rPGA988A board

[crea]

Hi there!. Im looking to upgrade my old laptop and got some questions about compatibility. I checked that I could upgrade it with a i7 920XM betwen others but I have read some ppl who bought that CPU for a G1 socket and they say its not compatible. Can anyone tell me with propiety if would be compatible or not?

My laptop is a packardBell easynote tj76 with a G1(rPGA988A) socket,i3 330M @2,13Mhz

I want to upgrade with a i7 920XM from Aliexpress (99,9% rates are 5 star for more than 115 buyers)

I checked up compatibility with AIDA64 and wikipedia even more websites. According with them its fully compatible.


I need your veredict before order. thank you

[mavroxur]

I'd worry about the TDP. I tried to do that on a Gateway laptop once, and it'd run for a while and then randomly power off. I went from a Sandy Bridge celeron to an i5 on that one.

[Guest]

Yo!
Finally bought it and allready arrived.
A week since installed and works so good. I used generic cooler master thermal paste on it to check it out temperatures and I'm doing monitoring everytime and works good. Only playing heavy games or 4k youtube reach worrying temperatures but not letting get too high. Don't wanna take any risk.

Playing heavy games (for this computer) reached 80ºC. Regular temps are arrownd 50ºC. Never gave me a blue screen or sistem reboot for now.

Just bought Noctua Nt H-1 thermal for lower temps. I though to buy liquid metal paste but finally choosed noctua paste. Risk not worth it for this time.

I hope Noctua will give me better temps about 8-10 less would be enough I guess. I have no idea from how many could be risky

Regards

[rubidio]

I also have a Gateway Notebook, model Q5WTC, motherboard (NE56R), socket 988 rPGA, Intel Celeron B20 processor. However, I want to switch to a 2nd generation i5 processor. So, I ask: which i5 processors would be compatible?