Asus G51 upgrade

So I had a dv9000 hp bite the dust on me. Was very disapointed and hp did me no favors. But not one to wallow in my misfortune I headed down to BB and thought I would just look. When I met a very nice young man who led me to the Asus G51. I have dabbled in building desk tops and ram up grades for friends and family. An was curious if a processor upgrade for this laptop was possible for a beinger. I was told by a sales rep that the processor was sauterd to the mother board.

I was also currious if upgrading the ram from 4 gigs to 8 gigs would be noticable.


thanks 43 year old counterstriker

PS. any good stress relife games you can recomend

 

I don't think processors these days are ever soldered to the mother board, but I could be wrong. If it isn't soldered, you can just buy any processor that you can configure the system with and pop it in. You're going to have diminishing marginal returns if you go from 4GB to 8GB of RAM. I doubt you'll ever use all that. I'm assuming you're running 64-bit?

 

The processor on the G51 is not soldered on. To swap it out, it is a matter of removing the main panel on the bottom of the laptop, and then unscrewing and removing the heatsink from the CPU. Pop out the old, put in the new.

Please note though that a CPU swap voids the warranty with Asus.

 

The processors in most ultraportable notebooks (ULV, LV, SU, SL, etc.) are usually soldered in place.

Agreed, 4GB is MORE than enough (for now, at least).

 

Very doable, at least 4 members of the Asus forums have done it.

Note that the Best Buy version of the Asus G51 have a different motherboard revision from the reseller versions so it most likely cannot support quads even with a BIOS update