Can I upgrade my Acer pc from its Intel J1900 processor?

[jacob.86974]

I have an Acer Aspire axc-703g-uw52 can I upgrade its J1900 processor?

 

[DRagor]

As far as I know, you can't, as its soldered into motherboard.

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

From my findings, yes and no.

The board is an H81 but it appears that the socket is FCBGA 1170. For whatever reason Acer decided to use a mobile CPU for that desktop.

There are few CPU's that are supported by that socket, so while there are other CPU's you can change to, I am not sure any of them will make a meaningful upgrade.

I could be totally wrong on that though.

 

[DSzymborski]

DRagor is correct, it's a BGA CPU. This line of Celeron CPUs is in Intel's Bay Trail line, which are targeted for tablets, netbooks, and very light-use desktops. While you can theoretically replace a BGA CPU if you're excellent at working with intricate hardware, there's not anything actually worth an upgrade to. Unfortunately, this desktop was not designed to have any upgrade path.