New Processor

[MasterChief]

I am thinking about upgrading my laptops processor, because mine is getting a little old and is keeping up with games for now, I have looked at Intel. My question is what is the difference between a quad core and a duo core and which one would be best for me and my laptop I like to play games at high quality.

Any help would be very helpful, Thanks in an advise,
Chief

[K PhaNTOM]

Wait, since when are people able to switch Laptop CPU's?

[Dead...Again]

Chief,
a quad core has 4 CPU cores as opposed to 2 in a Core2Duo. If you can find a quad core that is compatible with your laptop, that would probably be the better upgrade option. You need to find out what is compatible with your system, though. I looked in to upgrading a few months ago, and found that in my case most of the Core2Quad CPUs weren't compatible with my motherboard.

[MasterChief]

Ok where would I look to find that just google it?

[Duke{CLR}]

Laptops are usually limited my their video cards so you may not get the performance bump that you are looking for. I used to go to this site to get information on laptops. There you can find information on you exact model and there may even be a user who has performed the same upgrade that you are looking at. Good Luck.

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[Skud]

Wait, since when are people able to switch Laptop CPU's?

That's what I was thinking...unless the replacement CPU has the same socket type, I suppose, and even then I wouldn't really want to mess with trying to put one in.

[Dead...Again]

That's what I was thinking...unless the replacement CPU has the same socket type, I suppose, and even then I wouldn't really want to mess with trying to put one in.

There are standard sockets for mobile CPUs just like there are for desktop CPUs. (For mobile video, this is not the case)