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i have an i3 380m its socket is 989 rpga it say the chipset is intel havendale/clarkedale host bridge rev 02 and the sothbridge says intel hm55 rev 05 any help would be great wanna upgrade my cpu and get an ssd 

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you could upgrade, but no guarantee it will work. The BIOS has to recognize the CPU, and the odds of it recognizing a different one are slim, unless you know they used the exact same bios in the exact same laptop but had a higher end model with better specs, in which case just go for the highest end laptop CPU they offered and it (Should**) work

 

Cooling  could also be an issue, it may be designed to cool an i3, not a higher end i7. So you may end up throttling which will negate the effects of the upgrade in the first place. Also keep in mind more power = less battery life.

 

That i3 is still decent, you could put an SSD in there and still have an awesome on-the-go get-stuff-done laptop. 

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you could upgrade, but no guarantee it will work. The BIOS has to recognize the CPU, and the odds of it recognizing a different one are slim, unless you know they used the exact same bios in the exact same laptop but had a higher end model with better specs, in which case just go for the highest end laptop CPU they offered and it (Should**) work

 

Cooling  could also be an issue, it may be designed to cool an i3, not a higher end i7. So you may end up throttling which will negate the effects of the upgrade in the first place. Also keep in mind more power = less battery life.

 

That i3 is still decent, you could put an SSD in there and still have an awesome on-the-go get-stuff-done laptop. 

im not 2 sure its the packard bell tk 85 would bios really make all that difference even if it required the same  

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