Intel Celeron 1000m Upgrade

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shahrya

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Hi i just bought a Asus X401A-BCL0705Y and it has a Intel Celeron 1000m and I'm looking for an upgrade. Does anybody know which CPU will be supported and has more core and is decent for multi taking.
Thanks for the help in advance.
 
Solution
Yes and yes. You can essentially use any 3rd generation Core-based socketed laptop processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge. (Theoretically Sandy Bridge would work too but there's no sense in going backward a generation) Here's a comprehensive list of all the potential upgrades you could do:
Celeron 1005M
Celeron 1020M
Pentium 2020M
Pentium 2030M
Core i3-3110M
Core i3-3120M
Core i3-3130M
Core i5-3210M
Core i5-3230M
Core i5-3320M
Core i5-3340M
Core i5-3360M
Core i5-3380M
Core i7-3520M
Core i7-3540M
Core i7-3612QM
Core i7-3632QM

The only options that have more cores are the QM i7's at the end, although every processor starting from the i3's have 4 "virtual cores" (or threads) powered by 2 actual cores, so you'll still get a performance benefit...
Yeah, I'm really sorry about that. I had never heard of a manufacturer implementing a hardware timer if an unsupported CPU was used, but I wouldn't put it past Intel for making it and Asus using it to cut costs. *sigh* Sorry to have you jump through all these hoops for nothing, at least we both learned something from it :3
 
Nah its not your fault at all. and yes you're right we both learned something new today and i never knew about chips like that. well thanks again for all your effort and how can i change the best solution so in the future someone searches they know what to read ?
 
thanks for the discussion...

just wanna add something

I've face this problem on several laptop that I tried to upgrade and failed 🙁( (face some problem like which is shutdown after around 10-20minutes)
1. samsung np300 (with processor cel 815) can upgrade to pentium B9xx but not core i3 2xxx
2. toshiba c840 (with processor B9xx) can't upgrade to core i3 2xxx
3. asus x45a (with processor 1000m) can't upgrade to core i3 3xxx

thanks