Can I upgrade from Intel Atom to Intel core i5?
- Thread starter dpiralis
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Nope. Pretty sure you would easily run into some serious cooling issues even if you pulled it off somehow I think. The Atom processors use very little power, which is suitable for a netbook.
Besides that it also depends on socket compability and stuff. Need the right socket for a certain chipset.
It's probably not possible in multiple ways.
Besides that it also depends on socket compability and stuff. Need the right socket for a certain chipset.
It's probably not possible in multiple ways.
- Feb 13, 2014
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No i5's were not even out when that laptop came out, its from 2008 it shipped with windows xp, I tried to see if you could upgrade to a core 2 duo or something but i couldn't find anything. Probably not worth upgrading a laptop that old anyway.
zezuzaza
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No. You cant upgrade it at random. Mostly your netbook is integrated build in which you cant dissemble their component. Intel Atom is just designed for small laptop which contribute to small voltage with such a small performance capability.
Please don't modified netbook/laptop. It is designed that way by factory manufacturer. It is fix with the spec given. Altering it may deal many problem. You only can change Hard Disk,RAM, Internet Card. Other that these part, leave it behind.
The spec of Intel i5 is not compatible with the socket of your U100 MSI netbook and the power supply will not be able to cope the power supply that Intel i5 need. You only can change the RAM because the chipset of your U100 MSI netbook is supported up to 2GB. Make sure it is DDR2 RAM.
Other than that, don't touch any other component nor replace the CPU. Just touch RAM or if you want to upgrade the Hard Disk it should be fine.
Please don't modified netbook/laptop. It is designed that way by factory manufacturer. It is fix with the spec given. Altering it may deal many problem. You only can change Hard Disk,RAM, Internet Card. Other that these part, leave it behind.
The spec of Intel i5 is not compatible with the socket of your U100 MSI netbook and the power supply will not be able to cope the power supply that Intel i5 need. You only can change the RAM because the chipset of your U100 MSI netbook is supported up to 2GB. Make sure it is DDR2 RAM.
Other than that, don't touch any other component nor replace the CPU. Just touch RAM or if you want to upgrade the Hard Disk it should be fine.
The only problem with this old netbook is the cpu, it is 100% always when i browse to internet. RAM, HDD is ok. I tried XP, windows 10, lubuntu nothing changed. Just linux is using less RAM about 40%. So there is not any way to upgrade cpu.
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