[SOLVED] Upgrading APU on laptop?

[Noct3m]

I have the l75d-a7288 toshiba satellite. It runs on he A8 5550m APU which is very slow for even light gaming or having too many tabs open. It also seems to be the bottleneck of the computer. I am thinking about upgrading the APU to the ryzen 5 3400g or maybe even waiting until the 4000g models come out. The sockets match and im pretty sure that the APU isn't soldered onto the board, although im not sure. Would cooling be an issue? Is it a good decision? Any other suggestions?

 

[Rogue Leader]

I have the l75d-a7288 toshiba satellite. It runs on he A8 5550m APU which is very slow for even light gaming or having too many tabs open. It also seems to be the bottleneck of the computer. I am thinking about upgrading the APU to the ryzen 5 3400g or maybe even waiting until the 4000g models come out. The sockets match and im pretty sure that the APU isn't soldered onto the board, although im not sure. Would cooling be an issue? Is it a good decision? Any other suggestions?

Not a chance. The sockets absolutely do not match they are completely different, and that laptop uses different memory thats incompatible with the 3500u anyway (the 3400g is not a laptop processor).

 

[Noct3m]

Not a chance. The sockets absolutely do not match they are completely different, and that laptop uses different memory thats incompatible with the 3500u anyway (the 3400g is not a laptop processor).

Are there any other APUs that I could useinstead?

 

[Rogue Leader]

Are there any other APUs that I could useinstead?

No, first off from what I can tell that APU IS soldiered, but even if it wasn't that laptop did not support any other APUs in that family. Even if it DID support them, the performance benefit would be minimal, not worth the money.

That Laptop was not made to game. If you want it to be a reasonable productivity system I suggest replacing the hard drive with an SSD, that will make a HUGE difference in day to day tasks.

 

[mdd1963]

Rare is the laptop that has adequate thermal solution and headroom, and power budget, and an unsoldered-in CPU ,and a BIOS that supports faster CPUs....to allow for a painless upgrade...(and, as already mentioned above chances upgrading to a more recent socket/architecture of course are simply less than hopeless, if that was a thing!)