Laptop APU upgrade

[Scooter2478]

I have an Acer Aspire 5560-Sb609 which has an AMD A6-3400M APU.I would like to upgrade for better graphics to an A10-4600M.I know theres many versions of the Aspire with different APUs though I dont know if the BIOS would support a newer APU.

Here are the slight differences:

MODEL= A6-3400M
FREQUENCY= 1400
SOCKET= FS1
LEVEL 2 CACHE SIZE= 4 x 1 MB 16-way set associative caches
V CORE= 0.9125V - 1.4125V
Integrated Radeon HD 6520G GPU runs at 400 MHz and has 320 shader units
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MODEL= A10-4600M
FREQUENCY= 2300
SOCKET= FS1 (FS1r2)
LEVEL 2 CACHE SIZE= 2 x 2M
V CORE= 0.8125V - 1.3V
Integrated Radeon HD 7660G GPU runs at 497 MHz, or up to 686 MHz in Turbo mode, and has 384 shader units

The only other APU that might work is the A8-3520M which has a Integrated Radeon HD 6620G GPU runs at 444 MHz and has 400 shader units.
Any info or ideas would be helpfull. Thanks All

[pcpubay]

Where are you located?

[Scooter2478]

im located in Michigan, United States

[pcpubay]

If you don't have a source for your upgrade I have a AMD A8 series A8-3510MX quad core with Integrated Radeon HD 6620G GPU runs at 444 MHz and has 400 shader units. For sale on my website, it is similar to to the A10. If it did not work for you, you can return it for your money back. Check the WWW button below my post if you are interested.

[gshv]

A8-3510MX should work. Better choice is A8-3550MX, but it's the most expensive from the mobile Llano series, albeit the fastest. I doubt that the A10-4600M will work in your laptop without BIOS upgrade. It is based on different microarchitecture, and it will require new BIOS. The A10 chips also use second revision of socket FS1, and it may be incompatible for the first revision, that is used by A4-3xxx/A6-3xxx/A8-3xxx CPUs.

Gennadiy

[Scooter2478]

Well, I managed to dig around on the Acer website and found some system specs for the multiple versions of the Aspire 5560.I guess the A8-3400M might be the max.With AMD taking pride in making their CPUs/APUs (starting with the AM socket I believe) backward compatible even with changes to the architecture I would think the A10 series would also be backward compatible.I guess I woiuld have to go right to the source to find out.Hopefully AMD would have a reply to my questions.Whats odd is that over the 15 years I have been working on PCs & Laptops I guess you could say I somewhat predicted how technology would progress when hanging out with my tech buddies.I would say things like "would'nt it be great if they could design hard drives by using no mechanical parts by using something similar to RAM which should give them greater speed" or "It would be sweet if they could combine a CPU and GPU into 1 unit".The A6-3400M has great graphics from the Radeon 6520G but are the graphics a great improvment in the A8 series?I want to be able to play future games like ARMA 3 or Crysis 3.

[gshv]