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Dkozak
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Hello, 

 

So I have my older laptop for school, which I upgraded with an SSD a while ago but the AMD dual core is hitting full load a lot (AMD A6-4400M). 

I did some research and found out that the AMD A10-4600M (quad core) will be an 'improvement'.

 

On Aliexpress there is this guy selling 940 units of this CPU (link). His reviews are looking good, but the thing I wonder is: on the picture he shows an engineering example. 

Is an engineering example as usefull as a real unit? 

 

Also, My laptop is an ASUS R700D K75de with the A6-4400M, can I swap the CPU or is it soldered? 

 

thanks in advance

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Looks like that laptop has a removable cpu.  Did they make a lappy with the 4600m?  You don't want to go to far out of the /power/cooling ability of your system.  You also need to find out if that cpu will cooperate with the motherboards BIoS.

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Usually upgrading laptop cpu isn't worth it unless your paying almost no money for the upgrade or even better getting it for free you are far better off just buying a new laptop IMO

DISPLAYS: LG 27UL500 IPS 4k60hz + HDR and LG 27GL650F IPS 1080p 144hz + HDR

 

LAPTOP: Lenovo Legion 5 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H GPU: RTX 3070 8GB RAM: 16GB 3200MHz (2x8GB DDR4) STORAGE: 4TB Crucial P3 NVMe SSD + 2TB Samsung 970 evo plus NVMe SSD DISPLAY: 1080p 165hz IPS OS: Windows 11 Pro x64

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Looks like that laptop has a removable cpu.  Did they make a lappy with the 4600m?  You don't want to go to far out of the /power/cooling ability of your system.  You also need to find out if that cpu will cooperate with the motherboards BIoS.

I don't know if they made a laptop with the 4600m, I do know that the socket etc is the same, here is a link to a small comparison (link)

 

Usually upgrading laptop cpu isn't worth it unless your paying almost no money for the upgrade or even better getting it for free you are far better off just buying a new laptop IMO

Well the CPU I'm looking to buy on aliExpress is € 25 so that's almost no money

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I don't know if they made a laptop with the 4600m, I do know that the socket etc is the same, here is a link to a small comparison (link)

 

Well the CPU I'm looking to buy on aliExpress is € 25 so that's almost no money

Then I'd say go for it over 2k extra points in cinebench

DISPLAYS: LG 27UL500 IPS 4k60hz + HDR and LG 27GL650F IPS 1080p 144hz + HDR

 

LAPTOP: Lenovo Legion 5 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H GPU: RTX 3070 8GB RAM: 16GB 3200MHz (2x8GB DDR4) STORAGE: 4TB Crucial P3 NVMe SSD + 2TB Samsung 970 evo plus NVMe SSD DISPLAY: 1080p 165hz IPS OS: Windows 11 Pro x64

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