Customizing A laptop

[Leonardo.Vixx]

Hi! I want to upgrade my 2 yrs old laptop. Lately its been laggy. 
Laptop Name: Lenovo Ideapad Z510

Processor : I7-4702MQ

Ram: 4GB

 

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only upgrade you can get is 8gb of ram instead of 4.

[Leonardo.Vixx]

What about the processor?

 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

What about the processor?

 

Almost no laptops support swappable processors.

You're going to want to buy a new laptop.

 

Also, use the quote button when replying to people.

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[Imglidinhere]

1 minute ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

What about the processor?

 

Won't matter. Upgrade the laptop with a Solid State and your machine will be leagues faster. That and upgrading to 8GB of RAM will help too.

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

What about the processor?

 

Your CPU is already a high-end mobile processor - no sense in upgrading it.

 

Just now, Enderman said:

Almost no laptops support swappable processors.

You're going to want to buy a new laptop.

 

Also, use the quote button when replying to people.

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Any CPU ending in "M" is upgradeable

[Leonardo.Vixx]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Your CPU is already a high-end mobile processor - no sense in upgrading it.

 

Any CPU ending in "M" is upgradeable

Oh. Okay. So it's just the ram and ssd that I need to upgrade. 
Sorry for asking many question but will that upgrade can handle gaming and coding? 

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Leonardo.Vixx said:

Oh. Okay. So it's just the ram and ssd that I need to upgrade. 
Sorry for asking many question but will that upgrade can handle gaming and coding? 

Gaming depends on the GPU, not the CPU

[Leonardo.Vixx]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

Gaming depends on the GPU, not the CPU

Hmm. How can I know what my GPU ?

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Leonardo.Vixx said:

Hmm. How can I know what my GPU ?

Device manager

[it_dont_work]

1 minute ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

Oh. Okay. So it's just the ram and ssd that I need to upgrade. 
Sorry for asking many question but will that upgrade can handle gaming and coding? 

Give it a wipe and throw in an ssd, as for cpu's your laptop is upgradeable but you'll need to dive into lenovo support to find out what cpu's that particular laptops board will support, I think for your model the one you've got is the highest. anyway I'll link the tear down guide onto this post.

 

How to work out your exact hardware specs I'd just google the modle part number on the base of your laptop.

 

http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/lenovo_z410z510z510touch_hmm.pdf

 

[Leonardo.Vixx]

6 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Device manager

nvidia geforce gt 740m This is  my GPU I think

3 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

Give it a wipe and throw in an ssd, as for cpu's your laptop is upgradeable but you'll need to dive into lenovo support to find out what cpu's that particular laptops board will support, I think for your model the one you've got is the highest. anyway I'll link the tear down guide onto this post.

 

How to work out your exact hardware specs I'd just google the modle part number on the base of your laptop.

 

http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/lenovo_z410z510z510touch_hmm.pdf

 

Thanks! 

3 minutes ago, Wedsea040 said:

A good clean out with a can of compressed air and TIM swap can improve thermals and is relatively cheap. Better thermals can mean better performance. Make sure that if you blow out your fans though you hold them so they don't spin, that can damage them.

Thanks! btw what TIM?

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

nvidia geforce gt 740m This is  my GPU I think

Thanks! 

Thanks! btw what TIM?

740M is very weak so don't expect gaming

[Leonardo.Vixx]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

740M is very weak so don't expect gaming

I could play League of Legends here but w/ medium settings only.
But Can I upgrade my GPU?

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Leonardo.Vixx said:

I could play League of Legends here but w/ medium settings only.
But Can I upgrade my GPU?

No, GPUs are soldered onto the motherboard

[Leonardo.Vixx]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

No, GPUs are soldered onto the motherboard

But with this GPU can I play games but at a med settings? 

[don_svetlio]

18 minutes ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

But with this GPU can I play games but at a med settings? 

Probably no. It's very old and very weak

[Leonardo.Vixx]

6 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Probably no. It's very old and very weak

Then a gaming console is the better option for gaming rather than investing in my laptop upgrade?

[don_svetlio]

10 minutes ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

Then a gaming console is the better option for gaming rather than investing in my laptop upgrade?

A new laptop is the best option if you want proper PC gaming.

[ErrystioT]

5 minutes ago, Leonardo.Vixx said:

Then a gaming console is the better option for gaming rather than investing in my laptop upgrade?

Depends on you actually... You can build a custom desktop for gaming if you wish so as well. As for your laptop upgrades, the only possible upgrades I can think of are storage drive and RAM, your CPU can be changed as well because of the "M" but since it is already an i7-4702MQ... There is no reason to upgrade that. And as others have mentioned, if your laptop is still using an HDD, it's time for a change to SSD, it's a huge change even though if it's just SATA3 based and you can upgrade your RAM to 8GB or 16GB if you have the cash...

[don_svetlio]

8 minutes ago, ErrystioT said:

Depends on you actually... You can build a custom desktop for gaming if you wish so as well. As for your laptop upgrades, the only possible upgrades I can think of are storage drive and RAM, your CPU can be changed as well because of the "M" but since it is already an i7-4702MQ... There is no reason to upgrade that. And as others have mentioned, if your laptop is still using an HDD, it's time for a change to SSD, it's a huge change even though if it's just SATA3 based and you can upgrade your RAM to 8GB or 16GB if you have the cash...

Or a new gaming laptop with a 960M - those are cheap as fuck right now - 700-900$

[ErrystioT]

3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Or a new gaming laptop with a 960M - those are cheap as fuck right now - 700-900$

Or if you can step up a bit, you can get 970M on the cheap as well for about $1.2k because of the recently released laptops with GTX 10 series GPUs

[don_svetlio]

11 minutes ago, ErrystioT said:

Or if you can step up a bit, you can get 970M on the cheap as well for about $1.2k because of the recently released laptops with GTX 10 series GPUs

Precisely what I did