Asus G50VT-A1 upgrade ?

I see a few posts on how to upgrade my Asus g50vt-a1. Bottom line is my sons laptop plays skyrim and bf3 on the dead lowest at about 25-30 fps. I want to upgrade the laptop so the game is at least playable.

I see that I can upgrade my t9400 2.53ghz to the x9000 3ghz, how much of a performance difference would that make in those games. Also is there a big difference between the 9800m and the GTX 260m ? Would it be possible to put a GTX 280m in ?

Basically upgrading the CPU and GPU would cost me about $250, and I can regain some of the money by reselling the stock cpu/gpu. Either way that's still better then dropping $1000 on new laptop. All in all would these upgrades make Skyrim and BF3 playable, until I can afford to drop $1000 for a new laptop.

Thanks =)

 

I would highly suggest upgrading to something a bit higher than what you mentioned in order to suit your medium to high settings on games. With the GTX260m, you might get away with medium settings. But, I would go at least GTX560M to see a doable jump in performance.

Cheers!

 

I think the G50vt uses the reversed MXM connector that is proprietary to Asus, if that is the case, the best you could do is the GTX260m.

 

Hi a Have a Asus G50Vt-A2, that is almost the same and look to upgrade it a bit, I use it like a home desktop/Replacement Server. But I like it to have the more power I can put in it...

So my BIG question, What do you do at the end? have you upgrade the G50VT? If so what do you upgrade? CPU, GPU and Memory? If so What you use in replace of the OEM´s?

What is the best CPU we can use in the G50VT-A2?

What the best GPU?