Will i be able to upgrade my cpu?

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xinfinty

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I have an i3 cpu and will be willing to upgrade it. I'st possible to change it into a AMD or an intel i7, i5 or another i3?
 
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Since you have a laptop and an HP you will have to contact HP to be sure what CPUs are compatible with your computer. Laptops in general are not very upgradeable due to being designed to deal with the heat of a few specific processors. Also even if your board will technically support a certain CPU ( and there is very little info saying one way or the other online that I can find ) HP will have had to include BIOS support for any other CPUs that might be supposed to work. So you may have a board that is supposed to support a certain CPU but not have BIOS support and that will keep it from working.

In general trying to upgrade a laptop CPU will cost you a lot of money for very little gain. If you have not done it before or are not...
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We need to know your motherboard. With an Intel motherboard you will have to use an Intel CPU but if you have a current i3 you can probably upgrade. We need make and model.
 
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xinfinty

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My motherboard number is LR724PA. The make is HP pavilion dv4 3028-tx.
CPU: INTEL i3 2310m
GPU: radeon hd 6750m

hope this is enough just reply back if you need more. Thanks for all the help.
 
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Since you have a laptop and an HP you will have to contact HP to be sure what CPUs are compatible with your computer. Laptops in general are not very upgradeable due to being designed to deal with the heat of a few specific processors. Also even if your board will technically support a certain CPU ( and there is very little info saying one way or the other online that I can find ) HP will have had to include BIOS support for any other CPUs that might be supposed to work. So you may have a board that is supposed to support a certain CPU but not have BIOS support and that will keep it from working.

In general trying to upgrade a laptop CPU will cost you a lot of money for very little gain. If you have not done it before or are not technically competent then it's not something to try yourself. I have built well over 100 desktops but I will not even open a laptop to do anything but add RAM or change drives.
 
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