Wanting to upgrade processors

[Anthony0323]

Hi I have recently bought a processor in hopes of upgrading but  I am not a hundred percent sure it will. I have an AMD A6-4400M APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics and I am wanting to upgrade to an AM3500DDX43GX AMD A8-Series Mobile 1.5GHz Socket FS1 Laptop CPU the later is a quad core. Does anyone know if this is going to be possible?

[Huffer]

It's an A8-3500M and it and your A6-4400M are both FS1 sockets but we would need to know your exact laptop model to comment on whether they can be swapped on your motherboard. Generally not; you would need to get an A8-4xxx series. 

[Anthony0323]

Let me get home and I'll give you the model number

[Anthony0323]

Do you need the mother board model or what are you needing

[Anthony0323]

OK my laptop name is as follows HP Pavilion g7-2340dx Notebook PC that is its full name sorry for the hassle

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Compatible processors:

AMD A10-4600M processor (3.2 GHz/2.3 GHz, 1600 MHz/4.0 MB L2 cache, DDR3, quad core, 35W)

AMD A8-4500M processor (2.8 GHz/1.9 GHz, 1600 MHz/4.0 MB L2 cache, DDR3, quad core, 35W)

AMD A6-4400M processor (3.2 GHz/2.7 GHz, 1600 MHz/1.0 MB L2 cache, DDR3, dual core, 35W)

[Anthony0323]

So that processor won't work then crap

[Huffer]

Yeah sorry but at least the AMD processors are much cheaper than Intel. On the AMD A-series models an upgrade to the A10 processor is very easy to do and actually also makes the video significantly better at the same time. It's one of the few HP laptop processor upgrades I regularly recommend. For $40 is will make a big difference:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-A10-4600M-AM4600DEC44HJ-NOTEBOOK-LAPTOP-CPU-APU-PROCESSOR-/162339204220?...