Hello
I have a 2009 model Toshiba L500 whose MXM GPU was upgraded from a 4570 stock to a 4650, and cpu upgraded from a C2D T6500 stock to a C2D P8600 and has 4gb 800mhz DDR2 ram. The upgrade runs cooler than the original build thanks to arctic silver paste.
Without going into tremendous possibly pointless details, I have a "KSWAA" motherboard in mine but half a year after my laptop was bought, the same exact L500 brand of laptop was released with core i3, i5, HD 5165 GPU integrated and DDR3 ram which I found is fitted to a motherboard named "NSWAA". I checked my motherboard against the NSWAA and found the screw holes, ports and slots are identical. The only major difference is the heatsink which has a different shape but can be acquired really cheaply via ebay... I know if I take out my motherboard and replace it with the new one, everything will fit into the same place: the fan, heatsink, HDD, CD drive, Battery slot, power supply, keyboard slot, LED screen slot, new RAM, power ribbon, usb ribbon, trackpad ribbon, everything.
In theory I think the replacement should work because it superimposes perfectly into the physical space and should connect perfectly too, but everyone always says such a replacement wouldnt work, so am I missing something? I was always under the impression that the motherboard did all the fun stuff so as long as the parts attached to the motherboard are compatible (which I checked and found parts that are) the replacement and upgrade should work, right? Surely someone out there has tried this!
I have a 2009 model Toshiba L500 whose MXM GPU was upgraded from a 4570 stock to a 4650, and cpu upgraded from a C2D T6500 stock to a C2D P8600 and has 4gb 800mhz DDR2 ram. The upgrade runs cooler than the original build thanks to arctic silver paste.
Without going into tremendous possibly pointless details, I have a "KSWAA" motherboard in mine but half a year after my laptop was bought, the same exact L500 brand of laptop was released with core i3, i5, HD 5165 GPU integrated and DDR3 ram which I found is fitted to a motherboard named "NSWAA". I checked my motherboard against the NSWAA and found the screw holes, ports and slots are identical. The only major difference is the heatsink which has a different shape but can be acquired really cheaply via ebay... I know if I take out my motherboard and replace it with the new one, everything will fit into the same place: the fan, heatsink, HDD, CD drive, Battery slot, power supply, keyboard slot, LED screen slot, new RAM, power ribbon, usb ribbon, trackpad ribbon, everything.
In theory I think the replacement should work because it superimposes perfectly into the physical space and should connect perfectly too, but everyone always says such a replacement wouldnt work, so am I missing something? I was always under the impression that the motherboard did all the fun stuff so as long as the parts attached to the motherboard are compatible (which I checked and found parts that are) the replacement and upgrade should work, right? Surely someone out there has tried this!