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Can anyone please let me know if I could put a i7-2620m into a, Asus x501a-hpd121h. I know that the CPU is ejectable, I'm only worried about the compatibility. If not, could someone please let me know what the pest possible processor I could put in the laptop is?
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Marc
 
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I was able to upgrade my HP Pavilion G7 that originally came with an i3 2320M to an i7 2640M and it didn't require any flash of the BIOS. It was basically drop and go. I found out that HP used the same Sandy Bridge motherboard chipset between their i3, i5, and i7 variants for that year's G7 series so it was no problem. I was only comfortable doing it after disassembling it and checking out the cooling which is a good design. Temps are only a few degrees C above what they were with the i3.

Your challenge is finding out if the motherboard BIOS will accept. Like another here said, it appears that laptop only came with an i3 or lower Pentium B-series CPU (think Celeron). I can find no information on the motherboard of that laptop for what...
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Hi,

since you already have a i7 in there I doubt you can upgrade to something significant anyways.
You might be able to find slightly higher clock speed but doubt it will make a noticeable difference.
Also, the laptop is probably struggling to keep this cpu cool so probably a bad idea.
 
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Well the ASUS spec sheet says it should have at most an i3, the exact model will narrow down the TDP.

The teardown I saw looks like a pretty tiny heatsink. Memory upgrade, which was asked in another post, requires the removal of the motherboard. (Good job ASUS...)
 
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I was able to upgrade my HP Pavilion G7 that originally came with an i3 2320M to an i7 2640M and it didn't require any flash of the BIOS. It was basically drop and go. I found out that HP used the same Sandy Bridge motherboard chipset between their i3, i5, and i7 variants for that year's G7 series so it was no problem. I was only comfortable doing it after disassembling it and checking out the cooling which is a good design. Temps are only a few degrees C above what they were with the i3.

Your challenge is finding out if the motherboard BIOS will accept. Like another here said, it appears that laptop only came with an i3 or lower Pentium B-series CPU (think Celeron). I can find no information on the motherboard of that laptop for what others have swapped out the CPUs with. However I will say this: if it only came in Celeron or i3 CPU variants, then there's a good chance it won't accept anything higher.
 
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It currently has a dual core Pentium in it(I'm not sure the exact model number because it wasn't available on Asus's website (thanks Asus), and the laptop is currently not working)

Also, thank you for all the info you have given on my various posts, it really helps!
 
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