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I have an HP Pavilion dv7-1245ca that was given to me and so far it's a pretty good laptop, but given the age and CPU, a bit laggy.
Searched for a long time last night for this model's service manual, seem to be able to find every other version of it except what I had, finally looked up the CPU and socket, which is an AMD Turion X2 RM-72... from what I gather, for this socket there really aren't many CPU options available, and none are Quad-Core.
Will any other motherboards be a direct swap for this laptop? I know there was an Intel version made, which is what I'd prefer... can sometimes get a used board off eBay pretty cheap. I know for my niece her laptop's onboard video died, I ended up getting a slightly newer board with twice the video memory for $35CAD.
Anyone know if a direct swap mobo exists? Intel hopefully that will take a QuadCore?
https://support.hp.com/ro-en/document/c01634424
Searched for a long time last night for this model's service manual, seem to be able to find every other version of it except what I had, finally looked up the CPU and socket, which is an AMD Turion X2 RM-72... from what I gather, for this socket there really aren't many CPU options available, and none are Quad-Core.
Will any other motherboards be a direct swap for this laptop? I know there was an Intel version made, which is what I'd prefer... can sometimes get a used board off eBay pretty cheap. I know for my niece her laptop's onboard video died, I ended up getting a slightly newer board with twice the video memory for $35CAD.
Anyone know if a direct swap mobo exists? Intel hopefully that will take a QuadCore?
https://support.hp.com/ro-en/document/c01634424
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