Laptop Cpu Upgrade Help.

[Laidain]

These are my laptop specs:ATI Mobility Radeon 6570
8 GB Ram DDR3
Intel core(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHZ
1 TB Hardrive
Motherboard: HP Pavilion Dv7 Notebook PC 159A socket 988B rPGA
I would like some possible cpu upgrades.

[VisciousFishes]

IT's more than likely going to be a new machine before an upgrade, my friend.

As far as I am aware there is no way to really upgrade a laptop CPU very easily and it's likely to cause more trouble than it's worth. I would recommend a desktop for gaming and then you can stream your games via Steam, across your home network to your laptop if you wish to still game on that laptop.

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Can you upgrade a G2 Socket?

[UberFiend]

Can't.

[Cakefish]

It's generally only certain gaming laptop manufacturers like Alienware, Clevo, Sager, MSI etc. that permit CPU upgrades. And only on the high-end models.

[Pomelo]

Even then, the highest your socket can take is probably the best i7-2xxx model, which isn't that much better than the 2630QM. And also the PSU might not be able to handle a bigger CPU.

Also, the CPU is likely the most powerful part of your laptop. That HD6570M is certainly bottlenecking you hard in games. Upgrading the CPU wouldn't get you better performance anyway.

[MADMIK41]

G2 is a commonly upgraded socket, an easy one to do so aswell as they are removable and not soldiered.

http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket%20G2%20(rPGA988B).html

As to wether the laptops motherboard and / or bios supports any other cpu is totally independant of just the socket, you would need to find that out from HP.

[rotNdude]

Contact HP.

[Laidain]

Thank you everyone. I apprciate your help.