Is it possible to replace the processor in a laptop with another one with the same socket?

Question

laptops

I have an Asus Vivobook X540NA laptop. It has an Intel Celeron N3450 processor. The percent is not the most powerful, Chrome loads it heavily, and this is my favorite browser and this is important for me, because. I work as a front-end developer. As I understand it, it has an FCBGA1296 socket. I want to change this processor to a more powerful one with the same socket. Is it possible in a laptop? Do I need to look at something ELSE other than the socket? If it is impossible to change it to another percentage, can this one be overclocked? Link to the page on the Intel website about this socket: https://www.intel.ru/content/www/ru/ru/products/pr...

Here is another processor with this socket. Of course, I like those that are more powerful than mine and show themselves better in benchmarks: https://amd-intel-cpu-benchmark.com/cpu-socket/FCB...

I want to change to the most powerful processor from this list: Intel Pentium J4205https://amd-intel-cpu-benchmark.com/cpu/Intel-Pent...

Is this possible? What confuses me is that the N3450 has TDP = 6w, while the Pentium J4205 has TDP = 10W. Does this mean they are incompatible?

Answer 1

purely technically it is possible. especially when the processor is not soldered, but has a socket (which is often rare in laptops).
but, in addition to the socket itself, bios support is also royal. and here it’s just smoking specs and specialized forums of enthusiasts.

Answer 2

Judging by the BGA, you do not have a socket processor, but soldered, so replacement is impossible.
Regarding the comments about the complexity of replacing laptop processors with a socket, this is nonsense. Just take out the old one and put in the new one. One operation more than when replacing thermal paste. We replace hundreds of processors in laptops every year as an upgrade, and it's as trivial as replacing a drive. Your Celeron is a terribly poor processor. Faced with this, people are driven to 4 cores and think that oh, it will be 2 times faster than 2 cores. Although a mobile i5 6200u of the same year with 2 cores will be 1.5 - 2 times faster than your Celeron.
In processors after 2015, you don’t need to look anywhere. They will all be tightly soldered to the board. Your celeron in terms of performance is like the top core 2 duo of recent years (2008) or the i5 of 2010. So, for comparison.
Tdp makes no difference in laptops in which the processor is replaceable. There are only 2 types of heatsinks in the line of processors: for 2 cores and for 4. Although 2 nuclear heatsinks are often enough for more powerful and hot 4-core processors.
It is theoretically possible to overclock laptop processors. But often this is fixing a turbo boost for all cores or a very laborious process of overclocking an extreme series with a modification of the BIOS and other things, which ultimately rests on cooling.
Theoretically, a little increase in RAM and ssd can help if you have a hard drive. But
Tip - sell this stuff and forget it. Also forget about junk from asus, acer and other manufacturers of cheap crafts in general. Buy a normal business class laptop, you are a professional who works in the consumer market from the bottom of the market.
Dell Latitude or Precision, HP Elitebook or Zbook. At worst Lenovo Thinkpad. If you are on a budget, buy a 13-14 model. Get a power increase of 3 - 4 times, depending on the configuration, for almost the same money. You can even take with the simplest processor and then replace it. And most importantly: after 2015. Normal processors where the first digit is 5, or less than 5, but at the end of U - all soldered. As a last resort, google: model name + motherboard and see how the processor is installed. Avoid Celeron and Pentium like the plague.