Finding CPU to upgrade an e530c
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2024 6:07 am
Hello there! New to the forums, and a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge e530c recently came into my possession. Battery could be in better state and had a hard-drive so ancient that when I tried to recover data for the original owner it crashed windows explorer on my desktop, but it was otherwise in great condition.
I swapped out the HDD for an inexpensive 120GB SSD and it boots better than new, added a 4GB stick from a dead donor laptop for a total of 8GB and put in Windows 10, although I spent a day and a half with Linux Mint to see if it was a viable candidate and for the intended use-case (my daily driver when I travel, sometimes up to a week) and it wasn't a good fit, guess I'll keep rocking Win10, at least until EOL.
From my research it seems this is one of the ThinkPad models with a socketed CPU, mine has a third gen dual core i5 (i5-3320m to be exact). I found this post ( viewtopic.php?f=60&t=136342 ) which suggests an i7-3632QM, and in the next six months or so I'll likely have the cash, but I'm struggling to source the part via google-fu. Where does one typically look for this kind of thing? I can't really find a place that sells Laptop CPUs separate, or at the very least, my searches have been fruitless. Is it a question of going onto Facebook Marketplace and finding a laptop with the CPU being sold for parts? How do you guys source your upgrade parts?
I swapped out the HDD for an inexpensive 120GB SSD and it boots better than new, added a 4GB stick from a dead donor laptop for a total of 8GB and put in Windows 10, although I spent a day and a half with Linux Mint to see if it was a viable candidate and for the intended use-case (my daily driver when I travel, sometimes up to a week) and it wasn't a good fit, guess I'll keep rocking Win10, at least until EOL.
From my research it seems this is one of the ThinkPad models with a socketed CPU, mine has a third gen dual core i5 (i5-3320m to be exact). I found this post ( viewtopic.php?f=60&t=136342 ) which suggests an i7-3632QM, and in the next six months or so I'll likely have the cash, but I'm struggling to source the part via google-fu. Where does one typically look for this kind of thing? I can't really find a place that sells Laptop CPUs separate, or at the very least, my searches have been fruitless. Is it a question of going onto Facebook Marketplace and finding a laptop with the CPU being sold for parts? How do you guys source your upgrade parts?