Laptop upgrade

I have an Asus S56CA-WH31, was wondering if i'm able to upgrade anything beside the RAM

Here's the CPU-Z of the laptop

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Specs:

CPU: APU Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.8 Ghz
RAM: 4GB of DDR3
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
Graphic: Intel HD Graphic 4000 

 

 

It's BGA so it's soldered onto the mainboard. You can only change them if they're LGA CPUs.

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can i change the mainboard though?

You could. You'd be looking for either S56CA-BH71 or S56CA-BH51 boards. The only difference is that they have i7 and i5 processors respectively.

Getting an SSD would provide a better improvement overall for daily tasks though.

I'd +1 on SSD - makes the whole laptop snappier.  Won't improve performance in games or whatnot, but everything would launch super quick.

Where can i get those boards? Links or more information pls

Internal SSD or external? Please enlighten me further in this, i'm an idiot

Internal (if your laptop supports replacing of the drive).  You'd basically clone your current hard drive to a new SSD, and then the whole system should be noticeably snappier - especially boot times.

ehh, i prefer external, since it's a laptop, and i've never twist open a laptop be4, would definitely prefer it to not die since it's my survival buddy

Well, if you aren't willing to take apart the laptop, then I don't really suggest upgrading it.

An external SSD isn't really going to help anything.  Transfer speeds are too slow over USB, so I wouldn't recommend booting off an external.  Also, there's a lot of functionality lost when using USB as well.

And im not sure if the laptop allows to swap out drive. Last time i asked Asus Technical Support, their respond was: "We suggest customer retain from disassemble the unit by themselves"  rather than answer my question which was "Can i take apart of the laptop and upgrade some parts other than the RAM?" 

Also, when i bought the laptop, the specs said it has a 24 GB SSD installed, but i didn't really care much about SSD back then, recently, i checked Device Manager, do not see the SSD, the Asus rep i talked to said that the drive is use as cache memory, so not really sure all about that

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new thermal paste could help you a little. then you might be able to overclock it with throttle stop or intel's XTU.

also unless you get a it used off ebay a replacement laptop board could cost about $200 or higher. 

going from the specs on newegg you should already have a 24gb ssd if not then this link should help you to install one.

still you have a dvd drive so you can get a caddy and replace it with an ssd. so you might be able to use 2 ssd's in raid if your bios has options for it.  

the the only other upgrade you can do is an external gpu. but it has draw backs. the biggest one being that you'll need to take the bottom cover off your laptop and switch the gpu's cable adapter with your wireless card. given that your laptop has a nearly useless 4cell battery. I'd say the trade of portability for power is more then worth it.

you could overclock crap i3 cpu that is locked? How much would the replacement board be if i buy it off ebay used? And yes, i do have a DVD drive that i used exactly twice since i bought the laptop, which has been around a year and a half. Also, i have no clue what the hell is raid, and please tell me more about all the stuff that you just said cause i have no clue what the hell is going on

Also, i have a cooling pad that reduces around 10-12 degrees, the highest the CPU ever hit, ever, was 54, so im not too worried about the heating crap

And i think the component being upgrade i'd benefit from the most is probably RAM. I don't game, (1. Dont have any non-internet connection game installed. 2. Crap computer) most of the time when i run out of RAM is when i have like 12 Chrome tabs open, video converter, iTunes, Logan's talking on The Tek vids that i download off Youtube, and a bunch of other crap..

So if u have a SODIMM DDR3 Ram, that is less than 8gb/stick, i'd gladly take it

It's a common configuration - SSD is your cache, which can help speed up commonly used programs and such.  It shouldn't be visible in windows.