Pascal Laptop CPU Upgrade Path.

[Steve91]

Good afternoon everyone,

I've bought a couple of systems from PCS in the past and have had a great experience with them (2 desktops).

I'm now looking at buying a Pascal based notebook, but I'd like to know if the Octane III 15/17 incher is able to have a CPU upgrade in the future. I'd opt to send it into PCS if this is the case maybe 1/2 years down the line.

Basically- is the CPU soldered on the larger notebooks? I know this is the case with the Defiance. I'm more than happy with a Skylake CPU for now, but with Kaby Lake around the corner and Cannon Lake coming sometime next year I'm wondering whether it's worth holding off and waiting.

Thanks!

 

[Hewhoist]

As far as I'm aware the kabylakes are the same socket so you'd be able to upgrade power supply willing. Read online the next after that will also be 1151 socket so the chance to upgrade at least once! The cpus are not soldered

 

[Oussebon]

Power supply and BIOS willing (a la Haswell Refresh). Some rumour that cannonlake was going to be the same socket, but the same applies. It's also apparently supposed to use the 200 chipset like Kaby Lake. I might be surprised if an H110 or whatever ended up sporting Cannonlake, though would be happy to be wrong about that when all the details are known.

 

[mantadog]

Good afternoon everyone,

I'm more than happy with a Skylake CPU for now, but with Kaby Lake around the corner and Cannon Lake coming sometime next year I'm wondering whether it's worth holding off and waiting.

Thanks!

You will need to jump in at some point, so if you need it now then go for it. Otherwise you will be waiting forever as new generations of components come out very very frequently.

As others have said even if the socket supports an upgrade you would need to be sure that the BIOS is compatible too which I fear may well be the biggest problem. They will probably be looking to drive people to buy new machines to take advantage of the new processors rather than offer BIOS updates.

 

[rav007]

Good afternoon everyone,

I've bought a couple of systems from PCS in the past and have had a great experience with them (2 desktops).

I'm now looking at buying a Pascal based notebook, but I'd like to know if the Octane III 15/17 incher is able to have a CPU upgrade in the future. I'd opt to send it into PCS if this is the case maybe 1/2 years down the line.

Basically- is the CPU soldered on the larger notebooks? I know this is the case with the Defiance. I'm more than happy with a Skylake CPU for now, but with Kaby Lake around the corner and Cannon Lake coming sometime next year I'm wondering whether it's worth holding off and waiting.

Thanks!

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-wingman-2-0-batman-3-0-lounge.794538/page-44

Have a look from the 3rd post down, someone does mention a kabylake upgrade for the PCS octane. If you look at some earlier pages people may have opened up the chassis to do a reveal of if the CPU is soldered in or not. From my knowledge, it wasn't soldered in the Octane series in the previous gen so I don't see why it would be in this one.

In reality I don't know how much benefit you will get from this though. I don't keep up with CPU upgrades anymore as in the past, I only ever saw an incremental 10% or so increase in performance or power efficiency gen-to-gen

 

[Oussebon]

In that link they just say they hope a kaby lake upgrade will be possible. Which we all do, even those of us not buying one.

 

[Steve91]

Thanks all for the informed, concise responses. I plan on holding off for now, and then unleashing my cash come Januray when the new processors come out. I'd rather hold on a little longer and grab a 7th gen. Hope Intel can manage some decent optimisation with the third round on 14nm.

 

[rav007]

Sometimes,I post things I cant be bothered reading because I know Oussebon will read them and give us an overview of the main points :shifty: