Can CPU be upgraded ?

balabooberlies

Hello

it's a HP laptop 15s-fq1xxx

Intel (R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU@1.00GHz

Memory 8GB

many thanks

debitcardmayhem

Not easily , why? It is fairly new what's your need

TadleyBaggie

Laptop CPUs are often soldered directly to the motherboard which makes replacement unrealistic. If you are looking to speed it up and it has a mechanical hard disk drive, then changing to an SSD will often make the world of difference.

balabooberlies

Thank you

It's not for me but my LD brother.  I think he plays games.  How can I find out if it has a mechanical hard disk drive ?

thank you

bala

debitcardmayhem

balabooberlies said:

Thank you

It's not for me but my LD brother.  I think he plays games.  How can I find out if it has a mechanical hard disk drive ?

thank you

bala

msinfo will tell you , but what is his problem , the one I found says with ssd but we can't guess

Johnmcl7

It's a decent CPU and the best i7 in that range is not much faster, the main obstacle to gaming performance in that laptop is the lack of a discrete graphics card and unfortunately the graphics card can't be upgraded.

50Twuncle

balabooberlies said:

Hello

it's a HP laptop 15s-fq1xxx

Intel (R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU@1.00GHz

Memory 8GB

many thanks

Don't you mean 3.6Ghz  processor speed ?

Which is pretty damned quick !

Cisco001

You need a laptop with dedicated GPU for gaming.
That is not upgradeable.
CPU fairly new.
Return or sell it and get a gaming laptop.

jamesd

What problems does he have playing games? Which games?

For good performance with the more demanding games he'll end up spending more than £2k on a model that has a dedicated GPU. This laptop series uses the GP that's built into the CPU and that's fine for older games but not the most recent first person types.

If he doesn't need the full portability of a laptop he could get a compact desktop PC with graphics card and small monitor for less than half the price of  a comparable laptop.

50Twuncle said:

it's a HP laptop 15s-fq1xxx

Intel (R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU@1.00GHz
Memory 8GB

Don't you mean 3.6Ghz  processor speed ?

Which is pretty damned quick !

It'll be the version with i5 at 1GHz base speed and up to 3.6GHz turbo-boost.

Uptown_Boy

jamesd said:

What problems does he have playing games? Which games?

For good performance with the more demanding games he'll end up spending more than £2k on a model that has a dedicated GPU. This laptop series uses the GP that's built into the CPU and that's fine for older games but not the most recent first person types.

If he doesn't need the full portability of a laptop he could get a compact desktop PC with graphics card and small monitor for less than half the price of  a comparable laptop.

50Twuncle said:

it's a HP laptop 15s-fq1xxx

Intel (R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU@1.00GHz
Memory 8GB

Don't you mean 3.6Ghz  processor speed ?

Which is pretty damned quick !

It'll be the version with i5 at 1GHz base speed and up to 3.6GHz turbo-boost.

It really depends on which games, and what quality settings. My sub £800 laptop plays most games* OK with the GTX1650 GPU.

* COD4 MW, HL2, DOOM (2016), BF3, Trackmania etc.