Can a technician upgrade this laptop's: processor and graphics card
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Joemari Asencio
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ThatVietGuy
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Neither of those tasks is possible.
Your only choice is to buy a new laptop if you want those specific parts.
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The cpu is a socketed unit so it can be replaced but a new gen i5 is not going to be compatible. The video is soldered to the motherboard and not upgradable.
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The 620m is the fastest that dell shipped on that model but there are reports of the 720qm working on that system.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-latitude-e6410-i7-720qm-works.548126/
For the gpu you are stuck with what you have as you can't add a dedicated card there's no where to put it and no interface to plug it into. To upgrade the video you'd have to replace the motherboard for the model that had the nvs 3100m soldered on instead of the intel. And that's the best you'll get.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-latitude-e6410-i7-720qm-works.548126/
For the gpu you are stuck with what you have as you can't add a dedicated card there's no where to put it and no interface to plug it into. To upgrade the video you'd have to replace the motherboard for the model that had the nvs 3100m soldered on instead of the intel. And that's the best you'll get.
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To be honest some of those cheap $250 AMD laptops work better than anything you could upgrade in your current laptop. You would have 4 gigs of memory, much better graphical performance, and quite nice cpu performance. At one of the sites I go to I set up a system with similar specs to yours it was just one of my old laptops and then when I swapped it with a $250 AMD laptop it worked much nicer than the oldest gen i7 that I had there.
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E gpus used on anything but the very few laptops designed for one are usually just a waste of time and money. While you could spend a bunch of money to get the parts and use the express card slot the interface is just too slow and any external gpu would be bottlenecked to the point that it wouldn't be much better than the integrated you currently have. For what it would cost you could probably just buy a new faster laptop.
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