Solved Can I upgrade my CPU?

[Hikeman]

Hey guys! I have a Sony VAIO VPCEB1S1E laptop. It has a Intel Core i5 CPU M430 2.27GHz. I was wondering if I could up great my CPU on higher frequency one, or maybe even Intel Core i7 ???
Thank you very much ))

 

[Comp Cmndo]

No such term as "up great". The terminology would be "upgrade".
Laptop CPU's are NOT upgradeable.

 

[Hikeman]

Thank you for your correction, regarding the therm "upgrade". I am not from English speaking country so to me little mistakes are acceptable )) anyways..
so you are saying that it is not possible to upgrade any laptops CPU??? I remember my friend had a laptop with some Celeron processor and he changed it to some NOT Celeron one, with the higher frequency ))) that'swhy I thought it might be possible for my to change my i5 M430 2.27GHz to change at list on i5 but with higher frequency.
Thank you

 

[GianniDPC]

Thank you for your correction, regarding the therm "upgrade". I am not from English speaking country so to me little mistakes are acceptable )) anyways..
so you are saying that it is not possible to upgrade any laptops CPU??? I remember my friend had a laptop with some Celeron processor and he changed it to some NOT Celeron one, with the higher frequency ))) that'swhy I thought it might be possible for my to change my i5 M430 2.27GHz to change at list on i5 but with higher frequency.
Thank you

It is possible but you will have to change the whole mobo

 

[badger906]

Not necessarily, I've placed a different model CPU in a laptop of the same socket and family without an issue.
But personally I wouldn't bother, a core i5 is perfectly good enough, and probably the fastest and strongest component of your laptop, the other parts are the bottleneck.

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[traderpats]

It all depends on whether the MoBo chipset / socket / bios will support the processor in question and whether the chip itself is user replaceable ie not soldered onto the board.

If you're just looking for speed / faster boot time and program response I would very much recommend upgrading to a ssd (OCZ Agility 3 for around $70 after rebate) as the most cost effective method. Along with at least 4GB of ram if you don't already have that.

For example I just upgraded an old Gateway M285-e (tablet / convertible laptop) from a T-2400 to a T7600 (2.33GHz, dual-core processor). This was only done to get into 64 bit computing and hence able to address a full 4GB of memory otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered. The MoBo used a standard PGA, ZIF type socket that employed a screw instead of a lever to hold / release the cpu. Took about 5 minutes to change after first doing a quick bios update.

Most importantly I upgraded the hdd, (painfully slow 60GB 5400 rpm), to the above mentioned drive. The machine now boots incredibly fast and programs response is awesome. Already had Win7 so the total upgrade for cpu and memory was about $120 and I bet its as fast, if not faster than any similar non-ssd machine out there.

Well got off subject I guess. Anyway if you're not running a ssd consider that first as a best bang for the buck. That will give you more speed and better response than any processor upgrade. My two cents.....

 

[profdlp]

...If you're just looking for speed / faster boot time and program response I would very much recommend upgrading to a ssd...Along with at least 4GB of ram if you don't already have that...

Good advice.

I upgrade my Core i3 laptop with an SSD and went from 4GB RAM to 8GB. The difference was amazing.

 

[Hikeman]

Hey guys. Thank you very much for your suggestions. The thing is that I am very much aware of the benefits of SSDs, that they are faster, safer, stress resistant and so on, but they are very expensive also in a same time, very expensive I would say. For the moment I have a HDD of 500Gb in my laptop and for my to replace with even the half of the size of the memory I have (250Gb) SSD is still very expensive and to have less then that is really not practical, at list for me it's not!
In case I am wrong and there are chipper SSDs, pleas let me know where to get them )))
For now I would really like to find out if I can upgrade my CPU and on more question, pleas tell me if there is a big diffidence between 5400 RPM HDD and 7200 RPM. Mine is 5400 is it worth to change it with 7200 one?
Thank you very much

 

[badger906]

Mechanical drives are even more stupidly expensive in comparison these days.

A 5400 rpm drive is slower than a 7200, but the difference isn't night and day.

Also if you were to get an SSD, even a 120gb which are very resonably priced, you could stick your current 500gb one in a portable caddy, then you have 620gb tp play with

 

[profdlp]

It appears your current CPU uses this socket:

Socket G1 (rPGA988A)

A quick search for "Socket G1 (rPGA988A) cpu" reveals the following:

Socket G1 (rPGA988A) - Google Search

Keep in mind that it is extremely unlikely that your BIOS will allow you to manually adjust the FSB and/or Multiplier, meaning that if the BIOS doesn't automatically and accurately identify the new CPU it won't work at all. If you look at the price of the Core i7 CPU at the top you are more than halfway to a brand new Core i7 laptop.

Intel BX80607I7840QM: Intel CPU BX80607I7840QM Mobile Core I7-840QM 1.86GHz 8MB FCPGA8 Socket G1 Retail

 

[TheDirtyBomb]

Ive had the privilege of completely trashing about 10 laptops in the store that i worked at. after doing this i have conceded the following:
1. laptops are extremely hard to take apart without doing serious damage to either the case or the components.
2. one of the most complicated things is to find and or replace all the tiny and i mean tiny screws that are in a laptop.
3 the replacement of a laptop processor is not cost effective as already mentioned.
4 most laptops these days come with a higher equivalent if this is so with your laptop i means that the processor is interchangeable with that higher series.

if your laptop has a higher 'i' series model usually what the company does is install a processor socket this saves them the time of having to solder in the new chip for every different model.
if you do have your heart set on upgrading your processor it can be done. it is just, well....not really worth the time. i went down the same path until i realized that to install the new processor i would need a new heat sink a new internal psu and a complete bios update and reconfigure (i like personalized bios settings).
if your machine has a G1 socket it does support an i7 proccesor. so you could look into it.
Good luck and i hope you are successful in what ever you decide to do...

 

[DeaconFrost]

I wouldn't recommend it, even if the board would accept a higher processor. Your laptop was designed to handle the heat from your current processor. If you switch to a processor that may generate more heat, you could end up damaging the laptop.

If you want to be able to upgrade your parts, you don't buy a laptop, unfortunately...so keep that in mind next time around.

 

[traderpats]

The 5400 rpm hdd is without a doubt the bottleneck in your system. The components all need to "balance" in function or you're just wasting money. I'd love to have the latest cpu as much as the next guy. However outside of video editing and other processor intensive tasks, it really wouldn't make a whole lot of difference what cpu you were able to pop in there.

I'd say badger906 is right on the money when suggesting a small ssd and an external hdd for budget reasons. In your situation the upgrade path should be ssd first, then ram and processor last, if at all. You really only need enough ssd for OS and Programs, with as much overhead as you can afford for wear-leveling. Seriously, the difference in speed and responsiveness will be much more than you would ever get from a cpu upgrade. The cost would also be somewhere around what you would spend for a middling i7, even less if you shopped around some.

 

[profdlp]

I bought this MSI A6200-220US Laptop Computer - Intel Core i3-350M 2.26GHz, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6 Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Black at TigerDirect.com a year and a half ago for school. Last Fall I upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 8GB and like badger906 suggested earlier I put the mechanical HD into an external case and replaced it with an SSD. All the people in my programming class who knew me from previous semesters were asking me if I had bought a whole new machine. The 64GB SSD cost me $100, the RAM was $50 and the external drive case was about $10. That's $160 vs whatever you might spend on a CPU - which may not work anyway.

 

[Hikeman]

Hey guys. Thank you very much for all your suggestions and advises, appreciate them a lot !!!
So it's seam that for the moment I'll just upgrade my RAM till 8Gb and that's it. Maybe latter I will consider to change my HDD to SSD, but defiantly not now )))
Thanks again very much
The case solved !!!

 

[jason9922]

I don't know about laptops being hard to work on, you do have to have some skills and a steady hand to work with those small screws but I don't find it that hard. I've totally rebuilt about 5 of them. I buy them broken, fix them, sell them, usally the people I sell the new one to have an old one I'll take 50$ off the price of the new one if they throw in there old one, fix that one, ONCE BIG CIRCLE. Been making decent side money doing this. I still have no clue or skills on how to change out the CPU in this 4420 or if the G1 989 socket i7 or i5 would work. Motherboards are one thing I currently have no skill with. If anyone has a clue as to where I could get an i5 or an i7 CPU cheap that would fit my laptop that would be cool. As to SSD drives, I've heard so much bad stuff about them. Eventually they all choke and die after a few years don't they? They are pretty much massive flash drives aren't they? I've read quite a few articles saying they only have so many times they can be booted up as to a regual HDD drive, I have one in an Inspiron 6000 that's 10 years old and runs perfect. I think I am going to try out a 120gb SSD in my probook before trying to swap out the CPU. Seems like a lot of people agree that would make the difference in this laptop.

 

[foxfaisal]

For more information, please refer to the following link regarding the upgrade project for Intel® HM55 Express Chipset.
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I have an ASUS A52JK which also comes with Intel i5 430M CPU, which is shown in the link below:
https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/A52JK/

The same laptop also comes with other types of processor, which are:
1) Intel i5 430M/450M/460M/520M/540M CPU
2) Intel i3 330M/350M/370M CPU
3) Intel Pentium® Dual-Core P6000 CPU

I am thinking of upgrading the CPU of my laptop to Intel i7 940XM or i7 640M. I have checked the TDP and CPU ID for Intel i5 430M, 640M and Intel i7 940XM. The TDP for i7 940XM are higher, which is 55W while the TDP for Intel i5 430M and 640M is 35W. The CPU ID for Intel i5 430M is 20652, the CPU ID for Intel i7 540M is 20655 and the CPU ID for Intel i7 940XM is 106F1.

After reading the successful stories from the first link that I give above (and ignoring the unsuccessful stories ), I feel like I want to go for i7-940XM. If i7-940XM doesn't work, then I will try i7-640M (or lower). If the i7-940XM, works but have overheating problem, then I will try the i7-840QM (or lower).

 

[foxfaisal]

For more information, please refer to the following link regarding the upgrade project for Intel® HM55 Express Chipset.
Access denied

I have an ASUS A52JK which also comes with Intel i5 430M CPU, which is shown in the link below:
https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/A52JK/

The same laptop also comes with other types of processor, which are:
1) Intel i5 430M/450M/460M/520M/540M CPU
2) Intel i3 330M/350M/370M CPU
3) Intel Pentium® Dual-Core P6000 CPU
I am thinking of upgrading the CPU of my laptop to Intel i7 940XM or i7 640M. I have checked the TDP and CPU ID for Intel i5 430M, 640M and Intel i7 940XM. The TDP for i7 940XM are higher, which is 55W while the TDP for Intel i5 430M and 640M is 35W. The CPU ID for Intel i5 430M is 20652, the CPU ID for Intel i7 540M is 20655 and the CPU ID for Intel i7 940XM is 106F1.
After reading the successful stories from the first link that I give above (and ignoring the unsuccessful stories ), I feel like I want to go for i7-940XM. If i7-940XM doesn't work, then I will try i7-640M (or lower). If the i7-940XM, works but have overheating problem, then I will try the i7-840QM (or lower).