Tablet Upgrade

[Froger96]

Hi all, 

i have an Asus eee Pad Transformer TF101 (the original transformer) and it has become rather slow, even though i have factory reset it a couple of times, so i was wondering, can you replace the tegra 2 chip inside it, with a tegra 3 or something, as an upgrade, when taking it apart, or is tegra 3 on a different chipset, is there any way i can upgrade it at all, or speed it up?

thanks

[Torg73]

Hi all, 

i have an Asus eee Pad Transformer TF101 (the original transformer) and it has become rather slow, even though i have factory reset it a couple of times, so i was wondering, can you replace the tegra 2 chip inside it, with a tegra 3 or something, as an upgrade, when taking it apart, or is tegra 3 on a different chipset, is there any way i can upgrade it at all, or speed it up?

thanks

I believe the Tegra chip is soldered on to the motherboard so it would be a pain to replace it and presuming you can open the tablet to get to the chip, remove it with out damaging the motherboard and find a Tegra 3 chip at a good price there's no grantee it will work.

 

Also it's not just the cpu that could be slow, it could be the OS as newer versions of Android and IOS is a lot faster and more power effect then the older ones.

 

Your best bet is to save up and buy a faster tablet.

[SirRoderick]

I would agree, upgrading a tablet is very unlikely to even work if you can manage it. Start chipping in for a new one 

[Froger96]

and how much of a performance boost would it give me to root my tablet and upgrade it from ice cream sandwich to lollipop on release or just kitkat for now?

[Probenja]

It should run smoother if you put a rom like cyanogenmod. And at least jelly bean 4.1.