Hi guys, I'm a student with a really low budget looking to upgrade my laptop. It's an old HP G56-126NR, got it as a little present after Black Friday.
It's gotten so horrible that I've decided to upgrade the CPU, from an AMD V140 to an AMD P650. Then I was thinking that I might as well upgrade the graphics card for this thing, and hang on to it for a longer time and save some bucks.
So the question is I wonder if upgrading the graphics card is even possible for this mother board? I'm not talking about space problems I can check it I'm just unsure about the mobo's compatibility with new hardware.
If anyone know anything I would be very grateful.
If this helps, the intended specs would be:
AMd V140 into AMD P650
2x1 gig 1033 RAM into 2x4 gig 1333 RAM
maybe a bigger HDD...I don't have a need for one so I might save on this one
HD 4250 into ????
Power shouldn't be an issue as the CPU's have the same TDP, the RAMs won't really use that much more juice and I have a fan handy.
It's gotten so horrible that I've decided to upgrade the CPU, from an AMD V140 to an AMD P650. Then I was thinking that I might as well upgrade the graphics card for this thing, and hang on to it for a longer time and save some bucks.
So the question is I wonder if upgrading the graphics card is even possible for this mother board? I'm not talking about space problems I can check it I'm just unsure about the mobo's compatibility with new hardware.
If anyone know anything I would be very grateful.
If this helps, the intended specs would be:
AMd V140 into AMD P650
2x1 gig 1033 RAM into 2x4 gig 1333 RAM
maybe a bigger HDD...I don't have a need for one so I might save on this one
HD 4250 into ????
Power shouldn't be an issue as the CPU's have the same TDP, the RAMs won't really use that much more juice and I have a fan handy.