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SSD compatibility and WiFi Card upgrade inquiry

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I have an old toshiba satellite L515 S4925 model and I wanted to make some upgrades on my own in regards to the hard drive and wifi card in order for it to pick up the wifi 5G service. I want to upgrade it to a SSD and wanted to be sure that a SSD of 2.5 7.0mm would work and also if upgrading the wifi card and the graphics cards is capable. Also if i can upgrade the processor. I have 2 other laptops outside of my work laptops along with a Mac, but since I have this computer and its running decent with the exception of a driver issue with the cd drive. I wanted to maintain it to be used as a spare laptop as a backup. I appreciate your input and advice.

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Hi @eg_bourne ,

Here’s a link that shows what SSDs are compatible with the laptop. You would need a 9.5mm adapter for a 7.0mm SSD to connect properly to the motherboard connector.

Here are some links with information about the CPU upgrade:

Satellite L515 teardown video. At 6:36 minutes into the video the CPU (Socket P, T4300 CPU can be seen.

List of Socket P CPUs

List of CPUs compatible with chipset type GL40 which is in the laptop.

Here’s a link that may also be of some help as to what CPU has been proven to work with the chipset. See the last answer posted on the page This is not to say that Toshiba hasn’t modified something to suit their own requirements though.

The laptop’s performance improvement by upgrading the CPU may be only marginal due to the limitations of the chipset and the lack of upgradeable RAM (limited to 4GB)

The GPU adapter seems to be hard mounted onto the motherboard (see teardown video at the same point as for the CPU) so it would be hard to upgrade it, if at all.

I cannot see an obvious WiFi card on the motherboard so you may have to trace the antennas to see where it is located or check what is written on a chip if it is hard mounted. The specifications show it as a Realtek WLAN adapter

Here are the specifications for the laptop which may also help.

Hopefully a start.

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