M17x and Processor Swapping.

So, I've been curious for a while now and did some searching around but couldn't find an answer so I wanted to come back here and ask you guys about it.

What stops me from say... Putting in my gf's HP notebooks processor into mine?

I think I understand the basic "amount of prongs" or whatever you call it (not a hardware lingo guy) but beyond that I'm like "Duurrrr...".

Really, what I wanted to know, is that could I say... Take an m15x i7 chip and put it into my m17x. (I think you can't, or someone on here would probably have tried it) and I think from what I read, the i7 for the m15x is worse than the quad core on the m17x...

If anyone can bother taking the time to explain, I would truly love them forever... In the non-creepy, non-phedophile, non-actually loving way.

 

ok, well.....not looking for any love at all but...

NO...you cannot put an I7 chip into an m17x....It is a different chipset and would not work at all.

 

Alright, well that sort of makes sense. I need to read up a bit more on chipsets.

It also has to do with the socket type I believe... Which is probably related to chipset but I don't know it yet...

Whatever, but thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

It is both the socket and chipset that would be the issue....Goto intel and research both types of architecture.

 

Socket, chipset and BIOS.