Notebook CPU Upgrade: Can I replace my AMD A4 with an A8

Die size does not matter. What matters are the following:

1. Same Socket - You're ok.
2. Recognized by BIOS - Questionable, you'll need to check w/ Toshiba

That's assuming the APU is not soldered into the motherboard.

Yeah. It looks I'm going to have to call Toshiba tomorrow.

I'm having doubts though because I can't find one single L775D that comes with an A8 stock...

And wait... I thought socketed CPU's weren't soldered in. That's why they're socketed. Does this mean they sometimes solder processors with sockets?

Dang son...

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You just gave me a little gleam of hope. I've been looking at this junk for hours now.

I went to the driver downloads page of my laptop, clicked on "bios" then "applicable models"

L770D-BT5N1 was the second one on the list.


Surely Toshiba wouldn't switch out the entire mobo for a $40 processor upgrade

P.S. The whole reason why I want to do this is because of the integrated graphics. I wanna do some light gaming (COD 2 & 4, ETC.) The A4 can handle it, but I want a little more power in the graphics department.


On the notebookcheck.net graphics benchmark my A4 (Radeon HD 6480G) is ranked 194 and the A8 (Radeon HD 6620G) is ranked 128. Also I youtubed it and they seem significantly better.

It's $89.99 with free shipping. Wat do?

I already know it's going to be a lot of work because the CPU's on Toshibas are on the bottom of the motherboard with no easy access from the bottom.

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