Laptop CPU Upgrade Help

[DespacitOwOs]

I have a Toshiba Satellite C50-B-14D and I want to upgrade its cpu.

 

 Original CPU: Celeron N2830 (Intel® Celeron® Processor N2830 (1M Cache, up to 2.41 GHz) Product Specifications)

 

New CPU: Pentium J2900 (Intel® Pentium® Processor J2900 (2M Cache, up to 2.67 GHz) Product Specifications)

 

They both use the same socket (FCBGA1170)

 

would I be able to just do some screws and then a swippy-swap boom done better laptop?

 

[Coolmaster]

You can't swap laptop CPUs, unless you have a way to bga solder them its not going to happen.

[jaslion]

You can't upgrade it's soldered. Even if you did you'd like maybe see a 2% increase. These laptops are weaker than core 2 duo machines from over a decade ago now

[DespacitOwOs]

i may be worng in remembering but i think ive cracked this baby before and checked if it was soldered and it wasnt but ill try again and check but for now lets say hypothetically it wasnt soldered

 

edit: also im not gonna game on this i have a 5700xt big boi pc (desktop) i just want to refresh it and use it on my own or sell to some facebook grandma for 50 quid

Edited December 7, 2020 by DespacitOwOs

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

12 minutes ago, DespacitOwOs said:

I have a Toshiba Satellite C50-B-14D and I want to upgrade its cpu.

 

 Original CPU: Celeron N2830 (Intel® Celeron® Processor N2830 (1M Cache, up to 2.41 GHz) Product Specifications)

 

New CPU: Pentium J2900 (Intel® Pentium® Processor J2900 (2M Cache, up to 2.67 GHz) Product Specifications)

 

They both use the same socket (FCBGA1170)

 

would I be able to just do some screws and then a swippy-swap boom done better laptop?

 

The FCBGA1170 socket is Ball Grid Array one which means the chip soldered directly onto the PCB. Thus, without specialist equipment, there is no way to perform that sort of upgrade and even with such equipment, there is no guarantee the operation would be a success. Plus, depending on the rest of your system, I would not say that upgrade is one that's worth while. If that thing has a HDD and a small amount of memory, which it most likely does since it had a Celeron, you're not going to experience any noticeable difference. A SSD upgrade from a HDD would yield a much better laptop than a CPU upgrade in most cases. Same with more memory if you're constantly pinning memory usage to upwards of 80-90%. 

[Coolmaster]

Just now, DespacitOwOs said:

i may be worng in remembering but i think ive cracked this baby before and checked if it was soldered and it wasnt but ill try again and check but for now lets say hypothetically it wasnt soldered

There is no way it's not soldered. It's in the name of the socket FCBGA1170, BGA means it's soldered.

[WhitetailAni]

PGA/LGA = socketed, but even if the sockets are the same, the chipsets might not be.

This screwed me over when trying to upgrade a Celeron M 370 to a Core 2 Duo T5600.

Darn you ATI Radeon Xpress 200M supporting everything but the Core series!

[DespacitOwOs]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

PGA/LGA = socketed, but even if the sockets are the same, the chipsets might not be.

This screwed me over when trying to upgrade a Celeron M 370 to a Core 2 Duo T5600.

Darn you ATI Radeon Xpress 200M supporting everything but the Core series!

thanks bro man i happen to have another laptop with an i3 and i opened it up and its socketed so how to i check the chipset doodeeda

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, DespacitOwOs said:

thanks bro man i happen to have another laptop with an i3 and i opened it up and its socketed so how to i check the chipset doodeeda

Look it up.

Check on multiple sites to confirm it too, then determine which CPUs that chipset supports.