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Just now, dav said:

Is it possible to upgrade a laptop with an i5-6200u cpu?

If so, what socket is it, and which cpus have the same socket?

Most of the time laptop CPUs are soldered to the board. No way of knowing unless you open it up and see for your self, but its probably soldered on

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5 minutes ago, Xizerz said:

Most of the time laptop CPUs are soldered to the board. No way of knowing unless you open it up and see for your self, but its probably soldered on

 

5 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

It uses a BGA socket, you are not going to be able to upgrade it.

 

Ok, thanks for the help, it's a shame that so many laptops cannot be upgraded

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3 minutes ago, Xizerz said:

Yeah you end up trading upgradability for portability.

Do you know if this is something new, or if it varies between cpus?

I have 2 older pcs, 4 and 6 years old... They both have lga sockets i think, as they can be taken out from the socket. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about lga.

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1 minute ago, dav said:

Do you know if this is something new, or if it varies between cpus?

I have 2 older pcs, 4 and 6 years old... They both have lga sockets i think, as they can be taken out from the socket. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about lga.

Any sort of desktop PC will be able to be upgraded

Laptops you can usually only upgrade things like ram and the hdd

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3 minutes ago, Xizerz said:

Any sort of desktop PC will be able to be upgraded

Laptops you can usually only upgrade things like ram and the hdd

yeah, i know that desktops can be upgraded. But is the non-replaceable cpus in laptops new, or has it allways been like that?

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3 minutes ago, dav said:

yeah, i know that desktops can be upgraded. But is the non-replaceable cpus in laptops new, or has it allways been like that?

It's pretty much always been like that.

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12 minutes ago, Xizerz said:

Any sort of desktop PC will be able to be upgraded

Laptops you can usually only upgrade things like ram and the hdd

AMD laptops use PGA CPUs, older intel laptops used PGA aswell. Also alot of higher end laptop have upgradable GPUs if you can source one. 

23 minutes ago, dav said:

 

Ok, thanks for the help, it's a shame that so many laptops cannot be upgraded

It can be upgraded, just not user upgraded. 

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34 minutes ago, dav said:

yeah, i know that desktops can be upgraded. But is the non-replaceable cpus in laptops new, or has it allways been like that?

 

30 minutes ago, TheFieryHaze said:

It's pretty much always been like that.

It's not entirely true. There have been laptops with desktop components for years with full upgradability and mxm.

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1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

 

It's not entirely true. There have been laptops with desktop components for years with full upgradability and mxm.

So there are laptops that allow you to swap out mobos?

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10 minutes ago, TheFieryHaze said:

So there are laptops that allow you to swap out mobos?

no but CPUs and gpus. using MX form factor for video cards. 

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5 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

 

no but CPUs and gpus. using MX form factor for video cards. 

Yeah, but Pendragon said that they have full upgradability. I would assume this also means the ability to upgrade your Mobo.

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Just now, TheFieryHaze said:

Yeah, but Pendragon said that they have full upgradability. I would assume this also means the ability to upgrade your Mobo.

ok so nearly full. no mobo changes but that is it.

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

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19 minutes ago, TheFieryHaze said:

I would assume this also means the ability to upgrade your Mobo.

My bad, nearly full. I assume you can but I don't think anyone's tried mainly because that would be horribly expensive. CPUs and GPUs for sure. Sometimes CPU socket's don't change and you can carry on using the same mobo. Most 780m laptops MXM can be upgraded with 980ms with a custom bios flash. Don't quote me on that but so far that's what I've seen. 

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(Retired) T560: i7-6600U, HD520, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1620p

(Retired) P650RS: i7-6820HK, 1070, 16gb, 512gb + 1tb HDD, 4k Samsung PLS

(Retired) MBP 2012 Retina: i7-3820QM, GT650M, 16gb, 512gb SSD, 1800p

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17 hours ago, TheFieryHaze said:

So there are laptops that allow you to swap out mobos?

actually there were, MSI GX660 can be upgraded with 2 different mobos with newer gen CPUs but these things are very rare and of course theres no official support for this kind of thing

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