I have upgraded my laptop with 16 RAM so far and soon with an external NVIDIA GTX1060 6GB graphics card.
I have an XMG A501, which better processor fits my laptop?
My processor:
Intel Core i7-2670QM (2.2GHz-3.1GHz 6MB Cache)
I doubt that you can change the procedure
It may be that you can't change the CPU at all. If so, at most a very old i7 fits in, with which you hardly gain any performance.
I just see that you already have an i7 in it. So there's nothing better for the laptop.
Ok, not bad, well I'm still satisfied, thanks.
In order to know whether it can be changed at all, one would have to read out the CPU data. Since it is probably a DTR here, an exchange could actually be possible. However, the current processor is so old that you won't be able to do much. And if you do, you will only have a CPU of e.g. Can use eBay because no newer is supported.
An update will bring you nothing.
Although the CPU is socketed on your side, which in principle enables a swap (https://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Schenker-XMG-A501-Notebook-Clevo-W150HRM.53197.0.html), you would still have to stay with 45W and Sandy Bridge and the few CPUs (i7-2860QM) that would be a bit faster would have just 300MHz more to offer because the risk of the purchase is not worth it to determine later, if necessary, that a faster CPU may be blocked by the BIOS. The additional performance would be about 2-4%
Thanks to the FCPGA 988 socket, this CPU is at least mechanically replaceable, but at least a BIOS update would then be necessary for a pin-compatible i7-3610QM.
But it does not work because the i7-3610QM would only be slightly faster than your i7-2670QM, and it would also be doubtful whether the mainboard of your book would support this CPU at all.
The question of whether your notebook has a PCIe-compatible interface connection such as PCMCIA III or Thunderbolt?
With USB 3.0 you can forget it anyway, because this interface is only indirectly connected to PCIe via its controller. This would require an intermediate driver in the switching of eGPU and system board (PCIe), which probably nobody will implement.
Your book with its Intel x6xm chipset also only supports the PCIe 2.0 standard, which would only theoretically include up to 500 MByte / s per PCIe lane.
An i7-3610QM would not help if the mainboard and chipset can only work internally with a PCIe 2.0 connection.
