Laptop CPU upgrade.

R3ep3r · July 30, 2017

Hi there fellow users.

Today a weird idea came in my mind.

At the moment my father owns a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop with an Intel Celeron 550 CPU in it, running at 2.00ghz (single core) ( I know. The laptop is old and I should go and upgrade it)

I did some research on the internet and I've seen that some people 'modded' their laptop and did a CPU swap. They've placed a T7500 or T9300 instead of the Celeron 550.

BUT! There's always a but. I've seen that Celeron 550 uses PPGA778 whilst the Intel core 2 duo T9300 uses the PGA778.(only a P misses from the IntelCore2Duo's socket LOL) The question here is: Will the T9300 work on the laptop I have? I'd like to be sure that it works/not works before doing this because I do not want to spend money on something that wouldn't work at all.

PS: Some guy from a forum said that T9300 won't work on 550's place because T9300 has a higher voltage and some other things different than the 550. That might be true or not, that's why I am here and asking for other's opinion.

Another question is: Is it worth updating this laptop? Because at the moment I do not have the money that I need to buy a new laptop(which will be an 700$ Acer with I5, 950M, 8gigs of ram and SSD probably)

Third question would be:

How much would I get on a PC that I'd like to sell, in order buy switch to ryzen.

The build I'd like to sell is the one that I have atm, but without the GPU, PSU.

So:

Case: Spire Coolbox 202;

CPU: AMD ahtlon II 880k;

Motherboard: Gigabyte F2 A88X-D3HP;

PSU: Spire PSU rated at 430W;

HDD: Western Digital Black 500gb Sata 3;

RAM: Kingmax 8GB(2x4) DDR3, 1600mhz.

GPU: Gigabyte nVidia GT430 2gb GDDR3;

Jurrunio · July 30, 2017

First of all, your old laptop is worth disposing. Maybe scrap the RAM, HDD and maybe monitor out before dumping it.

Secondly, do you really need a gaming laptop? A powerful desktop and cheap, portable laptop seems to be what fits your budget. Otherwise , throw all your budget on a laptop and only buy a monitor for use at home.

Lastly, I'd pay at most $130 for the PC. It's no longer good for any games, and that's how much I'd pay for a used office work machine.

R3ep3r · July 30, 2017

24 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

First of all, your old laptop is worth disposing. Maybe scrap the RAM, HDD and maybe monitor out before dumping it.

Secondly, do you really need a gaming laptop? A powerful desktop and cheap, portable laptop seems to be what fits your budget. Otherwise , throw all your budget on a laptop and only buy a monitor for use at home.

Lastly, I'd pay at most $130 for the PC. It's no longer good for any games, and that's how much I'd pay for a used office work machine.

No longer good for any games? 880k is a fm2+ cpu running at @ 4.2 to 4.5 ghz.

It can run each AAA title with no problems while paired with the 1050ti that I have. You surely misunderstood about what CPU I am talking about.