Laptop PSU

[JaffaMan]

I am considering upgrading the cpu in my laptop the current cpu uses 35 watts but the one I wish to upgrade to uses 55 watts and my question is do will this be possible and if so would I need to change my power cable for my laptop.

[JaffaMan]

What do you mean by the motherboard supporting it and I currently have a Intel pentium p6200

[W-L]

What do you mean by the motherboard supporting it and I currently have a Intel pentium p6200

 

If you can change out the processor on the laptop since it's socketed then yeah it will work in most cases, but as for the PSU that depends how much overhead the previous PSU had in place do you know the specs of the previous PSU brick we can give you a better estimate with the voltages and amps.

[JaffaMan]

It's 100-240v and 1.5A input and 20v and 3.25A output

[W-L]

Hmm you might be pushing the limits of that power brick it's max wattage is around 65W so it could only have enough power for the CPU basically, since you don't want to push those power pricks to 100% usually around 80-90% max capacity. You would need a new power brick that has the same output voltage of 20V but with higher amps, I would suggest something >4.5amps to give it around 90W to provide some good overhead.

 

20V*3.25A= 65W

[JaffaMan]

thanks