Gaming Laptop, processor upgrade advice please.

[BaldBaBoon]

Hello Peeps

I have a Asus Gaming Laptop that has given me good solid service over the past 2 years, but is now starting to struggle on the very latest games..........Battlefield Bad Company 2 being an example that really requires a quad core to be honset.

Operating System is....Vista 64 ( sp2 )

CPU.....Intel Core2 Duo T5550 @ 1.83GHz ( Socket 478 )

Motherboard......Asus G1Sn.

Graphics Card....Nvidia Geforce 9500M GS ( 512MB )

Memory.......4 GB ( 667Mhz ) all slots taken.

Comes out at 4.5 on windows experience rating ( 5.3 on gaming graphics )

and all drivers up to date and running on DX10.



Is there an obvious and cost effective route to upgrading such as a new processor?.....I want to keep the laptop due to being able to take it to and from work....yes, we are that slack that I can play computer games at work.

Thanks for any and all advice.

 

[turbine_2]

Laptops really are no upgradable I'm afraid. Having just gone down the same route as you I've ended up plumping for a new laptop.
You may find that replacing vista with windows 7 helps but it won't be by much as I think the bottleneck will be the memory and the processor.

 

[BaldBaBoon]

Yep, Sadly I was expecting that.

Well, I cannot stretch to buying a new laptop just for games....and it Only struggles on one game at the moment.So it will have to soldier on methinks.