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Laptop upgrade, Core Duo to Core 2

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I'm looking to upgrade my Tecra M5 from its Core Duo T2600 to a Core 2 Duo T7600 for its 64bit support. Its something I've been meaning to do for a while and I've already found a CPU that's compatible with the laptops socket. Looking at this forum here with a Thinkpad T60P (another business grade laptop) the upgrade worked flawlessly, so should i be able to do it with no problems as well? And would it be worth the upgrade performance wise?

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Aren't most Laptop CPU soldered on?

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Well yeah, Most are. Just not on this particular model. 

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Aren't most Laptop CPU soldered on?

No, which is where I'm lucky. If the upgrade actually works, I'll be trying the T2600 in the A3H I'm borrowing from my brother, as the Celeron M in it is utterly useless (both have the same socket).

you can get a used i5 laptop for $300,00 

I use the laptop for CAD, and older programs such as 3ds Max 7 work perfectly with it while still having the features I need.

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Ok, I've killed 2 birds with 1 stone. The original 1.50 bios didn't support the newer Core 2 CPU's or Windows Vista/7 (which explains my issues when trying to run Win 7 Pro), so after the upgrade to 3.7 this laptop still has a lot of life left in it, considering Toshiba has kept up support and has the drivers for Windows 8.1 32 and 64bit (which translates to Windows 10), and its soon to arrive 240GB SSD (100GB HDD installed ATM), CPU cooling fan and CPU.

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Aren't most Laptop CPU soldered on?

Nope. Very common misconception.

 

Well yeah, Most are. Just not on this particular model. 

Only CPUs like Atoms and the U (Ultra Low Voltage) CPUs and the H (Iris Graphics) series CPUs from Intel's lineup and AMDs low power mobile stuff (E2 series etc) are BGA (Soldered).

 

So basically all of AMD and Intel's mainstream mobile CPU lineup are PGAs (pin grid arrays).

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