Upgrading Laptop CPU

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I have a Toshiba Satellite C55T-A 5218. I had pulled apart the entire laptop and had cleaned it out after 4 Years. I realized after pulling the laptops heatsink the CPU had a little screw I could turn and unlock the cpu to take it off. After doing some research and looking for upgrades I want to know if anyone happens to know if I can swap out the Pentium inside it to an i7. It has a Pentium inside of it.(More details will be within the links.) I want to see if it swaps with any i7 that pulls 35 tdp. I will link any and all CPU's I'm looking at. I think I'm off to a great start with the research but I am leaving for 4 days and I hope Help is on the way.

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Intel Pentium 2020M @2.4Ghz
Intel i7-3520M @2.9Ghz
Intel i7-3540M @3.0Ghz
Intel i7-3612QM @2.1Ghz
Intel i7-3632QM @2.2Ghz
 
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The cooling solution in the laptop will probably handle the 2-core i7 without issue.

The 4-core QM chips have a 10W higher TDP and will often thermally throttle almost instantly when loaded on a cooling solution designed for 35W TDP CPUs.

Make sure that you have the latest BIOS, pick up one of the CPUs on EBay, and give it a go. Should be quite the boost.

I did a similar Pentium -> i7 QM upgrade with an Acer Aspire, which is one of my favorite computers I've owned (got it free, picked up the CPU + a different cooling pipe for one of these with discrete graphics from Ebay). Made a massive difference in speed. Both of the laptops I've changed CPUs in had no issue detecting higher-specced CPUs from the same generation (Nehalem and...
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The cooling solution in the laptop will probably handle the 2-core i7 without issue.

The 4-core QM chips have a 10W higher TDP and will often thermally throttle almost instantly when loaded on a cooling solution designed for 35W TDP CPUs.

Make sure that you have the latest BIOS, pick up one of the CPUs on EBay, and give it a go. Should be quite the boost.

I did a similar Pentium -> i7 QM upgrade with an Acer Aspire, which is one of my favorite computers I've owned (got it free, picked up the CPU + a different cooling pipe for one of these with discrete graphics from Ebay). Made a massive difference in speed. Both of the laptops I've changed CPUs in had no issue detecting higher-specced CPUs from the same generation (Nehalem and Sandy Bridge). If the CPU is supported by the chipset on Intel's site, you'll generally have no issue.
 
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