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    is Mobile Trinity APU compatible with Mobile Liano?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by raclimja, Jul 23, 2012.

  1. raclimja

    raclimja Notebook Consultant

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    I recently purchased a laptop and it is called Samsung NP305E5A-A05US.

    It comes with a AMD A6-3420m with AMD Radeon HD 6520G.

    i am thinking of upgrading the APU and my initial thoughts was that i wanted to get the AMD A8-Series A8-3510MX
    the link to cpu

    but then i saw a mobile Trinity CPU which is called AMD A8-4500M with Radeon HD 7640G.

    but according to its description, it uses an FS1r2 socket as opposed to FS1 found on Liano APU's

    i look about info of the FS1r2 and discovered that both the FS1 and FS1r2 are Packaged in 722-pin micro-PGA


    i also looked around of pictures of the pins and socket of FS1r2 and FS1 and found virtually no difference

    FS1r2 (Mobile Trinity)
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    FS1 (Mobile Liano)
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    so will a Trinity CPU work on laptops with Liano CPU?
     
    raclimja, Jul 23, 2012
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    I would guess not - the supporting chipsets are different.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jul 23, 2012
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  3. R3d

    R3d Notebook Virtuoso

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    No. Someone has tried and it didn't work.

    Both Trinity and Llano use the same A70m chipset, actually.
     
    R3d, Jul 23, 2012
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  4. tilleroftheearth

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    Edit: I was wrong - yes, they do use the same A70M chipset. What I meant was that the logic (BIOS) is different between the two - after all, the Hyper Transport (external) connections are no longer there in Trinity not to mention the 256 bit per memory channel data width support too (per direction).
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jul 23, 2012
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  5. Atom Ant

    Atom Ant Hello, here I go again

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    I have tried A10-4600M in Dell Vostro 3555, but did not worked.
     
    Atom Ant, Jul 23, 2012
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