possible upgrades ??

[Vinny gee]

i have a sony vaio laptop running 2gb ram and a 120 gb hardrvie with an intel r cpu can i upgrade the graphics card and put a amd processor in it it runs ok but want to do more gamin on it any ideas??

 

[r0aringdrag0n]

No. You cannot upgrade a laptop unless it's the RAM.
Edit: As for ideas, you have three solutions:
1) upgrade the RAM to 4 or 6 GB, which will not increase gaming performance
2) Buy a new laptop
3) Build/Buy a new desktop, which will be upgradeable

 

[Avro Arrow]

All you can do to a craptop is add more RAM. I have a feeling that you cannot do more gaming on that because craptops with 120GB hard drives are quite old, usually more than 6 years old. What is the model number of your Vaio? What is the CPU, what is the GPU, etc. This is what we need to know. Telling us that it's a Vaio only tells us that Sony made it.

 

[r0aringdrag0n]

What is the CPU, what is the GPU, etc. This is what we need to know. Telling us that it's a Vaio only tells us that Sony made it.

Knowing the GPU/CPU will not help as all laptops (that I know of) use mobile processors that have their chips soldered on...therefore you cannot remove them.

 

[doubletake]

all laptops (that I know of) use mobile processors that have their chips soldered on...therefore you cannot remove them.

Incorrect.

 

[r0aringdrag0n]

Incorrect.

This is news to me; I would like to learn more about this, can you direct me to any sites?

 

[doubletake]

No, but you can look up the specifications to any mobile Intel processor you want on Intel's site, and if it isn't using a BGA socket, it isn't soldered down and therefore replaceable. I have personally swapped out a few dozen mobile processors since the Core2Duo Penryn line. The only real problem with upgrading processors on laptops is that, if they're generic OEM machines, they might require a BIOS update to recognize another processor, a BIOS update which is often non-existent if that line of machines don't already feature support for the CPU you want to put in.

(I don't mention AMD processor as I have no experience with their mobile platforms.)