The new Vostro 3555

Yes, supported with MX ending APUs.

 

Real shame about the Trinity APU not dropping into your machine It was actually this thread of yours that brought me to Notebook Review forum in the first place when I was researching the posibility of a Llano - Trinty upgrade, so thanks for that!

But since it's not possible I'm considering doing as you did and swapping out my A6-3400M for an A8-3550MX but I wonder if you could answer a quick questions since you've 'been there, done that'?

Did you notice any significant increase in temps after the upgrape? And in your opinion is it worth getting the A8-3550MX over the A8-3510MX when the 3510 is 2/3 the price of the 3550?

Thanks in advance.

 

I'm happy to help you out with this case and actually I have good news to you;
The 45W A8-3550MX ain't increase temperature at all upgrading from A6-3400M 35W APU. Note I have been overclocked both APU to 2.4GHz near 1.15V.
Buy the cheaper A8-3510MX, supports DDR3 1600MHz and can be also overcolcked to 2.4GHz or even further. There is nothing technical difference between two of them, so running A8-3510MX on 2.4GHz exactly as fast as 3550MX on 2.4GHz .

 

Hey Atom Anti, that is good news, thanks .

I too have overclocked my A6-3400M to 2.4GHz, at 1.137V - gets up to mid 80s when I'm stress testing but no higher. Hopefully I'll notice a sizeable increase in performance with an upgrade to the A8-3510MX without any increase on those max temps with a similar overclock, obviously with a RAM upgrade as well.

I'll let you know how it goes once I've got the parts if you're interested?

 

I know very much how well perform Llano in Vostro 3555, but other users might will find interesting to see your results. I believe in CPU side you won't experience performance increase, only in GPU side, but there a lot...
Your temps in the mid 80s sounds high to me, perhaps you have not do re-paste yet. Once you change the APU use some short of high quality thermal paste and max temperatures will drop under 80s .

 

Yeah I hadn't stripped it down and repasted the heatsink yet since I was planning on upgrading so that's probably contributed to the relatively high core temps. A blob of Arctic Silver or the like should remedy that once the parts arrive

Apologies for hijacking your thread as well, I got a bit carried away! Looing forward to seeing your testing of those new Trinity cores in a couple weeks too, I'll have to keep an eye on your new threads!

 

Arctic Silver is great:thumbsup:, I may used the same or Arctic MX4. The 45W APU actually working cooler than 35W without repaste...

 

Vostro 3555

it looks like all the 3555 A8 versions were removed from the dell site, maybe it means it's finally being updated with trinity

just keeping an eye out still

 

A Vostro 3365 could be perfect with A10-4600M, however this time I do not see much chance for any Trinity laptop from Dell.

 

The test is done, see here:
How well AMD Trinity A6-4400M, A10-4600M and Llano A8-3550MX APU perform in real world? Performance and Power Consumption Test