Possible Replacement for APU in Laptop

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My current Inspiron laptop has an AMD A8 5545M APU with Radeon HD Graphics clocking in at 1.70 GHz. The GPU portion runs at 450-554 MHz (with turbo).
Now my Laptop is great, it's freaking amazing, but the graphics card seemed to be kinda..downgraded. And I was thinking about replacing the APU. I plan on using the AMD 10-5757M APU. It clocks in at 4 cores and 2.5 GHz, and the GPU portion is 2500 - 3500 MHz.
I would just like to know if this is possible, and if you could give me a link to the CPU not in a prebuilt laptop.
 
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I doubt it's possible for you to do. Replacing laptop CPU's take a massive amount of technical knowledge, and that's assuming the manufacturer didn't solder the chip into place. MAYBE you might find a shop to do it, but it'd be a risky thing to try and problem take a good deal of money.

Also, your battery would most likely be adversely affected, since the chip would draw in more power than before, which means shorter battery life, and a possibility of burnout.
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I doubt it's possible for you to do. Replacing laptop CPU's take a massive amount of technical knowledge, and that's assuming the manufacturer didn't solder the chip into place. MAYBE you might find a shop to do it, but it'd be a risky thing to try and problem take a good deal of money.

Also, your battery would most likely be adversely affected, since the chip would draw in more power than before, which means shorter battery life, and a possibility of burnout.
 
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That Chip is soldered in and non replaceable, here is a motherboard that uses it although it is not the same board you have.

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That was just to display that the CPU is not Replaceable. If you can give me the exact model number, I can see if I can find a Motherboard with a better APU that will fit the unit but It will cost you in a range of $90 to $220 for a board replacement depending on the model.
 
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I found the part number, just incase you don't find what you're looking for ( M531R05890501PC )
 
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