Good morning/afternoon/evening.I just upgraded my cpu yesterday. And yes, I chose the core i7 3940XM. And well.. Everything went great. The bios didn't even say anything but it detected that a new cpu is installed (there was some correct info about the cpu in the bios but it didn't offer me to do some diagnostics). The system is more stable than ever. 4 cores really do their thing. I had some problems with windows tho. I just had to go to msconfig > boot > advanced options and change something about the cpu's cores. Nothing bad, after a reboot everything was better than ever.As for the temperatures, they aren't that bad. Mostly 60-70 degrees Celsius when I'm using chrome. In games it's still sometimes thermal throttling tho. I'm working to fix that issue (I have cooling for core i7s for my laptop and I'm waiting for my thermal grizzly kryonaut paste to arrive). The funny thing is that some chinese cooling from aliexpress that's made for i5s is doing a better job at cooling my new core i7 (with 20w more TDP might I add) than the original cooling did with my original core i5. Dell is doing such an amazing job with their cooling fans, isn't it?I also did some benchmarks, before and after the upgrade. Obviously my laptop is doing much better after the upgrade. Right now I have a bunch of apps open and the temperatures range from about 60 degrees to max 75. Not that big of a dealSo yeah, my upgrade went better than I could imagine. For anyone reading this who thought that this wouldn't work out:Have some faith in humanity
So I have a latitude E6530 which now has an intel core i5-3320m. The temperatures are running just fine and everything seems to be going great. That's why I decided to buy a new CPU. The one I chose is an intel core i7-3940XM. It's the best 3rd gen mobile cpu with 4 cores, 8 threads and running 3,9 GHz and its TDP is 55W. The socket is definetly the same (both are FCPGA988) but I'm not sure if the chipset can handle that. I've already seen someone who put an i7-3740QM to this laptop who shared this on this forum but idk about i7-3940XM. I think the chipset should be able to run that since it's a really high class business laptop and from what I've heard there were some with i7s originally in them (idk if that's true though)So my questions are:- Is the chipset going to handle this cpu? And also I'm not sure if my charger is powerful enough. I think I will be good with about 130W right? (19.5 V and 6.7A to be specific)
Latitude E6530 cpu upgrade