i3-350m to i5-480m upgrade possible?

[lezsimply]

Guys I was planning to upgrade a laptop, Sony Vaio pcg-71211m which came with an i3-350m (SLBU5). I wanted to put an i5-480m (SLC27). Is this possible?

When I look on the specs, its almost the same except for the speed and max temp. There's one thing, I cannot confirm, its regarding their operating voltage. I need your opinions please. Thanks very much

[mockingbird]

Re: i3-350m to i5-480m upgrade possible?

That should work fine. They're both 35w TDP processors.

You can also use both the i7-620m and 640m (Arrandale). These are identical to i5 Arrandale CPUs except that they have 4MB cache instead of 3MB.

The quad-core Socket G1 i7 CPUs (Clarksfield) will only work in laptops that have dedicated GPUs, because they have no graphics core.

[lezsimply]

Re: i3-350m to i5-480m upgrade possible?

Thanks mockingbird, so I don't need to worry about what voltage they use?

[c_hegge]

Re: i3-350m to i5-480m upgrade possible?

Nope. The VRM should be perfectly capable of adjusting the voltage to the required amount. as long as the TDP isn't significantly higher, it won't put any more stress on the VRM.

[lezsimply]

Re: i3-350m to i5-480m upgrade possible?

It went well. I've been using the laptop for a couple of hours and so far its stable. Thank you very much sir hegge