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Get a professional to upgrade the cpu on your laptop.
If you put the upgrade cpu in backwards or wrong. It will brick your mother board.
It takes a bit of dexterity, knowledge, and good eyesight and patience to do a cpu upgrade with the right tools and cpu paste on a laptop. With service manual instructions on hand for disassembly and re-assembly.
You can try it out. It's your gear to break. Just letting you know it is no piece of cake.
Also depends on how new it is. If it's an Intel cpu, anything Broadwell and newer are soldered to the board, so in order to upgrade the CPU you have to buy an entirely new board as well.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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Originally Posted by rokytnji
Since you have to ask something like this.
Get a professional to upgrade the cpu on your laptop.
If you have to ask, then you can't upgrade it.
The only real way to tell whether it can be upgraded is to get to it and look at it. If you've not done that already then you're not capable of upgrading it yourself.
hydrurga :can you let me know if it is upgradable ?
I have no idea, Neddie. The reason I asked is that if it is speed you're aiming for, perhaps swapping out a hard drive for an SSD and/or adding more memory might do the trick.
The OP would need to research what processors are compatible with this motherboard, which possibly could be an Acer EA40_HC. The OP would need to confirm this.
Regards...
Last edited by ardvark71; 01-07-2017 at 12:46 PM.
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