How to find upgrades for my computer?

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King_Charles

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Hello all,

I have a refurbished laptop. It can play a lot of games at medium settings. I want to upgrade almost everything, like the CPU, processor, RAM and the GPU. So how do I find my upgrades?


Processor AMD Turion(tm)X2 Ultra DualCore Mobile ZM-82

Video Card ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics (Microsoft Corporation WDDM 1.1)

RAM 4.0 GB

Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
 
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Math Geek
generally upgrading a laptop is not possible. they are not made to exchange parts other than ram and hdd.

the best you will be able to do is more ram and hdd. unlikely to be able to change anything else.

cpu and gpu are more than likely unable to be changed. you'd have to find a laptop model like yours with better parts and then hope they are compatible with one another.rarely is it possible to do this.

what you want is a new laptop so that's what you should get. one that has the specs you need to do what you want to do with it.
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generally upgrading a laptop is not possible. they are not made to exchange parts other than ram and hdd.

the best you will be able to do is more ram and hdd. unlikely to be able to change anything else.

cpu and gpu are more than likely unable to be changed. you'd have to find a laptop model like yours with better parts and then hope they are compatible with one another.rarely is it possible to do this.

what you want is a new laptop so that's what you should get. one that has the specs you need to do what you want to do with it.
 
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I was able to update the CPU on my 4-year old, $400(US) HP Pavilion G7 from a Core i3 with an OEM Core i5 CPU with no problem as it was socketed and not soldered. I also upgraded the memory from 4GB to 8GB and put a 250GB SSD in there. Total cost was about $300 and it flies and will last for several more years in capability.

However, yours has an ATI video card and that cannot be upgraded. You can upgrade the CPU from your current ZM-82 (2.2GHz) to a ZM-88 (2.5GHz, if you can even find one still since they are 6-8 years old, and IF those APUs are not soldered). But that will make next to zero improvement. Upgrade to an SSD and get 8GB RAM is about all you can do to be worth the money.
 
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