Hey Gurus Presently got a Samsung Laptop with an AMD A6-4400M in it, and I was wandering if I could upgrade the CPU to a A10-5750M which can be found on eBay for about 60 quid...? Seems to be the socketed type, not the BGA type. This would give me twice the cores and 3 x the GFX performance. Possible? BLEH!
in theory,it could be possible. but thermal design of the heatpipe/dissipating could be overwhelmed by new CPU's TDP. more,OEM could lock the BIOS/UEFI to a certain CPU microcode. if the seller has a specific money-back time frame,well ,do it and try for the kicks.
I figured it might need a BIOS upgrade in the least. Both are 35 W CPUs, though, the laptop itself is 2 years old.
back in the 2013-2014 when i was very active in laptop repair,i often swapped CPU just to test laptop motherboards. There are board who will accept almost any CPU for that socket,there are motherboards that will accept ONLY that specific CPU. just try it,and maybe you will hit the jackpot.
I upgraded the Single core Sempron in my laptop to a DualCore Turion a few years ago, runs super hot compared to the original CPU but within limits Was working in a repair shop when an almost identical model laptop came in for repair, except it had a dualcore - so I took a chance, bought the same CPU from ebay, installed it, success (Apart from forgetting to connect the power socket back to the board and having to dismantle the entire thing again)
It's possible, you might run into the microcode issue mentioned above although Shamsung is quite flexible (most of the time) regarding this
Yeah. I have read about users putting one of them core 2 Quad mobile Cpus in one of them old Dell precision m6400 laptops with very good success.
