Hey Guys,

Im looking to upgrade my laptops CPU is this even possible and does anyone know any good sources?

Laptop: Acer Aspire 4552

http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/2010/Acer/Aspire/Aspire4552/Aspire4552sp2.shtml

Current CPU is the P340

Thanks,
Fenlig

From the laptop page, these are the supported CPUs:

AMD Phenom™ II quad-core mobile processor N950
AMD Phenom™ II triple-core mobile processor N850
AMD Phenom™ II dual-core mobile processor N620/N640
AMD Turion™ II dual-core mobile processor P540
AMD Athlon™ II dual-core processor P320/P340

EDIT: Blind, you stated it was a P340, my bad. Then yes, you can upgrade it if you know how to open the laptop. But sadly I do not know any good places which sells laptop CPUs .

Quite tricky....some laptops are set up to the CPU. I upgraded from a pentium to a core2duo in my laptop and it just wouldnt have it.
Not sure if thats a Dell/ Intel problem or if it was just me.

The only source really would be an auction site or a breaker. It is possible and I have done it but not on your model laptop. May need a bios update or it may be recognised easily. Like all laptop upgrades it is more difficult than a desktop and you need to very careful removing components and rebuilding. Take lots of pictures. A quad core mobile processor will probably cost ^£100.

Personally, I'd up the ram to 4gb and put a SSD in there and run with minimal software, use Chrome instead of IE/Firefox etc

My netbook feels nice and quick since doing this, it's a single core AMD too

Whilst I have no experience of Acer laptops, most laptop CPU's in my experience are not in sockets, they are hard soldered into the motherboard, so a CPU upgrade means a motherboard swap.

malcolm said:

Whilst I have no experience of Acer laptops, most laptop CPU's in my experience are not in sockets, they are hard soldered into the motherboard, so a CPU upgrade means a motherboard swap.

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'most laptops'?!

I deal with 910, 915, 945, 965 and PM45 chipset laptops with the odd AMD one weekly and have yet to find a soldered one. This also includes the odd Athlon XP and Pentium 4 based laptop. It's probably a whole lot cheaper to design a motherboard with a certain range of cpus in mind for different levels of product than it is to not solder a socket on and do each cpu model for each product line. Don't see soldered cpus since PIII days and only in modern netbooks.

You got to consider cooling, volts and if the bio's on your acer is coded for the listed CPU's.

JustinTime, He possibly means netbooks.