Upgrading a MSI Gaming Laptop CPU?

[cg-works]

I’ve got an older MSI gaming laptop that was king back in the day. I had issues upgrading Win 8 (It just wouldn't – kept cycling and trying to). Did feel VERY slow as well so figured it was done and bought PC. Clearing out the cupboard I found it and booted it up. Such a nice machine, mint condition! Great audio. I did a performance check and the processor rated really bad and the hardrive mechanical! So figure if I can replace the processor and install a SSD (which I have) I’m good to go! Question is the processor seems built in so not sure I can remove it to replace it with something better? Does anyone know how to replace the CPU? It look like the whole little board that houses the processor needs updating considering the process seems to be built into it?

Really need some advice here. It’s such a shame binning what could be a perfectly good laptop! Everything else works great. What a shame.

It’s currently AMD A10-5750M APU Radion HD Graphics 2.50Ghz.

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[darket]

The board to the top Left is the MXM Graphics card not the cpu, the Cpu is under the heatsink to the bottom right.

Technically you could upgrade the MXM card to a M290X but the gains would be minimal, The cpu i think was the top tier of that line so even if it isn't soldered there isn't an upgrade path, which is a shame and i never did understand why theses cpu's were used in high end laptops as they were significantly slower than intels comparable i5 and i7 offerings and had a tendency to bottleneck the gpu.

Don't give up tho, you'd be amazed what a decent ssd and a fresh install can do to bring a laptop such as the GX70 back into the modern era and will perform just fine for browsing , movies and games relevant to its era

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Yeah, you're stuck with the CPU but it could be a solid enough machine by getting an SSD in there.
Fresh windows install and all required drivers and it'll good enough for some light gaming still. That GPU is still a reasonable performer (in a laptop).

 

[PiKe]

A10 was never a great cpu.

I'd cut your losses.