T510 Cheap upgrade

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T510 Cheap upgrade

#1 Post by richyboypalm » Wed May 27, 2015 3:11 am

Hi, I have a perfectly hardware (windows not working so well) working T510 and i'm looking to upgrade this to a T520 (I would like something a bit better but money is currently tight)

So can I buy a T520 board and swap it over as the pictures I have seen from googleing look about the same?
HAD- T20, T21, T23, T60(15", T7600, X1400, 3GB, 160GB, DVD-RW, N-WIFI, 3G, FP, BT),
HAVE - T400(14.1", T9900, 4500MDH, 8GB, 128SSD, N-WIFI, BT, Webcam)
T510 (HD 15.6", i5-560M, Optimus, 8GB, 128SSD, DVD-RW, AC7260, 3G, GPS, BT4, Webcam)

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Re: T510 Cheap upgrade

#2 Post by linux4life » Thu May 28, 2015 3:09 pm

That won't work, and you'd need the board to come with the 2nd-gen CPU since it's a different socket.

If I were looking to upgrade that, I'd first get an SSD, then max the RAM to 8gb, and finally get the i7-720qm CPU (if you have i5 that is).

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