W to 180W (i can change the connector type if it is not supported...) so the question is : can i put an i7 2nd gen mobile processor into my motherboard and can my laptop using it without problem if i buy a better PSU?

 

[RubixPenguin518]

It is possible to upgrade laptops but it's complicated. Laptop hardware is specialized so can't be easily recycled. The PSUs are specialized and so a higher power CPU may be a problem. I'm no expert, but I'd say: yes, you can upgrade it, but an i5 or 17 may be harder, and if you want it for gaming then you'd also need a GPU and fitting one of those aftermarket may well be completely impossible as the Motherboard won't be designed for it.

The X55VD series don't come with anything above i3. ( http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/X55VD/specifications/ ) and the PSU is 90W. A quad-core i5 will be at least 35W so it's probably not practical I'm afraid, although I'll stand corrected if someone else has something to bring to the table.

yeah, i know about the physical problems: heating... i may upgrade my heatpipe, but i am interested about the supporting. now i was reading that have some i7 2nd gen processor what have the same tdp than my actual (i3 2328m) processor, but these procs have 4 cores, what i really need. i have a 610m geforce with 1gb vram, and i get very well with that. i dont wanna play ultra, or high, not even medium, i am ok with low settings (remembering me that "this is just a game" )

I dont really know what is psu... that is that thing what i put in the connector? i saw some of these things on the market from 90W to 180W (i can change the connector type if it is not supported...) so the question is : can i put an i7 2nd gen mobile processor into my motherboard and can my laptop using it without problem if i buy a better PSU?

PSU=Power Supply Unit (Thing that contols electricity of the PC)

I'm not a Laptop expert, but most i3s take an LGA1155 socket. An i7 with an FCLGA1155 would fit if you can control heat and power. The thing is, a nice 17 would be wasted in games while using a 610m. Your GPU would bottleneck it. I don't know much about M series interchangeability, but you'd probably do better with an i5 and an 840m or something similar if you could afford it and it would work.

Note: There are also i5s that take FCLGA1155 sockets.

 

[Imre Balogh]

It is possible to upgrade laptops but it's complicated. Laptop hardware is specialized so can't be easily recycled. The PSUs are specialized and so a higher power CPU may be a problem. I'm no expert, but I'd say: yes, you can upgrade it, but an i5 or 17 may be harder, and if you want it for gaming then you'd also need a GPU and fitting one of those aftermarket may well be completely impossible as the Motherboard won't be designed for it.

The X55VD series don't come with anything above i3. ( http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/X55VD/specifications/ ) and the PSU is 90W. A quad-core i5 will be at least 35W so it's probably not practical I'm afraid, although I'll stand corrected if someone else has something to bring to the table.

yeah, i know about the physical problems: heating... i may upgrade my heatpipe, but i am interested about the supporting. now i was reading that have some i7 2nd gen processor what have the same tdp than my actual (i3 2328m) processor, but these procs have 4 cores, what i really need. i have a 610m geforce with 1gb vram, and i get very well with that. i dont wanna play ultra, or high, not even medium, i am ok with low settings (remembering me that "this is just a game" )

I dont really know what is psu... that is that thing what i put in the connector? i saw some of these things on the market from 90W to 180W (i can change the connector type if it is not supported...) so the question is : can i put an i7 2nd gen mobile processor into my motherboard and can my laptop using it without problem if i buy a better PSU?

PSU=Power Supply Unit (Thing that contols electricity of the PC)

I'm not a Laptop expert, but most i3s take an LGA1155 socket. An i7 with an FCLGA1155 would fit if you can control heat and power. The thing is, a nice 17 would be wasted in games while using a 610m. Your GPU would bottleneck it. I don't know much about M series interchangeability, but you'd probably do better with an i5 and an 840m or something similar if you could afford it and it would work.

Note: There are also i5s that take FCLGA1155 sockets.

now with this processor, gpu and 6gb of ddr3 ram, i tried to play dying light and it was ok... my fps fas horrible when i was out, but i could play with all low settings and medium texture. i really want maybe 30fps or something around this... i have just bought the laptop, and i can afford a better processor but a better gpu?... i thnk not because of the integrated gpu. i dont want to buy again a laptop

i3 socket FCPGA988 and i7 2670QM FCPGA988 what i saw on intel website

 

[RubixPenguin518]

OK, so the i7 2670QM is a good processor, and it's onboard graphics are actually surprisingly similar to the 610m. I'm highly surprised you could run dying light ( http://www.pcgamer.com/dying-light-system-requirements-are-killer/ ) on a 610. That i7 would definitely help your PC, but it just may be too good (like putting a v8 in a golf buggy; it just won't be necessary. By all means go for the i7, but a it could be slight overkill for this build.