Will the Core i9-9900K work in my MSI GT73VR?

[philstanbridge]

Just weighing up the pros and cons of an upgrade. Rather than investing in a new laptop I'm thinking I would like to keep this but just give it a bit of a boost in the cpu department. But I'm not clear if the
Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 will work in replacement of the Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HK CPU @ 2.70GHz I've already got in there.

If so, would the upgrade be worth while?

 

[andy_mk3]

You can't put a desktop CPU into a laptop, especially 3 generations apart.

 

[philstanbridge]

Is that what the HK/K represents? Been out of the loop a looooong time.

Okay, so one letter represents an unlocked cpu.

So the question is, what would be a good cpu upgrade?

 

[FlyingFish]

There are a few laptops out there, that run with full blown desktop cpus. I had one running an overclocked 4790k.

A quick Google suggests the laptop you've listed above has a cpu hard soldered onto the motherboard. So you can't upgrade. Sorry

 

[philstanbridge]

Cheers, I've just seen that post myself. Back to the drawing board.