upgrading a laptop

[Mrfunman123]

Hi everyone. I was hoping if someone can confirm that may laptop can be upgraded with a better prosser and ram.
My laptop is a Sony vaio e serise laptop from 2012.
Model number: sve14a15fdh

 

[Archgaull]

No, you cannot upgrade laptops processors, they are typically soldered into the motherboard.

 

[cheese9k]

Yes your laptop can be upgraded. It has a socketed CPU and removable RAM. You just need to find out what stuff is compatible.

 

[Mrfunman123]

No, you cannot upgrade laptops processors, they are typically soldered into the motherboard.

 

[Mrfunman123]

Oh I see so u can upgrade the cpu and ram ok but for the cpu does my cpu have to be 35 wat like the stock cpu or can be higher or will that destroy the board and cpu due to heat or power consumption. Also does more cores matter or does higher clock speeds matter. By that my computer is not a ultra book and the cpu and ram is not integrated into the th laptop. And I want to use my laptop for designing work such ldd sketchup and autocad as well as use it for work usage and playing games as well so basically I want it to be a all around type of machine.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Even if another CPU fits the socket, it doesn't mean it will accept it.

 

[Mrfunman123]

How u already tried it then if u say yes then explain in great detailed what happened then I will belive you on that.

 

[Mrfunman123]

I'm pretty sure that some 3 Gen processors will work with socket g2 motherboards.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

If the CPU doesn't work with the motherboard's 'list of compatible CPU's', then it won't work. If there's no newer BIOS, or the manufacturer don't want people to upgrade their product, then it's a dead end.

 

[Mrfunman123]

Alrite I will belive on that but I personally don't want to buy another laptop for the some price as upgrading my old laptop. I seen people on the Internet upgrading laptops with better cpus and ram so I figured it would be easy enough to do with no problems but I guess u do make a valid point on the motherboard or the computer not knowing the cpu as well thanks for your advice on this.

 

[jhaydon81]

I have done this countless time while refurbishing laptops and haven't had a problem yet with it. Just make sure its the right socket

 

[jhaydon81]

I would stick with the 35 watt CPU's that's usually what I do

 

[Mrfunman123]

R u sure that it is safe to do this type of upgrading on a laptop or no

 

[Mrfunman123]

Is it still ok to go with a 45 wat cpu for more cores and threads or no should I stick with a 35 wat cpu instead.

 

[jhaydon81]

I would stick to the same voltage

 

[Mrfunman123]

Ok then what cpu would u recommend I'm using a i5 3210m cpu right now in my laptop and 6 gigs of ram. The ram I want to upgrade the 2 gig stick in there to 4 so I have 8. Any recommendations.

 

[jhaydon81]

i7 3540m but honestly I don't see much reason to upgrade the cpu in your case. I would add a SSD if your looking to speed it up.

 

[Mrfunman123]

But how do I put all of my stuff on my had to my add and wouldn't a add have errors I'm mean I would only want to use it for the os and some application that I always use for doing work plus my hard drive 640 gb and I only used 300 so it is pretty good at read and wrote speed tell it becomes overfilled with juck. See I wanted to upgrade my cpu because my current cpu the i5 3210m cpu sometimes fails when over 3.0 and the ram is so slow for holding temp memory. But do like the i7 3540m cpu

 

[jhaydon81]

pull the ODD and put an adapter tray in with an SSD upgrade the ram to 8 GB but I recommend buying an 8gb kit

 

[jhaydon81]

I would reinstall the OS on the SSD or you can clone drive it but it may have some issues. Just use a desktop

 

[Mrfunman123]

I have a 4gig and a 2gig in there already I want to change out the 2 gig to a 4gig let. I actually don't want to change the hdd to a sdd I already have a external 1 terabyte hdd for fast storage and transfere rates

 

[jhaydon81]

I understand that but I don't think your going to find a noticeable difference in speed of the system by doing a CPU and 2 gb of RAM upgrade. The SSD will make the whole system feel a lot faster.

 

[Mrfunman123]

True I agree with that I might actually do that because I can get a really good ssd for a cheaper price than upgrading the hardware

 

[Mrfunman123]

Is one terabyte ssd oky my hard drive 640 gb of storage.

 

[jhaydon81]

probably overkill I would go with a 500gb I haven't seen many people use more than 300 gb on a laptop