Laptop CPU upgrade advice

[suraswami]

Hello,

Not sure if this is the correct section to post this question, mods please move it if needed.

I just picked up a refurb HP ProBook 645 G1 with AMD APU - A6 - 5350M. It was dirt cheap, so picked it for my kid.

Specs - 14" inch screen, A6-5350M, 8GB Ram and 500GB HDD.

Going to replace the HDD with spare 120GB/240GB SSD.

I was reading about the CPU and learned that the CPU can be upgraded to a Quad core. Would be cool if I can upgrade the CPU for few bucks.

CPU-Z reports the socket as FP2 (827), CodeName "Richland", 35w, Dual-Core (sorry will post screen shot soon).

Is FS1r2 same as FP2 socket?

What are upgrade options? Can I upgrade to A10-5757M or A10-5745M or A10-5750M?

Thanks.

 

[sam_86314]

What chipset does it have?

This website is useful if you haven't found it already.

Looks like the A10-5750M is the best chip that'll fit in that socket.

Edit: Turns out they have a page specific to that laptop.

 

[suraswami]

Opened the back of the laptop, upgrading RAM and swapping out the HDD for SSD. Will post CPUZ shot soon.

RAM I had was 4GB DDR3 1333, the one in the Laptop was 8GB DDR3 1600. Installed, when booted the laptop complained but started. I know it is slow but for now more RAM is good.

Kingston HypeX 120GB SSD moved from old crap Laptop, now the HP laptop is much more responsive.

I can't play any 4K home video files, CPU is pegged at 100%. GPU doesn't seem to be in use. Used third party video player, still the same, downloaded codecs and still the same (w10 already has all the codecs right?) Going to check on another low powered laptop.

 

[Chomiq]

Most probably GPU does not support hardware decoding of your 4K files. So instead it is all done in software mode by the CPU. My old GTX 660 could barely handle 4K youtube, and this is some cheapo radeon card from 2013 designed for office tasks.