PC noob with question about upgrading my laptop.

[xDarkcrisis666x]

So hello, this is my first time posting on the nexus forum but I am an avid user of the NMM and the mods etc. So right now I have an HP Pavilion dv7-6b56nr laptop with a AMD A6-3400m 1.4 GHz quad-core APU processor with a built in Radeon HD 6520g graphics card and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. Now I've been getting into PC gaming a lot lately and I've been able to play some older games on pretty high settings and some newer ones at a decent frame rate but of course now I just want more. So my question is since the processor and graphics card are on the same chip thing do I have to get another processor with the graphics card built in? Or can I get a new processor and an individual graphics card. To note i'd like to stay with AMD simply because they are cheaper and I'm just more use to it. I'll also include a link to my specific laptop on newegg. Thank you and I hope I get my question answered.

 

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834158629

[kalikka]

Laptops are usually made so that you cant upgrade the cpu/gpu. With quick googling with my phone I couldnt find any hints on if that specifig laptop could be upgraded.

 

Edit: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/331934-10-upgrading-socket-3400m

So you could upgrade the cpu, but there is no confirmation if the BIOS will accept the new cpu correctly.

Edited February 27, 2013 by kalikka

[xDarkcrisis666x]

Cripes. Again my PC knowledge is limited so I thought you could just upgrade anything and everything. O-well, guess I'm stuck with Skyrim at 18-24 FPS on High with low distance and no grass XD