Help On Finding Out If I can upgrade my emachine's laptop proccessor?

I currently have a Emachine's e440-1680 model laptop running a single core v120 amd processor and I am trying to see if anyone knows if i can swap it out for a Intel® Centrino® Core™ Duo Processor T2250 from my old psaanc-03605c toshiba satellite laptop? Im extremely new to processor upgrades and have the things i need but just dont know if i will be there compatible enough to work. if anyone can help that would be excellent.

 

Can't.

AMD and Intel use different sockets.

 

Alright that really blows for news on that but at least I know now because I'm just trying to find a way i can upgrade the processor on this for now, before a new purchase is needed. Thanks for the help.

 

Both those CPU's are so old any cheapest new CPU will be tenfold better. You could buy an Atom based laptop and it would run circles around either of those CPU's. Even if you did upgrade anything you put in there would be only a very minor bump in performance.

 

See:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+V120

Single core in 2017 is like using a moped for a family of four.

An Atom based platform may not be faster on single core performance - but on a modern O/S it will be multiple times more responsive though.

I think that a new purchase is needed 'soon'.

Good luck.

 

Well ... the good news is that you can upgrade to a better cpu, the bad news is that the cost is somewhat prohibitive when stacked against the gain in performance.

See Socket S1G4 for upgrade options. The laptop should support all of them, which may not have been so where it an Intel socket (because of lacking bios support). The best choice would be a Phenom II X2 X620 BE or X640 BE; tripled gpu score, double single-threaded performance and one extra core. The quad cores wouldn't fair well since their single-core power is the same and the vast bulk of applications are limited by single-core performance. It does consume an additional 20W's, so you may want to use a good paste.

Still ... unless you can find it for (much) less, then the investment of this $70 offer might be better spent towards a 'new', used laptop, as suggested above.

Checked for $55-100, trustworthy-looking offers and this $73 Dell Latitude E4310 i5-520M looks like a great deal. The 520M is already a bit faster than the Phenom II and, better still, can be upgraded to a 640M (Clarksfield is not possible as these lack an iGPU). The 4GB should be sufficient and it has DDR3, same as your EMachines (but not your Satellite), so you could also swap RAM between the two systems. Hard drive too can be transferred, either swapping with the existing drive and using the other one as an external and/or backup or using a caddy to get a 2x hdd setup. Only downside is that it lacks a battery, but you can get a $35 9-cell (+50% capacity). These raise the back of the laptop a bit, so if that is an issue then opt for a regular 6-cell version.

 

AFAIK the E4310 uses soldered CPU.

 

Ah, yes; you are correct. It has both Socket G1 and BGA-1288 varieties, this Dell using the latter, unfortunately.

 

With 20W higher TDP, doesn't matter what paste is used; the rest of the platform (cooling and power systems) will most likely not support such an CPU upgrade without much fan noise/ruckus, at the very least.

Most programs/workloads are limited by single threaded performance - but that doesn't mean the O/S is.

A QC processor is a 'must' for 2017 workloads of any kind on any current O/S, if you want your programs and O/S to be responsive and usable for more than just typing in notepad.