Laptop Upgrades

[Migals]

If its running a apu you can usually upgrade those to something that is the SAME tdp.

[Glenwing]

Very few mobile GPUs are removable, usually only the top end ones like the GTX 770M/780M.  Almost all lower end mobile GPUs are soldered to the motherboard.  Even if it wasn't it's very likely your laptop would have significant cooling issues if you made an upgrade that had some kind of meaningful impact on performance.

 

Laptop CPUs and GPUs are very expensive... if you want to make an upgrade that will make a significant difference, you'll end up paying the price of a lower end desktop.  Building an APU system for $500-600 would probably get you better performance and future options than anything you could do to your laptop.

[Youbetternot]

Where are the steps to upgrading the GPU? The link is only giving me possible upgrades (GPU not involved)

And cool, thanks for the CPU upgrade vid

I've been to crucial before and it seems to only have upgrades for memory

oh my bad http://www.pcworld.com/article/148909/maxlap.html

[Higen_]

If its running a apu you can usually upgrade those to something that is the SAME tdp.

What is tdp?

[Higen_]

oh my bad http://www.pcworld.com/article/148909/maxlap.html

Sweet thanks

[Higen_]

Very few mobile GPUs are removable, usually only the top end ones like the GTX 770M/780M.  Almost all lower end mobile GPUs are soldered to the motherboard.  Even if it wasn't it's very likely your laptop would have significant cooling issues if you made an upgrade that had some kind of meaningful impact on performance.

 

Laptop CPUs and GPUs are very expensive... if you want to make an upgrade that will make a significant difference, you'll end up paying the price of a lower end desktop.  Building an APU system for $500-600 would probably get you better performance and future options than anything you could do to your laptop.

Thanks for all the info!

[eoso]

What is?

 Pretty much everything except for RAM and HDD/SSD.

[Migals]

What is tdp?

pretty much how much power it draws and heat output and stuff