bencuri Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 (edited) I have a Probook 6570b with i5-3210m cpu on HM76 chipset. According to the compatinility chart, this chipset supports some 45W cpu as well, like i7-3840qm. Is it possible to replace the recent 35W cpu with that one, or that requires different psu on the laptop? Edited February 17, 2016 by bencuri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moes Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Well the first google suggest 35W only: http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-HP/ProBook_6570b.html And the HP forums: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Probook-6570b-Are-the-CPU-amp-GPU-upgradeable/td-p/5079207 Theres a chance that it will work anyway, the cpu just clocks down and runs slower, it won't set on fire if that's your question.. but is it worth it? 4 Threads vs 4 Cores? Look at this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitjaStachowiak_2 Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 One fact to HP: If they offer two different mainboards for your system (one for dual- and one for quadcores) you may run a quadcore on a dual core board. I am doing this with my 8770w since 4 months now without any problems. I think, the dual core board just misses two memory sockets. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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