CPU replacement

[POPJoeX]

Wow. That would be great!

I’m just not sure I feel comfortable with that. I can pay you for them. Unless that is outside the forum guidelines. 

I’m really excited to get this going with the kids. 

Overall we’ll have:

better RAM

better SSD

better CPU

I’d like to do the improvements one at a time and then have them test them out. Do you have a recommendation for an order I should choose. I’m leaning towards CPU, hard drive, RAM just because the CPU is so hard to change.

[Huffer]

If I do not give them away my wife and kids will wind up throwing them away after my funeral. I actually went in to work today but when I get home I will check my parts stash and let you know what I find. If it makes you feel better you could Venmo me the shipping cost. 

[POPJoeX]

Thanks so much. I’ll definitely pay the shipping.

[Huffer]

I would do SSD first. That will be your biggest game changer. 

[POPJoeX]

I wanted to do the big one last. But I thought it would be the RAM. 

So maybe:

CPU

RAM

SSD

Thanks

[Huffer]

Moot point. This is all I have and I do not think it will work. I would send it to you if you want to experiment. I think it would fit the socket but T7100 is actually an older processor. 

Intel T7100

[POPJoeX]

I honestly don’t want to install any more than one CPU. Taking everything apart was just too stressful without the right manual. I kept missing little hidden screws. 

I’ll get the one you linked to from eBay.

I’ll post back once we start the upgrades. We may even post some YouTube videos but I’m going to let the kids start driving this now so it will be up to them

Thanks again.

[Huffer]

Be careful with the pins is my best advice. Great project for the kids. Enjoy.

[POPJoeX]

Hello,

I finally got all the parts last weekend and we installed the CPU on Wednesday. The biggest difference we saw was the startup being much faster.

We replaced the RAM yesterday (Thursday). It also made a difference in overall speed and the system being more responsive. I ran a bunch of tests and unfortunately now the sound isn’t working. This was probably a fault we didn’t notice from taking the laptop apart and putting it back together on Wednesday. 

I wanted to do the hard drive today but I ran into issues making the backup disk. So we will do that this weekend. The kids were really excited to see the task manager. It was nice for them to visualize how the 3 components were working. We haven’t seen the RAM max out yet but the drive maxes out a lot. The CPU also maxes out more than I’d hoped, but it is what it is. 

The Edge browser is totally not working for us. It crashes every time. Internet Explorer is much better, but I think I’ll switch to something like Opera or K-Meleon. Hopefully they work much better. I’m also planning on turning off a lot of the Windows 10 features that aren’t necessary. I may even go back to a later Windows version.

Otherwise I think this unit will be OK for them to do basic web searches. I hope they will be interested in building  a tower as they struggle with this unit. Or maybe I can get them a Rasberry Pi machine.

I’ll post again after we do the SSD. 
Let me know the best way to than thank you for your help.

Thanks,

[Huffer]

Just accept one of my responses as the solution. I have a raspberry pi sitting in my desk drawer I will likely never use again. Let me know if you want it.