{"id":10837,"date":"2021-12-06T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=10837"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:24:13","slug":"intel-i5-i7-fcbga1356-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/cpus\/intel-i5i7-fcbga1356-compatibility\/18095.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel i5\/i7 FCBGA1356 Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an i7 laptop, and am considering getting a cheap laptop with an i5 (all it&#8217;s other specs are better than my current one). I saw a now closed (abandoned, not really &#8220;solved&#8221;) thread similar to this, but still am unsure if I can swap my i7 for the i5 in the new laptop. Here are both CPU specs:<\/p>\n<p>Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz (Turbo Boost up to 3.5 GHz, 4 MB Smartcache, 2 Cores 4 Threads)<br \/>\nFCBGA1356<\/p>\n<p>Intel Core i5-7200U 2.5 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 3.10 GHz, 3 MB Smartcache, 2 Cores 4 Threads)<br \/>\nFCBGA1356<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the homework I&#8217;ve done so far:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210117101001\/https:\/\/ark.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/ark\/products\/95451\/intel-core-i7-7500u-processor-4m-cache-up-to-3-50-ghz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/ark.intel.com\/content\/www\/u&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210117101001\/https:\/\/ark.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/ark\/products\/95443\/intel-core-i5-7200u-processor-3m-cache-up-to-3-10-ghz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/ark.intel.com\/content\/www\/u&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are these swap-able because they&#8217;re both FCBGA1356, or are they incompatible because of the difference in Turbo Boost Max and Smartcache numbers?<\/p>\n<p>PS. I&#8217;ve been swapping out things like RAM, heat-sinks, and identical MoBos-to-chasis for about 20 years now, so I&#8217;m not a complete newb, but I&#8217;m also not the guru-of-all-tech either (or I would already know this one), so I&#8217;m somewhere in the middle, in case that helps anyone out there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><i>message edited by ChewyGrizzy<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":3},"question-category":[44],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-10837","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-cpus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/10837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}