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Jul 19, 2017
Excellent upgrade for an old laptop
Bought this for a very old Compaq CQ62-215DX with a stock AMD V120 single core 2.2GHz processor. When I booted it up after more than 5 years I really wanted to give it away or throw it away. Before I gave up on it, I googled the upgradeability of this laptop and was surprised to see that it has quite the capability.
Two weeks later, the AMD Phenom II N620 and 8GB of RAM have given new life to the old thing!! It performs almost four times as fast as it did with stock specs.
It does run a little hot considering the heatsink is small and ventilation is subpar, but I can probably reapply the thermal paste to get better results.