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Apr 10, 2017
Great upgrade for Asus k53e motherboard
3 of 3 found this helpful Upgrad d from the core i5 that came factory several years ago. This processor runs a higher wattage, but it's never working hard. I'm not a gamer, just a student. With an older SSD, it takes about 40 seconds to restart, and 13 seconds to power up from a shutdown. No more waiting. The install itself is a bit tricky, lots of screws and a certain order to it, if you're good with keeping track of that kind of stuff it's no big deal. I maxed out my ram to 8 GB at the same time. This thing keeps cool temps. BIOS 221 is the most current. All in all, it took about 2 hours from start to finish, including getting the new BIOS, cloning the old harddrive, and powering back on. I would do it again.