I have read people saying you can't upgrade laptop hardware and that isn't entirely correct. On my Dell Inspiron 1525, I've replaced the CPU several times. A couple of other Asus laptops I've upgraded CPUs as well. All worked better than the original equipment.
Every time I try a different system, the learning process starts for that chipset which is where I am now. I know what the documentation says and I use that to choose a processor. My question is to those more experienced than myself.
I want to ask you if this is realistic to do (your experience) as opposed to theoretically possible (the documentation I follow).
Laptop: Sony Vaio VPCF136FM
Laptop Chipset: Intel PM55 chipset
Original CPU: Intel Core i7-740QM
Replacement CPU: Intel Core i7-2860QM
The replacement is to provide faster processing and less thermal issues (I suspect damage). If this can be attained with an alternate choice in CPU, please suggest away!
Every time I try a different system, the learning process starts for that chipset which is where I am now. I know what the documentation says and I use that to choose a processor. My question is to those more experienced than myself.
I want to ask you if this is realistic to do (your experience) as opposed to theoretically possible (the documentation I follow).
Laptop: Sony Vaio VPCF136FM
Laptop Chipset: Intel PM55 chipset
Original CPU: Intel Core i7-740QM
Replacement CPU: Intel Core i7-2860QM
The replacement is to provide faster processing and less thermal issues (I suspect damage). If this can be attained with an alternate choice in CPU, please suggest away!