Before getting started, let’s learn something about a laptop CPU upgrade. Generally speaking, you are not allowed to upgrade the processor for modern laptops since the CPU is fused permanently to the motherboard. Although you remove the motherboard, you cannot separate a soldered chip.
For a desktop, it comes with an accessible CPU socket on the motherboard. Thus, the following instructions are about a processor upgrade on the desktop rather than upgrading the laptop CPU. Let’s move to the part about how to upgrade a processor in a PC.
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