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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?

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).