Can I replace my (AMD Fusion E-450 1.65 GHz dual-core processor Radeon HD 6320 graphics 1 MB L2 cache) from my laptop (Acer Aspire AS7250-3821 4 GB DDR3 RAM  500 GB SATA hard drive DVD RW DL drive Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit) with a bigger, more powerful CPU in the 2.60 to 3.2 GHz range?

Thank you.

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Edited: 01/22/2013 at 01:51 PM by DRW

No

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BAM! Right in the Kisser.  To elaborate:  black_zion is (very most likely) correct. 

The final answer comes from the laptop manufacturer.  In this case, Acer.  If a CPU upgrade is possible, it would have to be purchased through them, and be compatible with your laptop.  Just because it is the same socket is not good enough for laptops.  You have to think about how a laptop is entirely different than a desktop system.  Upgradibility is very limited. 

Three things that come to mind for me:

1) the space available in the laptop
2) battery/power concerns
3) heat issues

Your laptop model (shipped with that CPU) may be very specifically tailored to that configuration only - leaving upgradibility very (if not non-existant) limited.

;Marc

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Not to mention lack of BIOS support. Prefab PCs and laptops are made to a price, and most often include only the support for the processors which were available to be but in that exact model, usually only a couple.

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Do I have to get a different laptop to get more CPU power? I'm trying to build a laptop around software requirments. Also, what would I have to do if the CPU in this Acer broke down, have to get an exact replacement CPU? The 1.65GHz?

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Edited: 01/22/2013 at 06:30 PM by DRW

What software?

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Crosshair IV Formula, Phenom II x4 965 w/ Corsair H60, 8 GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600, XFX HD 7970 Ghz, 512GB Vertex 4, 256GB Vector, 240GB Agility 3, Creative X-Fi Titanium w/ Creative Gigaworks S750, SeaSonic X750, HP ZR2440w, Win 7 Ultimate x64

Roland Corp. SONAR Cakewalk 8.5 Studio Recording software.

Can you help?

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Best option would be to build a desktop, but if you have to be mobile, buy a new more powerful laptop

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Crosshair IV Formula, Phenom II x4 965 w/ Corsair H60, 8 GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600, XFX HD 7970 Ghz, 512GB Vertex 4, 256GB Vector, 240GB Agility 3, Creative X-Fi Titanium w/ Creative Gigaworks S750, SeaSonic X750, HP ZR2440w, Win 7 Ultimate x64