Upgrading from A10-5745M

[MaxPower33]

Hello,
So I recently bought a HP Pavilion 15-po33cl laptop and so far it has served me very well for its price. I usually play Minecraft but I have started to play FPS games too. The FPS games are obviously way more demanding then Minecraft as I run about 70 fps on middle setting on Minecraft and only about 25 fps on low settings for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. I was thinking that maybe upgrading my APU would improve performance. I currently have a AMD A10-5745M (2.1Ghz) with Radeon 8610g graphics. I was wondering if there was another APU I could upgrade to that also has a FP2 socket. I do believe that my processor is NOT soldered into the motherboard but I am not 100%. Are there any APUs to upgrade to?
Please respond,
Max

 

[rgd1101]

Hello,
So I recently bought a HP Pavilion 15-po33cl laptop and so far it has served me very well for its price. I usually play Minecraft but I have started to play FPS games too. The FPS games are obviously way more demanding then Minecraft as I run about 70 fps on middle setting on Minecraft and only about 25 fps on low settings for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. I was thinking that maybe upgrading my APU would improve performance. I currently have a AMD A10-5745M (2.1Ghz) with Radeon 8610g graphics. I was wondering if there was another APU I could upgrade to that also has a FP2 socket. I do believe that my processor is NOT soldered into the motherboard but I am not 100%. Are there any APUs to upgrade to?
Please respond,
Max

http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC-series/6936226/model/7200391/manuals
nope. 5745m is the highest you can get without getting a new system board.

the other answer not good enough?
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2701827/a10-5745m-a10-5800k.html

 

[IInuyasha74]

Looking at your other thread, you have been trying to pick desktop CPUs for your laptop. I'm sure they already said this, but that simply doesn't work. The desktop ones use a lot more power, produce a lot more heat, and the socket used isn't the same.

That being said, yes you might be able to upgrade, but it has a chance of failure. I also upgraded the CPU in my laptop, moving from a dual-core i5, to a quad-core i7. Most don't recommend it for countless reasons, but the faster part typically uses more power and produces more heat, so you need to watch out for that.

In addition, the BIOS may not support it if you change it, and if your CPU isn't in a socket then you can't do it.

That being said, the A10-5750M APU would be for the same socket as your current CPU (assuming it is socketed). This would give you a faster CPU, and a faster GPU, but you should note the TDP jumps up from 25 W to 35 W, and as a result even if your system board can handle the power, heat is going to be a bigger issue.

You can buy one on Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-A10-Series-A10-5750M-AM5750DEC44HL-QUAD-HD8650G-CORE-2500-MHz-4Mb-FS1r2-/321790232086?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aec314616

Just know the risks, and if your PC stops working because you tried this don't blame anyone else.

 

[callofDEEP]

just dont .. leave it like that..its not worth it even if u get through all the process the performance gains will be quite low..