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I have Dell Inspiron 3421 Touch laptop. I'm planning to upgrade my PC for performance. (because it is performing poorly with heavy development softwares)

I'm planning to buy this i7 processor. Will it be compatible with my hardware? What factors matter while changing processor? What should I need to verify to check compatibility?

My current configuration is,

  • Windows 8.1 64 bit
  • Intel core i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80 GHz
  • 4GB RAM
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000
  • Motherboard: Dell Inc. 0RDCXP (SOCKET 0)

Also suggest me RAM as I will upgrade that too.

Mangesh Ghotage
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The processor is not upgradeable—consider installing an SSD instead.

  • Your laptop uses a soldered (BGA 1023) processor, which cannot be replaced without special equipment.

  • You should consider installing a solid-state drive instead. The vast majority of consumer workloads are not compute-bound, but are I/O bound due to the slow random I/O performance of mechanical hard drives. Replacing the hard drive with an SSD will more likely than not significantly improve overall system performance.

  • If your system's disk activity light (indicated by a cylinder) is constantly lit while the system is busy, than the system is I/O bound and will benefit from an SSD.

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