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I have Dell Inspiron 3421 Touch laptop. I'm planning to upgrade my PC for performance. (because it is performing poorly with heavy development softwares)

I'm planning to buy this i7 processor. Will it be compatible with my hardware? What factors matter while changing processor? What should I need to verify to check compatibility?

My current configuration is,

  • Windows 8.1 64 bit
  • Intel core i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80 GHz
  • 4GB RAM
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000
  • Motherboard: Dell Inc. 0RDCXP (SOCKET 0)

Also suggest me RAM as I will upgrade that too.

Mangesh Ghotage
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    You linked to a desktop product. Its not possible to put a laptop CPU into a laptop that currently uses a mobile product. Furthermore your processor is currently soldered to your motherboard. – Ramhound Mar 01 '15 at 18:28
  • How can I get similar processor for laptop then? – Mangesh Ghotage Mar 01 '15 at 18:30
  • You don't. Your processor isn't upgradable. Its currently soldered to the motherboard. – Ramhound Mar 01 '15 at 18:30
  • So no way other than changing the whole laptop? – Mangesh Ghotage Mar 01 '15 at 18:31
  • I assume you don't have soldering skills to remove a processor with 1023 solder joints and the equipment in order to do so. You will be unable to upgrade your CPU in your laptop. – Ramhound Mar 01 '15 at 18:33
  • You are better off not deleting your question. – Ramhound Mar 01 '15 at 18:35
  • Are you sure the system is compute-bound? Upgrading to a solid-state drive may be a viable option and will more likely than not substantially improve performance. You'll be surprised how many workloads are in fact I/O bound... – bwDraco Mar 01 '15 at 18:48

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The processor is not upgradeable—consider installing an SSD instead.

  • Your laptop uses a soldered (BGA 1023) processor, which cannot be replaced without special equipment.

  • You should consider installing a solid-state drive instead. The vast majority of consumer workloads are not compute-bound, but are I/O bound due to the slow random I/O performance of mechanical hard drives. Replacing the hard drive with an SSD will more likely than not significantly improve overall system performance.

  • If your system's disk activity light (indicated by a cylinder) is constantly lit while the system is busy, than the system is I/O bound and will benefit from an SSD.

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