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So I know this isn't exactly a troubleshooting thing, but I got stuck in a cruddy position where I have to send in my laptop to lenovo for repairs for like 2 weeks. (I could do it myself, but they will do it for free, a good trade off for someone who is broke...) Anyway, I have to use a terrible old laptop I have lying around. It has a celeron B820. I realize that no matter what I do that Im not gonna be gaming on it or anything, but it lags at like 15FPS if I have two chrome windows open at once... And I already had upgraded it to 8Gb of RAM. Anyway I have an i5 2510/2410 something like that. Anyway, and I know it uses the exact same socket. My question is, would it work if I threw it into this laptop? Could it just cook itself to death because of the small heat sink? Would the BIOS even recognize it? any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Well, some laptops have their CPU soldered to the motherboard.. so.. who knows.

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You sound confident enough to take it apart and find out yourself, to be fair. 

 

 

For the sake of being useful..

What laptop is it?

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So I know this isn't exactly a troubleshooting thing, but I got stuck in a cruddy position where I have to send in my laptop to lenovo for repairs for like 2 weeks. (I could do it myself, but they will do it for free, a good trade off for someone who is broke...) Anyway, I have to use a terrible old laptop I have lying around. It has a celeron B820. I realize that no matter what I do that Im not gonna be gaming on it or anything, but it lags at like 15FPS if I have two chrome windows open at once... And I already had upgraded it to 8Gb of RAM. Anyway I have an i5 2510/2410 something like that. Anyway, and I know it uses the exact same socket. My question is, would it work if I threw it into this laptop? Could it just cook itself to death because of the small heat sink? Would the BIOS even recognize it? any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

 

Most laptops have their CPU's directly soldered to the motherboard. It is very likely that you are unable to change the CPU.

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http://ark.intel.com/compare/53456,52224,67193

For everyone's use. Looks like a 2410 might not work

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also make sure your chipset supports it i got caught out on that once

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You could check if the laptop you have has been released with Intel Core (i3,i5,i7) CPU's in a different config, and if so find out which CPU. Some laptops might not support higher-spec/Hyper-Threaded or quad-core CPU's if they only ship with a DC CPU.

 
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If I were you, I'd buy a new laptop...

2 right m8

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